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So, who do you think the appointees will be?
« on: November 05, 2008, 09:33:16 AM »
He's got a whole cabinet to fill, and a whole lot of other positions.

The only one that's a given, I think, is that Merill McPeak, a close supporter and adviser, will get SecDef. Which will be an absolute disaster for the armed forces, but hey.
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Re: So, who do you think the appointees will be?
« Reply #1 on: November 05, 2008, 09:35:04 AM »
Well Colin Powell will have a seat somewhere.  Just might be SecDef.

You might actually see an ambassadorship (sp) for Bill Clinton, just to get him out of the country.
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Re: So, who do you think the appointees will be?
« Reply #2 on: November 05, 2008, 09:42:26 AM »
There was a BBC report last month that suggested Oprah might be the Ambassador to the UK.  Does that mean its time to invade you again?  Would you be upset if we sacked DC?
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Re: So, who do you think the appointees will be?
« Reply #3 on: November 05, 2008, 09:44:32 AM »
Quote from: agricola on November 05, 2008, 09:42:26 AM
There was a BBC report last month that suggested Oprah might be the Ambassador to the UK.  Does that mean its time to invade you again?  Would you be upset if we sacked DC?

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Re: So, who do you think the appointees will be?
« Reply #4 on: November 05, 2008, 09:50:08 AM »
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Merill McPeak, a close supporter and adviser, will get SecDef. Which will be an absolute disaster for the armed forces, but hey.

At least they'll all get snazzy new uniforms.
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Re: So, who do you think the appointees will be?
« Reply #5 on: November 05, 2008, 10:03:47 AM »
Rahm Emmanual for Chief of Staff. He's a radical liberal activist in Chicago.
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Re: So, who do you think the appointees will be?
« Reply #6 on: November 05, 2008, 10:12:57 AM »
Frankly, I will be interested to watch this process.  Obama sold himself as a uniter, a cross-party lines type of guy.  His choices for senior staff positions will tell quickly how sincere he was.
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Re: So, who do you think the appointees will be?
« Reply #7 on: November 05, 2008, 10:30:55 AM »
I imagine Richardson will be in there somewhere.

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Re: So, who do you think the appointees will be?
« Reply #8 on: November 05, 2008, 11:23:13 AM »
Quote from: Kingcreek on November 05, 2008, 10:03:47 AM
Rahm Emmanual for Chief of Staff. He's a radical liberal activist in Chicago.

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Obama Offers Rahm Emanuel Job of White House Chief of Staff

November 05, 2008 8:30 AM

ABC News has learned that President-elect Obama has offered the White House chief of staff job to Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill.

Emanuel, a knowledgeable source tells ABC News, has not yet given his answer. The sharp-tongued, sharp-elbowed, keenly intelligent veteran of the Clinton White House is said to have ambitions to some day be Speaker of the House. But he also has a keen sense of "duty."

Today on "Good Morning America" ABC's George Stephanopoulos reported Obama likes the fact that Emanuel "knows policy, knows politics, knows Capitol Hill" and has told associates that Emanuel would "have his back."

There is a tentative plan to announce Obama's chief of staff this week.


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Re: So, who do you think the appointees will be?
« Reply #9 on: November 05, 2008, 11:40:52 AM »
Where do you think he'll send Hillary?
 
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Re: So, who do you think the appointees will be?
« Reply #10 on: November 05, 2008, 11:42:45 AM »
Quote from: Bogie on November 05, 2008, 11:40:52 AM
Where do you think he'll send Hillary?
 


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Re: So, who do you think the appointees will be?
« Reply #11 on: November 05, 2008, 03:38:51 PM »
Sharpton, and Jackson
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Re: So, who do you think the appointees will be?
« Reply #12 on: November 05, 2008, 03:40:57 PM »
Oh, also, Rahm Emanuel, the likely Chief of Staff, was on the board of directors of Freddie Mac, where he opposed oversight and reform.

Is anyone surprised at all that this is how it's starting out? Anyone? At all?

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Re: So, who do you think the appointees will be?
« Reply #13 on: November 05, 2008, 04:00:27 PM »
Liberals and Washington insiders.  He will surround himself with many of the same old people who will do the same old crap.  Except now he'll have both houses behind him, for the most part.
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Re: So, who do you think the appointees will be?
« Reply #14 on: November 05, 2008, 04:07:52 PM »
The usual list of far left loons, I mean after all the country just elected the most liberal member of the Senate. Oh how far conservative ideas and values have fallen.

Thompson, Huckabee, Romney, etc could have all done a better job of at least presenting conservative ideas, but we picked the 'maverick'- lol.
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Re: So, who do you think the appointees will be?
« Reply #15 on: November 05, 2008, 04:21:57 PM »
Franklin Raines would make a dandy sec of the treasury. Lots of financial experience.
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Re: So, who do you think the appointees will be?
« Reply #16 on: November 05, 2008, 04:24:21 PM »
William Ayers is available as czar of "re-education."
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Re: So, who do you think the appointees will be?
« Reply #17 on: November 05, 2008, 04:39:58 PM »
Quote from: agricola on November 05, 2008, 09:42:26 AM
There was a BBC report last month that suggested Oprah might be the Ambassador to the UK.  Does that mean its time to invade you again?  Would you be upset if we sacked DC?

Not if you send me a snazzy red coat and promise to put Christopher Eccelston back as Doctor Who....



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Re: So, who do you think the appointees will be?
« Reply #18 on: November 05, 2008, 04:47:34 PM »
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You might actually see an ambassadorship (sp) for Bill Clinton, just to get him out of the country.

Ooh-la-la, I bet he would like either France or Italy  =D
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Re: So, who do you think the appointees will be?
« Reply #19 on: November 05, 2008, 04:49:19 PM »
Quote from: seeker_two on November 05, 2008, 04:39:58 PM
Not if you send me a snazzy red coat and promise to put Christopher Eccelston back as Doctor Who....

Dunno if that will happen, though Tennant has left.  Personally I'd like to see Chiwetel Ejiofor as the new Doctor (if for no other reason than Serenity), though I gather you lot have your claws in him now.

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Re: So, who do you think the appointees will be?
« Reply #20 on: November 05, 2008, 04:51:51 PM »
Remember, this is the same Rahm Emanuel from the Clinton administration who aggressively worked to ban even more "assault weapons" in 1997. As another staffer put it, “We are taking the law and bending it as far as we can to capture a whole new class of guns.”
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Re: So, who do you think the appointees will be?
« Reply #21 on: November 05, 2008, 05:20:31 PM »
Quote from: agricola on November 05, 2008, 04:49:19 PM
Dunno if that will happen, though Tennant has left.  Personally I'd like to see Chiwetel Ejiofor as the new Doctor (if for no other reason than Serenity), though I gather you lot have your claws in him now.


Chiwetel Ejiofor.....now that's an intriguing choice.....I'd go for that...

Now when are you getting here with my red coat?....
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Re: So, who do you think the appointees will be?
« Reply #22 on: November 05, 2008, 06:22:14 PM »
AZ Governor Janet Napolitano was today named to Obama's "White House transition team" and is mentioned as a likely cabinet member. Her background makes it appear that she would be an actively anti-gun Attorney General. See http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/archive/local/86498.php

Prior to her election as Governor, Napolitano served as U.S. Attorney for Arizona and as Arizona’s first female Attorney General.
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Re: So, who do you think the appointees will be?
« Reply #23 on: November 05, 2008, 06:28:30 PM »
Obama is clearly shaping up to be another Clinton:  a big media manager with little in the way of accomplishments to show to his supporters. 

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Re: So, who do you think the appointees will be?
« Reply #24 on: November 05, 2008, 06:29:41 PM »
Supreme Court apointees worry me more than cabinet appointees.
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