On a related note, Danzig said that "Dora the Explorer" can be a valuable template for our dealings with Hugo Chavez.

Senator Obama's presumptive National Security Adviser invokes Winnie the Pooh:

Mr Danzig spelt out the need to change by reading a paragraph from chapter one of the children’s classic, which says: “Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump on the back of his head behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming down stairs. But sometimes he thinks there really is another way if only he could stop bumping a minute and think about it.”

Not that our current President is deserving of any slack on his choice of staff, either:

In a subtle break from Mr Bush’s belief that the war on terror can be won, Mr Danzig, who is a Pentagon adviser on bioterrorism,

Hoo-boy.