Barack Obama ran for the White House as the consummate Washington outsider.

Hillary Clinton, his chief rival for the Democratic Party's nomination, by contrast promised "readiness", based largely on her experience as a White House insider during her husband's period in office.
"It took one Clinton to clean up after the first George Bush," she used to say in her stump speeches. "It'll take another Clinton to clean up after this one."



Mrs Clinton lost the battle for the nomination, and her rival went on to win the general election.
But is he now re-assembling Bill Clinton's governing team from the 1990s?
And will the Obama White House be similar to Mr Clinton's - but with a different man in the Oval Office?
And the other David - David Plouffe, Mr Obama's campaign manager - had worked for the Democratic leadership in the US House of Representatives during the Clinton years, at a time when many House Democrats were getting frustrated with President Clinton for his perceived centrism and missed opportunities.
A number of other senior staffers had a background in the offices of congressional big-hitters Tom Daschle and Richard Gephardt.