Obama's cabinet

[cured]

State:

Hillary Clinton, Senator from New York
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_clinton

Treasury:

Tim Geithner, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_F._Geithner

Homeland Security:

Janet Napolitano, Governor of Arizona
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Napolitano

Health and Human Services:

Tom Daschle, former senator from South Dakota
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Daschle

Attorney General:

Eric Holder, former Deputy Attorney General of the United States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Holder

Commerce:

Bill Richardson, Governor of New Mexico
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_richardson

Agriculture:

Technology:

Defense:

Education:

Energy:

UN:

National Security:

[cured]

This is a work in progress...

[gambit]

Not that Hillary can't handle the job, but I'm not sure I like her in the State department just because the thing her and Obama disagreed on was foreign policy. I would've preferred Bill Richardson in there myself.

But why is Richardson being tapped for the Commerce department? The only reason I can see is that he used to be Secretary of Energy in Bill Clinton's cabinet and that Obama really wants to push green industries to propel the economy. I'm glad Richardson is at least in his cabinet because the guy should be in there, but I figured he'd be part of the national security or state department.

I like Napolitano and Daschle in their positions. No opinions on the rest.

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As far as Richardson goes, I believe he was offered his choice given that Clinton was going to agree to be Secretary of State. I don't think Richardson would have accepted another position if State wasn't a done deal. He may have picked commerce because perhaps Obama already has someone in mind for Energy.

With Detroit looking more and more doomed, the opportunity is there for Obama to take the massive workforce needing jobs and funneling them into green industries. That would would be a handle that Richardson could really make good use of, given his knowledge of the energy sector.

Hillary is a good state pick, though. Now that she's "on the team" and is a very quick study, she'll fall in line a bit easier than perhaps most expect.

[Rog]

oh sorry........i thought this was a furniture thread......

[bryantm3]

i'm definitely feeling the walnut, what do you say?

[Strangelet]

sorry, no picture to include, but I thought this article pretty much sums up the building frustration with his picking clinton for SOS.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-..._b_144864.html

I really want to know the thought process behind this selection. And I would say Obama discussing the real reasons behind it fall under the category of transparent government.

[jOHN rODRIGUEZ]

Originally Posted by Strangelet

sorry, no picture to include, but I thought this article pretty much sums up the building frustration with his picking clinton for SOS.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-..._b_144864.html

I really want to know the thought process behind this selection. And I would say Obama discussing the real reasons behind it fall under the category of transparent government.

Just from the top of my head.

This thought process stems from the fact of the U.S. having a monetary surplus when the Clinton's left office. Just a random thought off the top of my head though.

[Rog]

now that is a tooo sensible a post john.....you and me need another smoke.

[jOHN rODRIGUEZ]

Originally Posted by Rog

now that is a tooo sensible a post john.....you and me need another smoke.

pssth. waaay ahead of you. Second bottle of red wine. When I see my priest hitting the bottle in the morning I think, "Me toooo, me tooo."