Obama Flexes Centrist, Couch Potato Credentials in Surgeon General Pick

America Online ^ | 1/6/2009 | Dylan and Ethan Ris

[obamaisandrogynous]

President-elect Barack Obama has offered the job of surgeon general to Sanjay Gupta, the neurosurgeon and correspondent for CNN and CBS, according to two sources with knowledge of the situation.

Gupta has told administration officials that he wants the job, and the final vetting process is under way. He has asked for a few days to figure out the financial and logistical details of moving his family from Atlanta to Washington but is expected to accept the offer.

[obamaisandrogynous]

Obama's JFK fantasy continues...now he's hiring reporters from CNN to be major policy makers. This is similar to what Kennedy did with his advisory team too, i.e. hiring writer Ted Sorenson, who ghosted the Pulitzer Prize winning Profiles in Courage for him and then making him "senior counsel" in the White House. This job isn't a cabinet position, surgeon general, but it is high-profile. What's next? Katie Couric as OMB director? Charlie Gibson as SecNav?

[Tarpon]

Obama, center of the Communists.

[kjo]

On top of Hitlery at State, Panetta at CIA, and now this...this administration will only be about PR.

[mnehring]

Gupta is a friggin journalist. How many decades has it been since he’s held a scalpel?

[freedumb2003]

Katie Couric as OMB director? Charlie Gibson as SecNa

Ellen degeneris as HHS chair. Ed bagely as Energy chair. Jack Bauer as homeland security chief. It doesn't matter if these are filled -- the new administration looks like it will have 100% turnover by Jan 21 and the new fuhrer nor his handlers can tell the difference between a TV character and a real person.

[freedumb2003]

Gupta is a friggin journalist. How many decades has it been since he’s held a scalpel?

Only slightly after Pinetta's last Intelligence operation post.

[CholeraJoe]

Gupta’s a neurosurgeon and operates regularly. He’s even operated on kids in Iraq. Sounds like he’s weak in Public Health though. He’ll mandate vegan meals and daily meditation.

[melancholy]

On top of Hitlery at State, Panetta at CIA, and now this...this administration will only be about PR.

Good choices. Everyone of them is far better than the ape-elect.

[mnehring]

Thanks,
For obvious reasons, I am suspicious of anyone whom you see over a few hours a week on CNN as being nothing more than a journalist who happened to take a couple of medical classes at a community college.

[RobinOfKingston]

... Obama has offered the job of surgeon general to Sanjay Gupta, ...

And another giant steps onto the stage. How soon before he is fitted for a uniform, like Koop was.

[TornadoAlley3]

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/gupta.sanjay.html

In 2003 People Magazine named him the “Sexiest Man Alive”

[A.Hun]

Why not, our new energy czar Carol Browner is a socialist!

http://www.socialistinternational.org/viewArticle.cfm?ArticleID=1853

[brytlea]

Can someone remind me why we even have a surgeon general?

[GunsareOK]

Why not Ed Begley as Surgeon General? He was a doctor on St. Elsewhere after all.

[brytlea]

Jack Bauer as homeland security chief.

If only....

[brytlea]

So was Howie Mandel! And he’s way funnier.

[Captain Kirk]

He’d have to try extremely hard to be a worse nanny stater than Koop (Republican appointment) or Kessler (Republican FDA appointment).

[freedumb2003]

So was Howie Mandel! And he’s way funnier.

He was, anyway. But he is probably smarter than the new fuhrer (definitely smarter than mrs. fuhrer), his handlers, the vice fuhrer and most of the new cabinet chairs.

[MediaMole]

Hugh Laurie for surgeon general.

[freedumb2003]

Can someone remind me why we even have a surgeon general?

The official Tsk Tsk Tsk arm of the gummit.