Obama's Cabinet?

[asterroc]

I haven't been following Obama's picks for cabinet members. Someone care to update me? I think I saw Hillary was taking one.

I've also heard that people who have cabinet positions can never successfully run for office again after that. Is this true? If so, why? And why would someone like Clinton take the position then? Please give me the short version, as usual, too long and I lose track of where it started...

Which reminds me, this week I've had two people tell me either that since I teach physics I must be really smart, or else that physics is a really hard subject. Both times I replied in complete honesty that I think history is harder. Politics/current events might be even worse since things change so quickly, at least history's over and done with.

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[q10.livejournal.com]

summary here

the ones that made the biggest splashes so far include Clinton for State and keeping Gates for Defense.

[xoder.livejournal.com]

I hadn't been keeping up, either, but the Wiki has a nice summary.

There is nothing prohibiting a member of cabinet from running for office again, however, one cannot be a member of cabinet and, for instance, a senator at the same time. And I'm reading now about the Saxbe fix, which is pertinent and most interesting.

[calieber.livejournal.com]

I cannot tell you how many people respond to my plans to go back for a degree with "chemistry? That's so hard!" Um, not for me, that's why I'm taking it. I mean, some of these people are nurses!