I know this has been done some times before but it is one of my favorite exercises in what-if-dom.
President--John Kerry or John Edwards or Wesley Clark or Howard Dean
Vice President--Bill Richardson
State--Former President William J. Clinton (I'm absolutely serious here. Only way to heal the world.)
Defense--Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware
NSC--Retired General Wesley Clark
Energy--Former Vice President Albert Gore
CIA--Retired General Eric Shinseki
Interior--Former Governor Anne Richards of Texas
Education--Representative George Miller of California
Commerce--Franklin Raines, CEO of Fannie Mae
HUD--Governor Gary Locke of Washington State
HHS--Julie L. Gerberding, MD, MPH, Director of the CDC
Veterans Affairs--Former Senator Max Cleland
Labor--Representative Richard Gephardt
Homeland Security--Representative Jane Harman
Agriculture--Governor Tom Vilsack of Iowa.
Attorney General--Dennis Archer, former Detroit Mayor and ABA president.
Treasury--Laura Andrea-Tyson
EPA--Environmental Attorney Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Council of Economic Advisors--Paul Krugman
DEA--Rand Beers, Former Asst Sec State for Int'l Narcotics and Law Enforcement