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lessthanjake Donating Member (436 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-06-08 05:13 AM
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Obama's Cabinet?
With Rahm looking like Chief of Staff, who do you guys think will end up in each cabinet post? Not who do you think SHOULD end up in each post because people here would generally like to put Dennis Kucinich in every position haha, but who do you think WILL get these posts? Here are my predictions

Secretary of State: John Kerry/Bill Richardson
Secretary of Defense: Colin Powell/Chuck Hagel/Robert Gates (this will be his bipartisan pick I think)
Secretary of Treasury: Timothy Geithner
Attorney General: Janet Napolitano/Eric Holder
Secretary of Interior: Jay Inslee
Secretary of Agriculture: Tom Vilsack
Secretary of Commerce: Penny Pritzker/Kathleen Sebelius
Secretary of Labor: Richard Gephardt
Secretary of Health and Human Services: John Kitzhaber
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: Valerie Jarrett
Secretary of Transportation: Jim Oberstar
Secretary of Energy: Federico Pena
Secretary of Education: George Miller
Secretary of Veterans Affairs: Max Cleland
Secretary of Homeland Security: Tim Roemer
National Security Advisor: Susan Rice
UN Ambassador: Caroline Kennedy (she wont take it then I think Jim Steinberg gets national security advisor and Rice gets this)
Chief of Staff: Rahm Emmanuel
Press Secretary: Robert Gibbs
Head of EPA: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.



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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-06-08 05:29 AM
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1. This is a rehash of my picks from June, that I reposted yesterday
Sec of State: Bill Richardson
Attorney General: Eric Holder
Sec. of Defense: Chuck Hagel
Sec. of the Treasury: Michael Bloomberg

Nat’l Security Adviser: Dr. Susan Rice
Chief of Staff: Tom Daschle or Rahm Emanual
Homeland Security: Richard Clarke
FEMA James Lee Witt from the Clinton years.
Veterans Affairs: Tammy Duckworth
OMB Chief: Austan Goolsbee (will take Bloomberg’s spot when he leaves…)
Sec. of Labor: Linda Chavez-Thompson (not the RW author Linda Chavez!)
Sec. of Health & Human Services: Elizabeth Edwards - if healthy enough
Sec. of the Interior: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Sec of Commerce: Laura Tyson
Sec. of Transportation: Earl Blumenauer
Sec. of Energy: Shirley Jackson
Sec of Education: Bob Wise
HUD Secretary: Federico Pena
Secretary of Agriculture: Tom Vilsack or Patty Judge (Lt Gov of Iowa)

First appointment to the SCotUS: Sonia Sotomayor

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azurnoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-06-08 05:43 AM
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2. A couple of changes to your list
Warren Buffet for Treasury and Al Gore for EPA
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zeemike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-06-08 07:14 AM
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3. The two that I think most telling are
Sec of State: Bill Richardson
Attorney General: Eric Holder

Bill Richardson I know and I think would be a good choice because of his proven record of working with foreign leaders, and the fact that he is Hispanic would be a great thing for our relations with south and central America
The Attorney General is important because that department has ben politicized so much that it will take a clever person to straiting it out. I don[t know enough about Eric Holder to know if that is a good pick.
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AsahinaKimi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-06-08 08:00 AM
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4. I would like to see..
Barbra Boxer some where in Obama's team..any suggestions where she would fit best?
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nico818 Donating Member (108 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-06-08 08:14 AM
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5. I would love to see..
Sec. of Defense: Chuck Hagel


He has been a huge critic of the way Bush handled Iraq and Afghanistan, is very Anti-War, and he is Republican. It would send a message to the country that he is willing to inject some bi-partisanship into his policies.
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