国际英语新闻：Obama forms cabinet faster than predecessors

WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President-elect Barack Obama naming, or at least leaking to the press, his cabinet picks faster than nearly all of his predecessors, cnn reported Tuesday.

"If we do not act swiftly and boldly, most experts believe that we could lose millions of jobs next year," Obama said Monday, when he nominated Timothy Geithner as next treasury secretary.

U.S. President-elect Barack Obama is flanked by Council of Economic Advisors Director-designate Christina Romer(L), National Economic Council Director-designate Lawrence Summers (R) as he announces the members of his economic policy team during a news conference in Chicago, November 24, 2008

    With an economic crisis spiraling out of control and a lame duck president in the oval office, presidential scholars say the next commander in chief simply had no choice.

U.S. President-elect Barack Obama speaks in front of Peter Orszag (L), the current director of the Congressional Budget Office, as he announces Orszag as his choice for director of the Office of Management and Budget during a news conference in Chicago Nov. 25, 2008.

"This is really uNPRecedented. But it's an uNPRecedented situation," said Larry Sabato, a presidential scholar at the University of Virginia.

    In recent times, only former President George H.W. Bush, father of current President George W. Bush moved more quickly, but that was to name confidant James Baker to secretary of state just days after the election.

    Both Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton waited until December for their first picks.