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Tue Oct-21-03 09:03 PM
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I'm the president, and here's my cabinet |
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Edited on Tue Oct-21-03 09:15 PM by syrinx9999
I'm just pretending that I'm president, and assembling my cabinet, to amuse myself. I think I've got a pretty good lineup here, but I would like to include more women and minorities. Any suggestions? Not that there's any danger of me becoming president. :)
State: Bill Clinton Treasury: Paul Krugman
Defense: Wesley Clark, or maybe Sam Nunn
Attorney General: John Edwards
Homeland Security: Gary Hart
Interior: Walter Mondale
Agriculture: Charlie Stenholm
Commerce: Robert Rubin
Labor: Richard Gephardt
HHS: Howard Dean
HUD: Charlie Rangel
Transportation: Robert Menendez
Energy: Jan Schakowsky
Education: Al Gore
Veterans Affairs: Max Cleland
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Tue Oct-21-03 09:06 PM
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1. What about Dean as Surgeon General? |
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Does he know enough? This is a star studded cast.
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Tue Oct-21-03 09:10 PM
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3. I've got him as Secretary of Health and Human Services |
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Edited on Tue Oct-21-03 09:23 PM by syrinx9999
That seems, to me, to be a more substantive position than Surgeon General, but I certainly could be wrong.
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Tue Oct-21-03 09:16 PM
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6. I think you are right... |
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but I was just throwing it out there.
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Tue Oct-21-03 09:08 PM
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2. I'd put Ann Richards in there somewhere |
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Tue Oct-21-03 09:12 PM
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4. she might make a good press secretary |
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Tue Oct-21-03 09:15 PM
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5. That's what I call a "Dream Team!" |
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That crew could actually give the USA, and the World, a fighting chance. If they could get to work in 2005, that is. Four more years of the evildoers and we're toast, for sure.
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Tue Oct-21-03 09:24 PM
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7. Fareed Zakaria should be secretary of state |
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Not only is he among the most well qualified when it comes to acedemic and intellectual respect and credence, having a Muslim as our voice to the world would be extremely advantageous in these times.
It has been seriously suggested in some periodicles.
your ideas are a bit farfetched I think you'll admit.
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Tue Oct-21-03 09:35 PM
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A former president as Secretary of State? I don't know. I think Clinton might do it. What I'm trying to do is come up with the ultimate cabinet.
I've seen Fareed on tv and he certainly seems like a smart guy, but getting the US Senate to confirm a Muslim as Secretary of State, in the current political climate, does seem a bit farfetched to me.
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Tue Oct-21-03 09:45 PM
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9. I really don't think there are too many bigoted senators, at least |
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not that bigoted. Zakaria isn't really religious at all.
He's an indian diplomats kid who's been educated in America and is a New Yorker.
I know alot of people here think that 99 percent of people with R's after there names have swastika tattoos and attend Klan rallies but that just isn't the case.
Zakaria would be confirmed with just as much ease as Powell or anyone else
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Tue Oct-21-03 10:01 PM
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But I'm not as sure about it as you are.
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Tue Oct-21-03 09:47 PM
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10. my only problem with your list: |
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We're losing too many guys from the dem congressional roster.
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Tue Oct-21-03 09:59 PM
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12. yeah, that's a concern of mine too |
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Got any ideas to fill those slots?
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Tue Oct-21-03 09:51 PM
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11. Really like seeing Krugman in Treasury. |
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Just seeing his name there caused my usually strained shoulder muscles to go Aaaah! :toast:
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Tue Oct-21-03 10:03 PM
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14. do you think Dean/Kerry/Clark, or whoever, would consider him? |
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I'd love to see it. Reckon our president would consider him to be too controversial?
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Tue Oct-21-03 10:11 PM
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15. It would be wonderful to think so, but |
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Edited on Tue Oct-21-03 10:12 PM by Minstrel Boy
I think "controversial" is the word right now. But then, that's "right now." After another year of Bush, many more people will be using the word "prescient" to describe Krugman. So who knows? :-)
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Tue Oct-21-03 10:17 PM
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16. I like the cut of your gib! |
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(I don't really know what that means, but I've heard it in old movies, and it's a compliment!)
:)
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Tue Oct-21-03 10:24 PM
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17. I think with that cabinet... |
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There won't be enough big name Democrats left to go campaign for others.
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Tue Oct-21-03 10:30 PM
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18. Just because they're in the cabinet doesn't mean they can't campaign... |
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Does it? If there's a law about that, I'm not aware of it. Is there?
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