The Content of Obama’s Cabinet

We have to hand it to the “diversity” crowd, for at least they’re consistent. The temptation must have been to look the other way as President Obama assembled his second-term cabinet. They have done no such thing. “This term,” Elspeth Reeve grumbled in The Atlantic, the president is “picking a lot of white males.” The “White House’s top ranks” are redolent of a “boys club,” an article by CNN’s Halimah Abdullah complained. Jay Carney, Obama’s press secretary, thus felt compelled to assure reporters that the president “insists on diversity on the lists that he considers for the job.” If the media must criticize the administration, we suppose, it will do so on essentially liberal ground.

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