Obama's Valedictocracy

"Even more than past administrations, this will be a valedictocracy - rule by those who graduate first in their high school classes. If a foreign enemy attacks the United States during the Harvard-Yale game any time over the next four years, we're screwed."

The rest of this interesting essay, which discusses the balance of people the Obama administration has been selecting and how they're picking people based on qualifications rather than political expediency, is here:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/21/opinion/edbrooks.php