Obama's Cabinet

Obama has already started appointing members to his cabinet. And to the surprise of many liberals, the appointees are much more hawkish than expected by Obama's platform of "change". The potential designation of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State has come as a surprise to many of Obama's supporters, given that Hillary voted to authorize the war in Iraq. However, what people fail to realize is that aside from that vote, which Hillary has semi-apologized for, both Obama and Hillary are very close when it comes to the major issues. They both support some sort of universal health care, they both favor a change of strategy in the middle east (as in focusing more in Aghanistan than Iraq), they both favor a diplomnacy first approach when dealing with foreign nations and they are not too far from each other in the political spectrum. Obama is merely trying to show that his government will be formed by people who have the merit to be in the cabinet rather than people that are ideologically similar to him as in the case of George W. Bush.
Perhaps another shocker that has been talked about in the news is the possibility of Robert Gates staying as the Defense of Secretary. Again this may shock many liberals who associate Gates to the occupation of Iraq, but in reality Gates was a strong critic of how the war was handled from the get go . It will be interesting to see in the days to come what other figures Obama will be designating for his new cabinet.