United States Finally has a Gender-Balanced Security Team

Sorted under politics on December 3, 2008

As Courtney over at Feministing points out, security is an issue that is very often masculinized in popular and political culture, so Obama’s decision to include three women in his national security team shows us that not only is Obama the first African-American president or the first man to be elected president due to the inspiration and motivation he instilled in the younger generation who don’t want to see history repeat itself until the end of time, but he is also using his power to make some other firsts arise–Like an actual gender-balanced security team.

Yesterday in Chicago Obama spoke about national security and rolled out his national security team, which includes Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano as homeland security secretary, Susan Rice as ambassador to the United Nations and as we had suspected early last month, Hillary Clinton has accepted the role of Secretary of State.

Watch President-Elect Obama’s speech:



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    Only thing to fear is talk radio. Hannity, Rush and the gang are already talking as if this guy was the worst president ever before he's done a single thing.
  • This is just one of many good changes President Elect Barack will implement! And i do agree, this will be a interesting 4 years.
  • I believe your going to see a lot of firsts from President-elect Obama. It's going to be an interesting 4 years thats for sure.
  • Let us hope that this is demonstrative of a positive future
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