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December 20, 2007 8:29 AM
ABC's Sunlen Miller Reports: Barack Obama has often said he'd consider putting Repbulicans in his cabinet and even bandied about names like Sens. Dick Lugar and Chuck Hagel. He's a added a new name to the list of possible Republicans cabinet members - Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Obama regularly says he would look to Republicans to fill out his cabinet if he was elected, but at a town hall event in Manchester, N.H., he was pushed to name names.
Its premature for me to start announcing my cabinet. I mean, Im pretty confident. but Im not all that confident. We still got a long way to go, Obama said.
But then the GOP names started to flow.
Sen. Dick Lugar: Hes a Republicans who I worked with on issues of arms control, wonderful guy. He is somebody I think embodies the tradition of a bipartisan foreign policy that is sensible, that is not ideological, that is based on the idea that we have to have some humility and restraint in terms of our ability to project power around the world, Obama said about his Senate colleague.
Sen. Chuck Hagel: A Vietnam vet, similar approach and somebody I respect in a similar fashion, Obama added.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger: What (hes) doing on climate change in California is very important and significant. There are things I don't agree with him on, but he's taken leadership on a very difficult issue and we haven't seen that kind of leadership in Washington," Obama said of the California governor.
One Republican that likely Obama wont consider? Mitt Romney.
In answering a question on immigration, Obama said it would be impossible to lock all the illegal immigrants up, even if he wanted to.
We'd clear out some of the prisons to make room for somebody who's a housekeeper at Mitt Romney's house, he joked. (Hes) an example of somebody who, 'Oh, we gotta be real tough. But my lawn, you know, is important.' "
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/12/obama-says-hed.html
ABC's Sunlen Miller Reports: Barack Obama has often said he'd consider putting Repbulicans in his cabinet and even bandied about names like Sens. Dick Lugar and Chuck Hagel. He's a added a new name to the list of possible Republicans cabinet members - Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Obama regularly says he would look to Republicans to fill out his cabinet if he was elected, but at a town hall event in Manchester, N.H., he was pushed to name names.
Its premature for me to start announcing my cabinet. I mean, Im pretty confident. but Im not all that confident. We still got a long way to go, Obama said.
But then the GOP names started to flow.
Sen. Dick Lugar: Hes a Republicans who I worked with on issues of arms control, wonderful guy. He is somebody I think embodies the tradition of a bipartisan foreign policy that is sensible, that is not ideological, that is based on the idea that we have to have some humility and restraint in terms of our ability to project power around the world, Obama said about his Senate colleague.
Sen. Chuck Hagel: A Vietnam vet, similar approach and somebody I respect in a similar fashion, Obama added.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger: What (hes) doing on climate change in California is very important and significant. There are things I don't agree with him on, but he's taken leadership on a very difficult issue and we haven't seen that kind of leadership in Washington," Obama said of the California governor.
One Republican that likely Obama wont consider? Mitt Romney.
In answering a question on immigration, Obama said it would be impossible to lock all the illegal immigrants up, even if he wanted to.
We'd clear out some of the prisons to make room for somebody who's a housekeeper at Mitt Romney's house, he joked. (Hes) an example of somebody who, 'Oh, we gotta be real tough. But my lawn, you know, is important.' "
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/12/obama-says-hed.html
