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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 Saturdaybut 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, Obamas 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 Floridas Mel Martinez at Housing and Urban Development.
So why hasnt Obama who picked up 55 Electoral College votes in North Carolina, Virginia nad Florida rewarded the region with a Cabinet secretary of its own?
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TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho2008; democrats; diversity; dixie; obama; obamatransitionfile; snub
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To: jalisco555
Probably Obama can’t find any Southron Boys who would sell out.
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posted on
12/15/2008 3:18:55 AM PST
by
DieHard the Hunter
(Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fà g am bealach.)
To: jalisco555
Southern Chicago , western Chicago !!
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posted on
12/15/2008 3:20:32 AM PST
by
Deetes
(God Bless the Troops)
To: Deetes
Southern Chicago , western Chicago !!LOL
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posted on
12/15/2008 3:21:23 AM PST
by
jalisco555
("My 80% friend is not my 20% enemy" - Ronald Reagan)
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.
To: jalisco555
Jimmy Carter is available. :D
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To: jalisco555
He ain’t gonna reward no slave owners...
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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!)
To: jalisco555
Maybe he thinks we’ll secede from the Union, soon. (I’m just dreaming, here.) ;-)
To: jalisco555
Please nominate a Secretary of Education with significant classroom experience
from Florida.
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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!
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posted on
12/15/2008 3:55:39 AM PST
by
dalereed
To: jalisco555
That’s ok, the “magic negro” isn’t too appreciated here in the south either.
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posted on
12/15/2008 4:04:15 AM PST
by
Joe Boucher
(An enemy of Islam)
To: jalisco555
Any he might consider probably own a firearm, and are therefore excluded from consideration.
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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)
To: jalisco555
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posted on
12/15/2008 4:09:46 AM PST
by
LibLieSlayer
(MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!! so sue me!)
To: jalisco555
Southerners are patriots, not traitors.
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posted on
12/15/2008 4:10:17 AM PST
by
ought-six
( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
To: DieHard the Hunter
No self respecting Southerner would want to be in his cabinet.
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posted on
12/15/2008 4:12:25 AM PST
by
Bulldawg Fan
(Victory is the last thing Murtha and his fellow Defeatists want.)
To: jalisco555
Except for Gates (and I think he’ll be gone inside a year) are there any white males?
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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)
To: Bulldawg Fan
> No
self respecting Southerner would want to be in his cabinet.
So Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter still have a chance!
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posted on
12/15/2008 4:17:22 AM PST
by
DieHard the Hunter
(Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fà g am bealach.)
To: DieHard the Hunter
Well, there’s always Chocolate City Nagin. He’s a genius and can get 0be to finally fix NO.
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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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