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In our July issue we asked Lowdowners to come up with names for an Obama administration. Here’s what you told us:
- Vice-President: Bill Richardson, comfortably ahead of
John Edwards (pre-confession) and Hillary
Interesting: Joe Biden got just one vote - Attorney General: John Edwards (pre-confession) again,
with five times the votes of runner-up Hillary
Interesting: Henry Waxman and Ronnie Earle (District Attorney
for Travis County, Texas) tied for third - Secretary of State: Bill Richardson, well ahead of Joe Biden
Interesting: Bill Clinton third; Naomi Klein, Ann Wright (retired colonel who opposed Iraq attack), and Noam Chomsky all got a vote - Secretary of Defense: Colin Powell, just ahead of Wesley Clark
Interesting suggestion: Cindy Sheehan - National Security Advisor: Richard Clark, well ahead of Wesley Clark
Interesting suggestion: Scott Ritter - CIA chief: Valerie Plame just beat out Richard Clark
- Secretary of Labor: John Edwards (pre-confession), one vote ahead of Robert Reich
- Surgeon General: Howard Dean
- Secretary of Interior: Al Gore
- Secretary of Agriculture: Runaway win for Jim Hightower!
- UN Ambassador: Bill Clinton
- FCC: Bill Moyers, followed by Lawrence Lessig and Jon Stewart
- FDA: Ralph Nader
- Secretary of Health: Hillary Clinton, easily
- Secretary of the Treasury: Paul Krugman (New York Times columnist), beating fellow economist Joseph Stiglitz
- Supreme Court: Hillary Clinton again, ahead of Mario Cuomo and 24 other nominees
Next issue: Who you see in a McCain administration.