Submitted by IceCreamYou on Fri, 11/21/2008 - 10:35pm
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It's true: Senator Hillary Clinton will be Obama's new Secretary of State, Timothy Geithner will be the Secretary of the Treasury, and Governor Bill Richardson will be the Secretary of Commerce. There are also unconfirmed rumors that Gen. Robert Gates will stay on as Secretary of Defense.
Geithner is a highly qualified economic authority who is president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and was a central player in this year's financial rescue plans. We all know Clinton, and Richardson is the Governor of New Mexico with enormous experience.
Congratulations, all. Obama's cabinet is certainly shaping up to be a powerful one, for better or worse.
Tue, 11/25/2008 - 9:14pm
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It's interesting that Gates is staying on as Sec. of Defense. He has done very good things in Iraq, but honestly I think that was more Petraeus's work than anything else. I'd love to see him in Obama's cabinet but I'd hate to see him leave the field for a more administrative job than he already has. He is probably the most intelligent military commander we currently have.
I like the way Obama's cabinet is shaping up although there have been criticisms that it's too much like Clinton's administration... old faces. it may be that Obama's process for choosing candidates is too thorough for some of the fresher nonpolitical faces:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/22/obama.vetting/index.html
but overall I think he chose good people for his cabinet, I know nothing about geithner but he sounds good from what I've read