Living Constitution Blog 2: Executive Branch

1) Title: Obama's Five Best Cabinet Secretaries
     By: Paul Bedard
      Written: March 2, 2010
http://politics.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2010/03/02/obamas-five-best-cabinet-secretaries

2) Constitutional Connection:
  Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1

3) Explanation:

          This article talked about how the cabinet has changed since Obama has became president. It said that since he has took office certain secretaries were put to the bottom of the cabinet list and others were brought up. For example, the State, Treasury, and Defense were at the top along with Commerce, but when Obama became president his top five became Defense, State, Transportation, Education, and Veterans Affairs. It also talked about in the article how each other Obama's top fiver were trying to help to make our country a better place.

         This article connects to the Constitution because it states how the president is the commander and chief of all the major things in our government. This article goes into how the president chooses his cabinent's importance based on what he feels needs to be helped most in our country. In this case it is Defense, State, Transportation, Education, and Veterans Affairs. The article connects to Section 2 because in that section one of the topics is cabinet and that is what the article is focused on.

        My feelings on this article are pretty good. I feel all the current top five cabinets that the president has chosen are correct. I feel we do need to focus more on Education and Transportation and even Veteran Affairs. I feel this way because it is always stated that our children our are future but, if you aren't giving the children the proper chance to become educated the the children will never be the future. There shouldn't be good schools and bad schools. All schools should be good, but because of funding that isn't so. Also in the Article it talked about how the VA was trying to prove itself to be in the top five. I feel that all the cabinets that felt they should be top, fought there way so that the president could see that they weren't bottom line cabinets and that they were as important as any other of the previous top five cabinets.