Secretary of State - The most obvious name at the moment is Hillary Clinton. Hillary's knowledge of foreign affairs is rather underrated, I think, and she knows most world leaders by virtue of being a former First Lady who want sent on many diplomatic missions while Bill Clinton was President (as we now know, thanks to the Bosnia sniper fire fiasco). Plus, if Obama announces Hillary as his Secretary of State before before the election that could also help unify the party even more so than it already is.
John Kerry is also an oft-floated name. He has a lot of foreign policy experience during his 24 years in the Senate, and he was one of the first politicians outside of Illinois to endorse Obama--he endorsed him on January 5th, shortly after the Iowa Caucus--and that could be Obama's reward to him.
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Secretary of Defense - A very popular name here is retiring Republican Senator from Nebraska Chuck Hagel. Hagel is one of the most outspoken critics of the Iraq War, and the only anti-Iraq Republican Senator (to my knowledge, anyway). He and Obama are good friends in the Senate, as well, and though he hasn't endorsed Obama for President (yet...) he also hasn't endorsed McCain, one of the few Congressional Republicans, besides, obviously, Ron Paul, to have not done so.
Sam Nunn, former Democratic Senator from Georgia, is also a sleeper. Nunn is rather old--he had his 70th birthday a little more than a week ago on September 8th--but he has been one of the biggest fighters--along with Obama himself--against nuclear proliferation and for the securing of loose nuclear weapons left in Asia after the fall of the Soviet Union. Obama has repeatedly said that securing loose nukes is going to be the biggest foreign policy objective of his administration, so it would make sense that he would pick some as his SecDef that shares that view.
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Attorney General - After der Untergang of John Edwards, the only name really left for this disgraced job (Ashcroft-Gonzales-Mukasey have really wrecked the Justice Department) is Democratic Governor of Virginia Tim Kaine. Kaine is a longtime lawyer, and a good one, at that. And, plus, he and Obama are good friends and would work well together. Besides, Kaine will be nearly done with his term as Governor if/when Obama becomes President, so it's not like he'll be leaving halfway through the job or anything.
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I could probably come up with names for other jobs--perhaps Al Gore as Secretary of the Interior, Michael Bloomberg as Secretary of the Treasury--but I came up with names only for the so-called "Big Three" jobs (though I suppose, with the credit and mortgage crisis, that the SecTreasury now > the AG, at least for a while, so forgive me) mostly because I was lazy. Besides, this diary was more about YOUR opinions... so share them with me.
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