Hightower Lowdown

In our July issue we asked Lowdowners to come up with names for an Obama administration. Here's what you told us:

• Vice-President: Bill Richardson, comfortably ahead of
  John Edwards (pre-confession) and Hillary
  Interesting: Joe Biden got just one vote
• Attorney General: John Edwards (pre-confession) again,
  with five times the votes of runner-up Hillary
  Interesting: Henry Waxman and Ronnie Earle (District Attorney
  for Travis County, Texas) tied for third
• Secretary of State: Bill Richardson, well ahead of Joe Biden
  Interesting: Bill Clinton third; Naomi Klein, Ann Wright (retired colonel who opposed Iraq attack), and Noam Chomsky all got a vote
• Secretary of Defense: Colin Powell, just ahead of Wesley Clark
  Interesting suggestion: Cindy Sheehan
• National Security Advisor: Richard Clark, well ahead of Wesley Clark
  Interesting suggestion: Scott Ritter
• CIA chief: Valerie Plame just beat out Richard Clark
• Secretary of Labor: John Edwards (pre-confession), one vote ahead of Robert Reich
• Surgeon General: Howard Dean
• Secretary of Interior: Al Gore
• Secretary of Agriculture: Runaway win for Jim Hightower!
• UN Ambassador: Bill Clinton
• FCC: Bill Moyers, followed by Lawrence Lessig and Jon Stewart
• FDA: Ralph Nader
• Secretary of Health: Hillary Clinton, easily
• Secretary of the Treasury: Paul Krugman (New York Times columnist), beating fellow economist Joseph Stiglitz
• Supreme Court: Hillary Clinton again, ahead of Mario Cuomo and 24 other nominees

Next issue: Who you see in a McCain administration.