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Obama Cabinet Shy on Southerners, What's Up With Y'ALL?

by politisite | December 16, 2008 at 04:12 pm

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The last real chance for a southerner in Obama's cabinet went away when he chose his local School Superintendent for the post. South Carolina State Superintendent Inez Tenenbaum was a big supporter of the Obama campaign. Publicly campaigned for him, as well as, gave him a tour of South Carolina's educational system. She was on Obama's short list. With Duncan being tagged for the job, a chance for a southerner in the Obama cabinet is all but lost. This writer interviewed Ms. Tenenbaum (seee photo) on the campaign trail at the CBC/CNN Debate in Myrtle Beach, SC. She endorsed Barack Obama during the interview

Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Barack Obama has moved faster than any modern president-elect in selecting his Cabinet, scouring Wall Street, academia and the Senate to assemble a diverse team that has won bipartisan praise.

“He has every basic entity within his government,” said U.S. Representative David Scott, a Georgia Democrat. “He’s got Jewish people, he’s got Protestants, he’s got white, black, you name it.”

Republicans including Arizona Senator John McCain, Obama’s opponent in the presidential election, also have applauded his choices.

Still, the Democrat’s star-studded roster lacks representatives from two groups: Southerners and the Republicans that he vowed to appoint during the campaign.

Forty-two days since winning the presidency, Obama has picked 11 members of his Cabinet and 11 senior White House aides.

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Pythiian1

at 19:35 on December 16th, 2008

The consolation is that Mr. Obama has instead selected graduates of Universities of Virginia and North Carolina, in addition to Georgetown and University of Michigan.

In light of Mr. Obama's all 24 top appointments have degrees from Ivy League schools, MIT, Stanford, University of Chicago, University of California, Berkeley, and one of the top British universities.

lefty_liberated

at 21:26 on December 16th, 2008

Come on the campaign slogan was Yes We Can not...ye'haw from a bunch of backwards enslaving rednecks who are still pretty racist and just want to own a gun and make sure you dont get any of our tax dollars ....

politisite

at 16:17 on December 18th, 2008

I see you haven't been to the south lately. Obama beat all dem candidates hands down in SC... Now if all you said were true... that would not happen. And the GOP is called mean spirited! Gosh!

RB (not verified)

at 06:56 on December 22nd, 2008

Why would our nation's First African-American President-Elect want to risk his policies NOT being fulfilled by choosing to place Cabinet members who STILL haven't let go of the fact that the North won the Civil War?

Or who STILL think that African-American citizens are Inferior to Caucasian citizens by "God's Design"?

Pleasssssse!!

RB (not verified)

at 07:00 on December 22nd, 2008

This is especially true in North Carolina (and South Carolina).

In fact the state of North Carolina is STILL angry that a Female, Democrat won the Governor's race and that an African-American received the state's Electoral votes.

Are you serious??

Like I said.....Pleasssssse!!