25 days have happened from his election and today it seems very far of that candidate of liberal and protective court that it promised to finish with the war in Iraq in 16 months and do the peaces with the world.

In addition to renegotiating commercial agreements, inclusive with the countries Naphtha (Mexico and Canada).

In fact, and since it was foreseen, the pigeon is turning into hawk. Or, at least, in a democrat who is returning to the ideological center of his party moved by the political and strategic realities of the world potency.

Although it will be necessary to see how it governs – and that alone starts January 20 of the next year – the selection of the team who will accompany it in the White House offers very clear tracks in this direction: for his it equipped economically staked it with pragmatic of center that they are in favor of the commerce and that believe in the fiscal discipline and the redistribution of income across the taxes.

And for the delicate topic of national safety and foreign policy he wants to surround himself with personal details of four stars, veterans of the CIA, and inclusive republicans.

This week, sources of the team of transition of the elect president announced unofficially that Obama tries to leave in his charge, at least for one year, the current secretary of Defense and ex-official of the CIA Robert Gates. High-hat republican named by Bush in November, 2006 to replace polemic Donald Rumsfeld.

Gates, despite being respected by the thickness of the democratic party, neither is, not much less, preferred of the most liberal wing of this political community it nor fits with the promise of “change” and distances opposite to the administration Bush that had offered Obama during the campaign.

In the Adviser’s vital charge of National Safety – the man nearest to the President as for foreign policy – Obama has chosen general Jim Jones, an imposing ex-commander of the Otan and of the marines, who measures 1,95 meters.

Although Jones has criticized the war in Iraq and the strategy in Afghanistan, he is a weapon man and with many republican credentials. In fact, it finishes of moving back from the Chamber of Commerce of E.U. – of republican tendency and in favor of TLC – and he was an adviser of Bush for topics of the Middle East.

And as the Director National of Intelligence? that directs the CIA and another 15 agencies of intelligence in the country – another military man was sounding: admiral Dennis Blair, ex-commander of all the E.U. forces in the Pacific Ocean.

Complementing the team there will be Hillary Clinton as secretary of the State. Although during primary Hillary bet them very much on the most liberal bases of the party, is thought a Conservative Democrat, particularly in foreign policy. In sum, a team not leftist at all, for putting it somehow.

“Undoubtedly, this was not for what we were waiting. What message are we sending to him to the world when we choose persons associated with the current administration of Bush. Precisely with what wanted to break”, says Phillip Bennis, of Institute for the Political Studies, with head office in Washington, and one of the surprised ones for the new face that is proving to be Obama.

But the Obama reasons, however much they infuriate his followers, are pragmatic and they were foreseeable.

He needs a team tanned and ready to govern from the first Day

“Obama – says Steven Flanagan, of the Center of International Strategic Studies – will have to concentrate very much on the economic crisis. Therefore, he needs a team tanned and ready to govern from the first day. Also, in these topics it is not improvised, and the experience, which Obama does not have, is vital”.

The idea with Gates, for example, is to give continuity. Or, at least, to avoid a costly transition in a portfolio that at present administers two wars (Iraq and Afghanistan) and fights against the terrorism. That’s why one speaks of only one year in the charge. Although if the things go out, well it might remain more.

Something similar was seen by the selection of his economic team, announced at the beginning of this week.

So much Timothy Geithner, in the secretariat of the Treasure, like Larry Summers, as his principal economic adviser, they represent a school of thought that they define in E.U. like pragmatic centrist. Namely they believe in the fiscal discipline and the free trade – more of the republican ideology – but with a big dose of state intervention to regulate the markets and to promote the development.

And them there would join Bill Richardson, the probable one chosen for the secretariat of Commerce.

Richardson, current governor of New Mexico, is considered to be the dad of the Naphtha so, how conferee, was the man who extracted forward this agreement when the ex-president Bill Clinton submitted it to consideration of the Legislative one in 1993, during his first period in the White House.

And it kept on defending it when it was postulated for the nomination of the Democratic Party during the electoral cycle 2008, and despite the deep discomfort that it was causing in the most liberal bases of the party.

In fact, many people speak about a “contradiction”, since Obama has chosen a team who stands out for his emphasis in balancing the debt (Summers was the architect of the fiscal surplus that Clinton left), when Obama will turn out to be forced to spend to full hands, if he wants to reactivate the economy and extract to the country of the recession.

The elect president treated this week as council both corners on having announced that although it favors a monstrous bundle of expense that will do emphasis on infrastructure and renewable energy – to create more than 2,5 million work places in his first two years – it will extract part of the silver of a meticulous review of the budget, eliminating all that that is not vital.

The experts believe that it is impossible to make two things – to spend simultaneously and reduce the deficit – and see an Obama dedicating the first two years to the first thing, and narrowing the belt from there from now on.

In any case, at least in commerce, it is a question of a team much moved away from the candidate who painted the commercial agreements as the Wolf of the story and who promised to raise barriers to prevent the employment from keeping on migrating to other countries. And this is a good for the aspirations of the Colombian government if, as it is waited, the TLC remains hanging for the next year.

According to David Axelrod, one of the principal advisers of the President, has not to turn in the nominations that it has made Obama a change of direction or the nonperformance of his promises. “Simply, he wants to the best available personnel like interpreter of his ideas”.

It can be. But it is undeniable that when the president asks for advices – and it will do it – it will receive from the input that he has just bought