Some people are whining that Barack Obama hasn’t appointed any southerners to his cabinet. I guess that is sort of true. Hillary Clinton was only the First Lady of Arkansas, but she was raised in Chicago and currently represents New York. Still, doesn’t she get some honorary mention as a southerner?
Robert Gates was born in Kansas, which is certainly a very red state, but is not technically in the South. Still, Gates got his undergraduate degree from William & Mary, spent his career working for the CIA and Pentagon in Virginia, and most recently was the president of Texas A&M University. Doesn’t that count for something?
And I know the press secretary isn’t a member of the cabinet, but Robert Gibbs was born and raised in Auburn, Alabama, and graduated from North Carolina State University. Gibbs will be the face of the administration, and the face will have a southern drawl.
Actually, I don’t really care. Obama is picking people for their competence. He seems to be resisting the temptation to fill his cabinet with people that can supposedly help him get re-elected because of their strength in some key swing state or with some interest group. If he doesn’t nominate any southerners, who cares?
Sounds like – maybe Paul Begala – hiding behind the “one former senior Democratic Hill aide” label.
…Or some other bitter southern Democrat who never really liked Obama much in the first place.
Name that anonymous source…
I don’t care. Fuck the south. I’ve heard enough southern accents fucking up this country in the last 14 years to give me a headache.
Time to man up and evolve or quit Mudcat Saunders.
I agree and I live here.
Pick people for their competence? Surely you jest. You won’t find any down here, not too many anyways.
That’s almost exactly what I was going to post.
I, and the world, are sick of that accent
He does seem to have a fondness for Ivy Leaguers and smarts though 😉
Good thing it’s both!
Remember, Bush was an Ivy Leaguer.
They mean WHITE Southerners, of course.
And, fuck them.
How in the world do people have time for this kind of crap?
A blast from the past…
WTF? Why does it always seem like “the South” is portrayed as being full of over-entitled assholes whose feelings will be hurt by anything that can be remotely construed as a “snub”?
Has he appointed anyone from the Pacific Northwest to his cabinet? Should they be whining too? What about the Northern Plains? Of course the politico article only kinda-sorta points out that there aren’t that many Southern Democrats left anymore because they’re all Republicans now. This is another measure of Republican “success” – much as the Republican takeover of Texas has left them nearly powerless in the Congress now that that Republicans are in the minority, the South is in a similar situation because the Republicans have been too good at entrenching themselves among the Southern conservatives (while giving up on voters in the rest of the country).
I know folks from the South and I know that they’re not over-entitled assholes who have their feelings hurt by perceived “snubs”. So to the minority of folks who are (probably mostly Southern politicians), I say: “Hey jerks – he’s appointing Americans. Are you Americans or are you Southerners? The rest of us don’t identify with our region first and our country second, so why the hell are you guys still doing it?”
These morons are still fighting The Civil War. Really, that’s all there is.
Hillary Clinton?
Hillary Clinton is about as “southern” as Moe, Larry and Curly of Three Stooges fame.
Please.
AG
Really, what else can you say about this BS. Something else to get outraged about. Whatevs. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.