How about McCain as Secretary of Defense?

[BaywaterRoss]

I dunno. I'm workin' on my 2nd cuppa coffee this morning and was just thinking that "reaching across the aisle" would be more meaningful if Obama put his formal rival to good use.

McCain has a bit of experience with the military. Heh.

Maybe Colin Powell as Secretary of State again? That might be interesting.

Wanna really mess with heads? Try this - for Secretary of Energy and a mission to make the U.S. energy independent in less than 10 years - Sarah Palin.

Ha!

Time for more coffee!

-Ross

 

[Troke]

Never happen. Defense has to be cut bigtime for Obama to make his other goals. McCain might resign and that would call undue attention to the act.

Instead, wind down the wars in the ME and announce big savings, a peace dividend to put onto health or some other good thing. And the 'savings' will be a lot more than the cost of the war in Iraq.

 

[fruit loop]

I thought of that too. It would be a great gesture of reconciliation, and McCain is certainly qualified. That would be a masterstroke of diplomacy as well as filling the post with a capable candidate.

 

[kozanne]

Never happen. Defense has to be cut bigtime for Obama to make his other goals. McCain might resign and that would call undue attention to the act.

Instead, wind down the wars in the ME and announce big savings, a peace dividend to put onto health or some other good thing. And the 'savings' will be a lot more than the cost of the war in Iraq.

Obama has a Chicago political machine to repay. Don't look for too much bipartisanship unless it suits his own agenda.

 

[Copter Doctor]

William Ayers?

 

[Brutus]

I take it that McCain is still in the Senate? He wasn't up for reelection this time was he?

If he leaves the Senate, AZ's Dem. governor Napolitano would surely replace him with a Dem. senator and that would further increase the Dem. stranglehold on Congress.

 

[kozanne]

William Ayers?

Would not surprise me, but if a man who planned on killing 25 million Americans and shot up a few LEO's can get in the cabinet, why "we can do anything!".......

Peace, love and dictatorship. Welcome our new neolib overlords.

 

[Wiley]

How about this instead: McCain is no longer in the national spotlight and let's leave him that way.

I hate to see Odummy win but McCain wasn't too far behind him as far as stupid policies.

 

[BaywaterRoss]

I thought of that too. It would be a great gesture of reconciliation, and McCain is certainly qualified. That would be a masterstroke of diplomacy as well as filling the post with a capable candidate.

After I posted this yesterday, I left for most of the day and haven't had a chance to respond until now.

And I don't even know if the new cabinet has been announced yet or not.

But my thought was that McCain would be best utilized over the next 4 years as the SecDef rather than as a minority senator. The man already has a track record for cutting fat from the defense budget, which will be imperative over the next few years.

I'd like to see him offered the position anyway.

-Ross