What Barack Obama very much needs now is a Jack Welch-type figure to come in and to run this stimulus program and especially to oversee the spending side.

It says Anderson, he's doing today what he did last night with that Arab television interview, and that is he's trying to set a new tone in Washington in the way Washington deals with the world.

I think the White House response has not been adequate in this area.

This is a man who has very, very large ambitions to change the world, to remake America, remake the world.

He's trying to appeal to the moderates in the Arab and Muslim world. He's trying to rally them and then isolate Hamas, Hezbollah, Al Qaeda as best he can so that he can overwhelm them politically.

This is a time when there's great weakness in political leadership both on the Palestinian side where the leadership is fractured between the West Bank and Gaza.

They cannot allow this kind of stuff to creep into bridges to nowhere to creep into this stimulus package.

It has been a real circus getting here, hasn't it?

Trying to get the personalities straight is very important.

Never happened before, to my knowledge. And I think it's a very good move.

If he can, by following through on his campaign promises, create confidence in the government, maybe it can make people more confident about the economic future.

I think they're having a very hard time sorting that out. But in appointing these two envoys today, I think they made ideal appointments.