Mark Green

Last updated 09:01, Saturday, 08 November 2008

So now the debate, rumour and guesswork begins... He’s won the election, but who will now be in the West Wing with him?

Barack Obama has some tough decisions to make about who to appoint to which position in his Presidency.

It’s not just Democrat politicians and experts clamouring ‘pick me’ ‘pick me’ – Colin Powell heads a host of Republicans who at some point over the past few weeks declared their support for Obama.

One interesting snippet to slip out during the campaign was the President-elect could well choose long-time supporter Oprah Winfrey as his ambassador to Britain.

No, really.

The rumour is that she might be looking for a “change of direction” from her hugely influential TV show.

But she’s not the only superstar he could choose from if he wanted to.

Over the past months an army of A-listers has queued up to support him in his run to the White House.

Not since the Kennedys shared a laugh and a drink with Sinatra’s Rat-Pack and Marilyn has a politician been so surrounded with stars.

It seems like Obama could have a government made of all the beautiful people, after being endorsed by Robert De Niro, Jason Bourne star Matt Damon , Toby ‘Spiderman’ Maguire, George Clooney, Jennifer Aniston and Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker.

Then there’s Ben Affleck , Jay-Z and Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, Jessica Alba, and er, wrinkly old rocker Bruce Springsteen, to name just a very, very few.

Still, it could be worse.

It could be so much worse.

It might have been John McCain and Sarah Palin who squeaked in to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue through some travesty of history.

Just imagine ‘hockey mom’ helping to make some of the tough decisions of state, like who to invade next.

Unless Jason Bourne or Spiderman can stop her...