Cabinet of the Rainbow Fallacy

Hey John Aravosis, would you like some more cheese with that whine? Same goes for you, LULAC. I'm sick of these people setting up ridiculous, arbitrary quotas concerning the minority content of Barack Obama's cabinet. These are important posts, and they should go to people who have the best qualifications and the most impressive experience to bring to bear, not the right skin tone or sexual preference. If every agency would best function under an elderly, rich, white male then I would not want to see a single minority face in the cabinet.

There is absolutely no reason for the cabinet to be "reflective of America" as a whole. These are our political elite; they should be better educated and better qualified than you and me and 98% of the rest of the general citizenry. They should obviously be trustworthy and dedicated to the good of the nation, but first and foremost, they should be the best and brightest in their fields, not the blackest or gayest or poorest or Asian-est in their fields. This is a classic case of political correctness sabotaging political effectiveness, and it's something that I'm sad to see in an era where we have much, much greater challenges than ensuring that there is a minority representative from "each group" in the cabinet.