Who was your dream pick for Chief of Staff?

[Still a Democrat]

?

[onehandle]

1. Howard Dean. nt

[BrklynLiberal]

7. Ditto

[polmaven]

24. Well,

Howard Dean approves of William Daley.

[Botany]

2. Paul R.

[EFerrari]

3. I didn't have one. Obama should be able to pick someone he is comfortable with.

But, when he does populate his administration with people whose whole career is so athwart the good of most Americans, it is time to object. There are plenty of experienced, talented people to draw from that aren't members of the oligarchy.

[Marr]

4. Anyone but a Wall Street mega-bank executive.

That's asking a lot, I know.

[rusty charly]

5. Howard Dean.

Russ Feingold.

[Arkana]

6. God.

[Scurrilous]

8. William Daley.

:thumbsup:

[polmaven]

23. Ditto!

:thumbsup:

[Blue-Jay]

9. Judge Reinhold

[emilyg]

10. Dean.

[patrice]

11. Howard Dean. nt

[Davis_X_Machina]

12. Howard Zinn. Walter Reuther. Sidney Hillman. Eugene Debs.

All dead, though.

Of course, that could be a plus. It's hard to buy a dead guy.

[TheKentuckian]

13. Seems like a good use for Russ Feingold

[TBF]

14. Sean Penn - at least he's a democrat. nt

[PBS Poll-435]

15. Michael Clayton

nt

[The Straight Story]

16. Out of over 200 Million plus people in the US - just about anyone else (nt)

[Xicano]

17. Janeane Garofalo

[dixiegrrrrl]

18. Ghandi

[Davis_X_Machina]

19. Dead. And he'd never be able to file a legit I-9 form.

[dixiegrrrrl]

21. We live in a world of zombie banks, why not ?

[Shagbark Hickory]

20. Senator Bernie Sanders.

[polmaven]

22. I very much prefer

Senator Sanders just where he is. The President's Chief of Staff cannot introduce legislation or argue for/against legislation. Why in the world would you want Senator Sanders to be demoted to Chief of Staff????? Give me a break!

[Shagbark Hickory]

30. I'll tell you why

Not to in any way suggest he hasn't had accomplishments as a senator, but as one of a very few people in the senate who puts people before corporations, he's not going to change any minds there.
He'd be more effective as a c.o.s. because as the "gatekeeper", he will see to it that cooporations and bankers are not the only ones with a seat at the table. This is an area that we have a big problem, obviously, and it doesn't take a 60 vote majority to curtail corruption in the capacity that he could as cos.

[polmaven]

31. Oh good grief!

Take one of the more liberal Senators, with a very good record of accomplishment, and demote him to Chief of Staff.

I learned this today. Seems appropriate here: WABOBS

[Shagbark Hickory]

33. When he spoke for 9 hours straight last month to an empty room but kept...

addressing "Mr President" (the president of the senate), you mean to tell me you didn't wish he was addressing that speech directly to the Potus?
If Bernie Sanders was COS, over the past 2 years, we'd have our stinkin public option. Or probably much better.

[polmaven]

34. I simply believe he is FAR more effective

as Senator Sanders than he would be as Chief of Staff.

[Shagbark Hickory]

35. Then we will have to agree to disagree. You must live in VT where he is doing all kinds of stuff

that is in the best interests of vermonteers (is that what you are called!?)

[polmaven]

36. Well, agreeing to disagree

is what it is all about, really. :toast: And no, actually, i don't live in VT. I do live in New England, though.

[baldguy]

25. Michael Moore

[former9thward]

26. Ed Rendell.

He is a hard hitting no nonsense type that is needed in the WH. He can connect with average Americans much better than someone from Goldman Sachs.

[AsahinaKimi]

27. Why not Alan Grayson ?

Would he do it? Is he qualified?

[Golden Raisin]

28. Groucho Marx

[Motown_Johnny]

29. Jessica Alba, but she is my dream pick for pretty much everything

[MilesColtrane]

32. Julian Assange

He could leak hourly updates of the President's Secret Agenda.

Plus, he's just so dreamy.