{"id":4849,"date":"2008-03-02T08:15:54","date_gmt":"2008-03-02T08:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/03\/obama-plans-to-pick-republican.html"},"modified":"2008-03-02T08:15:54","modified_gmt":"2008-03-02T08:15:54","slug":"obama-plans-to-pick-republican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/03\/obama-plans-to-pick-republican.html","title":{"rendered":"Obama plans to pick Republicans for cabinet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t think <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/us_and_americas\/us_elections\/article3466823.ece\">promising to appoint Hagel to defense secretary<\/a> would motivate me to vote for Obama.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>AS Barack Obama enters the final stages of the fight for the Democratic presidential nomination, he is preparing to detach the core voters of John McCain, the likely Republican nominee, with the same ruthless determination with which he has peeled off Hillary Clinton\u2019s supporters.<br \/>\nThe scene is set for a tussle between the two candidates for the support of some of the sharpest and most independent minds in politics. Obama is hoping to appoint cross-party figures to his cabinet such as Chuck Hagel, the Republican senator for Nebraska and an opponent of the Iraq war, and Richard Lugar, leader of the Republicans on the Senate foreign relations committee.<br \/>\nSenior advisers confirmed that Hagel, a highly decorated Vietnam war veteran and one of McCain\u2019s closest friends in the Senate, was considered an ideal candidate for defence secretary. Some regard the outspoken Republican as a possible vice-presidential nominee although that might be regarded as a \u201cstretch\u201d.<br \/>\nAsked about his choice of cabinet last week, Obama told The Sunday Times: \u201cChuck Hagel is a great friend of mine and I respect him very much,\u201d although he was wary of appearing as though he was already choosing the White House curtains. But after winning 11 primary contests in a row after Super Tuesday, he is ready to elbow Clinton off the stage. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drudgereport.com\/\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t think promising to appoint Hagel to defense secretary would motivate me to vote for Obama. AS Barack Obama enters the final stages of the fight for the Democratic presidential nomination, he is preparing to detach the core voters of John McCain, the likely Republican nominee, with the same ruthless determination with which he&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Obama plans to pick Republicans for cabinet - Reformed Chicks Blabbing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/03\/obama-plans-to-pick-republican.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Obama plans to pick Republicans for cabinet - Reformed Chicks Blabbing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I don&#8217;t think promising to appoint Hagel to defense secretary would motivate me to vote for Obama. 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