What would be your Dream Team President / Cabinet?

[Quixote1818]

I were actually president I would want to really check all these people out first before putting selecting them.

Who would you pick?

President: Elizabeth Warren
VP: Bernie Sanders
Sec. State: Juan Cole
Treasury: Robert Reich
Defense: Lawrence Wilkerson
Attorney General: Loretta Lynch seems fine (need suggestions)
Interior: Robert Kennedy Jr.
Agriculture: Not sure
Education: Don't know but someone who supports Finland's style of education
Labor: Ed Schultz?? He seems like he would be a fighter but not sure.
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: Gavin Newsom
Secretary of Veterans Affairs: Max Cleland
Homeland Security: Wes Clark (However I was not happy about what he recently said about internment camps for radicals??? That might give me second thoughts)
Energy: Neil deGrasse Tyson or Dr. Michio Kaku
Transportation: Someone like Elon Musk but from the US

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. That list brings up an interesting question.

Do Secretaries actually have to be 'natural born' Americans or can they be naturalized? Iirc, at least some of them are technically in line for the Presidency, but if you had a naturalized Secretary and something catastrophic happens, maybe the chain just skips them and moves on to the next in line? (And I'm not a Vilsack fan.)

[Quixote1818]

3. You are probably right about Vilsak

That is one cabinet position I just don't know anything about or who might be good for that position. I should have done some research rather than just putting him on the list because he is there currently.

[6chars]

4. secretaries can be naturalized

Madeline Albright for example.

various limits on presidents, senators, reps etc are in the constitution.

[demmiblue]

2. Education: Diane Ravitch

[Quixote1818]

6. I saw that she is #2 on twitter when it comes to Education

I just don't know that much about her. I would like to get away from competition based education, pay teachers a lot, have small class sizes and also eliminate grade levels like Finland does. Competition based education is a disaster and why so many people who started out behind but were perhaps brilliant, fell through the cracks and ended up with no-self esteem and struggled with their careers.

[Art_from_Ark]

12. Education: DU's own Madfloridian!

There are few people, I think, who are as passionate about and dedicated to education as she is

[hifiguy]

5. Flip the POTUS/VP

No to Vilsack - too close to Monsanto. No to Lynch, another drug-warrior.

AG (and eventually SCOTUS) - Erwin Chemerinsky
Chair of the Counsel of Economic Advisers - Joseph Stiglitz, with Krugman, Jamie Galbraith, Richard Wolff and Thomas Piketty on the speed dial.

[Quixote1818]

7. Forgot about Krugman. Thanks!

[Cheese Sandwich]

8. This is why I'm not allowed to make these lists

President: Angela Davis
VP: Jill Stein
Sec. State: Gar Alperovitz
Treasury: Richard D. Wolff
Defense: Dennis Kucinch
Attorney General: Michelle Alexander
Interior: Cheese Sandwich
Agriculture: Willie Nelson
Education: Noam Chomsky
Labor: Michael Moore
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: David Harvey
Secretary of Veterans Affairs: Bernie Sanders
Homeland Security: Glenn Greenwald
Energy: Bill McKibben
Transportation: Ralph Nader

I wanted more diverse but I just can't think of too many well known people.

[rurallib]

9. Would love to see an AG who would go after Wall Street

Eliot Spitzer comes to mind

[Quixote1818]

11. Really good point! nt

[Initech]

10. President: Bernie Sanders, VP: Martin O'Malley

Secretary of State: Julian Castro
Treasury: Elizabeth Warren
Energy: Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Interior: Robert Kennedy Jr.

That's about all I got so far.

[LWolf]

13. Hmm...

President: Bernie Sanders
VP: Elizabeth Warren
Sec. State: undecided
Treasury: Robert Reich okay, until I think of someone better.
Defense: Michelle Howard
Attorney General: undecided
Interior: undecided
Agriculture: Jill Stein
Education: Dianne Ravitch
Labor: undecided
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: undecided
Secretary of Veterans Affairs: Tammy Duckworth
Homeland Security: Nobody. Abolish it.
Energy: Raul Grijalva,
Transportation: undecided