According to Newsmax.com:
Sen. Barack Obama is already plotting the makeup of his Cabinet, and it includes two prominent Republicans.Photo Credit: Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., left, and Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., take part in a debate on an Iraq war resolution. (AP/Dennis Cook) The bipartisan war on Bush | Salon News
According to the Sunday Times of London, Obama has his sights set on Sens. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska and Richard Lugar of Indiana. Hagel has been an outspoken opponent of the Iraq war, and Lugar is the ranking GOP member on the Senate foreign relations committee.
Senior advisers told the Times that Hagel is being considered for the secretary of defense post, and Lugar as secretary of state.
Obama would only say to the Times: "Chuck Hagel is a great friend of mine and I respect him very much."
Larry Korb, a defense official under President Reagan told the Times: "By putting a Republican in the Pentagon and the State Department you send a signal to Congress and the American people that issues of national security are above politics."
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