Which candidate would be best able to pull the others into their administration?

[MaryBear]

How would they complement each other?

what strengths would each bring to what cabinet post?

:dem:

[countmyvote4real]

1. Backing into it...

Wes Clark = Secretary of Defense
Dennis Kucinitch = Secretary of Peace
Bill Richardson = Secretary of State
Joe Bliden = Secretary of Intelligence (NSA)
Hillary Clinton = Senator NY

[MaryBear]

2. Could you expand,

and include each candidate in a cabinet position and also speak to their strengths?

And then discuss which could attract the others?

[countmyvote4real]

3. Not at this hour. That's all I've got. But those are first impressions. n/t

[MaryBear]

4. I will watch for more. nt

[Jai4WKC08]

5. Oh fer cryin' out loud

Wes Clark can't be Sec of Defense until he's been out of the military for 10 years, which means the summer of 2010 -- well over a year too late for the next administration. He'd be a much better Sec of State anyway. Or possibly Dept of Homeland Security.

I wonder if Richardson would be willing to give up his governorship for the State job. Maybe. He'd be good in it too.

We don't have a Sec of Peace and I seriously doubt we ever will. What would one do anyway? Now, Clark has proposed an organization to coordinate assistance to struggling/failing nations (in coordination with UN and non-governmental humanitarian agencies. With a Democratic Congress, maybe he could succeed in establishing one. I wouldn't suggest Kucinich be put in charge tho. He just doesn't have the administrative background to handle it, if his time as mayor is any indication.

There's no such thing as a Sec of Intelligence. There's a DNI (Director of National Intelligence) but the office-holder is not supposed to change with the administration... altho I admit I'll be sort of surprised if it doesn't.

The Director of the National Security Agency (NSA) is always an active-duty military three-star, since the NSA is by law part of the Dept of Defense.

If otoh by "NSA" you meant National Security Advisor (which is not an intelligence job), there's no way Biden would settle for it. It's not high enough in the pecking order for someone of his Senate seniority.

Personally, I'd like to see all the Democratic senators stay in the Senate. Obama included. That's where we need them most. We have a real opportunity to pick up more seats in 2008 -- maybe even make the Senate filibuster proof.

[MaryBear]

6. Democratic Senators staying in the Senate...

Very good point.

So then who would each candidate pull in to their administration?

Clark is not a Senator, so perhaps from what you say he might do well as Ambassador to the UN, or as Secretary of State?

Edwards might serve in what capacity?

The point here is how do we get these folks to pull together?