Reply #27: Suggestions for lesser known posts [View All]

Earl Blumenauer (Oregon Congressman) for Secretary of Transportation. He'd do what we need to do for both the environment and increasing energy independence: emphasizing non-automobile means of transportation

Janeane Garofalo or Alfre Woodard for press secretary, We all know about Janeane, but I once saw a show in which Alfre Woodard had Dennis Miller practically pinned to the floor.

John Kerry for Secretary of Defense (unless he gets the nomination). A combat veteran should run the Pentagon.

On a similar note, give Max Cleland his old job of Director of Veterans' Affairs

John Leonard (critic on CBS Sunday Morning and for The Nation) should be head of the National Endowment for the Humanities

If Lorin Maazel (whose lifetime accomplishments and activities on behalf of the environment suggest that he is NOT a Republican) was willing, I'd put him in charge of the National Endowment for the Arts.

And I want to be the Cultural Affairs Attache at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo :-)