The Obama Team: The Best and Brightest 2.0

According to New York Times columnist David Brooks, the team Barack Obama is assembling for his administration is The Best and Brightest 2.0.  Brooks recites in "The Insider's Crusade" the impressive educational credentials of Team Obama and further that they are "the best of the Washington insiders."  This star-studded group has a number of highly desirable and, again according to Brooks, "indisputable" qualities, to wit:

• open minds subject to influence by real evidence
• professional standing of the highest order
• an absence of excessive partisanship
• pragmatism instead of ideology
• practical creativity

So, a bunch of smart people who are going to figure out how to make the country better based on facts, evidence and reality.  Ordinarily, all that would seem a given but reality has consistently lost to fantasy these past 8 years.  Let's hope that Brooks is right and Team Obama's results match their most impressive credentials.