Obama picks Vilsack, Salazar for Cabinet

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Source: MSNBC.COM

CHICAGO - Pushing to fill his Cabinet, President-elect Barack Obama announced Wednesday his choices of former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack to be agriculture secretary and Colorado Sen. Ken Salazar to lead the Interior Department.

"It is time for a new kind of leadership in Washington that's committed to using our lands in a responsible way to benefit all of our families," Obama said in a news conference, his third in as many days to announce Cabinet choices.



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Vilsack is a Monsanto fanboy, and is a cheerleader for the unfettered promotion of GMO's despite evidence that shows that they have serious harmful effects that can be difficult to contain if they cause illness, infest the environment, or poison our food supply.

Is Obama ignorant of the facts concerning the influence of Monsanto in agribusiness today? If he is, we are in deep, deep trouble, as Vilsack is the WRONG coice, at the worst possible time in our history.

What is it with the Clintonesque pattern of appointing that equivalent of WalMart CEO thinking into out USDA again?

As a Small farmer, I think this signals a dismal one term for this so called "Change which is much of the Same we can count on."

Obama, what has happened to you? It's like now that he's elected, he can toss his support to big business at will, without worry.