She wanted the 3AM calls anyways.
So some thoughts on unconfirmed choices for various Obama posts.
Lots of rumors out there for Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. I didn’t vote for Clinton in the primary, I voted for Obama. I didn’t like the ‘inevitable’ meme - I mean, what, I get no choice in the matter? I didn’t like the idea of Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton. Some other families should be in the executive, otherwise it’s like a monarchy. She voted for the war in Iraq, and didn’t seem to apologize for it, and I think she called Iran’s army a terrorist organization (what does that make ours). Also, I signed up for her campaign letters, and I never got a clear sense of why she wanted to be president, only that she did. And the moronic letters written by a Stanford grad made me either question Stanford’s standards, or think the campaign was cynically making Chelsea out to be a third grader (mostly the latter). So those were my reasons, some of them, for voting against Clinton. However, once she lost, and accepted it, she really got on the bandwagon, she did everything she could to keep McCain from getting elected. If that had been the person I saw when I made my choice, maybe I would have voted for her. (Maybe, she never addressed the B-C-B-C question.) So I’m fine with her getting anything she wants as a reward for truly ensuring Obama was elected. And State seems fine. She knows everyone already. I do concur with others commenting that her campaign was somewhat poorly run, and State is huge department. If she gets a really good second in command, more of an ops person, she’ll be fine. She’ll certainly do better than Rice.
Likewise, Richardson should be rewarded somehow for endorsing early, and has great experience running parts of the government. Not that my opinion matters, I’m also ok with Gates staying on at DOD, for continuity’s sake in a war. Holder as AG seems great on civil liberties front. Perhaps weaker on other things.
I would hope that in addition to picking moderate, conservative, and even Republican voices, Obama would pick one or two fairly left wing, progressive voices, to help swing the pendulum more to the left. I’m not saying he should pick Starhawk for Dept. of the Interior, but that does point out how middle of the road his current choices are.
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[...] She wanted the 3AM calls anyways. So some thoughts on unconfirmed choices for various Obama posts. Lots of rumors out there for Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. I didn’t vote for Clinton in the primary, I voted for Obama. I didn’t like the ‘inevitable’ meme - I mean, what, I get no choice in the matter? I didn’t like the idea of Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton. Some other families should be in the executive, otherwise it’s like a monarchy. She voted for the war in Iraq, and didn’t seem to apologize for it, and I think she call [...]