Pick Me! I'm Your Best Friend!

It would be hilarious that the Prez picks cabinet members employing the kind of crtieria used by grade-schoolers choosing teams for dodgeball, if, of course, our lives weren't hanging in the balance. From Josh Marshall:

Is it really a paradox?

The lede from a piece in tomorrow's Post ...

Condoleezza Rice, who will be named as Colin L. Powell's replacement as early as today, has forged an extraordinarily close relationship with President Bush. But, paradoxically, many experts consider her one of the weakest national security advisers in recent history in terms of managing interagency conflicts.

I'm gonna assume there was a smirk on someone's face.