List emerges for Cabinet posts
[cnn-photo-caption image= http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/images/11/07/art.gates.gi.jpg caption="Current Defense Secretary Robert Gates is likely to stay at the post, a source tells CNN."](CNN) - Barack Obama is considering a mix of Washington insiders and high-profile business executives to head various cabinet positions, one source involved in the cabinet gathering process told CNN.
For Secretary of State, Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry is high on the list. Also on the list is Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd, a former presidential candidate who endorsed Barack Obama early in the Democratic primary season. New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and former U.N. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke are also interested in the job.
For Secretary of Defense, there are indications current Defense Secretary Robert Gates will stay at the post "for a certain period." Gates, the former CIA Director under the first President Bush, has been praised by members of both parties for his leadership at the Pentagon over the last two years. Rhode Island Sen. Jack Reed, a former United States Army Captain and a member of the Armed Services Committee, is acting as the go-between with Gates.
Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, who also served as that state's attorney general, is said to be a "very real possibility" for U.S. attorney general. Napolitano, who also endorsed Obama early in the primary process, was named earlier this week to the Obama transition team. She's also served as a U.S. attorney from Arizona.
For Secretary of Commerce, former White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta, Time Warner Chairman Dick Parsons, prominent Chicago Businesswoman Penny Pritzker, and University of California economist Laura Tyson are all under consideration.
One problem: the Obama administration wants a diverse cabinet, and that means everything is still up for grabs.
ALL U BLOGGERS ARE SO NEGATIVE DID YOU HERE THE PRESS CONFERENCE WITH BUSH TALKING ABOUT HOW HES OUT OF A HOUSE AND A JOB LIKE SO MANY OTHER AMERICANS AND HE SAYING THIS TO BE A JOKE WELL I'D RATHER LAUGH ABOUT A DOG THEN THE ECONOMY.......... ALL U NEGATIVE HATERS.
Washington insiders – LOL!
To Dave, Central Illinois, The only ones that are spewing hate are the republican conservatives. Look we had eight years of conservative mind control; it got us no where except to get the rest of the world to view us as fundamentalist extremists’. You talk about Islamic extremists’, well look at the Christian extremists’ Hagee and Parsley with their hate filled filth.
I wasn't a Hilary supporter but I think she deserves a post!
Tim and Rob:
I envision the both of you clinging to your guns and trying to become
the next grand wizard..........
Mark of South Jersey – I liked your picks also !!
Barack Obama-President
Joseph Biden-Vice President
Wesley Clark-Sec of Defense
Dick Parsons-Sec of State
Russell Honore-Sec Homeland Sec
Dennis Kucinich-Attorney General
Hillary Clinton-Sec Health,HumanSer
Cornell West-Sec of Education
Warren Buffett-Sec of Commerce
Michael Bloomberg-Sec of Finance
Collin Powell-Special Counsel to the President
The people that are being mentioned by the media are speculative
at this point. Why is everyone in such an upheaval ???
Obama alone is a great and very inspiring change in the white house.
(Please get over it, there is a topic on CNN for post election blues, pleae read it.)
Thank You.
Kerry for Secretary of State? NO NO NO NO NO.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
That failed limp politician does not deserve a spot in Obama's administration. Please, do NOT PICK KERRY.
I think Hillary Clinton would make a good Attorney General. She's won many awards for her performance as a lawyer.
Did I see somebody on here actually have the nerve to bring up our men and women in uniform being mistreated??? HUH?!?!?!!??!?! Take that up with Bush. Frivolously deploying them to the middle east for an unnecessary war and keeping them there for inordinate lengths of time. Not taking care of them when they return home. Visit Walter Reed lately? Talked to any vets about the wonderful funding that the VA office is getting these days? You people are seriously deluded. Even good ol' POW pro-war pro-military war hero McCain hasn't done his part to insure the troops are taken care of as much as he should. Look at his voting record. Unbelievable!!! I really believe there are two alternate dimensions of America. Thankfully I live in the one where optimism, hope and unity still exist as possibilities. In the other dimension they don't exist. It is a sad commentary on the state of our country. Heck, hatred is raging in the GOP as Palin and McCain still continue a raging feud while the rest of the country are anticipating solutions to our most outrageous problems. Grow up.
Karen:
He did because a reporter asked him about what kind of dog, he was just answering her question. He didn't bring it up himself.
Sounds like leaving Gates in place is enough reaching across the aisle. However, cabinet positions typically go to the individuals that gave a big hand during the election process. It's no surprise to see all these high profile Dems. Who did you want, Joe the Plumber on staff?????
Interesting how all these sore loser RepubliCON posters here are crying about partisanship. How many Democrats did Bush have on his cabinet? Can anybody name one? Yeah, that's what I thought.
umm peopel, don't get to riled up. These are only CNN predictions. Unitl President Obama makes a decision, shut up. Gosh I wonder about some of you. You sound more like children than my 5 year old. Grow and be a patriot. Support your president!
John in Brooklyn, not bad dude; I can concur.
Barack Obama-President
Joseph Biden-Vice President
Wesley Clark-Sec of Defense
Dick Parsons-Sec of State
Russell Honore-Sec Homeland Sec
Dennis Kucinich-Attorney General
Hillary Clinton-Sec Health,HumanSer
Cornell West-Sec of Education
Warren Buffett-Sec of Commerce
Michael Bloomberg-Sec of Finance
Collin Powell-Special Counsel to the President
Karen and others,take your complaints to the president you voted for,hes still in office Jan.20
I think General Clarke, General Colin Powel and Hagel deserve high cabinet positions. I do not want any senators or former presidential candidates to get any of these positions. They tried for themselves and failed. We need tough people and Kerry, Richardson, Dodd are better suited where they are.
I like the list too!! YES WE CAN....
Barack Obama-President
Joseph Biden-Vice President
Wesley Clark-Sec of Defense
Dick Parsons-Sec of State
Russell Honore-Sec Homeland Sec
Dennis Kucinich-Attorney General
Hillary Clinton-Sec Health,HumanSer
Cornell West-Sec of Education
Warren Buffett-Sec of Commerce
Michael Bloomberg-Sec of Finance
Collin Powell-Special Counsel to the President
@ FormerAlaskaFemale, not a bad list except no way for Dennis Kucinich and Parsons. I would like Clarke as Sec of State and Hagel as Secretary of Defense, if not Clarke then Nicholas Burns or Holbrooke would be better.
President-elect Obama has held the position for two whole days.
Quit complaining, whining, guessing, and postulating. Give the man a chance to catch his breath. The positions needed filling are of great importance to a President and should be given a great deal of consideration before appointments are made. Change takes time.
Be patient. Let the man have some space before condemning him.
Line up for your Tax Hikes America!!
President Elect Barrack "Mutt" Obama is coming to take a chomp out of you!
Truth Hurths
Now that Barrack "Gruff the Tax Dog" Obama is coming to office, his tax plan is going to ensure "Change" does come to America.
Before you had money, and now he is going to "Change" that
Same old Democrats. Tax Tax Tax