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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
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There's too much risk of a Republican undercutting the president just to be spiteful if you didn't choose carefully. I would honestly pick McCain if I had a better understanding of his diplomatic background.
I've taken a war-based economics class and I've learned that you should have a diverse group of advisers covering multiple fields, and the leader should carefully discern among them to make decisions.
If Obama is willing to keep Bush's secretary of defense and select other cross-party members in his cabinet, then why not Krugman?
Fox anchor Dick Morris's Super PAC gave half what it received in donations back to its creator. Media Matters interviews donors.

Eh, not that I'd be elated, but do consider that even if Brown gets elected again if he went lockstep GOP, he'd get crucified up here so fast you wouldn't even hear it, and he's just had a scare. You've got to answer to your constituency, and no matter the party up here in MA we're pretty liberal versus the rest of the country.
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