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2008-09-12 Home Front: Politix
John McCain offers Barack Obama a cabinet post
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Posted by NCMike 2008-09-12 07:27|| || Front Page|| [2 views ]  Top

#1 It is Daily Telegraph rememeber? There is nothing in for instance Fox News. My guess is that it is
MSM doing diry work for Obama.
Posted by JFM">JFM  2008-09-12 08:42||   2008-09-12 08:42|| Front Page Top

#2 " and Barack Obama will be Inspector of Latrines..."
Posted by Grunter 2008-09-12 08:46||   2008-09-12 08:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Face it, a "National Service" cabinet post would be one of the most useless, meaningless, toothless places you could put the Godly Community Organizer. It would turn up sweet the maniacs who would otherwise be screaming conspiracy and vote-theft and trying to gin up riots on university campuses.

But yeah, it's a 'get drunk and vote for McCain' morning. Didn't help that they weren't letting us make campaign calls yesterday on account of the 9/11 remembrance.
Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H.  2008-09-12 08:54|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]  2008-09-12 08:54|| Front Page Top

#4 Remember the Surgeon General? You get a fancy uniform, an office and requisite number of secretaries, and make public service announcements. IIRC, iaw the Constitution, you can only hold one federal office at a time, that would mean the Senate seat would open up from IL. You guys didn't catch that one. :)
Move the man to someplace where he can do less damage and make way for the opportunity to throw the dice for something better. Ambassador to Belgium would be another good job opportunity as well.
Posted by Procopius2k 2008-09-12 09:26||   2008-09-12 09:26|| Front Page Top

#5 I listened to that exchange last night. McCain wasn't (I think) serious. The moderator was pushing for the idea of a cabinet-level national service position and asked "would you appoint Barack Obama to that position in your cabinet?" McCain's response was more along the lines of "As long as I'm president, yeah, he can have the job of National Community Organizer."
Posted by Fred 2008-09-12 09:22||   2008-09-12 09:22|| Front Page Top

#6 Secretary of the Department of Shucking and Jiving.
Posted by Anonymoose 2008-09-12 09:53||   2008-09-12 09:53|| Front Page Top

#7 Also on the short list: MSG Sammy Doe, Idi Amin, Jean-Bedel Bokasso, Prince Y. Johnson, Robert Mugabe, 'Baby' Doc.
Posted by Besoeker 2008-09-12 10:19|| http://www.rantburg.com/comments.php?D=2008-09-12&ID=249758&HC=2&SO=]">[http://www.rantburg.com/comments.php?D=2008-09-12&ID=249758&HC=2&SO=]  2008-09-12 10:19|| Front Page Top

#8 Great idea. He could be Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. No one would ever hear of him again.
Posted by mhw 2008-09-12 10:52||   2008-09-12 10:52|| Front Page Top

#9 Ambassador to Kenya, or some European nation that ranked really high with Obama-love.
Posted by rjschwarz 2008-09-12 11:43||   2008-09-12 11:43|| Front Page Top

#10 Make him Secretary of Going Away and Never Coming Back.
Posted by Chris W. 2008-09-12 12:13||   2008-09-12 12:13|| Front Page Top

#11 The Department of Unconstitutional Compulsory Service?
Posted by mojo">mojo  2008-09-12 12:31||   2008-09-12 12:31|| Front Page Top

#12 Is there a national service cabinet position? I don't recall such a title.
Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife  2008-09-12 14:16||   2008-09-12 14:16|| Front Page Top

#13 You're catching on, TW ... :-)
Posted by Steve White  2008-09-12 15:52||   2008-09-12 15:52|| Front Page Top

#14 Chancellor of the Dutchy of Manhattan
Posted by .5MT 2008-09-12 16:49|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net]  2008-09-12 16:49|| Front Page Top

#15 Ambassador to Freedonia motto: Land of the Spree, and the Home of the Knave.
Posted by Scott R 2008-09-12 17:35||   2008-09-12 17:35|| Front Page Top

#16 "you can only hold one federal office at a time, that would mean the Senate seat would open up from IL"

And the winna is: P2K! :-D
Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2008-09-12 19:18|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]  2008-09-12 19:18|| Front Page Top

#17 Emperor of the United States, Protector of Mexico, and sole owner of the Guano Islands.

OOPS!!! My bad! That was Emperor Norton.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2008-09-12 20:17||   2008-09-12 20:17|| Front Page Top

#18 If all governments ruled with as light a touch as the Emperor did we'd be a lot better off - and we wouldn't need to bail out the F. Macs.
Posted by lotp 2008-09-12 21:08||   2008-09-12 21:08|| Front Page Top

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