Think about it. A community organizer in the south-side of Chicago in 1985, a graduate student at Harvard Law School in 1988, an author of his first book, Dreams from My Father in 1995, a State Senator from Illinois in 1996, reelected to Illinois Senate in 1998, again reelected to the Illinois State Senate in 2002 and finally to the US Senate in January 4, 2005. His second book, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream, was published in October 2006. Do you think Barack Obama is qualified to run for the President of the United States?
Here’s a list of American Presidents since World War II: FD Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John F Kennedy, Lyndon B Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton and George W Bush. Can you spot a single ethnic name in that list? The nearest you get to any kind of difference is JFK who was Irish and Catholic but that, I would argue, is not truly ethnic.
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Since that last debate, it’s obvious the game is over.
So, here’s my pick for the new cabinet. What’s yours?
Secretary of State: Christopher Dodd, senior statesman
Treasury Secretary: Paul Krugman, Nobel prize in economics
Secretary of Defense: Wesley Clark, clear vision in Iraq
Homeland Security: Richard Clark, counter-terrorism expert fired by Bush just before 9/11
Attorney General: Henry Waxman, investigated abuses by Bush cabinet
Press secretary: David Gregory, one of the few reporters with real questions
Senior White House Advisor: David Gergen, expert analyst
Chief of Staff: Dennis Kucinich, great idea man
On the lighter side:
Veterans Affairs: Cindy Sheehan
Housing & Urban Development: Al Sharpton
Special Assignments:
- Karl Rove, Envoy to Zimbabwe
- Rush Limbaugh, Envoy to Somalia
- George Bush, new solid waste management czar
Interesting! let me think about my list.