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slate.com - 11/6/2008

Cabinet and other key appointments Obama shouldn't make. - By Timothy Noah - Slate Magazine

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Illustration by Mark Alan Stamaty. Click image to expand. With Barack Obama's presidential victory in the bag , speculation has begun about who he'll appoint to his Cabinet. Actually, it began some time ago. Russell Baker of the New York Times many years ago invented a spectral figure called the ...

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