Washington: US is waiting to see how Obama brings the change he promised. Two of his advisors were on Sunday morning talk shows and they said the new administration would be bipartisan and varied.
"As the chief of staff for the new president, he is going to be focused on the basic problems facing the country. As you outlined it is the first time in four decades there is going to be transfer of power while you have American troops fighting not just one, but two wars. Second, we have a huge economic crisis here at home that is looming large.
That is going to be the focus of his policies. What happens on the House and Senate, on chairmanship is their business, but the business of what we have to do when we get sworn in is focusing on what the American people care about," says Incoming White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel.
"And I think that you'll see, again, a cabinet that looks like the way President Obama ran his campaign. He brought millions of people in. They weren't all Democrats. He reached out to independents and Republicans. And I think we want to see that reflected at every level of government.
Sometimes there's a token Republican in the cabinet or a token Democrat in a Republican administration. I think his charge to us is that he wants a broad diverse cabinet, one that's built on first criteria (which) is excellence. And that's what we're trying to produce," says Co-Chair, Obama transition team, John Podesta.
Obama will take on as the President of United Sates on January 20th 2009.
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