OK...Imagine yourself as the next President of the United States

Who would you select as your cabinet and why?

Just asking to see what y'all think and why...

You don't need to name the whole cabinet...

For SecDef...I offer Wesley Clark...not because I have a thing for Clark...just think he makes sense

For Education...I like Richardson from NM...seems like the pragmatic type who can do it right...

Attorney General...John Edwards...experienced attorney that shares my views on social justice...

Just some initial thoughts to get this started

Pleaser don't turn this in to a flamefest....


edit: spelling

Anyhow, he ought to be President; if not, Secretary of State.

National Security Advisor? Thanks for the input...

Ok.

I'd fire them all... all of them,
and hold a constitutional convention
my presidency is based on the dialog of redefining citizenship
and the state as something we can all agree to today;
and not that i am enslaved to some dead white slaver's documentary skills
that has enslaved better persons to criminal war crimes.

Its time for a constitution, and if not, then states can make their own.

But what I was driving at is you have the opportunity to nominate based upon your beliefs as to what is right for America and Americans...

secdef & foreign secretary combined office: gangaji - www.gangaji.org
seceducation: Al Gore - empowered fully to restore the american education system
sechealthcare: obama - empowered fully to establish single payer universal healthcare
sectreasurey: noam choamsky - empowered to fully rewrite the monetary system entirely
secgeneral/home office: dennis kucinich

let's see what others think..thanks for the input

The system has become completely corrupt and stands for nothing but criminality... that's why.

cabinet members would be. The very first thing I would do as POTUS, cut the DOD budget by about $400 billion a year.

What would you spend the money on?

education, health care,child care, repairing infrastructure, mass transit systems upgrades, fixing the homeless problem, eliminate world hunger and a whole host of other things.

Oh, and one other thing I would eliminate and direct the funds elsewhere, The fucking drug war! All drug war prisoners on the state and federal level would be released immediately...

He did a good job at (then) HCFA under Clinton.

And if he doesn't win a senate seat in 2008, for press secretary: Al Franken.

Capable of sending/delivering a message...

Press Sec......Robin Williams

Defense Sec....Keifer Sutherland

Sec of State...Keith Olbermann

Interior Sec...Martha Stewart

Ridiculous....

Ok, it was a joke, geeeeeeeeeeeesh

Dennis Kucinich in the new position of Secretary of Peace

Sec to the UN...cool

There is no Dept of Peace..

Kucinich might make a decent Sec of Labor...just my opinion though

Is Dennis's idea to replace Sec. of Defense, or at least offset it. If I were President I'd create the new department--and the Congress would approve it wholeheartedly. And The Youngblood's "Everybody Get Together" would become our new national anthem. There'd be an inipi (sweatlodge) on the White House grounds, and Dances of Universal Peace once a week. Hey, it's MY fantasy! :)

Education: Howard Zinn
Agriculture: Lisa Renstom (President of the Sierra Club)
Commerce: Muhammad Yunis
Homeland Security: Larry Cox (Executive director - Amnesty International U.S.A.)

Care to elaborate?

I don't have any pre-dispositions with these folks...

Secretary of State: Bill Richardson of NM
Secretary of Defense: John Kerry of MA
Veteran Affairs: Wesley Clark of AR
Health and Human Services: Howard Dean of VT
Attorney General: Eliot Spitzer of NY
Education: Shirley Franklin of GA
Labor: Dennis Kucinich of OH
EPA: Robert Kennedy, Jr. of NY
United Nations: Al Gore of TN
Commerce: Jeanne Shaheen of NH
Energy: Harold Ford, Jr. of TN
Transportation: Antonio Villaraigosa of CA
Housing and Urban Development: Eleanor H. Norton of DC
Agriculture: Tom Daschle of SD
Interior: David Hayes, deputy Interior Sec under Bill Clinton, of VA.
Treasury: Robert Reich of MA.

some of your nominees make sense to me up front based on their records...

Can you elaborate as far as why you like these individuals?

For example...Transportation Sec... Why do you like this guy? What ...in your philosophy makes this guy tick the right way for you?

Education...Shirley Franklin...She obviously made an impression on you...Why?

city I think he would have had considerable experience with transportation questions which is why I thought of him. As for Mayor Franklin, she is just a very competent and successful Mayor of Atlanta. She has considerable experience as the ex-city manager of Atlanta and then as Mayor since 2001 and brought the Olympics to the city. She made improving inner city schools a priority (along with fixing the pothole problem which had plagued Atlanta) and ethics. I think she would be a strong addition to any team.

Like Daschle at Agriculture lot.

would make him my first appointee to the Supreme Court. He's relatively young (53) and so could potentially serve 25-30 years.

or howard stern.

Education: Howard Dean
Xfiles: Dennis Kucinich
SecDef: Those guys that planted the lite brights
Race relations: Anyone but Biden
Attorney General: Bill Clinton

Arrest and Ship To The Hague
after first signing onto the ICC

The cabinet is an afterthought

Restoring the honor of the USA in the eyes of it's citizens AND THE WORLD

IS THE NUMBER ONE PRIORITY

Then we'll get our rail system.

Also, Cynthia McKinney as Secretary of Commerce. She was so good at going after the international financial pirates.

Amory Lovins as Secretary of Energy.

I'm not sure who I'd get as Secretary of Education, but it would be someone with teaching experience who believed in education, and I mean really believed in education, not in test scores, not in job training, not in getting into a good college, not in creating a holding tank for the under-18 crowd, but in raising up young people who are culturally, politlcally, and economically aware and become life-long learners.

For Secretary of Defense, I'd find one of those guys from the Center for Defense Information, the retired officers who know where the skeletons are and aren't afraid to reveal what they know. Surely some of them have been retired for more than ten years. They'd have the cred to cut the Pentagon budget, something everyone else is too chicken to do.

Afetr all, don't they deserve the same "justice" these murderers have set for us?

No bother with a trial, and I'll bet MILLIONS would line up to deliver the unchallengable heresay tstimony that would put these two terrorist behind bars forever, where they belong!

Veep -- John Edwards
Sec Def -- Ike Skelton
State -- Dennis Kucinich
EPA-- Mike Papantonio
Labor -- Dick Gephardt
Commerce -- Elliot Spitzer
Atty Gnl- Patrick Fitzgerald
Interior -- Robt Kennedy Jr.
HSA -- Robt Reich
UN -- Bill Clinton
Homland Security - dismantled

Cat Stevens would be there, singing "Peace Train".