Barack Obama’s selection of Rahm Emanuel as Chief of Staff has many wondering what all the talk of change and charting a new course was all about. Emanuel, who as Chief of Staff arranges the president’s schedule and has a great deal of control over who has access and who does not, has butted heads with the progressive wing of the Democratic Party on everything from the 50 state strategy and grassroots organizing to NAFTA and the war in Iraq. He is also a former Israeli citizen whose father, Benjamin M. Emanuel, was a member of the Irgun, a militant Zionist group that launched attacks against Palestinians and the British in their effort to establish a Jewish State. Emanuel’s father recently told the Ma’ariv newspaper that, “Obviously he [Rahm] will influence the president to be pro-Israel… Why wouldn't he be [influential]? What is he, an Arab? He's not going to clean the floors of the White House."

But the rest of Obama’s cabinet is still open and it is unlikely that any announcements will be made until next week. Today on GRITtv we ask our guests and you what the most important positions are and who should fill them. Alexis McGill Executive Director of Citizen Change, Gloria Feldt founder of the Heartfeldt Politics blog and the author of The War on Choice: The Right-Wing Attack on Women’s Rights and How to Fight Back, Dan Gerstein former Senior Adviser for Senator Joe Lieberman’s Vice Presidential and Presidential campaigns, David Bender the host of Air America’s Politically Direct, and Christine Cegelis a Democratic Candidate for Congress in Illinois in 2004 weigh in on who they think should be in Obama’s cabinet.