Obama's Abminstration Picks

Adam's picks	Roger's Picks
Brian's picks

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Chief of Staff:

• Rahm Emanuel

White House Press:

• Gibbs

Senior adviser:

• David Axelrod

State:

• Hillary Clinton

• Bill Richardson - former Cabinet secretary and U.N. ambassador in the Clinton administration, who endorsed Obama at a crucial point...
  
• A tough one, but Bill Richardson was a former U.N. ambassador so he knows many of the players on the world scene. He has also headed up other Cabinet agencies, so he knows how they work and how they report to the President. (Roger)
  
• John Kerry
• Richard Lugar (R)

Treasury:

• Warren Buffet
• I doubt he would take it. (Roger)
  
• Robert Rubin
  
• might come back for a while, and then his understudy could be groomed for and elevated to the position. Rubin knows trading and world markets very well! World stock markets would "pop" if Rubin were selected and then accepted the position. (Roger)
• Timothy Geithner - a Rubin protégé As president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, he has had a supporting role in managing the Wall Street crisis.
  
• Laura Tyson - former chairwoman of the White House National Economic Council and the Council of Economic Advisers under Clinton.
• Larry Summers - Former Clinton treasury secretary...
• http://www.counterpunch.org/summers.html This guy is kinda frightening and yet a likely pick (Adam)
• Larry Summers is very smart, but has an abrasive personality (but if you are truly smart, you can get away with that). (Roger)
  

Defense:

• Chuck Hagel (R)
• Robert Gates (R) - Incumbent defense secretary...
• Retain Robert Gates (for the next 6-12 months)...after that, who knows. Gates has been an outstanding public servant ever since he reported to his first job (at CIA) right out of college back in 1966 (when the sum total of all of his possessions fit into the back seat of his Mustang convertible!). (Roger)
  
• Gen. Colin Powell (R)
• Richard Danzig
  
• Sam Nunn
• Wesley Clark - former NATO Commander
  

Attorney General:

• Tim Kaine
  
• Hillary Clinton
• Artur Davis - Harvard-educated Alabaman who was a civil-rights lawyer before he became an assistant U.S. attorney and a congressman
• Patrick Fitzgerald - Chicago's U.S. attorney who gained prominence while prosecuting the CIA leak probe on Scooter Libby.
• Eric Holder - Deputy AG under Clinton and is now with Covington & Burling and led Obama’s vice presidential search...
• Eric Holder comes to mind, but there is another outstanding individual (I think from the New England area, I think he is the Dean of the Yale Law School) who is being highly touted. (Roger)

Homeland Security:

• William Bratton - Los Angeles police chief and former New York police commissioner...
• Your idea of a successful police chief sounds good. (Roger)
  

National Security:

• Susan Rice - Clinton's assistant secretary of state for African affairs and a top Obama campaign adviser

Agriculture:

Commerce:

• Bill Richardson

• Kathleen Sebelius
  
• Ed Rendell
• Bill Daley - Commerce secretary under Clinton
• Harold Ford Jr. - ex-Rep. of Tennessee.

Education:

• David Boren - President of the University of Oklahoma and former U.S. senator and former Oklahoma governor...
• Joel Klein - New York public schools chancellor
  
• Linda Darling-Hammond - Stanford University's School Redesign Network and Educational Leadership Institute, a top Obama adviser on education.
  
• Colin Powell
• He could bring into Education many of his ideas from America's Promise (i.e., institutionalize them nationwide). He could work with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (which is also very much interested in educational issues), perhaps going 50-50 on funding. (Roger)

Energy:

• Arnold Schwarzenegger (R)
• Ed Markey - Rep. of Massachusetts
  
• Phil Sharp - former congressman from Indiana who now heads the environmental think tank Resources for the Future.
  
• Bill Richardson
  
• Kathleen Sebelius

Energy Security (White House Post) -I just heard about this one that Obama wants to start up.

• T. Boone Pickens
  
• could head up this one. Could be a conflict of interest, though, because Pickens *may* have substantial investments in wind, solar, and domestic natural gas. (Roger)
  

Ambassador on climate change:

• Al Gore
• Kill me now. Is this a real cabinet level position? Ambassador? I hope the "Climate Change" embassy is in Antarctica... (Brian)
  

Health and Human Services:

• Howard Dean - Former doctor...
  
• Howard Dean sounds intriguing. (Roger)
  
• Mehmet Oz (former director of NIH, within HHS).
  
• He has many good ideas about how to improve the health of the nation through diet and exercise. (Roger)

Housing and Urban Development (Obama will change the name of this):

• Josh DuBois - Campaign's director of religious affairs...
• Tony Williams of Washington, D.C.
  
• Dennis Archer of Detroit
  
• Shirley Franklin of Atlanta.
• Jesse Jackson, Jr.
• I'll move to Texas and succeed from the union... (Brian)
  

Interior:

Labor:

• Dick Gephardt - former House Democratic leader and two-time candidate for the White House
• Gephardt has strong ties to organized labor and is considered a reliable, smart policymaker who has good relations with all wings of the Democratic Party.

Transportation:

• James Oberstar - chairman of the House Transportation Committee and a well-respected voice on the country’s infrastructure needs
• Xavier Becerra of Rep. California.

• We need someone who can oversee rebuilding the Nation's transportation infrastructure. This will cost a few hundreds of Billions of dollars over the course of the next decade. Better to do it now than to have another Interstate Highway bridge collapse! Also, a spokesperson who would be a public transportation advocate. It is absolutely silly to see gridlocked traffic on our roads twice every day! (Roger)
  

VA:

• Tammy Duckworth - The director of Illinois Veterans’ Affairs, Iraq veteran and former Democratic House candidate...
  

UN Secretary:

• Susan Rice - Senior campaign national security adviser and State Department and National Security Council official under Clinton...
  
• Caroline Kennedy
• Al Gore
  

EPA:

• Kathleen McGinty - Former head of the Pennsylvania Environmental Protection Agency...
• Robert F. Kennedy - environmental lawyer and son of the late senator and attorney general Robert F. Kennedy, has long championed a cleaner water supply for New York City.
• Arnold Schwarzenegger
  
• Sebelius

FEMA:

• Right now, a former fire chief is in the job and is doing a very good job. You need someone with "first responder" experience, like a fire chief. A "Katrina experience" needs a good first response (plus preventative measures, just as we have smoke detectors in our homes, and sprinkler systems in our apartments and commercial buildings). (Roger)
  

Assistant to the President on Science and Technology: (new post)

• Eric Schmidt - CEO of Google...
• I heard his name come up on the radio. (Roger)
  

Supreme Court nominee (when available):

• Elena Kagan - Dean of Harvard Law School...
  
• Hillary Clinton
• Not if the GOP has 40+ in the Senate. After all, Obama didn't even vote for the confirmation of John Roberts, who was the most qualified nominee in the history of the court. I don't trust the man on court nominees. I'm sure he'll make a pick based on the justices "empathy" and desire for "redistributive change" (Brian)