Obama's Team, Obama's Policy?

This was the question for an op-ed in the papers of the GPD, last week: what, if anything do Obama's nominations for top positions in his administration tell us about his policies? The paper for our own region, the Gooi- en Eemlander, printed my piece yesterday, as I just saw at my brother's. They don't have it on their website, however, and I haven't seen in anywhere else yet either, so I can't link to it. The gist: Obama and his team will be interested in certain reforms, but they'll be limited in what they will be able to undertake by the current financial and economic crises, by the country's two or three wars (depending on whether you count the fight against Al Qaeda and similar groups as its own war, separate from those in Iraq and Afghanistan), and by Obama's determination (see the Rick Warren selection, among other things) really to be the president of all Americans--to be a real uniter, not a divider. The other thing we can see from the selection process so far is that the Obama administration should be extremely serious, deliberate, and professional. I forgot to include speculation that this might also mean that things will be a bit dull at times in Obama's Washington. But dull is not necessarily bad in government.