Nov 5th, 2008 at 8:32 am
Chickens Coming Home to Roost
Early word on the shape of the Obama administration:
- Chief of Staff: Jeremiah Wright
- Secretary of State: Rashid Khalidi
- Secretary of Defense: Bill Ayers
- Attorney-General: Bernardine Dohrn
- Secretary of the Treasury: Tony Rezko
Obviously, that still leaves a lot of posts to be filled, but the feeling is that given the current state of crisis in the country the new administration needs to act swiftly to fill the major jobs and these are them.
UPDATE: New appointments — Franklin Raines at HUD, Michael Phleger for the office of faith-based initiatives.
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November 5th, 2008 at 8:35 am
Likely a few million citizens more newly emerged from the primordial muck believe the new administration will take shape as described.
November 5th, 2008 at 8:37 am
The only problem here is that Mr. Rezko would have to carry out his dities from the slammer.
November 5th, 2008 at 8:41 am
The only problem here is that Mr. Rezko would have to carry out his dities from the slammer.
After Alberto Gonzales, how is that a problem?
November 5th, 2008 at 8:41 am
Ted Stevena asks, why is that a problem?
November 5th, 2008 at 8:42 am
Clearly Ayers should have been Homeland Security and Rezko should have been Housing and Urban Development.
November 5th, 2008 at 8:44 am
The only problem here is that Mr. Rezko would have to carry out his dities from the slammer.
Uhh pardon?
November 5th, 2008 at 8:50 am
Paris Hilton for Energy Secretary.
November 5th, 2008 at 8:55 am
My wife and I thought Ayers for Secretary of Homeland Security.
November 5th, 2008 at 9:02 am
Damn! He got me.
I guess watching Harriet Miers nominated for Supreme Court left some permanent marks.
November 5th, 2008 at 9:02 am
you guys aren’t thinking big enough.
c’mon: he’s a socialist! a marxist! he’s going to appoint the zombie cabinet from hell!
for treasury secretary: zombie karl marx
for agriculture: zombie khmer rouge leader pol “a chicken in every” pot
for secretary of defense: zombie che guevara
for state: zombie fidel castro
for transportation: zombie enver hoxa
for education (and re-education): chairman mao
ayers, wright, reszko–pah. those guys are penny-ante. i’m telling you, obama is a socialist! that’s what mccain promised, and that’s what the nation voted for! we’ll be disappointed with anything less!
November 5th, 2008 at 9:05 am
Bernardine, not Bernadette.
November 5th, 2008 at 9:09 am
Flag-burning ceremony daily at 9am except Fridays.
November 5th, 2008 at 9:17 am
hey, matt–
care to say anything about fox news?
’cause i think there’s an interesting story there.
fox did it’s normal dirty work for the republicans, acting as the propaganda wing.
and the obama team did not back down. indeed, it called them out and took them on. murdoch told obama that he would ease up on the attacks if obama would play ball with him, and obama told him to fuck off and die.
and then obama made it stick.
not true with the clintons or with gore. they tried to accommodate fox and get by. they triangulated and ran against the democratic brand, making nice with republicans. they never challenged fox news straight out.
but especially in the last weeks of the campaign, obama was issuing straight up challenges to the network, and the network was losing.
i think the era of fox news dominance is going to come to an end in the next four years. it will still hold the shrinking base, but it will not be the player it was.
November 5th, 2008 at 9:26 am
Do you really believe your own bullshit?
November 5th, 2008 at 9:34 am
I guess he’s holding back Al Sharpton for his first SCOTUS appointment.
November 5th, 2008 at 9:44 am
No, your wrong!
Treasury goes to George Soros, who will lay out the plans for a global currency.
Fed goes to Mohammed El-Arian.
Bill Ayers gets Homeland Security.
Charles Rangel gets HUD.
Defense goes to Jane Fonda, who else?
He will soon announce he is a Muslim, but not before the electoral college.
November 5th, 2008 at 9:44 am
What about Mugabe? Agriculture?
November 5th, 2008 at 10:06 am
Bitzer - Castro is still alive.
November 5th, 2008 at 10:11 am
This is all good to see. On a side note to the Obama cabinet, I’m on the commission that Kay Hagan is sending out in NC to confiscate everyone’s Bibles.
November 5th, 2008 at 10:13 am
Osama Bin Laden for Defense, obviously.
November 5th, 2008 at 10:15 am
some people are zombies even before death, john.
just look at cindy mccain.
November 5th, 2008 at 10:19 am
And Sista Souljah will take over the FCC. Conservatives will be WISHING for a fairness doctrine.
November 5th, 2008 at 10:49 am
The Secret Service will be replaced by the S1Ws, unless they go with a Ghaddafi-esque selection of the Fly Girls from In Living Color.
Seriously, though, the Bush Admin was this same type of murderer’s row. Except, y’know, they actually WERE the cabinet.
November 5th, 2008 at 10:53 am
This is ridiculous. Clearly, Ayers should be Secretary of Education.
November 5th, 2008 at 10:53 am
Chris “Ludacris” Bridges will head up the National Endowment for the Arts.
And Bootsy Collins will be Secretary of Funk.
November 5th, 2008 at 11:17 am
Secretary of Defense: Professor Griff
And S1W replaces the Secret Service.
November 5th, 2008 at 11:27 am
Ward Churchill for Secretary of Agriculture. Cynthia McKinney to head the FBI. Earth First!, collectively, as Secretary of the Interior. Cesar Chavez for Secretary of Labor.
November 5th, 2008 at 11:45 am
We’re coming for your guns! And your unborn babies! And your stem cells! And your coal power plants! And your guns!
November 5th, 2008 at 11:48 am
Matt, you should send your list to Larry Johnson. Just make sure to include Raila Odinga somewhere in there, maybe Deputy Secretary of Defense. After all, someone needs to plan our coming military involvement in Kenya.
November 5th, 2008 at 11:51 am
Which one of his high school classmates gets to be drug czar?
November 5th, 2008 at 11:51 am
Bill Clinton for the abstinence-only sex-ed program!
November 5th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Wow, you guys really are ignorant a holes with nothing better to do. If you put half as much energy into action as you do bitching about things the world would be a better place.
November 5th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
> And Bootsy Collins will be Secretary of Funk.
Winner
November 5th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Michael Moore as head of GM, now that we’re investing billions in it.
November 5th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
And Obama will hire George Clinton and P-Funk to perform “Paint the White House Black” at his inaguration ball.
While this song is being played, Federales (imported from Mexico and Argentina) execute Obama’s order to do actually paint the white house black.
November 5th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
As tongue-in-cheeck as that list is, I think I’m honestly more scared by names like Ashcroft, Rumsfeld, Gonzales, etc.
November 5th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
Nice to see that you “conservatives” have found a more suitable way to occupy your time than trying to run a government.
November 6th, 2008 at 12:18 am
Socialized medicine for all, including children.
Cut and run from killing Iraqi and Afghanistan people.
The look on Sean Hannity’s face when we go to the U.N. on bended knee and ask forgiveness for being an A-hole nation for eight year: Priceless!
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