How would you fill the Kerry/Edwards cabinet?

[FlaIndie]

These positions are tough to slot to us common folk because we aren't privy to all the info that politicians get and all the name-dropping that goes around, but I would love to see these guys and gal in the following spots:

Sec. of State - Bob Graham
Sec. of Defense - Wesley Clark
Sec. of Health & Human Services - Howard Dean
Sec. of Veterans Affairs - Max Cleland
Sec. of HUD - Carol Moseley-Braun
Sec. of Labor - Dick Gephardt
Sec. of Energy - Bobby Kennedy, Jr. (that'd scare energy companies sh*tless)
Sec. of Homeland Security - Timothy J. Roemer (9/11 commission panel member)

Looks mostly like a 2004 Primary ballot, I know. :) But all are qualified for these specific areas and most have nothing to do right now (or won't soon).

[Xenus Sister]

1. Sec. of Homeland Security - Richard Clarke!

(I know Clarke said he wouldn't take a position in a Kerry presidency, but this is one matter I'd love to see him "flip-flop" on. Fuck the Republicans who'd scream about it.)

Otherwise, your list looks pretty good. I especially like the idea of Bobby Kennedy Jr. in there.


How about:

Attorney General - Vincent Bugliosi!

Special Prosecutor - John Dean?

Head of FCC - Eric Alterman (wishful thinking)




Let's get this country fixed and back on track!

[FlaIndie]

2. when did Clark say that?

I must be out of the loop!

[Xenus Sister]

4. I don't have a cite, sorry

I just remember hearing that, when Bushco was sliming him when his book was released and when he testified before the 9/11 committee, they accused him of just jockying for a place with the Kerry team, and he said something like no, he wasn't interested.

I hope someone else can come up with a better sequence of events.

[Warpy]

6. Attorney General Eliot Spitzer

He would likely preside over the biggest corporate and government cleanup in history, something we desperately need.

For any of you who don't know, he's the NY AG who's been doing the SEC's job on Wall Street since that agency has been thoroughly compromised by the revolving door and won't do a damned thing.

[lapfog_1]

3. Actually, I think it's been discussed here before

and the conclusion was that Clark can take the SecDef job, due
to legal requirements over the length of his retirement from
military service.

OTOH, I think Wesley Clark would make a good Sec of State, following
the footsteps of Colin Powell.

[Claire Beth]

5. Wes Clark cannot be Secretary of Defense....

the way I understand it is you must be OUT of the military for 10 years. He would make a terrific Secretary of State or Nat'l Security Advisor.

[terrya]

7. Good choices in Dick Gephardt at Labor and Dean at HHS. Mine:

I'd put Richard Holbrooke in at State. Give Bob Graham the CIA directorship (first thing Kerry should do is to jettison Porter Goss if Goss is CIA director. Way too Republican partisan)

If I were Kerry, I'd ask Robert Rubin to come back as Treasury Secretary. Bring back the fiscal policies of the Clinton years...the ones that created millions of jobs and cut the deficit.

I'd love for Kerry to nominate Jim Hightower as Agriculture Secretary. That would be the perfect nomination...and a clear signal to small farmers that the Kerry White House is looking after their interests.

[NewJeffCT]

8. My picks - unfortunately, a bunch of white men.

I think Holbrooke is a lock for Sec of State, though I'd like to see Wes Clark there as well.

Sec of State: Bill Clinton
Sec of Defense: Sam Nunn
Atty General: Eliot Spitzer
Sec of Labor: Dick Gephardt
Nat'l Sec Adviser: Rand Beers is probably a lock for this one, but I'd choose Wes Clark.
CIA: I like somebody else's choice of Bob Graham.
Treasury: Rubin was awesome under Clinton, unless Kerry wants him to replace Greenspan?
Head of the DNC: Howard Dean

Hmm, I've got a bunch of white men in here. Who do we have in the pipeline to make a potential Kerry Administration more representative of America? Maybe Govs. Napolitano or Granholm?

[FlaIndie]

9. Right, I forgot about Beers

he is fully qualified and he HATES Smirk. Doesn't get better. He is already Kerry's national security advisor for the campaign.