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Wes Clark can't be Sec of Defense until he's been out of the military for 10 years, which means the summer of 2010 -- well over a year too late for the next administration. He'd be a much better Sec of State anyway. Or possibly Dept of Homeland Security.
I wonder if Richardson would be willing to give up his governorship for the State job. Maybe. He'd be good in it too.
We don't have a Sec of Peace and I seriously doubt we ever will. What would one do anyway? Now, Clark has proposed an organization to coordinate assistance to struggling/failing nations (in coordination with UN and non-governmental humanitarian agencies. With a Democratic Congress, maybe he could succeed in establishing one. I wouldn't suggest Kucinich be put in charge tho. He just doesn't have the administrative background to handle it, if his time as mayor is any indication.
There's no such thing as a Sec of Intelligence. There's a DNI (Director of National Intelligence) but the office-holder is not supposed to change with the administration... altho I admit I'll be sort of surprised if it doesn't.
The Director of the National Security Agency (NSA) is always an active-duty military three-star, since the NSA is by law part of the Dept of Defense.
If otoh by "NSA" you meant National Security Advisor (which is not an intelligence job), there's no way Biden would settle for it. It's not high enough in the pecking order for someone of his Senate seniority.
Personally, I'd like to see all the Democratic senators stay in the Senate. Obama included. That's where we need them most. We have a real opportunity to pick up more seats in 2008 -- maybe even make the Senate filibuster proof.
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