“Jones” demonstrates a prominent characteristic of our intelligence community – how utterly full of themselves they are; destructively so. I hope he was not employed as an analyst. And, he seems to imply that political connections….no, make that “partisan” political connections, are the key ingredient needed to be able to make significant reforms.

“Jones’” answer on the reforms needed are pretty much right on, but they have been said before, repeatedly, elsewhere, repeatedly. Our drive-by intelligence community could give the media a run for its money (literally).

Managing a campaign seems to be Obama’s claim to executive experience, and “Jones” thinks it is significant. I agree with wretchard there is a difference (a big one) between campaigning and governing. I can’t help but think of the proverbial Thanksgiving turkey: Day after day its the same thing: life is great, people are nice to me, feed me this great food, don’t make me run around. Then comes the day before Thanksgiving and whack!