politico.com - 12/15/2008
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President-elect Barack Obama is 15 picks into his future Cabinet, but he has yet to name anyone who hails from the South.
google.com - 12/20/2008
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google.com —
18 hours ago WASHINGTON (AP) The South may
have inched toward Democrats in November, but that progress...
isn't showing in President-elect Barack Obama's Cabinet selections. Obama hasn't nominated a single Southerner among his 15 Cabinet secretaries. So ...
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The Associated Press: Obama short on Southerners in ...
blogs.princeton.edu - 12/22/2008
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That Obama is set to nominate so many
former legislators to his Cabinet and senior White House staff...
provides a rare opportunity for comparing the ideological make-up of the new administration to that of Congress. With the nomination of Hilda...
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The Cabinet
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A SHOCKING FAILURE OF DIVERSITY: No Southerners yet in Obama Cabinet….
Instapundit —
A SHOCKING FAILURE OF DIVERSITY: No Southerners yet in Obama Cabinet.
Whistling past Dixie
Political Animal —
... that the region so far lacks representation in the cabinet, and the Politico devoted a fairly long piece to the subject today. "Not a one," grumbles a one senior Democratic aide who hails from the South. "Not even half of one, unless you count Hillary Clinton, and she doesn't count because she's not even an Arkansan anymore. She's a Yankee." To be fair, the official voice of the White House will come with a Southern drawl: Robert Gibbs, Obama's soon-to-be press secretary, is an Alabama native. But going back to at least John F. Kennedy, every other new president has ...
Southern complaining picks up steam
Political Animal —
SOUTHERN COMPLAINING PICKS UP STEAM.... The Politico had a fairly long piece this week, noting that Barack Obama's cabinet was pretty diverse, but lacked Southerners. The piece suggested there was some grumbling in political circles over this, but it quoted a grand total of two people complaining -- both anonymous Hill staffers, one of whom doesn't even work in Congress anymore. In the ensuing days, however, the complaints about Obama having "snubbed" the South ...
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