So...Patreus is CIA director and Panetta (ex CIA director) is SecDef?
Does Obama just put names in a hat and cross cabinet positions off on a list?
“Does Obama just put names in a hat and cross cabinet positions off on a list?”
Do you really think, by any stretch of the imagination, that Obama makes these decisions?
Put the same names into a hat time and time again and shuffle the hat around a bit and see who is in charge of what. The hat people will deem the necessary departments to have and as long as we don't have the likes of czars running everything we will be okay.
After all, it's the peoples government dictating what needs to be to move forward...