Agricultural expert Tom Vilsack will be ag secretary after all.

[Hardrada]

Don't we all feel so much better?

[Debi]

1. Just saw it on CNN

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/16/transition.wrap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) -- President-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday will announce Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack as his choice for agriculture secretary and Colorado Sen. Ken Salazar as his choice for secretary of the interior, an aide on Obama's transition team and a separate Democratic source said.

Vilsack was a high-profile supporter of Sen. Hillary Clinton during the presidential primaries after he briefly sought the Democratic presidential nomination.

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I have no words.

[Hardrada]

2. Monsanto wins in Obama cabinet

and in Education NCLB wins big. Did these people forget who elected, But of course they always do.

[Debi]

3. *sigh*

http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_15573.cfm

[Hardrada]

4. Well, they can continue to poison our food and our minds with

bad science and corporate ideology ,respectively, or they could just take us out to the town dump and shoot us right now. I guess they prefer the slow route to our extinction.

[rurallib]

5. Sure wish I could look with pride on a cabinet appointment from Iowa

maybe someday.
:wtf: :wtf:

[Hardrada]

6. For Ag secretary he picks a lawyer. For Education Secretary

he picks....another lawyer. I guess the odd thing here is that Vilsack did not go to Harvard at any point. As far as we know. Our government seems to oscillate between Harvard guys and Yalies.

[Debi]

7. Vilsack is at Harvard right now, though...

http://www.iop.harvard.edu/Programs/Fellows-Study-Groups/Current-Fellows/Thomas_Vilsack

[progressoid]

8. Color me unimpressed.

Not exactly the change we need.

[rurallib]

9. Per Arne Arneson on the noon show on IPR

Vilsack is talking like a lefty ag person these days. Maybe he's changing? Besides Obama is calling the shots. We can HOPE....