Let's all make some guesses as to who will fill the ranks of the Obama Administration. It's been confirmed that Rep. Rahm Emanuel of Illinois will be his chief of staff.

Secretary of State: my guesses are: Hillary Clinton, Sen. Sam Nunn democratic senator who endorsed Obama early on and is a proponent of nuclear nonproliferation efforts, Sen. Chuck Hagel (nominally anti-war Republican, just for some bipartisan lovin'). I think Clinton is unlikely, but you never know what kind of deal was made to garner her and her husband's enthusiastic support..

Secretary of Defense: I doubt Obama will give the Pentagon to a Republican, though some have speculated Obama will keep Bob Gates on in this job, if he wants it. I don't have any good guesses at the moment. Bush's deputy secretary of state Nick Burns may be a decent pick, a young career diplomat who negotiated the nuclear deal with India and served in the Middle East for a long time. He retired from Bush's administration for 'family reasons,' but I believe his resignation may have been political so he may be welcome in Obama's White House.

Secretary of the Treasury: New Jersey Gov. Corzine, a financially savvy former chairman of Goldman Sachs, former Senator, and wealthy governor of New Jersey. Loves taxes and toll roads, hates seatbelts, will probably be similar to Paulson. I don't think it will be Warren Buffet because he's relatively old, likes to be private, and as an investor I don't think he's ever really contemplated central banking too much.

National Security Advisor: Colin Powell, although I do believe in his semi-retirement he's not too eager to enter back into the political area. Also I don't know how Obama's party lefties will react to a Bush cabinet member as part of the Administration of change.

Attorney General: Sen Patrick Leahy, my home state's Senator. Former federal prosecutor and relative hawk on the War on Drugs, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

That's all I've got for now. There's way more cabinet positions to be filled but those were the ones I thought of off the top of my head and are generally the most public figures. Please share your predictions and arguments for why anyone would make a good cabinet member of Obama's administration.

I bet they will be mostly black.

Louis Farakkan, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Rodney King, OJ (after the pardon), and 50 cent.

Just kidding.

I don't really know..I think there'll be a place for Kerry...Do u think he's going to make room for Hill-dogg or freeze her out?

I expect they'll leave Hill-dawg in the senate. I dunno about majority leader, but I'm sure she'll get something.

I think there will be people that you have never heard of before filling these jobs, as is usually the case.

Hilary already said that they learned from Bill's administration that it's best to leave democrats in the senate. They need them there.

Secretary of Defense

Wesley Clark, fagget

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN2633126120080827

Do you maybe think that Attorney General Mukasey and that slug of an US Attorney, Eid, are packed already?

Rahm Emanuel is white, you motherfucking...

Oh wait.

He's a Jew.

Holy shit, is he ever a Jew. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahm_Emanuel)

Fuckity fuck fuck, he's the Jewiest Jew to ever Jew.

Check it out. (http://www.judicial-inc.biz/rahm_emanuel.htm)

Nevermind.

is a strong supporter of AIPAC

Fuck that guy.

Big time. Better read up on him before all of these stories mysteriously vanish from the web.

Here (http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/8091986/the_enforcer/)we learn that

the night after Clinton was elected, Emanuel was so angry at the president's enemies that he stood up at a celebratory dinner with colleagues from the campaign, grabbed a steak knife and began rattling off a list of betrayers, shouting "Dead! . . . Dead! . . . Dead!" and plunging the knife into the table after every name. "When he was done, the table looked like a lunar landscape," one campaign veteran recalls. "It was like something out of The Godfather.

He's also apparently quite vulgar, according to the Washington Post (http://blog.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2007/10/rahm_emanuel_finds_redemption.html):

The congressman, who curses about as regularly as a clock ticks, is heralding a study out of London claiming that swearing in the workplace boosts team spirit.

Actually, here's (http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/node/10236)an article outlining his five most "infamous" moments (so far). I can't wait until he's on the air one day and lets loose with a torrent of obscenities.

Sorta like Cheney did. Remember (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3699-2004Jun24.html)?

I'd love to see Powell as SecState.

Fuck that guy.

Obama is an ally of AIPAC as well, so why the surprise at Rahm?

Obama is an ally of AIPAC as well, so why the surprise at Rahm?

Aren't pretty much all neoconservative Republicans dicksuckers of AIPAC as well? It would be news to me if Bush had appointed someone who was better at it than himself.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/3400863/Barack-Obama-draws-on-Americas-economic-brains.html

The economic brain trust convened by Barack Obama in Chicago includes two former Treasury Secretaries from the Clinton administration, billionaire Warren Buffett and the chairmen of Google, Xerox and Time Warner.