Posted on 10/30/2008 7:50:43 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache
SUNRISE, Florida (Reuters) – U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Wednesday he would include Republicans in his Cabinet if he wins the election.
Obama, a Democratic senator from Illinois, also said he had "some pretty good ideas" about people he might tap for senior government jobs, though he emphasized he is focused for now on the final days of the campaign and takes nothing for granted.
"There is a transition process -- that I'm not paying attention to on a day-to-day basis -- but that has been set up," Obama told ABC News in an interview.
Obama said he "absolutely" considered it important to have Republicans in the Cabinet but he sidestepped a question on whether he would ask Defense Secretary Robert Gates to remain in his job. There has been speculation that either Obama or his Republican rival, John McCain, might ask Gates to stay on.
"I'm not going to get into details," Obama said, but he added that national security policy, in particular, should be nonpartisan.
Other people mentioned as possible defense secretary picks in an Obama administration include former Navy Secretary Richard Danzig and Sen. Chuck Hagel, a Republican senator from Nebraska.
Some analysts have speculated that during the transition period between November 4 and January 20, when a successor to President George W. Bush will take office, the new president-elect would move quickly to fill key jobs such as Treasury Secretary, Defense Secretary and Secretary of State.
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Shays, Hagel......
I’ll bet that Colon Bowel is one of them!
Colin RINO Powell, I’d guess.
Yeah, like Colon Pile
Idiots like Hagel, a curse on America.
That is the first time I recall him saying this.....his internals must not be so good for him to come out with such a statement.
I thought he said Republicans.
Sounds like he’s getting worried and needs to “reach out” to the other side. Nice try Idi Amin Obama.
Sure! There are PLENTY of RINOS to go around!
Goofy and daffy
Helps with the 60 needed in the Senate to make the filibuster majority. Bend over.
The Marxist One means he wants RINO’s but only after they check in their testicles to Michelle for safe keeping should they tend to stray off the socialists path.
Owl_Eagle
“When the stock market crashed,
Franklin Roosevelt got on the television
and didn’t just talk about
the princes of greed, he said,
‘Look, here’s what happened.’"
-Slow Joe Biden
I’m sure he would and every single one of them would fit the definition of a RINO to the fullest extent.
He said Republicans, not conservatives.
Worth noting the difference.
Yep.
You forgot the RINO alert.
Oh, and a 0bama barf bag would have been a good suggestion, as well.
Any decent Republican who would be on Obama’s team would definitely be bound and gagged, then thrown in the cabinet.
Any ‘Pub who aids and abets Oslimehead should be drummed out of the party. They’ll share the responsibility for destroying the country by bowing and scraping before The Almighty Obama.
he’d be the token republican
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