Okay, like I said, updates have been sporadic lately; aside from finals, I’m in a back brace (enormous pain in the butt). So, in lieu of a weighty tome, allow me to jump way ahead of even the most speculative pundits, and propose a partial cabinet for the Democratic administration beginning in 2009 (I’m assuming a Clinton/Obama ticket):
- Secretary of State | Bill Richardson (but, by the way, out here in the real West, people know that handguns are used only to kill people)
- Secretary of Defense | Wesley Clark
- Attorney General | John Edwards
- Secretary of the Interior | Bobby Kennedy Jr.
- Secretary of Health and Human Services | John Kitzhaber (and not just because he’s from Oregon)
- Secretary of Education | Paul Evans (a little known Oregon State Senate candidate and professor from here in Salem)
- Secretary of Veteran Affairs | John Kerry or Max Cleland
- White House Chief of Staff | Mike Gravel
This leaves:
- Secretary of Labor
- Secretary of Agriculture
- Secretary of Commerce
- Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
- Secretary of Transportation
- Secretary of the Treasury
- Secretary of Energy
which I’m not sure about yet.
(And, yes, I deliberately left out the Secretary of Homeland Security. That’s another, very long post.)
The Soggy Liberal 
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John said
I think this is better.
President – Barack Obama
Vice President – Evan Bayh
Secretary of State – Joe Biden
Secretary of the Treasury – Nydia Velazquez
Secretary of Defense – Colin Powell (He needs to redeem himself)
Attorney General – Janet Napolitano
Secretary of Homeland Security – Jamie Gorelick
Secretary of the Interior – Tim Wirth
Secretary of Agriculture – Patty Judge (Shes from Iowa)
Secretary of Commerce – Harold Ford Jr.
Secretary of Labor – Linda Chavez-Thompson (Let the people that work in this country run the Labor Department)
Secretart of HHS – John Kitzhaber (He dominates Health Care)
Secretary of HUD – Shirley Franklin (Always a good place for a black woman)
Secretary of Transportation – Jane Garvey
Secretary of Energy – Hilda Solis
Secretary of Education – Ben Cayetano (Obama got pick a bo from his home state of Hawii)
Secretary of Veterans Affairs – Max Cleland (Who else?)
Steph said
How about Jim Webb? Secretary of Defense or Veterans affairs? Biden is better for Secretary of State (tho, truthfully, I think he might make a better Pres. than the whole bunch….) Definitely Evans for Sec. of Education. Homeland Security needs to be flushed altogether.