Bad news to those who are pushing for Joe Biden as our possible secretary of Defense.

A new report by the Sunday Times of UK quotes Obama's key foreign policy adviser, Richard Danzig as saying:

"My personal position is Gates is a very good secretary of defence and would be an even better one in an Obama administration."

Does Obama listen to Danzig? Besides the fact that he's Obama's adviser, Obama mentioned Danzig when asked by the New York Times a few months ago which experts he would listen to on Iraq:

Q. When you formulate your position for where we go from here in Iraq, which experts to you consult with? What informs your judgment and assessment of the next steps?

Senator Barack Obama: Well, we have a pretty wide circle of advisers. We talk to everybody from the usual suspects in Washington - various foreign policy experts - to mid-rank military officers, many of whom have served in Iraq, to higher ranking officers like General Scott Gration who flew repeated combat missions and has helped to advise us on a range of these issues and people like Richard Danzig, who is one of our key foreign policy advisers. So it's a pretty wide circle.

Another Obama adviser agrees with Danzig:

Ivo Daalder of the Brookings Institution in Washington, a foreign policy adviser to Obama, said: "Robert Gates is one of the best defence secretaries we have had in a long time and it makes a lot of sense to keep him."

I will not pretend Gates is a bad pick. Change is good only if what's being changed was ineffective. On the other hand, McCain can use this as a talking point to boost this administration, arguing that Bush's pick as defense secretary worked out so well that the agent of change may keep him.

What do you guys think?