How about a game of picking Hillary’s entire Cabinet and other key positions?

Both wide-eyed and ready!

Both wide-eyed and ready!

If this doesn’t scare voters into flocking to the polls in November, then the Apocalypse will be a breeze:

Huma Abedin for Secretary of Defense!  . . .


Gravitas! (that's also Cherokee for "bat sh*t crazy"

Gravitas! (also Cherokee for “bat sh*t crazy”

By Patrick Healy at the NYT (excerpts)
Hillary Clinton’s Campaign, Cautious but Confident, Begins Considering Running Mates

Hillary Clinton’s advisers and allies have begun extensive discussions about who should be her running mate, seeking to compile a list of 15 to 20 potential picks for her team to start vetting by late spring.

Special Assistant for Whatever.

Special Assistant for Whatever.

Mrs. Clinton’s team will grapple with complicated questions like whether the United States is ready for an all-female ticket, and whether her choice for vice president would be able to handle working in a White House in which former President Bill Clinton wielded significant influence on policy.

While the nomination fight is still fluid, Mrs. Clinton is confident enough of victory that she has described a vision of a running mate

At least as well qualified, but probably not

At least as well qualified, but probably not

and objectives for the search, according to campaign advisers and more than a dozen Democrats close to the campaign or the Clintons.

She does not have a front-runner in mind, they said, but she is intrigued by several contenders and scenarios.

In 2008 The Donald said Hillary would make a “great president.” Surely there is a spot for him.

In 2008 The Donald said Hillary would make a “great president.” Surely there is a spot for him.

Among the names under discussion by Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Clinton and campaign advisers: Senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, former governors from the key state of Virginia; Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, who represents both a more liberal wing of the party and a swing state; former Gov. Deval Patrick of Massachusetts, a prominent African-American Democrat; and Thomas E. Perez, President Obama’s labor secretary and a Hispanic civil rights

Bill's choices

Bill’s choices

lawyer.

Mrs. Clinton has offered general guidance as her team begins the search: She cares less about ideological and personal compatibility than about picking a winner, someone who can dominate the vice-presidential debate and convince Americans that Mrs. Clinton is their best choice.


Cabinet members should keep in mind what loyalty and getting off the reservation entails

Cabinet members should keep in mind what loyalty and getting off the reservation entails

Hillary also cares less about competence, the Constitution,  and America’s stature in the world . . . how about Barack Obama for the Supreme Court?

DLH

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One Response to How about a game of picking Hillary’s entire Cabinet and other key positions?

  1. Gus says:

    How can you beat Reverend Al Sharpton for Homeland Security. Drat! If Sandy Berger were still alive, he’d be great to head the National Archives. Maybe he still would be!

    Now why, in the graphic above, is there a question of who or what that charming lass with Hillary would be “Special Assistant for…”? Bill, of course!

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