I think everyone expected Barack Obama to appoint Sarah Palin, the United State's leading expert on energy, to the cabinet position of Energy Secretary.
But instead he chose a Nobel laureate physicist.
Go figure.
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Rocket Scientist for Energy Secretary? What's He Thinking!
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