Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Cabinet Predictions

I have been thinking - who will Barack Obama appoint as cabinet members to his administration? There are 4 important offices, so I will stick to those.

Secretary of the Treasury - Paul Volker
Secretary of State - John Kerry
Secretary of Defense - Sandy Berger
Attorney General - Andrew Cuomo

Why do I predict these?

Paul Volker - former Chairman of the Federal Reserve. Appointed by Democratic President Jimmy Carter. Minus - he's 81 years old. However, he's still as sharp as a tack.

John Kerry - current Senator from Massachusetts and former Democratic candidate for President. He probably won't make any money in the movies like Al Gore, so he needs a bone. Plus he wants to reach out to foreign countries.

Sandy Berger - former national Security Advisor under Bill Clinton. This position is usually filled with someone familiar with the military or national security. Berger fits the bill.

Andrew Cuomo - like his father Mario, he's a tough Democrat. Andrew took over the New York Attorney General's office when Elliot Spitzer got elected to be Governor, but then got caught with his dick in a hooker. I think he'd like to make a name for himself and what better place to do it than as the United States Attorney General?

Wild Cards
If I'm wrong, here are some other possibilities

Secretary of the Treasury
John Corzine - current Governor of New Jersey, former Goldman Sachs chief executive

Secretary of State
Bill Richardson - Governor of New Mexico, former Democratic candidate for President
Tom Brokaw - NBC news editorialist and short-list Vice-Presidential candidate for John Kerry
Richard Gephardt - former Democratic Missouri Congressman

Secretary of Defense
General Wesley Clark - retired General and former Democratic Presidential Candidate
General John Shalikashvili - former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Clinton and advisor to John Kerry's Presidential campaign.

Attorney General
Janet Reno - former Attorney General under Clinton who deported Elian Gonzalez back to Cuba
Jennifer Granholm - former lawyer and current Governor of Michigan

Others Who May Get Appointed Various Seats:

Martin O'Malley - dying for an office with a big mirror
Anthony Williams - former Mayor of Washington, D.C.
Kwasi Mfume - former Maryland Congressman and former head of NAACP
Donna Brazile - political strategist
Tom Daschel - former Democratic Congressman from South Dakota
Oprah Winfrey - yeah, why not?

What are your predictions?

2 comments:

s_baghaii said...

I doubt the Wesley Clark possibility because he is a pretty die hard supporter of the Clintons. I would think that he would keep Secretary of Defense Gates in his position as a show of bipartisanship and seriousness about quickly resolving some of our complex foreign policy issues.

I was interested in who would be picked for various economic posts. Reuters had a good rundown of that here.

Rotten Ink from a Poison Pen said...

Boy, that's "change" alright. A bunch of tired, useless liberals (sorry for the redundancy) from the Clinton Administration.

The only one worth a damn is Bill Richardson; who I think has a LOT to do with why we're not dropping bombs in Tehran at this time.

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