The Kerry White House

[Mr_King]

This is a list I made before the election last year and I just found it on my computer in some old files. So I thought I'd share it here with my friends here at D.U.


President of the United States
John Kerry

Vice-President of the United States
John Edwards

Secretary of State
Richard Holbrook

Secretary of Defense
Wesley Clark

Attorney General
Douglas Wilder

Secretary of the Treasury
Leon Panetta

Secretary of the Interior
Carol Mousley Braun

Secretary of Agriculture
Tom Daschle

Secretary of Commerce
John Conyers, Jr.

Secretary of Labor
Dick Gephardt

Secretary of Housing & Urban Development
Jesse Jackson, Jr.

Secretary of Health & Human Services
Howard Dean

Secretary of Homeland Security
Gary Hart

Secretary of Education
Maxine Waters

Secretary of Energy
Joseph Kennedy, II

Secretary of Transportaion
Linda Sanchez

Secretary of Veteren Affairs
Max Cleeland

National Security Advisor
Bob Kerrey

Director of National Intelligence
Bob Graham

Solicitor General
Laurence Tribe

Director of the Peace Corps
Mark Shriver

White House Chief of Staff
Mary Beth Cahill

Deputy White House Chief of Staff
Joe Trippi

White House Press Secretary
Stephanie Cutter

United States Ambassador to the United Nations
Al Gore

Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
Winona LaDuke

Director of the Office of Management and Budget
Donna Brazile

Director of the National Drug Control Policy
Andrew Young

United States Trade Representative
Erskine Bowles

Director of the CIA
Michael Scheuer

Director of Federal Emergency Management Agency
Federico Peña

White House Counsel
Bob Shrum

[Staph]

1. Sigh.....

All those wonderful might-have-beens! And think how different the last two weeks would have been if Gary Hart and Federico Peña had been in charge of the aftermath.

[INdemo]

2. The "Kerry White House"

We will never know at point just how much better off we would be if this was really true and our President was John Kerry a real statesman

[Todd B]

3. Great list!

I was happy for a moment thinking about how much that cabinet could restore our image in the world.

What about Robert Kennedy for the EPA? And, just because I'm curious, who would you pick as Secretary of Peace (assuming the Department of Peace was set up)?

[Mr_King]

6. For Secretary Of Peace....

I'd pick (or hope that Kerry would pick)

Jimmy Carter.

[FreedomAngel82]

23. Perfect!

No better person!

[FreedomAngel82]

22. Oh yes!

Definitley Kennedy for EPA. Or even FEMA!

[bluestateguy]

4. Bob Shrum and Mary Beth Cahill in the White House?

I guess you weren't planning on Kerry getting a second term.

[Mr_King]

9. Remember this was before the election.

If I thought James Carville would have taken the position of WH Chief of Staff I think he'd (Kerry) pick him.

The WH Counsel is just the lawyer that advises the President. Shrum wouldn't have had much say on policy matters, just legal matters.

[BlueIris]

18. Normally, I would be posting a nasty retort about election fraud,

but...yeah. M.B. Cahill would be the LAST person I would want to see in charge of Kerry's staff.

[Brightmore]

5. Could Clark be Sec. of Def.?

I thought there was some rule about being out of the military for ten years. I might be wrong though.

[Clarkie1]

10. No, he could be president though. n/t

[paineinthearse]

7. Earth to Mr. King

Kerry folded on November 3.

[Mr_King]

11. If you read the begining you'd see I made it BEFORE the election

It was all just a guess.

The election was stolen, but you have to come back to reality and see Bush dosen't care and ain't resigning. Bush & Co. love power and money way too much just to wake up one day and hand the keys to the White House to Kerry. You're living in another world if you believe that is going to happen.

It's time to get over 2004. It's 2006 we have to prepare for now.

[paineinthearse]

14. It's time to get over 2004. It's 2006 we have to prepare for now.? BS!

I refuse to "get over" 2004 (or 2000 for that matter) and fully support the efforts of the Greens and Libertarians and Rep. Conner to fight in the federal courts and House Judiciary Committee to right the wrongs.

[WildEyedLiberal]

15. Actually Kerry's still involved in 3 lawsuits in Ohio

Only one of which also involves the Greens and Libs. But, do you care? I doubt it.

[Mr_King]

16. Good Luck...

I don't know what you think is going to happen "IF" the courts "right the wrongs" of 2004. It's not like Bush is going to resign. And even "IF" he does that still means a Republican will still be President until Jan. 20, 2009.

2006 & 2008 that's what it is about buddy.

[WildEyedLiberal]

13. This is why no one helps you when you ask things in the Kerry forum

FYI.

:eyes:

[paineinthearse]

17. There is plenty of knowledge outside the DLC

I learned my lesson.

[Mass]

28. May be you should get over it with Kerry and focus on what is important

now: getting Romney out of office, for exemple. You sound more or less like a broken record.

And what does that have to do with the DLC, anyway?

[blm]

32. Kerry's furthest left of the DLC, and further left than most nonDLC....so

why pretend he represents the DLC when he doesn't?

Would you prefer that NO left voices within the DLC pull back against the voices of the right pulling ever more towards the center?

It was centrists in the WH, governors and legislators who kept pulling rightward throughout the 90s.

Thank undergod for strong voices from the left who at least curbed the greater onward force of the centrists.

[paineinthearse]

35. Would you prefer that NO left voices within the DLC ?

Absolutely! Let it go, let it drift further and further right and join the party it rightfully belongs to.

[blm]

38. No, I say pull'em back. Dean was a solid centrist - if he can be pulled to

the left, then more can be.

[paineinthearse]

39. Are you saying Dean is/was a DLC member?

I don't see his name in the member register.

[blm]

40. He was a star "New Democrat" while in office. Dean used the praise of his

former position when he was battling Al From during the primaries. You can probably access the press release from Dean at the time from one of the Dean sites.

I've never been able to access past lists of former DLC members as they only seem to list those lawmakers currently in office.

It would be odd that they would heap praise on Dean as a great example of a New Democrat in 2000-2001 if he wasn't even a member.

[LittleClarkie]

41. Don't bring up his record in Vermont

It doesn't count, apparently. It's like that was another Dean, somehow.

Sometimes I'm not sure Dean folks actually know the guy they support all that well.

[Totally Committed]

36. If the DLC were a tangible THING...

I would hunt it down, kill it with my bear hands, drive a wooden stake through its heart, and bury it under 50 tons of concrete.

TC

[LittleClarkie]

24. I tried to post that earlier

But the board crashed. Why should we help someone trash a person we support. "I'm looking for information to trash Kerry. Why won't you people help me."

Hrm...give me a minute, it will come to me...

[RaleighNCDUer]

8. The Dream Team.

What a difference they would have made the past few days.

[deadparrot]

12. Auugh...you're bumming me out!

That hurts just to look at it, even more so considering the current situation.

[LittleClarkie]

25. If I go down that road, I tend to cry my eyes out

So it's best not to.

Even so, I have trouble looking at the "president" and feeling like he actually belongs there.

[kerrygoddess]

19. Thank you ...

for sharing. We can dream.

[ladylibertee]

20. Not bad but......

I would only change two things. President of the United States should be John Edwards and Vice President Hillary R. Clinton. The rest is all good.Kerry should stay in the Senate.

[Clark2008]

31. Ewwww... I'd move.

There's no foreign policy or national security skills with that ticket.

[FreedomAngel82]

21. If only

I like your list. Just perfect. And the Senate majority leader would be Harry Reid and the House majority leader would be Nancy Pelosi. *sigh*

[Mr_King]

27. Yeah that would have been great...

I just wonder who Kerry would've picked for the Surpreme Court to replace O'Connor and Rehnquist.

[Carla in Ca]

26. Good list

I like the list...although I would put Robert Ruben back at treasury, Gore at EPA and Clinton at UN

Either way, it would definitely be an America I approve of.

[second edition]

29. If only!!! We can dream can't we and hope!

Great list except for a couple of names.

[Clark2008]

30. Except - for the millioneth time on this board - Clark CANNOT

be Secretary of Defense.

Federal code does not allow someone to serve as Secretary of Defense until they have been out of active-duty military for 10 years. Clark, if this were the 2004 Kerry White House, would have only been out for four years.

Put him in at State. With his diplomacy skills and Rolodex, he'd be fantastic there.

However, I still want to see him president.

[Mr_King]

43. Well...

then Clark would be National Security Adivsor and Bob Kerrey would be Secretary of Defense.

That 10 year rule is stupid anyway. They should change the rule for people like Wesley Clark.

[Tiggeroshii]

33. I saw somebody say this once around here:

"Wishful thinking is not productive."


:Sigh:

[Name removed]

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[WildEyedLiberal]

37. ...so don't respond to the thread

You don't like it? Don't read it. Unless you just LIKE coming in and whining and pissing all over everything.

[blm]

42. Please prove your claim. And while you're at it, please name ONE other

lawmaker who HAS A RECORD of investigating and exposing more government corruption than John Kerry.

It would be interesting to find anyone who has countered the BFEE more than Kerry has in the actual historic record. Please share.

I like ya, robbed, but, if you're going to attack the man who has EFFECTED this nation's HISTORIC RECORD more positively than many politicians put together, then you should provide proof that he's actually in league with the evil ones as you claim.