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5 on the outs in Cabinet shuffle (John Kerry "crushed" over Cabinet snub)
Politico ^

Posted on 11/22/2008 5:14:03 PM PST by Chet 99

One Democratic operative suggests keeping track of Barack Obama’s cabinet selections with a March Madness-type tournament chart. While no official announcements have been made, a controlled series of leaks have given a good sense of who's still in contention, and which big names have been bounced from the bracket.

The new administration still has some major posts to fill, including heads for the departments of Defense, Housing and Urban

Development, Transportation, Labor, and Energy, not to mention the Environmental Protection Agency. But a number of the biggest prizes seem to have already been won, and a handful of serious contenders already been passed over in the speed-dating game that is the Obama transition.

Here's a look at five major players and the jobs they have apparently not been given:

John Kerry, State—The Massachusetts Senator and former Democratic presidential nominee was a passionate, articulate and early supporter of Obama, a fixture on both conference calls and the Sunday talk show circuit. Kerry’s people say he never had any expectations of being named Secretary of State but other Democrats say he made no secret of his Foggy Bottom aspirations. “He’s crushed,” said one Senate aide. Kerry would have been a fine pick, sources say, but Obama apparently had his eye on Hillary Clinton since the early fall. He does get an impressive consolation prize: the chairmanship of the Foreign Relations Committee vacated by Joe Biden.

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To: Chet 99

Kerryphew . Gog bless me ;-)


41 posted on 11/22/2008 6:53:42 PM PST by Deetes (God Bless the Troops)
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To: Verginius Rufus

> former French colonies. Madagascar, for example

Doesn’t Madagascar speak Portuguese?

I was thinking more of Sierra Leone or Cote Azur.


42 posted on 11/22/2008 6:54:23 PM PST by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: Chet 99

I do not buy it.

Kerry would not give up his Senator seat for anything less than the White House.

He’d have no place else to go.

Kerry is a born POS and it is only because of his lying BS to a willing audience that he has gotten as far as he has.


43 posted on 11/22/2008 7:01:27 PM PST by Radix (Posting cynical responses ever since...."What time is it anyhow?")
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To: Chet 99
John Kerry "crushed" over Cabinet snub

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ROFLMAO

44 posted on 11/22/2008 7:02:48 PM PST by RoadKingSE (How do you know that the light at the end of the tunnel isn't a muzzle flash?)
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To: Chet 99

My respect for Obama has gone up since his election. By definition he was going to fill his cabinet and staff with liberal Democrats, but he could have made much worse choices. Although a lot of bad things will undoubtedly happen in the next four years, they may turn out not to be as bad as I originally feared.

Please keep surprising me, President-elect Obama.


45 posted on 11/22/2008 7:06:47 PM PST by dpwiener
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To: MaxMax; Chet 99
Kerry had his milk money taken away by the big 4th graders.

Now we will all be sorry.

46 posted on 11/22/2008 7:06:54 PM PST by Radix (Posting cynical responses ever since...."What time is it anyhow?")
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To: Chet 99
I'm delighted. No one wants to be anywhere near that pompous ego-maniac!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

47 posted on 11/22/2008 7:11:38 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Chet 99
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48 posted on 11/22/2008 7:24:13 PM PST by Fudd Fan (My President is the current Governor of Alaska.)
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To: Chet 99

SECRETARY IN SHARGE OF MILITARY RECORDS AND BIRTH CERTIFICATES.


49 posted on 11/22/2008 7:29:25 PM PST by nufsed
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To: TXBlair
He's got some great pics. Here's one that always brings me up:




50 posted on 11/22/2008 7:34:27 PM PST by incredulous joe (We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.)
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To: Fudd Fan

What weirdo map is Kerry standing in front of? It looks like everyplace is named after his website.


51 posted on 11/22/2008 7:55:51 PM PST by TimSkalaBim
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To: Chet 99; Fred Nerks; LucyT
He’s crushed,” said one Senate aide. Kerry would have been a fine pick..............

Swift boated by his own party?

Kerry does not realize just how thankful he should be for not being picked.

The ObamUtopia will end very badly indeed.Again, as in Vietnam,Kerry will have luckily dodged the bullet.Luck has delivered carry to safety where his intelligence would not.

Kerry is well off being as far away from the Omafuscation of America as possible.He just won't know it for a while.

52 posted on 11/22/2008 8:03:38 PM PST by Candor7 (Fascism? All it takes is for good men to say nothing, ( member NRA)
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To: Westbrook
Madagascar was French--you're probably thinking of Mozambique which was Portuguese.

The Cote d'Azur is part of the Mediterranean coast of France--not an independent country. Cote d'Ivoire is a francophone African nation (known in English as Ivory Coast).

53 posted on 11/22/2008 8:08:28 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Chet 99

Kerry is “crushed”.
That should earn him another Purple Heart.
It’s only fair.


54 posted on 11/22/2008 8:37:33 PM PST by supremedoctrine ('Time is the school in which we learn that time is the fire in which we burn"--Delmore Schwartz)
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To: EQAndyBuzz
Obama sold his soul.

You may be more correct about this than you know...

55 posted on 11/22/2008 8:46:37 PM PST by NoPrisoners
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To: omega4179
He was not just in Viet Nam but he was in Cambodia on Christmas day. /s

...in 1968, when (he said) Nixon was the President. It was seared--SEARED--into his memory. /s

56 posted on 11/22/2008 9:04:14 PM PST by Purrcival (Obama and Biden: The Marx Brothers! (Thanks FReeper Enduring Freedom for the tagline))
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To: littlehouse36
Now Kerry knows how his medals felt, when he tossed them over the fence.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

57 posted on 11/22/2008 9:53:39 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil." --Thomas Mann)
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To: Chet 99
“He’s crushed,” said one Senate aide.

Yo Johnny boy, always remember-suicide is painless!
58 posted on 11/23/2008 1:54:07 AM PST by snuffy smiff (the most pathetic thing about libs is not that they lie-but that they lie unto themselves)
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To: EQAndyBuzz
Am thinking that Hillary has always owned Obama's soul; just as someone else 'owns' both of them. . .thinks 'George Soros'. . .

(What makes this all so easy; is their shared 'world vision' and their craving of power.)

59 posted on 11/23/2008 3:22:26 AM PST by cricket (America's Freedom Rings! Thank You ~ U..S.A. Military~/)
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To: dpwiener

....gone up since his election...etc.etc
(can’t quite yet bring myself to put ob and ‘respect’ in same sentence)
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
Certainly that choice of Emanuel for COS was ‘brilliant’.
It keeps EVERYONE guessing.
The anti Israelis have to be scratching their heads and the pro Israelis have to wonder ‘what is up’?
It also kind of ‘shoots down’ the Muslim tag on OB but then again the old “keep your ‘enemies’ closer” is possibly enacted.
Brilliant, the MADNESS continues to reign....
This would be downright hilarious if it weren’t so serious.


60 posted on 11/23/2008 4:37:11 AM PST by xrmusn
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