Dream Cabinet

Now that Senator Obama's VP search is fully underway, I thought I'd give my two cents about what a future Obama administration should look like. One of the many reasons I support Obama for president is because he has the ability to surround himself by the best and the brightest this country has to offer, rather than political cronies. But just who would be best to tackle the most pressing issues we face as a nation?

After the jump you will find my dream cabinet as it stands right now, and you'll also see the cabinet I assembled back in December when the political situation looked much, much different.

Current Picks:

Pres: Barack Obama
VP: Kathleen Sebelius
State: Joe Biden
NSA: Hilary Clinton
Attorney General: John Edwards
Homeland Security: Paul Eaton
Defense: Wesley Clarke
EPA: Al Gore
Treasury: Michael Bloomberg
Commerce: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Health: Paul Farmer
Veterans: Max Cleland
Education: Wendy Kopp
Energy: William McDonough
Interior: Ben Nighthorse Campbell
Housing & Urban: Daniel Libeskind
Labor: Margaret Blackshere
Agriculture: Jim Doyle
Transportation: Nathaniel Ford
Technology (NOT YET CREATED): Lawrence Lessig

December Picks:

Pres: Barack Obama
VP: Kathleen Sebelius
State: Joe Biden
Attorney General: John Edwards
Homeland Security: John McCain
Defense: Wesley Clarke
EPA: Al Gore
Treasury: Michael Bloomberg
Commerse: Gary Becker or Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Health: Paul Farmer or Jim Kim
Veterans: Max Cleland
Education: Wendy Kopp or Daniel Goleman
Energy: John Thune
Interior: Ben Nighthorse Campbell
Housing & Urban: Carol Mosley Braun
Labor: Margaret Blackshere
Agriculture: Jim Doyle
Transportation: Nathaniel Ford

Feel free to comment on my picks and to propose your own. Hopefully we can make some noise for some of these names-and others- that might fly below the radar.