We try to take a politician like new president elect Obama at his word. He said he would have a cabinet that would be a mesh of democrats, republicans, male, female and race. From the outside looking in it appears to be whoever was the number the two under Bill Clinton is your new number one. We had hoped and thought this would be an infusion of new blood, new thoughts, and new ideas. We were hopeful for the change Obama spoke of over the last two years and that the nation voted for him to bring. We have a grid below with what we have heard and researched this does not look like change. We understand he has not had day one on the job yet, and are trying to give the man a break. Have the people that voted for change a victim of a bait and switch? The underlying quandary is the voices in the cabinet will have the new presidents ear the most. Does Obama really want to spend four years with people telling him, Clinton did it this way, while his wife (Bill’s) is at the table as well?
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Secretary of State |
Hillary Rodham Clinton |
Wife of President Clinton |
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Secretary of the Treasury |
Timothy Geithner |
He was Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs (1998–2001) under Treasury Secretaries Robert Rubin and Lawrence Summers(Clinton Administration) |
| Attorney General | Eric Holder | Bill Clinton nominated Eric Holder to be the next Deputy Attorney General under Janet Reno (1997-2000).(Clinton Administration) |
| Secretary of the Interior | Robert Kennedy Jr | Rumor for position |
| Secretary of Agriculture | Tom Vilsack | Rumor for position |
| Secretary of Commerce | Bill Richardson | Bill Clinton Secretary of Energy (1998-2002) (Clinton Administration) |
| Secretary of Labor | Kathleen SebeliusJohn Edwards | Rumor for position |
| Secretary of Health and Human Services | Tom Daschle | Rumor for position |
| Secretary of Housing and Urban Development | Kathleen Blanco Jesse Jackson Jr. Adrian Fenty | Rumor for position |
| Secretary of Transportation | Federico Peña | Bill Clinton United States Secretary of Transportation from (1993 – 1997) United States Secretary of Energy from (1997 -1998) (Clinton Administration) |
| Secretary of Energy | Dan Reicher Ed Rendell Jason Grument Steve Westly |
Rumor for position |
| Secretary of Education | Joel Klein Caroline Kennedy |
Rumor for position |
| Secretary of Veterans Affairs | Max Cleland | Rumor for position |
| Secretary of Homeland Security | Janet Napolitano | Bill Clinton in1993, appointed Janet Napolitano as United States attorney for the District of Arizona |
| Secretary of Defense | Robert Gates | (least one year) current office holder |
Countdown to Inauguration Day 2009: 55 days
National Debt 11/24/1998 5,597,306,037,397.16
National Debt 11/24/2008 10,654,259,430,730.17
35 days Until the tea512 51 smokin sasses of 2008