Obama’s Cabinet Picks

Good, solid, centrist cabinet. Run from the left, govern from the center.

Thank goodness he’s not picking people solely based
on capabilities or experience, that would be…wacky!
Posted by: John
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Yeh, looks like that concept was supposed to
be used for the last 8 years. Really helped huh?
I’ll stick with his Obama’s plan.

With a few exceptions, I must say that this is shaping up to be an amazing cabinet. It is very strong on Foreign Policy and National Security – I’m especially pleased with the retention of Robert Gates. On the economy, the diversity of perspectives is amazing as well as highly talented. Times are tough now and we all need a President that brings political civility, makes wise economic policy that refrain from the excesses of the “progressive” wing of the Democratic party, and a wise foreign policy coupled with a very strong military. Obama needs to deliver these things and be President for ALL Americans, not just the most liberal elements of his party. I didn’t vote for him, but I’m happy to give him a chance!

Where are all the republicans that were supposed to be in the Cabinet? And I hardly call Hillary Clinton a ‘centrist’ – she’s a socialist.

You just can’t please left, right, center, up, down, and all around negative minded people!!!!
Do your thing, President-elect Obama!!!

It is going to be a great 8 years !!

He is not afraid to bring in strong candidates. The fact that he put in two strong candidates who are republican speaks to his strength of character. He wants people who can lead and advise and who network different sectors. Very very different from the current president.. Now who was the democrat who Bush had in his cabinet? This man is trying to pull together a very very divided country.. If we will survive financially we must pull together.. Sad that before he is even president people are saying he will fail..Mr. Obama we are praying for your success because your success is all of our success. What do we gain if the republicans win or the democrats win and the country falters?

people have to know some new faces, or some really new things to be introduced. This is not one thing, but I am afraid, quite different things. To blend, or to mingle, it is far more difficult than simply creating a picture.

Oh, and by the way George, the reasons you’re giving about the “excellence” of Obama’s picks are the political tactician’s reasons when looking ahead to the next election. As we all know, that has nothing whatever to do with actually running the country….

Back off and give it a chance to work. Why have we all turned into a bunch of constant complainers? Go about your business, work hard, play hard, do good and keep faith.

Liberal and women’s groups are upset? Too bad for them. Nobody cares whether they’re upset or happy. They’re irrelevant.

George you left out no Conservatives let alone high profile GOP members. And no one from the Southern States. Tsk Tsk Tsk.

What do you expect from Obama…He pandered to EVERY political constituency…including LGBT…and now he has backing off of his promises…Guess what Human Rights Campaign, MoveON,Huffington, etc. You are getting Clinton Lite (or even John McCain lite). Good luck. You made you bed…now you sleep in it…

The conservative and centrist appointments may make political sense in the short term . The Economic appointments may help quiet financial markets in the short term. The choice of Rick Warren to give the inaugural invocation may temporarily satisfy evangelicals but under the present circumstances governing from the center really means keeping the status quo. Roosevelt also was elected as a moderate after a very conservative administration. Once elected, he was pushed leftward by a very militant labor movement. Without a similar groundswell from the grassroots, Obama will continue to drift rightward and the spirit of change he was elected on will dissipate into ineffectiveness and the hope will morph into cynicism.
What’s the point? Its time to build the groundswell from the grassroots. A resurgent labor and environmental movements can do just that.

There will always be grumbling from some sector of the population. Obama’s cabinet seems to be centrist oriented. In effect, he’s implemented a system of de facto checks and balances by having such a diverse group of cabinet heads. America should be happy, the man has basically put a system in place in which he himself will be kept under control. I guess you can’t please everyone.

It a shame that some people just don’t get it. How could you compare President elect Obama to Arnold of CA, how could you there is no correlation between them. Obama is an interlect;granted, no matter who he choses to his cabinet someone somewhere is gonna say some f$*1@..thing. Wake up people and think constructively. Just think b/4 you open your mouth.

Scott “Rest of US, be prepared…” You are on the mark with this post and my fear is the whole nation become like California, instead of TN, GA, AL. I live in CA and there is a mass exodus of business, an increase giant deficit ($41 billion), a legislature who only knows how to raise taxes, and a population that keeps electing them. Sounds a little like Congress doesn’t it? The U.S. is most likely looking at 8 years of recession, mininum.

Hey George about the only thing he doesn’t have in his cabinet is any GREEKS!LOL I wonder if Hillary told him about you……

obamama needs the Republicans because he cant do it with out some smart people

I know GOP, republican and “cen-ge-va-vti..” are so “ma-d” I know.. I know..This is just the begining cowboys.. how funny you are ?? Just take a long vacation for at least next 8 years or may be next 16 years .Ha sound good ?? We made PRESIDENT BARAK HUSSAIN OBAMA Jr. our 44 th President of USA in HISTORIC And LANDSLIDE Election.We have donated close to Billion dollars,Voted like crazy make sure you can”t Still this time like 2000 .you got It ?? next we will take another Female president not “palin” of course .You know “who” ?? for say another 8 years .We have to ” Change” America and its Cowboy policy and bring back our respect to the world . Make sure nobody ” through SHOE” at our President like how they did to “Bush”. What a SHAME and a matter of Disguise ??

Oh no, Obama turns out to be the moderate he always claimed to be, not the “liberal” the Republicans moaned about during the election. The so-called liberal grumbling is a put up by the right wing talking heads. Can anyone actually quote a liberal grumbling about Obama’s picks? George S. is either a very poor journalist or has a far right agenda, actually both.

On NPR this morning bestselling author Michael Pollan, who wrote “In Defense of Food” and “Omnivore’s Dilemma,” provided his review of Vilsack’s nomination.
“I was very disappointed in that news conference … not to hear Vilsack use the word ‘food’ — or ‘eaters.’ And the interests of everybody except eaters was discussed: farmers, ranchers, people concerned about the land.” Pollan said it seems the choice may be just “agribusiness as usual.”
Jim Harkness, who promotes sustainable agriculture as president of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, also worries about Vilsack.
“Vilsack has shown a fairly conventional perspective on agriculture — particularly related to biotechnology and the siting of factory farms — that seems to indicate a status quo approach,” Harkness said. “But these are unconventional times.”

PT,
You going to Flush Pelosi, Reid, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd & Charlie Rangel out as well. Try hard to realize that these people have been setting the legislative agenda for the past 23 MONTHS…NOT BUSH OR THE REPUBLICANS!

To the me the trend is all too clear: Obama puts the onus of “reaching across the aisle” squarely on the the shoulders of the progressive left that got him elected. His choices so far indicate no requirement for a commensurate sacrifice from the “right,” and indeed things are shaping up to carry on the worst instincts of both the Bush and Clinton administrations. The only difference in our foreign policy will be that we now add we add a dash more “American idealism” into our bombing campaigns. We have in no way transcended the mindset of “American exceptionalism,” where we believe that our “good intentions” justify our too often abhorrent foreign adventures. And for those claiming that this is a left wing cabinet: he cross-wired his appointments. Exhibit A: Hillary Clinton is a social progressive, but a foreign policy hawk more to the right than her husband. If Obama wanted the “lefty” Clinton he would have given her Health and Social Services. But he want the the “Hillary the Hawk”—you remember, the one who four square behind the Iraq debacle, against talking with our enemies, and all for the “war on terror” and the Constitutional crises it engenders. Obama is jettisoning his vision and his mandate before he even gets into office. The writing was on the wall when he capitulated on FISA…downhill ever since.

Diverse cabinet–I beg to differ!Where are the white men?

Why can’t I warm up to the Obama deal? I like this kind of mixed cabinet, I like Rahm and Hillary and Richardson and Gates.
This is really a tough question that I ask myself – then I realized what makes me uncomfortable – it’s the degree of insanity surrounding the whole Obama mystique. I find it to be a little too hyped or something.
Sorry Obamaites – I still don’t get it!