What Devil Did Obama Make a Deal With?
Posted: November 15, 2010 Filed under: Black Agenda Report, just because, Team Obama, The Bonus Class | Tags: Barack Obama, Central Intelligence Agency, Democratic party, George Soros, George W. Bush, Robert Wolf, Torture 67 Comments
Barack Obama speaking at 2007 fundraiser in New York
As Dakinikat pointed out in her latest post, Paul Krugman used his column today to describe (and bemoan) Barack Obama’s negotiating style and his apparent lack of ideology. Krugman argues that the problem we face now (emphasis added) is:
…the contrast between the administration’s current whipped-dog demeanor and Mr. Obama’s soaring rhetoric as a candidate. How did we get from “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for” to here?
But the bitter irony goes deeper than that: the main reason Mr. Obama finds himself in this situation is that two years ago he was not, in fact, prepared to deal with the world as he was going to find it. And it seems as if he still isn’t.
In retrospect, the roots of current Democratic despond go all the way back to the way Mr. Obama ran for president. Again and again, he defined America’s problem as one of process, not substance — we were in trouble not because we had been governed by people with the wrong ideas, but because partisan divisions and politics as usual had prevented men and women of good will from coming together to solve our problems. And he promised to transcend those partisan divisions….the real question was whether Mr. Obama could change his tune when he ran into the partisan firestorm everyone who remembered the 1990s knew was coming. He could do uplift — but could he fight?
So far the answer has been no.
Although Krugman has come a long way from the days when he defended Obama’s health care “reform” bill, he is still clinging to the notion that Obama is a well-meaning, although hopelessly weak and gullible liberal. But what if Obama never intended to keep his campaign promises? What if he always planned to help cover up the Bush administration’s crimes and continue their wars?
In a recent post, I linked to this article at Common Dreams: Obama Was Used, And Is Now Used Up, by Robert Freeman. Freeman writes:
Barack Obama was used. Of course, he knew he was being used when he made the deal. But what he didn’t know was how quickly he would be used up. Now he has to face two years of humiliation knowing that he betrayed the people and the country he claimed to champion – and knowing that everyone else knows it as well – but also knowing that he’s gotten what’s coming to him.
Obama made a deal to get the job in the first place. The deal was that he would carry on with Bush’s bailout of the banks, with Bush’s two wars, with Bush’s suppression of civil liberties, that he wouldn’t prosecute or even investigate any of the enormous fraud that had brought down the country, or the lies that had railroaded it into war.
I haven’t been able to learn very much about Freeman. According to the description on one of his earlier Common Dreams pieces,
he teaches history and economics at Los Altos High School in Los Altos, CA. He is the founder of One Dollar For Life, a national non-profit that helps American students build schools in the developing world through contributions of one dollar.
He has been contributing to Common Dreams since at least 2004. Freeman doesn’t say with whom Obama supposedly made a deal, or why that entity would want the U.S. to continue the Bush administration’s policies. For all I know, Freeman could be just talking through his hat when he makes this unsourced claim; but isn’t it something many of us have wondered about for the past several years? I know I have.
Still, Why would Obama do that? Why would he campaign on high-minded generalities, leading gullible “progressives” and even well-meaning liberals to believe he would transform Washington DC and reverse Bush policies like torture, indefinite detention, and concentration of power in the executive branch?
Why did the financial community back him so strongly? Wasn’t it most likely their desire to get their hands on the Social Security trust fund? Perhaps they made a deal with Obama to engineer an assault on Social Security, Medicare, and other social programs, but would the financial community also demand that Obama continue the Bush policies of torture, detention, and endless war?
Now let’s look at the latest article by Bruce Dixon at The Black Agenda Report: Barack Obama, Social Security and the Final Irrelevance of the Black Misleadership Class. Dixon also claims that Obama’s betrayal of all that is liberal was foreordained because of a deal to make him President.
The masters of corporate media proclaim that their raid on social security, is a done deal. “Entitlements,” their code word for Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, will be cut in the lame duck session of Congress, with Democratic president Barack Obama taking the lead. Though the outlines of this raid have been clear for months, what passes for black America’s political leadership class have been silent. As far as we know, they have not been ordered to shut up. They have silenced themselves, in abject deference to the corporate black Democrat in the White House.
It took a Republican Richard Nixon to open relations with China in the seventies. It took Democrat Bill Clinton to impose draconian cuts in welfare and end college courses for prisoners in the nineties. And today, only a black Democratic president can sufficiently disarm Democrats, only a black Democrat can demobilize the black polity completely enough for the raid on “entitlements” to be successful.
Dixon then points out a fact that many white “progressives” are missing:
Many among the current Congressional Black Caucus are utterly unprepared to stand against the corporate onslaught to gut social security because it is backed by the same forces who have made their political careers possible, and spearheaded by a black Democrat in the White House. The NAACP and similar advocacy organizations too have neutered themselves with a generation of corporate financing and the “reward” of regular meetings with White House officials
Some “progressives” are discussing as possibilities for a primary challenger to Obama in 2012 or, alternatively, a third party challenger. Both of these efforts will fail, because any challenger to Obama will not win the black vote. Dixon implies that Obama’s “deal with the devil” was a sellout to corporate interests.
Inflicting a fatal wound on social security has been the aim of America’s business class for generations. It is a project upon which some of them have spent billions. Thanks to our lack of a functioning black press, or electronic media that address black audiences, most African Americans don’t know who billionaire Pete Peterson is.
Peterson is a billionaire who announced his intention almost 20 years ago to spend every last dime of his net worth to kill social security…. [Peterson has] push[…] the fraudulent notion that social security is “a Ponzi scheme,” unsustainable, a drain on the nation’s finances, and won’t be there when people currently in their thirties and forties get old anyhow. A decades-long campaign of fear, uncertainty and doubt has been waged against the American people to prepare for the final undoing of the New Deal and Great Society programs of social security, Medicaid and Medicare. But it’s a campaign most of us are barely aware of.
Is Dixon right? Did Obama sell out in order to destroy social security? Then who demanded that Obama continue all of the Bush policies and block any close examination of Bush administration crimes?
I’m not suggesting any vast, all-encompassing conspiracy–clearly Obama’s corporate and political backers had differing goals in mind when they gave him their money. They probably didn’t all gather in a large room and deliberately plan to make Obama President. Some, like Teddy Kennedy, probably believed that Obama would really follow in JFK’s footsteps, inspiring a new generation to enter politics and change the system in radical ways.
After Obama emerged victorious in the 2008 election, Newsweek published an article titled How He Did It, in which they revealed that people close to Kennedy were pushing Obama for the 2008 nomination at least by 2006, if not before. Greg Craig, the Washington lawyer who represented Bill Clinton in his impeachment trial and who previously served as an aide to Senator Ted Kennedy, told Newsweek that he was immediately smitten with Obama after hearing Obama’s 2004 speech at the Democratic Convention in Boston.
In November 2006, Craig sat next to George Stevens, an old friend of the Robert Kennedy clan, at another Obama speech. Stevens leaned over to Craig and said, “What do you think of this guy for president? I haven’t heard anybody like this since Bobby Kennedy.” Craig instantly replied, “Sign me up.” Stevens and Craig approached Obama coming out of the speech and asked, “What are you doing in 2008?” Obama gave them a big grin and said, “Oh, man, it wasn’t that good.” But before long Craig and Stevens were raising money for Obama’s political-action committee, the Hope Fund.
Someone chose Obama for that Convention speech–was it Kerry? Did Ted Kennedy urge Kerry to have Obama speak? Or was someone else behind the choice?
There was another early Obama supporter from the Kennedy clan:
At Coretta Scott King’s funeral in early 2006, Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Robert Kennedy, leaned over to him and whispered, “The torch is being passed to you.” “A chill went up my spine,” Obama told an aide. The funeral, he said, was “pretty intimidating.”
Surely Greg Craig, Ethel Kennedy and Ted Kennedy did not push Obama for President because they believed he would continue to torture, deny civil liberties, and keep Bush’s wars going. In fact Greg Craig worked in the Obama administration for a time and argued for Guantanamo to be closed. Ultimately, he lost his job because of his disagreements with Obama’s policies.
Venerable political writer Elizabeth Drew wrote the following at Politico after the Craig firing:
A critical mass of influential people who once held big hopes for his presidency began to wonder whether they had misjudged the man. Most significant, these doubters now find themselves with a new reluctance to defend Obama at a phase of his presidency when he needs defenders more urgently than ever.
This is the price Obama has paid with his complicity and most likely his active participation, in the shabbiest episode of his presidency: The firing by leaks of White House counsel Gregory Craig, a well-respected Washington veteran and influential early supporter of Obama.
The people who are most aghast by the handling of the Craig departure can’t be dismissed by the White House as Republican partisans, or still-embittered Hillary Clinton supporters. They are not naïve activists who don’t understand that the exercise of power can be a rough business and that trade-offs and personal disappointments are inevitable. Instead, they are people, either in politics or close observers, who once held an unromantically high opinion of Obama. They were important to his rise, and are likely more important to the success or failure of his presidency than Obama or his distressingly insular and small-minded West Wing team appreciate.
The Craig embarrassment gives these people a new reason – not the first or only reason – to conclude that he wasn’t the person of integrity and even classiness they had thought, and, more fundamentally, that his ability to move people and actually lead a fractured and troubled country (the reason many preferred him over Hillary Clinton) is not what had been promised in the campaign.
According to the Newsweek article, Democratic politicians Tom Daschle and Dick Durbin were also early supporters, talking to Obama about running for President as early as 2005. Did these men want to continue the Bush policies? Did they want to close the door on investigations? Possibly, but I doubt it.
There has been much grumbling among Democrats lately, and suggestions that many blame Obama for the huge losses the Party sustained in the midterm elections. So it seems that at least most of these Democratic politicians and liberal supporters of Obama were as completely fooled as the “creative class” bloggers who did his dirty work during the 2008 primaries. It seems that Democrats were also used to benefit the super-rich and corporations. Perhaps Democrats just wanted the Corporate money that was flooding into Obama’s campaign coffers.
Another influential Democrat who supported Obama early on was George Soros. I hate to bring this up, because I know there are a lot of crazy conspiracy theories involving Soros. But he did donate a lot of money to Obama early on, and he introduced Obama to the wealthy New York financiers who could also donate the big bucks. Soros held a fundraiser for Obama’s Senate campaign in 2004, and members of the Soros family contributed $60,000 to his campaign.
In 2007, Soros held a fundraiser for Obama in (Soros’) New York, where Obama was introduced for the first time to the masters of high finance (see photo at top of post). But recently Soros expressed disappointment in Obama, and has said he will sit out the next election cycle.
By the way, one of the most important contacts Obama made at the 2007 Soros fundraiser was Robert Wolf, who later became CEO of UBS Americas. Interesting, huh? Wolf has also expressed disappointment in Obama:
Wolf, who plays golf and watches fireworks with the president, was appointed by Obama to the Presidential Economic Recovery Advisory Board, headed by former Fed Chair Paul Volcker. Wolf was upset when Obama recently endorsed Volcker’s proposal for restoring the spirit of the Glass-Steagall Act by separating investment from commercial banking, as it was for six decades of financial stability before that sensible restraint was reversed during the Clinton years.
So were these super-rich donors fooled too? Did Obama go around telling everyone exactly what they wanted to hear, knowing full well that he wouldn’t keep most of his promises? And did these super-rich Democratic finance executives have as a priority that Bush’s policies should be continued and any investigation of Bush and his administration should be short-circuited?
Exactly what devil did Obama make a deal with, if any?
There is one even more sinister possibility that I admit sounds really nutty on its face. Is it possible that Obama was not only the candidate of corporate giants, but also the candidate of the intelligence community? What evidence is there to support this hypothesis?
Think about it. Who has benefited most from Obama’s presidency so far? Sure, the bankers have been richly rewarded and their asses have mostly been kept out of jail, but they are already complaining and donating to Republicans. Certainly the Democratic Party has not reaped very rich rewards.
Who was even more at risk than the greedy banksters? Who benefited most from Obama’s decision not to look at the past–not to examine the crimes of the Bush years? Who benefited most from Obama’s decision not to make the torture photos available to the public? Who benefited most from Obama’s decision not to investigate the destruction of the CIA torture tapes? Who benefited most from the Obama Justice Department’s defenses of Dick Cheney, John Yoo, and Jay Bybee?
I plan to review everything I can find on this topic and will write another post about it in the future. In the meantime, blogger Joseph Cannon has explored the Obama-CIA angle in great detail. Here are a some of his relevant posts to get you started if, like me, you are interested in pursuing this question further.
Spies, Lies, Barry and his Mom
The Name’s Obama, BARACK Obama
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Wow! That must’ve taken some research! Very interesting!
Thanks, I hope it isn’t too way out there for most people.
Did you see this?
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/45168.html#ixzz15PQ5P6Cy
Wow. Interesting stuff shaking out lately.
No. Wow!
Wow, I was wanting some good coco to go with the good read, and I couldn’t think to go off the post, that I missed if the Los Altos teacher had a link, as I wanted the next morsel of the interesting story. You done a good spooky mystery reading post!
OK, I look forward to the next installment where I hope you will see if anyone out there is wondering what is in the ‘INSURANCE FILE’ as it didn’t go over my head that NW was in Kenya 😯 and had a situation with gun men, and had body guards that were protecting him while there, looking for what!?!
Glad to hear that burly man is homing his writing skills again and planning on coming back 😉 ! (((waving…say hello for me)))
p.s. My personal aha lately is that Nancy Pelosi didn’t stop him and took off any investigation and looked the other way about the torture, FISA, etc., because she maybe knew and the bit of when did she know, know is all smoke and mirrors. With Pelosi in the ‘I didn’t know’ compromise Obama was able to pass the ‘Jane Crow Executive Order’ that many women aren’t even aware of yet. Also, MoveOn.org lost its credibility with many people, including me.
Wow BB, that’s an impressive amount of research! No need to apologize for the likeliness of conspiracy. The word got marginalized like liberal and feminist and a few others.
Good grief, what an excellent post! I was going from one to the other, ‘no the devil is the financial dudes, no, it’s the democrats who engineered his rise…’ back and forth. Then you introduced the idea of it being the intelligence community and a light bulb went off.
I have a feeling that Obama was all things to all people. He probably lied to all three of the groups, but the one that guards him, the one that could ‘get’ him, that one he respects.
The fact that his mother worked for the Ford Foundation and that Obama worked for a CIA Front company after Columbia looks really suspicious to me. Plus, what do we really know about who Obama is, even after all this time in the spotlight.
The strangest thing that Joseph Cannon found was that Obama’s mother worked at the Ford Foundation with Tim Geithner’s father. How weird is that?
http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2009/02/tim-geithners-dad-barack-obamas-mom-and.html
Was there ever any evidence they knew each other?
I don’t think so, but maybe someone in the press should ask. Not that they’d get an answer….
This could explain his financial doings. He just won’t abandon his family friend, Geithner.
And you’re right about not knowing much about him. It’s strange considering how transparent the lives and pasts of other Presidents often are. So, we have a spook plant as a President. Great.
One thing this brings to mind. When Obama was running and then elected several friends of mine who were Hillary supporters expressed their fear of the future, when Obama got assassinated. Because to them, the first black President had to be a huge risk to all the powers that be, he had to be radical, he had to be like JFK and RFK and King and MORE. And I laughed at them. “Why would the powers that be kill their puppet?” I asked. Didn’t realize how right I was. Heh.
Well, it’s all just speculation…we don’t really know for sure.
Wow, that’s very interesting. I feel like most of the politicians supported Obama for their own reasons, whether it was being threatened, being promised something, wanting to maneuver against the Clintons, taking the calculated risk that they’d gain more in African-American and youth votes than they’d lose from the Obama group writing off the party and only being out for themselves. And the big donors were probably just settling for him, even though as much of a corporatist as he is, they can always do better with Repubs, because the Repub brand was so tainted. He lied to everybody, but they were using him right back (well, except the well meaning few like Ethel Kennedy who actually were bamboozled). But the intelligence community are certainly getting their money’s worth, for sure.
It really is interesting to see the people who were supporting Obama early on. I do think it’s very interesting that both Obama and his mom worked for CIA front organizations.
Another relevant question I’ve seen asked is, why is Obama such a cipher?
Why doesn’t he release his records from Occidental College, Columbia, and Harvard?
Why don’t we know of any really close friends of Obama–people who knew him when? Why haven’t those people been located and interviewed? Why aren’t there more photos of Obama with close friends? After all the years that Obama worked with and was friendly with Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, why aren’t there lots of pictures of them together?
It seems that Obama has been pretty careful to conceal as much of his life as possible and to avoid having photos taken with people he’s close to. Why?
That’s a really good point, he’s not exactly shy and everything he’s ever gotten he’s gotten by cozying up to the right people. You’d think they’d (well, some of them, anyway) want to come forward and take credit.
Interesting thing is several people, neighbors, school classmates and teachers all came forward to speak about Hillary, but I don’t recall any such stories about Obama.
I’ve read some comments from people at Harvard and from his prep school in Hawaii, but not Columbia or Occidental.
Exactly, BB! What is in his past/present that he doesn’t want revealed – or the PTB don’t want revealed.
Great post and no, it doesn’t sound like a conspiracy theory – just questions that many of us have had about Obama that we would like answered honestly. Continuing the secrecy only makes it worse.
Bilderbergers?
😯 The people that meet, that don’t really meet!?! 😯
An interesting interview on Keith Olberman with Richard Wolf who is releasing a book called Revival – the struggle for survival in the Obama white house.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/ns/msnbc_tv-countdown_with_keith_olbermann/#40204873
The interview talks about a split in the white house – just more interesting data
I am evolving to the feeling that he, Obama is just in over his head. Once he made the deal with health care they knew he could be rolled – it was just a matter of how much money.
He has a chance to stand up – will he – we shall see – or will the Republicans just roll him
This is going to get interesting – get a good supply of popcorn for the show
fiscal liberal,
I watched the rerun of Olbermann last night. Richard Wolfe, and esp. Olbermann tried to make it sound like it was the Clintonites that talked Obama into breaking his campaign promises! And the Chicago gang were the idealists? I don’t buy it. Axelrod is the one pushing to extend tax cuts for the rich now.
Two important players Obama cultivated assiduously from early in his Chicago days were Abner Mikva and Newton Minow (Minow managed Sidley Austin LLP, and was apparently tight with the Kennedys; served as FCC chair under JFK).
Other important strong backers (from prior to the U.S. Senate race) include the Pritzger family (Chicago billionaires – banking, hotels, etc.) and the Crown family (of General Dynamics – the weapons manufacturer). e.g. Crowns:
http://www.counterpunch.org/kimberley08192010.html
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2007/02/194141.php
The following is kind of interesting:
http://open.salon.com/blog/johnwsmart/2009/02/25/a_black_democratic_fundraiser_speaks_some_truth_about_obama
http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2009/03/confirmation-man-observed.html
From the correspondence: “I also worked for some years for an investment bank which was a major backer of Obama from the time he ran for the Senate. And, he was eager to spend lots of time with the top bankers of Wall St in small dinner settings in glorious NY penthouses.”
“Over the next months I then was able to talk with him and hear him talk in various fundraising venues – which is where he spent most of his short time in the Senate before hitting the presidential campaign trail. (The first time post-convention was at George Soros’ house).”
I’m rather skeptical about the purported CIA ties (though the circumstances of the stay at Ahmadmian Soomro’s residence are a bit odd, BIC clearly had some CIA connections, etc.). Also, I personally find the potential Geithner connection pretty interesting.
“Why is Obama such a cipher?” – combination of stuff he wants to hide, and NPD.
Do you know how he got so tight with Jamie Daimon by any chance?
and I never could figure out why no one went after him for Penny Pritzker either.
Don’t know how the Jamie Daimon connection was forged. And I agree on the Pritzker comment – given the subprime involvement, the media neglect was odd. I tend to chalk it up to most journalists being in the tank. (BTW – noticed I misspelled Pritzker the first time – spelling is not one of my strong suits).
BB,
Very interesting, and well researched. Thanks for including the links too.
He was the golden boy – in that state nobody looks at the details. Now a lot of his media support is going quiet. That is probably because the want to insure they have access to the Republiicans for interviews. Strong Obama supporters will not be interviewed by the Republicans.
Another loose cannon is going to be Darrel Issa on the House oversight committee. He is throwing supenas all over the wall to see what sticks.
Just read Robert Freeman and darn, he is awesome and did he ever tell ’em the truth. He must be a very impressive man and one that doesn’t go along with let’s pretend… 🙂 There is a glimmer of hope that everyone hasn’t surrendered.
I’d like to have had him as a hs teacher. My economics teacher in hs was a lot like him though–the school board was always trying to get him fired because he told us the truth.
Great post BB. I have from the beginning thought he was a CIA asset. Although it was claimed he met Zbigniew Brzezinski after he arrived at Columbia, I always assumed he came to Columbia because Ziggy was there.
I also assume that his foreign travel before Columbia was for the CIA and believe that his education at Occidental, Columbia and Harvard was funded by us taxpayers through the CIA.
As for lying to supporters – I honestly don’t think they asked him any questions. They just assumed they could tell him what to do and he would be so grateful for the opportunity to serve he would just go along.
I believe they viewed him as the new version of Colin Powell – who is referred to in the village as The Sponge.
Joseph Cannon seems to think Obama got involved with the CIA at Occidental. That is a very expensive school, BTW.
Don’t overlook the Bush Family Evil Empire. Old George Bush was head of the CIA. His son suspended deportations at the end of the 2008 campaign so as not to embarrass Obama over his Auntie Zeituni. Karl Rove was seen smiling on Election Night.
Bush told some people before the 2008 election that he wasn’t going to vote for McCain. I believe he voted for Obama. I don’t have the link at hand at the moment, but I’ll find it.
That’s all interesting information but I agree that there wasn’t “any vast, all-encompassing conspiracy.” And I think what happened is, in its way, sinister but not all that complicated.
I think Barack Obama is a psychopath who, simply put, has no capacity for empathy and is obsessed with self-aggrandizement. He literally doesn’t care about war or health care or torture or anybody’s civil rights but his own. And I think his ambition dovetailed with a lot of people wanting the Clintons to lose in 2008 — some because they stupidly hate the Clintons, some because they thought the Clintons would have too much power and Obama promised hugs and sharing, and some because the Clintons ARE empathetic and believe in liberal principles and Hillary would have pushed for legislation that corporatists believed wouldn’t advantage them as much as Obama’s would. Obama will promise anything to anybody, then he’ll do anything to anybody if he thinks it’s in his own best interest.
From a year ago, but still worth a read.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-11-14/obamas-dangerous-obsession
affinis,
That is a fascinating article that I have never read before. This is great:
I missed that when it was new; thanks for posting it affinis.
When the puzzle pieces keep fitting together, the picture is what it is.
This is a great post bb, and although I’m not into conspiracy, and mostly agree with what Zaladonis says at 2:42 am, I’m as interested as the next person to know: Who is this man? Where does he come from? Who gave him his power?
My own simple(minded?) explanation is that Republican powers handpicked him way back, knowing that a “blank slate” would at one point come in handy. (E.g. after a disastrous 8 years of Bush jr.!)
Does Obama come across as someone who would by his own accord chose to go into politics? Not to me. My guess is that someone made him an offer that was just too good for a selfabsorbed egotist to turn down. – And I cringe when he tries the “I became a politician to help people”, knowing that there are still lots of people who believe that to be true.
Obama was apparently intent on a career in politics (and particularly, on ultimately gaining the Presidency) all the way back to his childhood (there are multiple reports of him articulating this in his youth and young adulthood). I guess that goes with the narcissism (=desire for power and adulation, hypercompetitive, etc.). Not that he had any concrete idea about what he’d do with that power (since concrete political goals are not the point here – it’s just all about him). The NPD also gives him much of his “charisma”.
I agree, Obama wanted to go into politics very early on. He thrives on power over other people.
Lately I’ve also wondered: How come so many leaders in Europe and the ME accepted welcoming the presumptive! Democratic candidate back in the summer of 2008? And doing so in style as if he had already been not only elected Dem. candidate but US President already!
Does anyone believe that Axelrod, Jarret, Rahm had that kind of, persuasive, power?
As Paul Street and various others (Arthur Silber, Chris Floyd, etc) have argued – he was perfect for the role of “empire’s new clothes”.
When I went abroad to a couple of conferences in mid-2008 and talked to Europeans, they were bonkers about him. The quickest way to make myself a pariah was to say what I thought about Obama (and I never even fully said what I thought – relatively mild critique resulted in funny looks and ostracism).
When I saw the headline about the Nobel, I experienced a mental glitch – transiently thought that I might be reading the Onion.
And bb, seeing that you seem to have some reservations about Robert Freeman, if you havent already go read the comments by John Mitchell November 7th, 2010 8:35 pm, and Aquifer November 7th, 2010 9:01 pm. From the latter:
And when the author gives a snotty reply, both commenters have great, polite but spot-on comments to that too.
I don’t have reservations about Freeman’s writing, I’m just curious about whom he believes Obama made a deal with. I’m thinking about e-mailing him to ask.
Outstanding post – you’re pulling it together BB. I got a feeling of relief reading this.
Thanks, I’m just having fun speculating–since there doesn’t seem to be much I can do about the fall of our republic.
great post and comments!
Still, Why would Obama do that? Why would he campaign on high-minded generalities, leading gullible “progressives” and even well-meaning liberals to believe he would transform Washington DC and reverse Bush policies like torture, indefinite detention, and concentration of power in the executive branch
The people who actually run our world wanted Bush’s policies to stay in place and even be ramped up to the new “normal”. They are amazingly clever about people . BO : the perfect Trojan horse , has been in the wings, getting ready for decades and Left and the AA voter are hog tied to him forever no matter what he does or doesn’t do.
I doubt Obama himself gives a thought to any of it…he’s there to do as he’s told and why waste energy thinking about it? He doesn’t strike me as someone who thinks about it or even about what he’s saying …that’s the teleprompters job. It’s not just pathetic he can’t function without it, it’s chilling
I’ve been reading these conspiracy theories on several blogs for at least the last 2 years. Joe Cannon was an early writer of many of these points and he wasn’t big on alot of tinfoil type things. He did put out plenty of things to ponder though. As time moves on, I’m beginning to think there is something there. Obama’s actions don’t seem to make sense for one. He’s either twisting in the wind or waiting for orders. I’ve never heard him state a policy or belief he was was willing to fight for. Almost hiding behind Congress and spewing rhetoric that we’ve all heard before over and over. He was definitely not ready on Day 1 and the media had plenty of stuff they chose to overlook. The Chicago Tribune had a reporter that really dug deep yet got no syndication. There were many questions nobody asked although this guy had a past that should have provided many feature stories, much less
at the very least. at least some feature stories, much less investigations. I wish I could remember the reporter to google her. She had dug pretty deep into his financial dealings with all the shady crooks of Chicago. We didn’t even hear much about his time as a community organizer. I did know about all of the deadly shootings of children walking to school in Chicago but not once did I ever hear of Obama mentioning it. But here’s a newspaper article that does question something – the Obama’s finances. There are no answers to the questions they ask though.
http://patterico.com/2008/04/20/chicago-tribune-how-broke-were-obamas/
No one in the mainstream media pushed the story of the houses that had no heat or water in Obama district. And he was the one who got the state to give money to Rezco and other crooks who owned the slum housing.
The answer seems simple – Obama is the second Woodrow Wilson.
I hope that doesn’t mean Obama will preside over World War III.
I think we’re just calling it the The War against Terror these days. We attack more locations in Pakistan yesterday and we’ve got specialists in Yemen now. Plus all those folks in Iraq and Afghanistan. Some of those are from other countries. When does it become a world war instead of The War against Aggression or The War to end all Wars or something else?
That’s true, but if it spreads to Iran, then we’re talking something a lot more serious.
If Russia–or heaven forbid China–comes in on the other side, then it’s a world war.
I read this book before the election. Some might think a bit too wacky, but I thought it might be spot on. It made the CIA a central figure in promoting Obama. http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com/2010/06/webster-tarpley-people-behind-barack.html
Just a short bit about his hypothesis. It made a lot of sense but….
I do believe a good bit of it and it seemed rather well researched.
I also read this review of one of Tarpley’s book
61 of 64 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for Every American to truly understand the political machine and powers., January 28, 2009
By Red Rose “Red Rose Romance Writer and Reader” (Orlando, FL) – See all my reviews
This review is from: Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized Biography (Paperback)
Barack Obama, the unauthorized Biography –
This book is a must read for the world. I caution all readers that first one should not draw conclusions about a person based upon what another has concluded, but take the content of the book to understand just what exactly is happening to the human society and existence in the Global Economy. This book if read and comprehended will give illumination to the reality we must now face and understanding how and why it is happening. Caution number two, do not read this book for reasons of racial diversions. Read this book to understand how our nation’s leaders are selected and how they receive financial backing to put into operation the edicts of the elite.
This book is entirely accurate when it says that we have just exchanged one megalomaniac for another. The difference is extreme in population manipulation, but such extremes are necessary and required by the elite to conduct their operations. It is how the elite control and manipulate their power, influence, and control over world resources.
A very frightening part of this book is that it was written before Barack Obama took office. Now as President of the United States the edicts and principles of the elite to keep control are effectively being systematically put in place. It is precisely as they ordained. George W. Bush was a puppet and their ideology was secured. Barack Obama is a puppet and the elite ideology is now being activated. The motto of the elite is to Divide and Conquer. This motto is and will be the greatest weapon of any power control. Consider the division between conservative and liberal. There is the division of Democrat and Republican. Once again is the division between races. The constant blaring of issues of blacks, slavery, and segregation is again rearing its ugly head when finally the melting pot of America thought it was finally over. This is the plan, and it is working to keep us divided. The ideals of the elite are being forced upon the American people. We stand helpless except for our intellect and the power we have en masse.
The book also reveals that in selecting this racial issue for the Presidency the elite financiers now control the most dangerous individuals that could upset their plans for a socialistic financially controlled world government. The most dangerous group to the elite is civil rights. The civil rights movement is not about race, as Dr. King explained. The civil rights movement is about equality and understanding regardless of race, religion, gender, or age. If we were to truly be free we needed to intellectually free our society of all this limiting and constricting bonds that continue to enslave us. As a united front of civil rights it would be the only thing that could stop the divide and conquer. This is why Martin Luther King Jr was murdered by the elite. Martin Luther King Jr was dangerous. Martin Luther King Jr was uniting all in the understanding of equality. Robert Kennedy was murdered because he was a choice of the masses. The masses would be dangerous if the division was lost. This could not be allowed, so a Black POTUS it had to be financed and elected. That election had to be biased by race, not equality.
Sadly, I do not believe that George W. Bush or Barack Obama even have a clue as to how they were and are being manipulated. Both men are surrounded with the walls of servants of the elite financiers. They have both been raised, indoctrinated, and brain washed by the elite financiers they are completely out of touch with equality and government as it was meant to be. Now that he is President, Barack Obama will be isolated and brain washed even more, regardless of his own individual thoughts. Just like GWB he believes he is doing the right things.
Another valuable part of this book is the role his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham Obama, played in his life. This part of his life has been downplayed for several reasons. One reason is her connections with the Ford Foundation. It clearly shows the ties and connections of people believing what they do is helping and are programmed to believe Foundations are for the better good of society. In reality foundations are used strictly for control and information hunts to keep the population in control.
It had bothered me immensely why President Obama played down his white mother and focused on his black father. This book delves into the Stanley Ann Dunham the Obama presidency does not want you to know. President Obama used his father as an example of affirmative action to produce a PhD from Africa, but says nothing of his mother’s achievement of a PhD as a single struggling working mother. President Obama says nothing of the work she did in Indonesia and Pakistan. He says nothing of her service to this country and her diplomatic connections. He allows people to think of her as sweet apple pie mom. In reality she was a strong willed mother he decided to alienate. It brings into focus the absolute political moves he made to get power. One of these moves was to separate from a white woman and marry a black woman to keep his credible black identity with minorities including the black voters. A white woman at his side mother or wife would have been suicide in politics. This shows he does not love and is incapable of love for a person or nation. Barack Obama is a typical politician. It is about the glamour and power. We are foolish to believe it is about us as a people.
We may be unable to control what is happening, but we can voice our understanding of it for the future. The Law of Heaven will always be the most powerful of forces. In the election of 2012 I caution all Americans to stop listening to propaganda of the media. I suggest the next candidate should be elected by the masses based upon the candidate the media does not endorse. The candidate to be elected should spend the least amount of money in campaigning. The candidate elected should show a solid action platform. The candidate elected should not use rhetoric and buzz words.
Please read this book and take from it the valuable information it contains. This is an unbiased volume of reality as the world of politics is truly run.
Sorry about a screwed up cut and paste. Didn’t see the top part till it posted
How many reviews did you want to include?
Webster Tarpley is a little bit of a kook, but he’s right about some things. I skimmed through that book too.
I think I fixed it. I took out the personal info and the extra comments.
I just wanted one review…I think you saved me. The books are a bit out there but you have to believe that what is going on is even more out there. They made way more sense than they should…SCARY!!!
That’s good. I like to read the crazy books along with the “sane” ones. It’s interesting to look at what the conspiracy theorists have to say even if you don’t buy into everything.
Take what you need and leave the rest is my philosophy.
>>Don’t overlook the Bush Family Evil Empire.
He had to make a lot of deals with a lot of people, most of which he had no intention of fulfilling, but I do believe that one of the big ones was with the Bush family.
I believe that Obama promised not to put Georgie in jail or even in the dock. That’s how the financial meltdown, which is what kept McCain from pulling it out, became the October Surprise in 2008.
Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com
That’s an interesting hypothesis. I also think there was a deal of some kind with Bush. I have too look up that quote where Bush basically says he’s voting for Obama.
I plan to publish more on the Obama/CIA connection very soon. Look for it on my site…
I can hardly wait!
Hi! Long time no read!! Hope your venture goes well. I noticed some folks went over there when we posted it here.