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Obama’s Second-Term Cabinet Cast Leaving Women in Waiting

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President Barack Obama’s second-term Cabinet picks so far resemble his golf foursomes more than the coalition of voters who gave him four more years.

By selecting three white males to fill his highest-profile Cabinet vacancies -- at Treasury, State and Defense -- Obama has invited criticism that the nation’s first black president isn’t making diversity a priority for his administration.