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No Southerners yet in Obama Cabinet (Where's the diversity?)
Politico.com ^ | 12/14/08 | Amie Parnes

Posted on 12/15/2008 3:16:17 AM PST by jalisco555

Barack Obama is 15 picks into his Cabinet — he announced New Yorker Shaun Donovan as his Housing and Urban Development head on Saturday—but has yet to name one who hails from the South. "Not a one," grumbles a one senior Democratic aide who hails from the South. "Not even half of one, unless you count Hillary Clinton, and she doesn't count because she's not even an Arkansan anymore. She's a Yankee."

To be fair, the official voice of the White House will come with a Southern drawl: Robert Gibbs, Obama’s soon-to-be press secretary, is an Alabama native.

But going back to at least John F. Kennedy, every other new president has populated his initial Cabinet with one or more Southerners. Former Texas Gov. George W. Bush included at least three Southerners in his first Cabinet: Donald Evans at Commerce and Rod Paige at Education and Florida’s Mel Martinez at Housing and Urban Development.

So why hasn’t Obama – who picked up 55 Electoral College votes in North Carolina, Virginia nad Florida – rewarded the region with a Cabinet secretary of its own?

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho2008; democrats; diversity; dixie; obama; obamatransitionfile; snub
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1 posted on 12/15/2008 3:16:17 AM PST by jalisco555
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To: jalisco555

Probably Obama can’t find any Southron Boys who would sell out.


2 posted on 12/15/2008 3:18:55 AM PST by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: jalisco555

Southern Chicago , western Chicago !!


3 posted on 12/15/2008 3:20:32 AM PST by Deetes (God Bless the Troops)
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To: Deetes
Southern Chicago , western Chicago !!

LOL

4 posted on 12/15/2008 3:21:23 AM PST by jalisco555 ("My 80% friend is not my 20% enemy" - Ronald Reagan)
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To: jalisco555

Simple. Obama doesn’t need to reward those who voted for him; only those who created him, use him, mold him, prop him up.


5 posted on 12/15/2008 3:30:06 AM PST by RightOnline
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To: jalisco555

Jimmy Carter is available. :D


6 posted on 12/15/2008 3:38:45 AM PST by tvdog12345
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To: jalisco555

He ain’t gonna reward no slave owners...


8 posted on 12/15/2008 3:50:19 AM PST by raybbr (It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
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To: jalisco555

Maybe he thinks we’ll secede from the Union, soon. (I’m just dreaming, here.) ;-)


9 posted on 12/15/2008 3:52:37 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: jalisco555
Please nominate a Secretary of Education with significant classroom experience
from Florida.


10 posted on 12/15/2008 3:52:54 AM PST by greedo
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To: jalisco555

You can’t be citizens or part of the human race since you don’t support the UAW!


12 posted on 12/15/2008 3:55:39 AM PST by dalereed
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To: jalisco555

That’s ok, the “magic negro” isn’t too appreciated here in the south either.


13 posted on 12/15/2008 4:04:15 AM PST by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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To: jalisco555

Any he might consider probably own a firearm, and are therefore excluded from consideration.


14 posted on 12/15/2008 4:06:31 AM PST by highlander_UW (The only difference between the MSM and the DNC is the MSM sells ad space in their propaganda)
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To: jalisco555

nagin???????

LLS


15 posted on 12/15/2008 4:09:46 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!! so sue me!)
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To: jalisco555

Southerners are patriots, not traitors.


16 posted on 12/15/2008 4:10:17 AM PST by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: DieHard the Hunter

No self respecting Southerner would want to be in his cabinet.


17 posted on 12/15/2008 4:12:25 AM PST by Bulldawg Fan (Victory is the last thing Murtha and his fellow Defeatists want.)
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To: jalisco555

Except for Gates (and I think he’ll be gone inside a year) are there any white males?


18 posted on 12/15/2008 4:13:08 AM PST by Mercat (God doesn't call me to be successful. God calls me to be faithful. Mother Teresa)
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> No self respecting Southerner would want to be in his cabinet.

So Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter still have a chance!

19 posted on 12/15/2008 4:17:22 AM PST by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: DieHard the Hunter

Well, there’s always Chocolate City Nagin. He’s a genius and can get 0be to finally fix NO.


20 posted on 12/15/2008 4:17:46 AM PST by Paladin2 (No, pundits strongly believe that the proper solution is more dilution.)
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