Ticket Notice: Sunday shows --Axelrod, Schumer, Shelby, Hoyer, Levin, Lieberman, Axelrod, Boehner, Granholm, Pelosi. And Steve Forbes?

ABC This Week: Obama senior White House advisor-designate David Axelrod, Sens. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), and a round table with George Will, American Prospect's Robert Kuttner, Arianna Huffington and the New York Times' David Brooks.

CBS Face the Nation: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Obama economic advisor Austan Goolsbee.

CNN Late Edition: Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D-Mich.), Steve Forbes, former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, Republican strategist Ed Rollins, Democratic strategist James Carville and CNN's Gloria Borger.

Fox News Sunday: David Axelrod, same guy as above; House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and House Minority Leader John Boehner, and a panel with Brit Hume, Fox News Washington Managing Editor; Mara Liasson, National Public Radio & Fox News; Bill Kristol, Weekly Standard & Fox News; Juan Williams, National Public Radio & Fox News. The "Power Player" is Air Force One.

NBC Meet The Press: Former Secretary of State James Baker, former Commerce Secretary William Daley, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and a roundtable with CNBC's Erin Burnett, former Wall Street Journal Detroit bureau chief Paul Ingrassia and NBC political director Chuck Todd.

-- Andrew Malcolm

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Friday roundup: Obama Cabinet parlor game edition

Welcome to the second edition of Friday roundup, where we humbly suggest some things from around the Web that we think are worth reading:

Mike Memoli, filling in over on Marc Ambinder's blog, speculates about who might fill the positions vacated by people moving into Obama's new Cabinet.

A smart analysis of why Obama picked Hillary Clinton for secretary of State.

Meanwhile, Spencer Ackerman wonders whom Clinton will take with her to her new gig.

An incredible photo gallery of past presidential Cabinets.

Lots and lots of people want to work for an Obama administration.

The next cycle of Senate contests, summed up by the Rothenberg Political Report.

Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign is selling off its stuff to pay debt.

The Associated Press profiles Timothy Geithner, who, like Obama, hates to miss a pickup basketball game.

A list of Obama's top friends in Hollywood.

-- Kate Linthicum

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Now for something completely different: Good news on your 401(k)

Although we try, humans cannot live on politics alone. So The Ticket is taking a brief, one-item break from pols this Friday afternoon to tell you about your 401(k).

Good news: Stocks rally -- really. (See video.) New Obama economic team coming Monday, looks like. (We'll be here.)

See previous Treasury secretary item here.

Now, click on the "Read more" line below for a second video. Well, not "now," but after you finish reading this part and watching the first, serious video, then go to the jump. It's really kinda funny. Current Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson was in Simi Valley. He was asked an audience question about the end of the economic downturn while the cameras rolled.

These guys have to be careful how they talk, especially in between administrations. Everyone's so touchy these days. It's like Thanksgiving with all the relatives, even the ones you don't remember. Anything you say can and will be used against you, especially if it's political.

Every word these officials utter affects the markets. They all learn to talk this way inside the Beltway.

So watch Paulson say absolutely nothing in a whole lot of words. It's really rather entertaining. There's a skill in that.

And the audience gets it.

-- Andrew Malcolm

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Hey, even President-elect Obama's gotta have his corned beef sandwich

Even with the stock market soaring and all the speculation and leaks swirling about his government-in-formation, President-elect Barack Obama likes his corned beef sandwich with mayor and mustard. And he's not a stuffy old senator anymore.

He could have sent out for it, of course. But, hey, it makes for good video (see below), and a president-elect's gotta be on TV every day doing something.

So Obama stopped off Friday at Manny's Deli and Cafeteria in Chicago. He posed for a photo with Ken Raskin, Manny's son.

Obama got swarmed by fans with cellphone cameras and pens for autographs. A reporter asked the incoming chief executive for his thoughts on the troubled automobile industry.

Obama replied, "I got the corned beef."

In fact, he got three corned beef sandwiches (mustard and mayo), two cherry pies, paid $48.34 -- in cash. And you read it right here on the Ticket.

-- Andrew Malcolm

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Latest Obama cabinet leak: Fed's Timothy Geithner to head Treasury

Boy, watching this Barack Obama cabinet-appointment-by-trial-balloon business is like manning a leaking levee in New Orleans.

The Obama campaign was famous for being relatively leak-proof, except when it was intentional, such as keeping a lid on how seriously Hillary Clinton was being considered for the vice presidency. But that tight-knit, battle-savvy group is fast learning that with all the consulting and FBI vetting and interviewing going on, it's much harder to keep a secret.

The latest leak is Timothy Geithner, president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank (on the left in photo on the right), to head the Treasury Department. Stocks rallied. So far, no reports of any illegal immigrant nannies have surfaced.

So maybe "that one's" right. (That's Fed chairman Ben Bernanke on the right in the photo on the right.)

See new news video below.

I'm also hearing that since Hyatt's Penny Pritzker's balloon got shot down over her failed bank's subprime loan business, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson is going to the Commerce Department, which would be a smaller stage than the global one he likes to wander. But it would get him back to Washington.

Our blogging pal Frank James over at the Swamp has more on the Geithner business and why it isn't Lawrence Summers.

Meanwhile, the Republican National Committee opined that "Barack Obama's cabinet is starting to resemble a Clinton reunion" and "voters demanded change but so far Obama is only offering more of the same."

What do you think?

-- Andrew Malcolm

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Hillary Clinton reportedly accepts Barack Obama's Cabinet offer

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has decided to accept the role of secretary of State, according to several published reports. (See news video below)

The reports, if confirmed, mean that Clinton will relinquish her Senate seat from New York to become the nation's top diplomat in an administration led by her former rival, Barack Obama.

The Ticket reported earlier today that talks between Clinton and the president-elect were progressing.

Obama asked the former first lady and runner-up for the Democratic presidential nomination to fill the role last week. Since then, she and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, have undergone intense vetting.

Hillary Clinton made her foreign policy experience a selling point during the primaries, telling crowds that as first lady she visited 80 countries. During the battle for the Democratic nomination, she and her husband often criticized Obama for lacking the foreign policy credentials necessary to be president. Remember "Ready from Day One"?

But after Obama clinched the nomination, Clinton campaigned hard for him. She allegedly made Obama's short list for vice president but lost out to Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware.

Clinton would become only the third woman in U.S. history to hold that post, after Condoleezza Rice and Madeleine Albright.

We will update with official confirmation. Meanwhile, The Times' Peter Nicholas has a smart piece about the Clinton-Obama negotiations.

-- Kate Linthicum

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A new Sarah Palin video that's more painful to watch than those Katie Couric interviews

Just in time for the holidays, we bring you the latest YouTube sensation: A video of Sarah Palin talking to reporters on a turkey farm yesterday while, in the background, a farm worker slaughters turkeys and drains their blood.

The gruesome footage was shot at a farm in Gov. Palin's hometown of Wasilla, Alaska. She was there to grant the traditional Thanksgiving pardon to one turkey.

You can watch what happens to the turkeys who weren't pardoned below. But be warned: it is not for the faint of heart.

-- Kate Linthicum

Better late than never: Barack Obama helps Jim Martin in the Georgia runoff

A familiar cast of characters has been stumping for Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss and his opponent, Democrat Jim Martin, in the Senate runoff election in Georgia.

Sen. John McCain traveled to Georgia to campaign for Chambliss, and so did former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. Two other former candidates for the Republican presidential nomination, including former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, plan to do the same.

Martin, too, has had his fair share of high-profile surrogates. Former President BIll Clinton campaigned for him in Atlanta this week, and former Vice President Al Gore will hold an event on Sunday on Martin's behalf.

But missing from the fray has been another important Campaign 2008 face (and the man about to become the most powerful leader in the world): Barack Obama.

That is, until now. Obama has taped a radio ad for Martin, and the rumor is that a television commercial will soon follow. Funny though, how the Georgia radio ad happened to leave out the word: "Democrat." Must be just an oversight.

In the radio spot, which you can listen to below, Obama begins by thanking those who voted for him in November.

"But the elections aren't over," Obama cautions. "In Georgia, there's a runoff on Tuesday, December 2, and I want to urge you to turn out one more time and help elect Jim Martin to the United States Senate."

Although Obama has not announced plans to campaign in the state, he has sent a team of 100 field operatives from his presidential campaign to help with Martin’s grass-roots turnout.

Chambliss beat Martin 49.8% to 46.8% on election day, but since he didn't win 50% of the vote, a runoff is set for Dec. 2. Democrats need to win the two undecided Senate races -- in Georgia and Minnesota -- to have a coveted filibuster-proof 60-vote Senate majority.

-- Kate Linthicum

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Couric explains 'the' Sarah Palin interviews, but Letterman wants dirt

Message to Ticket readers planning to guest on late-night talk shows: Never go there expecting to explain anything serious.

Yes, they're taped in the late afternoon when some thoughtful exchanges are theoretically possible.

But they're broadcast late at night, when folks are nodding off or about to, especially the older crowd watching CBS.

So it's mainly about the yuks. (And, it turns out, what or who turns David Letterman on.)

And if it's the Letterman show and involves Republicans, it's all about relentless revenge for John McCain standing up the big star that night last fall.

And choosing instead to do an interview with Katie Couric, who, coincidentally, Dave just had as his guest to talk about her famous or infamous interviews with Alaska Gov. and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. (See video by clicking on the "Read more" line below.)

David's been reading the new "Charlie Rose Guide to Guest-Interrupting." Couric kept trying to explain the Palin case and ...

Obama campaign volunteer lifts his speech binder, offers it on EBay

As the 2008 presidential campaign neared its final week, Democrat hopeful Barack Obama breezed through Las Vegas to give a speech at Bonanza High School. (See photo above.)

It was the usual ready-for-change-we-need stump speech, one he'd given dozens of times before and he probably hardly needed the text for reference. And the crowd was enthusiastic and eager, as usual.

At the end of the speech, the candidate, who would go on to be elected the 44th president of the United States, left the podium to greet supporters nearby.

Someone identifying himself or herself as "a volunteer staff member" very thoughtfully "retrieved" the speech binder. And is now kindly offering the packet for sale on EBay.

Starting price: $2,500. Deadline: Nov. 25. Bids: 0.

The unidentified seller calls the item "Rare Sen. Obama authored speech," which may be what Mark Twain would call "a stretcher."

Obama is said to have written last winter's seminal speech on race by himself, but most of the others are authored by staff and "given" by the candidate.

And, in fact, the Democratic candidate gave the same speech the same day in Reno, presumably with another binder.

Because of the seller's professed fear of copying, the text's individual pages, encased in plastic covers, are not shown up close. (See photo.)

But the seller suggests the plastic covers do contain the now president-elect's fingerprints, something that might also interest the Secret Service.

Oh, and shipping would be an extra $25.

-- Andrew Malcolm

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Photo credit: Ethan Miller / Getty Images (Barack Obama).

Hat Tip: Jon Ralston.