KERRY Supporters, Who are your cabinet picks? Shadow Cabinet, anyone?

[liberalpragmatist]

I think at the convention, we should announce a shadow cabinet, to present a united front against Bush. Okay, so maybe not ALL the positions should be announced ahead of time, but here's a partial list of who I think should be announced:

President: John Kerry

Vice President: Wesley Clark

State: Al Gore

Defense: Anthony Zinni OR Erik Shinseki

Attorney General: John Edwards (also 2012 nominee for President)

Homeland Security: Lt. Gen. Claudia Kennedy

Treasury: Franklin Raines

Labor: Dick Gephardt

I don't know who else for other cabinet positions. Here are some other positions I hope Kerry fills:

DNC Chairman: Howard Dean

UN Ambassador: Joe Wilson

National Security Advisor: Rand Beers

Who are some realistic choices?

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. US atty general should be Elliot Spitzer

[mitchtv]

2. Bill Clinton- State

supreme payback Clinton- USSC
Al sharpton- press secty

[TheDonkey]

3. I hope its a very diverse line-up

spaceshrub did a good job keeping it diverse... too bad they are all right wing wackos anyway.

[tishaLA]

4. Alterman's blog had this list

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4136182/#040204

He excluded all senate members because they ar too important now to do anything else.

Secretary of State: Wesley Clark or Anthony Zinni, if Clark is on the ticket.
Adviser for National Security: Anthony Zinni if he’s not Secretary of State
Secretary of Defense: Max Cleland
Chairman of the Federal Reserve: Joseph Stiglitz
Director of the CIA: Joseph Wilson
Secretary of the Treasury: Laura Tyson
Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers: Paul Krugman
Attorney General: Elliot Spitzer
Secretary of the Interior: Gary Hart
UN Representative: John Lewis
Ambassador to Niger: Paul Wolfowitz
Ambassador to Mars, George W. Bush
Ambassador to Venus, Ralph Nader.
Chairman of the Democratic Party: Howard Dean

[MattNC]

5. stiglitz

i'd love him to head up the Fed

[RegenerationMan]

7. Spitzer AG, RFK Jr. EPA Director

[leyton]

6. What's a shadow cabinet?

As opposed to a real cabinet? Thanks...

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

8. Help me, Brits

I believe it is in the British tradition. The party out of power appoints specific individuals who keep track of the doings of the members of the actual cabinet appointees. So, for example, there is the Labor Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Tories have a 'shadow' Chancellor. I don't know the specifics of what this 'shadow' cabinet does-do they just keep track of what the party in power is doing or do they offer specific counter proposals, ie, "If Tories were in power, we'd do...."

[WiseMen]

9. W Perry, R. Kennedy, Z. Brzezinski, R. Reich, R. Rubin -- to name a few.

John already has a shadow cabinet in place. It is not clear that
any Pres candidates are relevant.

[Catholic Sensation]

10. mine

Vice President: John Edwards
Secty of State: Wesley Clark

Head of EPA: Robert F. Kennedy jr.
Sectry of Defense: Max Cleeland
Chairman of DNC: Howard Dean
Treasury Sectry: Paul Krugman
UN Ambassador: Joseph Wilson
Homeland Security: Ed Rendell (keeping up with PA Governors being in charge of this :D)

I'll think of others later

[mndemocrat_29]

11. Under a Kerry presidency, I think there should be

VP-John Edwards
State-Wesley Clark
Treasury-Bill Daley
Defense-Claudia Kennedy
Attorney General-Gary Locke
Interior-Peter Deutsch (unless he's a senator, at which case he'd need to pick someone else)
Agriculture-David Minge
Commerce-John Kitzhaber
Labor-Richard Gephardt
HHS-Carol Moseley Braun
HUD-Bob Holden
Transportation-Connie Morella
Energy-Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
Education-Judi Dutcher
VA-Max Cleland
Homeland Security-Gary Hart
First Supreme Court Nominee-Alan Paige