Obama Cabinet

[Bartleby]

It looks like Rahm Emanuel is going to be the Chief of Staff. Who else do you think Obama will appoint to his cabinet?

Edit: I just noticed this could have gone in the Predictions thread. Please feel free to move it.

[romad_20]

It looks like Rahm Emanuel is going to be the Secretary of State. Who else do you think Obama will appoint to his cabinet?

Edit: I just noticed this could have gone in the Predictions thread. Please feel free to move it.

I thought he was going to be Chief of staff?

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Friends and enemies agree that the key to Emanuel's success is his legendary intensity. There's the story about the time he sent a rotting fish to a pollster who had angered him. There's the story about how his right middle finger was blown off by a Syrian tank when he was in the Israeli army. And there's the story of how, the night after Clinton was elected, Emanuel was so angry at the president's enemies that he stood up at a celebratory dinner with colleagues from the campaign, grabbed a steak knife and began rattling off a list of betrayers, shouting "Dead! . . . Dead! . . . Dead!" and plunging the knife into the table after every name. "When he was done, the table looked like a lunar landscape," one campaign veteran recalls. "It was like something out of The Godfather. But that's Rahm for you."

far better temperament compared to mccain. far better.

so far the "across the aisle" rhetoric is keeping the course.

[CosmicCowboy]

Gee, what a surprise. A Chicago "machine" politician as chief of staff.

[ChumpDumper]

Yeah right, like a Muslim would appoint a Jew to his cabinet.

[johnsmith]

I think Ludacris should be in there somewhere. His song is pretty catchy.

[balli]

Huffington Post is mumbling about RFK Jr. for EPA Chief. This day can't get better.

[johnsmith]

Huffington Post is mumbling about RFK Jr. for EPA Chief. This day can't get better.

It could if I were to possibly have sex with 19 year old twin college girls................but that would mean only I'd be having a better day.

[Bartleby]

I thought he was going to be Chief of staff?

Yeah, that's what I meant. This just isn't my day.

[ChumpDumper]

I didn't realize Richard Clarke is only in his fifties. Maybe he's made enough money that he could be talked back into service.

[doobs]

(1) Chief of Staff isn't a cabinet level position--Rahm Emanuel needs to be nowhere near a cabinet post
(2) Obama will make some gesture to the Republicans, I'm guessing Sen. Hagel as SecDef; Bill Clinton did this with Bill Cohen
(3) I bet Bill Richardson gets State
(4) Jamie Gorlich, Eric Holder, or (gulp) John Edwards as Attorney General
(5) Homeland Security . . . I have no clue
(6) The other cabinet posts are pretty minor, so I don't care

[T Park]

Emmaunel, "Voted 98% of the time with the democrats" is "reaching across the aisle"???



OOOOOk

[TheTruth]

I bet Gates stays on as Obamas Sec Def. At least until there is a military pullout of Iraq.

[TheTruth]

Emmaunel, "Voted 98% of the time with the democrats" is "reaching across the aisle"???



OOOOOk

He's gonna be Chief of Staff. A glorified secretary. I wouldn't want him anywhere near a Cabinet position.

[T Park]

He's gonna be Chief of Staff. A glorified secretary. I wouldn't want him anywhere near a Cabinet position.

Neither would I.


I'm honestly hoping Obama follows up on his willing to govern from the middle.

If he governs from the middle and does not sway too far to the left, I think he might he successfull, and I sure as hope he is.

[ChumpDumper]

Emmaunel, "Voted 98% of the time with the democrats" is "reaching across the aisle"???



OOOOOk

You don't reach across the aisle for a chief of staff. That should probably be your most partisan hire.

[T Park]

You don't reach across the aisle for a chief of staff. That should probably be your most partisan hire.

Hes pretty far to the left though.

Partisan is one thing, but not THAt far to the left.

[ChumpDumper]

Depends on what you think his influence on policy will be. As I see it, he's being hired for his organizational ability and connections.

[Findog]

Depends on what you think his influence on policy will be. As I see it, he's being hired for his organizational ability and connections.

His job will be to keep Obama's Administration organized. He's a real SOB, but that's kind of person who you want as Chief of Staff.

[Obstructed_View]

Hes pretty far to the left though.

Partisan is one thing, but not THAt far to the left.

He's not left, he's just partisan. He's the right guy for the job, plus he's in good with Nancy P, and Obama's going to need a bulldog that can take her on.

[florige]

I'm REALLY hoping that Bill Richardson gets a nod somewhere in his cabinet. He was one of the first ones to come out and publicly support Obama during his bitter primary with Hillary. Edwards endorsed him after everything was said and done.

[MannyIsGod]

I'm REALLY hoping that Bill Richardson gets a nod somewhere in his cabinet. He was one of the first ones to come out and publicly support Obama during his bitter primary with Hillary. Edwards endorsed him after everything was said and done.

Richardson seems a shoe in for Secretary of State. I've read rumblings of Powell for Defense. Robert Gibbs seems like a Press Secretary natural but we'll see.

[florige]

Richardson seems a shoe in for Secretary of State. I've read rumblings of Powell for Defense. Robert Gibbs seems like a Press Secretary natural but we'll see.

yeah! I'm just pissed that he cut his beard. That was so badass...

[boutons_]

Powell said he won't be in Obama's WH.

[MannyIsGod]

Powell said he won't be in Obama's WH.

No he didn't.