About the cabinet of newly elected President Barack Obama, the Los Angeles Times gushed in 2008: "Seldom has a presidential Cabinet included so many intellectual and political heavyweights. Obama's other achievement is to have assembled such an impressive team with due deference to the need for an administration that 'looks like America' -- Bill Clinton's shorthand for ethnic and gender diversity." Sounding the same "diversity" theme, former Vice President Joe Biden recently told NPR: "I have the most diverse staff of anybody running. I've always done that. ... The country has to look like, the administration should look like, the...