Did you notice that Obama has no southerners in his cabinet?

[mudesi]

Because this article did. In my opinion, that's not such a bad thing. Southerners have controlled things for decades now. Then again, the article claims that Hillary Clinton is somehow not a southerner. :eyes:

[hlthe2b]

1. well that's hard to argue.... Hillary Clinton was raised in Illinois

It was Bill that was the southerner....

[mmonk]

2. Yes, we are barbarians and all rightwing.

I see the article did mention Gibbs which was going to be my reply before reading the link.

[Kalyke]

3. Actually, I wish he did have some Southerners in the cabinet.

One of the problems, for example, in Tennessee, is that we don't have any well-recognized Democrats anymore. No one who can overcome the gays, guns and gawd Republicans by sheer personality and popularity.

We need to be grooming some Southern Democrats to run for statewide offices - people who are more recognized than Bob Tuke to take on Corker and/or Alexander, for example. The only way we can start winning is to run people that voters have, um, actually heard of. A cabinet Dem would be recognizable.

But, um, the article's right: Hillary is from Chicago. She's not a Southerner.

[IndianaJones]

4. good. nt.

[cali]

5. I'm outraged. Obama has no Vermonters in his cabinet.

[supernova]

6. Actually no, I hadn't noticed

and I'm a southerner.

It really would not bother me if there were no southerners in this cabinet right now.

[Harry Monroe]

7. I'm from Mississippi and I'm outraged that he has no one from this state in his cabinet!!

Oh wait, never mind.

[boomerbust]

8. A Yankee President Indeed

It's About Time

[Odin2005]

9. I say good riddance. Southerners have controlled things for far too long

n/t.

[Rebubula]

16. Yeah...

...cause those darn Southerners are nothing but racist, inbred bigots

:eyes:

[Odin2005]

18. I insinuated nothing of the sort.

I just said Southern politicians have had too much power for too long. Thou doth protesteth to much

[csziggy]

10. Some of the campaign advisors were Southerners

Sam Nunn, Bob Graham are the two that immediately come to mind. Hillary Clinton was born in Illinois though she spent a lot of her life in Arkansas with Bill.

Frankly, with the trend the South has been in since the 60s, I'm just as happy that Obama has not appointed any Southerners. Although I am a Floridian, I am not pleased with the recent history of this part of the country.

[mmonk]

11. Obama got 55 electoral votes from the South.

A good trend developing.

[rrneck]

12. I don't care where he finds them as long as they know what they're doing. n/t

[WI_DEM]

13. Well, GWB is "from" Texas and had southerers in his cabinet and he still let a major southern city

New Orleans wither away after the hurricane something yankee Obama never would have let happen.

[kestrel91316]

14. I hadn't noticed, nor do I care. I HAD noticed that they are all AMERICANS.

The RW wants us divided. Regionalism works very well for them but not for us. I don't want to play that game.

WE ARE ALL AMERICANS.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

15. Who cares where they're from?

Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton and Jimmy Carter are all from the south, while Palin, Romney, Giuliani and Lieberman are not.

Geography doesn't mean anything.

[Frances]

17. Obama's press secretary is from Alabama

He graduated from the same high school where I taught ages ago.