November 24, 2008

Cabinet profiles (12/15)

I would like to have one central place with articles profiling potential Cabinet members (and those filling Cabinet-level posts). This will make it easier for me to learn about them. Does anyone agree or disagree? Perhaps I will just create a table in this post that can be edited by anyone who would like to add a link (see below).

General links related to the composition of Obama's Cabinet and/or administration:



Cabinet PositionCandidateArticles
StateSen. Hillary Clinton
TreasuryTimothy Geithner
"A reassuring figure for Treasury" - The Economist
"Why the Geithner Pick Is Even Better Than You Think" - The New Republic
DefenseRobert Gates
"Gates Agrees to Stay on Under Obama" - Politico
Attorney GeneralEric Holder
"Holder is Disqualified by Marc Rich Pardon" - RCP
Interior

Agriculture

CommerceGov. Bill Richardson
"Chinese-Americans Protest Richardson Cabinet Post" - Huffington Post
LaborMary Beth Maxwell
"Mary Beth Maxwell, Labor Secretary?" - Huffington Post
Health and Human ServicesFormer Sen. Tom Daschle"A shrewd choice" - The Economist
"Daschle-Obama Health Care Possibilities" - Washington Times
Housing and Urban Development

Transportation

EnergySteven Chu
"Steven Chu, Energy Secretary?" - Huffington Post
EducationLinda Darling-Hammond
"Old School" - The New Republic
Arne Duncan
"Arne Duncan To Be Named Obama's Education Secretary: Report" - The Huffington Post
Veterans AffairsGeneral Eric Shinseki
"Obama's Meet The Press Interview: General Eric Shinseki To Be Veterans Affairs Secretary (VIDEO)" - The Huffington Post

"Karmic Justice: Gen. Eric Shinseki" - The Atlantic

Homeland SecurityGov. Janet Napolitano

Cabinet-Level PositionCandidateArticles
Vice PresidentSen. Joseph Biden
White House Chief-of-StaffRep. Rahm Emanuel
Environmental Protection Agency

Office of Management and BudgetPeter Orszag
"Peter Orszag to be Head of Office of Management and Budget" - The American Prospect

National Drug Control Policy

Trade Representative



Other positionCandidateArticles
National Security AdvisorMarine General James L. Jones"Who Is Jim Jones?" - The New Republic
Head of White House Economic Council
Lawrence H. Summers
Head of Council of Economic AdvisersChristina D. Romer
Director of the White House Domestic Policy CouncilMelody Barnes
White House Social Secretary
Desirée Rogers
"Friend of the Obamas to be Social Secretary" - Washington Post
"Obamas Taking Rogers to D.C." - Chicago Tribune

9 comments:

  1. I don't know how well the table cells with a bunch of links will work, but let's try it for a bit. My next task is to just get Wiki links for each name in the second column.

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  2. Wait, the names became links on their own. What? Chris, I am looking in your direction for some help understanding this.

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  3. Yeah, I did that. Sorry.

    But yeah, I could move the wiki links over, but I say since all of them will have a Wiki article we may as well save space and keep the names wiki-linked.

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  4. A word of warning: the HTML in this post has become more than a little cumbersome. If any of you do not feel like working through it on your own just send me the links and I will add them.

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  5. Is there a way of fixing these charts on front page of the blog, so they don't get pushed off by newer entries?

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  6. I don't think so, which is doubly funny since you and I just posted essentially similar articles (I put one in Holder's row in the chart)

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  7. Seriously. I wish we had a blog equivalent of a message board bump to move threads up the hierarchy.

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