What if we win the Whitehouse in '08

[Uben]

Think of the people you would like to see fill the cabinet.

Richard Clark
Bill Richardson
Joe Wilson to head CIA (wouldn't that chap their ass)


What would some of your picks be?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Here's mine

Clark for S of State
Edwards for HUD
Bill Clinton for UN Ambassador

[applegrove]

24. Oh - it makes me dizzy to think of being that happy. All 6 so far!!

[SCantiGOP]

2. If he's not in the White House

Al Gore is a natural for EPA and Edwards for Health and Human Services. And don't forget US Ambassador to the UN Bill Clinton.

[Justyce]

4. Excellent choices!! nm

[Uben]

3. how about Atty General?

Eliot Spitzer?
Fitzgerald?

[SharonRB]

8. I had Jennifer Granholm,

but either of those would be okay, too. Maybe they could be in for two years and then move onto something else when Jennifer is term-limited.

[SharonRB]

9. Dupe

[applegrove]

25. Wonderful.

[rock]

5. How will we get any work done?

What with the stench and all.

[SharonRB]

6. Here are a few of mine:

(Of course, this assumes none of these will be president, but I hope Gore winds up running and winning).

Wes Clark - Secretary of Defense
Al Gore - Secretary of the Interior or Administrator of the EPA
Joe Wilson - Head of CIA
Bill Clinton - Secretary of State or UN Ambassador
John Edwards - HHS Secretary
Jennifer Granholm - Attorney General (but not until 2010 when she's term limite -- we need her here until then!)


Dennis Kucinich - Department of Peace

Bring back James Lee Witt and make FEMA a separate entity again.

[Clark2008]

14. Sharon... I'm going to beat you with a wet noodle!

Clark can't be Secretary of Defense unil 2010. Code requires the Def. Sec. be out of military service for at least 10 years. Clark will only have been retired for eight years by 2008.

Sorry - this is a pet peeve of mine. I always see, "I'd like Clark as Defense Secretary" but he can't be (and I think it's for a very good reason - to solidly make the commander of the military a civilian. Good policy).

:hi: how ya doin' otherwise?

[SharonRB]

18. LOL -- Guilty as charged -- Guess I don't know the rules.

Glad you're watching out for me. How do you know all this stuff?

I thought you were going to say he can't be SoD because he was going to be president! Hmmmm....so what post can he legally hold? I guess if the Big Dawg isn't SoS, I could put him there.

:hi:

[Clark2008]

20. He can hold any other post.

The code was written to specifically keep the defense secretary from being too close to the military - to make the defense leader a civilian, which I think is good policy (our founding fathers rocked, didn't they?)

And, I found that last time Clark ran when someone mentioned it - I think he even said something about it at some point. He would know.

But, yeah - I'll take him as president! Or Secretary of State. I think Big Dawg would rather be UN Secretary, myself. ;)

[SharonRB]

21. I'll take Big Dawg anywhere he wants to go

I guess Rummy didn't have a problem with that rule, huh, seeing as he never served at all.

[Clark2008]

22. Rummy did serve - three years in the peacetime Navy.

The only member of the Bush Administration since Powell's departure that did serve.

But, of course, that was in the 50s or something. Rummy actually served with my hubby's father. Small world, isn't it?

[SharonRB]

27. You're way too smart for me

I thought they were all chickenhawks!

[Clark2008]

30. Technically, he still is.

He served during peacetime.

[SharonRB]

33. Aye, there's the rub!

[Betsy Ross]

7. Keith Olbermann as press secretary. n/t

[SharonRB]

10. Good one -- I love it!

Or Stretch.

[Clark2008]

26. ROFL!

I just had a funny thought: imagine a Faux News "reporter" asking Keith a question slanted in such a way as to make the Dem administration sound horrid (in that way that they do) and Keith responding with, "Whadda doing? Auditioning for the Worst Person in the World or something?"

Oh, the snark at those press conferences!

[SharonRB]

32. I know -- wouldn't it be great?

Of course, I'd miss him doing CD.

[Uben]

34. Or Helen Thomas

payback time!

[SharonRB]

35. Another good one -- and probably less of a stretch than KO

I could still see "Stretch," too, though.

[SCantiGOP]

39. that would be fun

[Fovea]

11. Lessee.

EPA/NOAA - Al Gore
Energy - assuming he isnt prez...Dennis Kucinich
Defense - Wes Clark
State - Joe Wilson IV.
HHS/Education - Assuming he isn't pres, John Edwards.
HSA/ Disolve to original orgs.
Nat Sec Adv. - Richard Clarke/Valerie Plame-Wilson
Interior - Bill Richardson
Sec Commerce - Elliot Spitzer
Labor - Robert Reich
OMB - Kevin Phillips (I know he's a Republican)
Atty Genl-- Robt Kennedy Jr.

UN - Bill Moyers
Amb China - Bill Gates
Amb Russia - Patrick Fitzgerald

[SharonRB]

12. I was trying to find a cabinet post for Bill Gates

Education maybe?

I like Richard Clarke or Valerie Plame as NSA -- good choices.

[Ninja Jordan]

15. "assuming he isn't prez....Dennis Kucinich"

A very bold assumption!

[Clark2008]

16. Clark can't be Def. Sec.

See my post above.

:hi:

[Uben]

13. John McCain

Ambassador to Siberia

[Clark2008]

17. LOL!

[SharonRB]

19. Can we make it a joint post

and have him take LIEberman with him?

[Clark2008]

31. He can be ambassador to Outer Mongolia.

:7

[martymar64]

23. Other good posts for McCain

Ambassador for Botswana (or Nauru, Mauretaina, Maldives, Haiti)

Too bad there's not a department of Dgcatchers.

[applegrove]

28. LOL!

[applegrove]

29. Oh happy day. What a great post. K & R!

[SCantiGOP]

36. Ambassador to Iraq

Joe Lieberman. And since things are going so well over there, I'd make him live in the middle of Sadr City.

[election_2004]

37. My choices.......

Secretary of State or U.N. Ambassador - Bill Clinton
Secretary of Defense - John Kerry or Claudia Kennedy
Secretary of Agriculture - Eva Clayton
Secretary of Labor - Marcy Kaptur
Secretary of HHS or Surgeon General - Howard Dean
Secretary of Veterans Affairs - Max Cleland
Secretary of the Interior - Lincoln Chafee
National Foreign Policy Advisor - Joe Biden or Wes Clark (if he's not the nominee)

[generaldemocrat]

38. Michael Moore, CIA Director and Stephen Colbert, Press Secretary

LOLOLOL