Not in the top spots but there's women in the running for Justice and Health (oh, but of course) and some potential for Samantha Power to do something (hell, she's called Samantha Power, she should be in there somewhere...)
A agree it is quite disappointing, but I never had him pegged for a feminist candidate anyhow, and my cynical hat says that he might be trying to fill the place with Acceptable White Males because surely to gosh America can't cope with too much change at once?
Worryingly, I don't see Madeleine Albright anywhere - c'mon, she's made of awesomefantasticsauce, she needs to be given her own department in charge of being awesomefantasticsauce. Although I see he's considering Susan Rice for UN Ambassador, and even Madeleine seems to think she's of the awesomefantasticsauce school of awesomefantasticsauciness, so that might be ok.
I appear to have had too many caramel macchiattos. Awesomefantasticsauce seems to be a perfectly reasonable word at this point. Help. Quick.
A agree it is quite disappointing, but I never had him pegged for a feminist candidate anyhow, and my cynical hat says that he might be trying to fill the place with Acceptable White Males because surely to gosh America can't cope with too much change at once?
They better be liberal AWMs, is all I'm saying (well, American liberal, which makes them, hmmm, a little more conservative than the Conservatives
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I noticed a few women...alara_rNovember 11 2008, 15:10:01 UTC
Penny Pritzker rumored for commerce secretary...
Susan Rice for UN ambassador...
A possible role for Samantha Power, although she had to resign from the campaign...
Janet Napolitano for Dept Justice...
and Kathleen Sebelius for Human Health and Services.
Admittedly there are a *lot* more guys on the list, but five women is not *no* women (and interestingly, the writeup on Pritzker does not mention her gender; it calls her a "billionaire tycoon". yay! Women get to be billionaire tycoons without someone having to call them the modern equivalent of tycoonesses! I saw that her first name was Penny and thought she might be a woman, so I googled her and she is.)
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A agree it is quite disappointing, but I never had him pegged for a feminist candidate anyhow, and my cynical hat says that he might be trying to fill the place with Acceptable White Males because surely to gosh America can't cope with too much change at once?
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I appear to have had too many caramel macchiattos. Awesomefantasticsauce seems to be a perfectly reasonable word at this point. Help. Quick.
A agree it is quite disappointing, but I never had him pegged for a feminist candidate anyhow, and my cynical hat says that he might be trying to fill the place with Acceptable White Males because surely to gosh America can't cope with too much change at once?
They better be liberal AWMs, is all I'm saying (well, American liberal, which makes them, hmmm, a little more conservative than the Conservatives ( ... )
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We should probably arrange time/place continuum in which to do this. Let us bump diaries tonight.
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Susan Rice for UN ambassador...
A possible role for Samantha Power, although she had to resign from the campaign...
Janet Napolitano for Dept Justice...
and Kathleen Sebelius for Human Health and Services.
Admittedly there are a *lot* more guys on the list, but five women is not *no* women (and interestingly, the writeup on Pritzker does not mention her gender; it calls her a "billionaire tycoon". yay! Women get to be billionaire tycoons without someone having to call them the modern equivalent of tycoonesses! I saw that her first name was Penny and thought she might be a woman, so I googled her and she is.)
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