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The Third Clinton Administration
RALPH NADER
Counterpunch
Saturday, Nov 22, 2008
While the liberal intelligentsia was swooning over Barack Obama during his presidential campaign, I counseled “prepare to be disappointed.” His record as a Illinois state and U.S. Senator, together with the many progressive and long overdue courses of action he opposed during his campaign, rendered such a prediction unfortunate but obvious.
Now this same intelligentsia is beginning to howl over Obama’s transition team and early choices to run his Administration. Having defeated Senator Hillary Clinton in the Democratic Primaries, he now is busily installing Bill Clinton’s old guard. Thirty one out of forty seven people that he has named so far for transition or appointments have ties to the Clinton Administration, according to Politico. One Clintonite is quoted in the Washington Post as saying – “This isn’t lightly flavored with Clintons. This is all Clintons, all the time.”
Obama’s “foreign policy team is now dominated by the Hawkish, old-guard Democrats of the 1990,” writes Jeremy Scahill. Obama’s transition team reviewing intelligence agencies and recommending appointments is headed by John Brennan and Jami Miscik, who worked under George Tenet when the CIA was involved in politicizing intelligence for, among other officials, Secretary of State Colin Powell’s erroneous address before the United Nations calling for war against Iraq.
Mr. Brennan, as a government official, supported warrantless wiretapping and extraordinary rendition to torturing countries. National Public Radio reported that Obama’s reversal when he voted for the revised FISA this year relied on John Brennan’s advise.
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For more detail on these two advisers and others recruited by Obama from the dark old days, see Democracy Now, November 17, 2008 and Jeremy Scahill, AlterNet, Nov. 20, 2008 “This is Change? 20 Hawks, Clintonites and Neocons to Watch for in Obama’s White House.”
The top choice as White House chief of staff is Rahm Emanuel—the ultimate hard-nosed corporate Democrat, military-foreign policy hawk and Clinton White House promoter of corporate globalization, as in NAFTA and the World Trade Organization.
Now, recall Obama’s words during the bucolic “hope and change” campaign months: “The American people…understand the real gamble is having the same old folks doing things over and over and over again and somehow expecting a different result.” Thunderous applause followed these remarks.
“This is more ‘Groundhog Day’ then a fresh start,” asserted Peter Wehner, a former Bush adviser who is now at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
The signs are amassing that Barack Obama put a political con job over on the American people. He is now daily buying into the entrenched military-industrial complex that President Eisenhower warned Americans about in his farewell address.
With Robert Rubin on his side during his first photo opportunity after the election, he signaled to Wall Street that his vote for the $750 billion bailout of those speculators and crooks was no fluke (Rubin was Clinton’s financial deregulation architect in 1999 as Secretary of the Treasury before he became one of the hugely paid co-directors tanking Citigroup.)
Obama’s apologists say that his picks show he wants to get things done, so he wants people who know their way around Washington. Moreover, they say, the change comes only from the president who sets the priorities and the courses of action, not from his subordinates. This explanation assumes that a president’s appointments are not mirror images of the boss’s expected directions but only functionaries to carry out the Obama changes.
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November 22nd, 2008 at 12:13 pm
http://nesara.org/main/index.htm
ConcernedHuman Reply:
March 24th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
To better understand the confusion & corruption humanity is going through, it will be beneficial to read the Quran. Read it for yourself and make up your own mind.
Dont be manipulated.
AllahsQuran.com (read & listen to the Quran)
WhatsIslam.com (basics of Islam in audio introduction)
ShareIslam.com (learn about Islam)
ProphetOfIslam.com (who was MUHAMMED? peace be upon him)
BibleIslam.com (who was JESUS? peace be upon him)
IslamsWomen.com (70% of new muslims in the west are women, why?)
God also reveals many scientific facts in the Quran to prove over and over to its authenticity. Some of the revelations are:
-Big-Bang
-Creation & Evolution of Life from Water
-Expanding Universe
-Atomic Structure
-Geological Formations
-Black Holes
-Astronomical Systems
-Black Matter
QuranMiracles.com (learn about the scientific revelations in Quran)
ScienceIslam.com (learn about the scientific revelations in Quran)
Remember; the oldest original written Quran, dated about 1400 years old, is at Istanbul Museum, Turkey, with many copies of it in the world including one in the British Museum. There are also upto 30 million people in the world who have memorized it whole, cover to cover, word by word by, letter by letter by heart. So it is easy to cross-check anything about Islam.
ChatIslam.com (join free online classes and ask about Islam)
Peace, mercy & blessings of God be upon you all.
November 22nd, 2008 at 1:25 pm
I still want to know if Barak Obama or Barry Soetoro is was a legitimate Presidential candidate, and if not, who is responsible for this error.
November 22nd, 2008 at 6:05 pm
Obama-nation = Abomination
November 22nd, 2008 at 6:57 pm
You rock, Ralph. Oh that more citizens of this United States of Zion thought like you, or just plain thought. Thanks!
November 22nd, 2008 at 8:17 pm
People need to read and listen to independent news sources reporting facts, such as this site.
The mainstream corporate media (Fox, CNN, CBS, NBC, etc.) is at fault for society’s ignorance and sheepish complacence regarding what is happening in this country (and the world).
If people were more educated about this con soap opera, Ralph Nader and Bob Barr would have been more competitive this past election.
Boycott these companies because they are doing a disservice to this country and Democracy in general.
Support independent media!
November 22nd, 2008 at 8:30 pm
58 million people couldn’t get their heads out of their butts long enough to ask if this asshole could ‘change’ anything. so, obama’s change is bringing back all previous assholes from defunct administrations.
people saw this prick as a leader? i don’t get it.
November 22nd, 2008 at 10:23 pm
Wouldn’t you,at some point say,”the time for talking is over”? Do you think that years into the future the American people are going to get smarter?So,what’s up?We just going to continue to let these bastards get away with this shit?
November 22nd, 2008 at 11:29 pm
ah..dont worry about it …remember all those stories about the rednecks wanting to shoot obama…well thats CIA covering their ass….if they dont like his changes…guess what …THE story will read…” lone grazed drug induced red neck kills president” just like oswald,sir han,and booth
November 23rd, 2008 at 8:03 am
NADER would have who in his cabinet???/
EMPTY VESSEL…VASSAL
November 23rd, 2008 at 5:09 pm
What if Obamaination and Oh’Biden get assignated? Who then becomes the person in charge?
November 24th, 2008 at 12:46 am
If Osama and Biden get wacked the the speaker of the house becomes President
November 24th, 2008 at 9:31 am
“They want a fascist planet with the superwealthy ruling it all
Since we’re too independent, America must be led to fall
When our credit’s been exhausted to subdue the Middle East,
They’ll install our debtor nation in the body of The Beast
Traitor…Dare call it treason”
–The Cornbread Mafia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw5dP5gy2Vs
December 25th, 2008 at 1:50 am
Here’s the new boss – same as the old boss
December 31st, 2008 at 1:18 pm
When Clinton came to Pakistan – he made a televised speech – not at all sounding presidential or friendly – he was speaking as he was some kind of dictator. It looked like an anti-Hitler propaganda clips – Clinton was banging his fist on the desk and telling the people of Pakistan, if the people of Pakisan do not straighten out there would be consequences. Poor Pakistanis were expected to prostrate themselves before this god from the USA whose every word was to be heeded.
Everyone here expected it would be a friendly speech, smiling and saying things in an amicable manner – the kind of speech which he would make before the people of the USA. But this was not his country and does not get votes from here. The gist of the speech was that Pakistanis are scum and they should do what the USA says. That was a terrible representation of the USA. Probably Obama will come over and do the same thing – he should never be allowed to appear on TV – no one wants a repeat of Clinton’s speech. Bossing Pakistanis will get the USA nowhere.
January 23rd, 2009 at 10:24 pm
We have the best politicians money can buy!
February 28th, 2009 at 8:28 am
Crooks, Liars, Thieves, Elitist Globalist slime
March 13th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
as crazy as it seams the crazyest of the radical arabs might save us from the NWO because they cant be controled,they will die for their cause ,we should get out of the mid east and quit fighting for the NWO and getting more americans killed.let the rich punks of the NWO famlies go to get killed
March 23rd, 2009 at 11:11 am
To better understand the corruption humanity is going through, it will be beneficial to read the Quran. Read it for yourself and make up your own mind. Dont be manipulated.
http://www.AllahsQuran.com (listen and/or read the Quran)
http://www.BibleIslam.com (who was Jesus peace be upon him?)
http://www.ShareIslam.com (search about Islam)
http://www.WhatsIslam.com (basic audio introduction about Islam)
http://www.IslamsWomen.com (70% of new muslims in the west are women,why?)
http://www.ScienceIslam.com (Science proves Quran to be God’s word)
http://www.ChatIslam.com (join free online classes and ask questions about Islam)
Peace, mercy and blessings of God be upon you all.
March 24th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
concernedhuman,
enough of your BS. Your pseudo-religion instructs carving off the head of infidels with a dull knife. Peace and tolerance my rear end! Your culture has not even discovered toilet paper yet, hence the left hand thing. If the US bombed your cultural centers into the stone age your culture would advance by a few hundred years. Crawl back in to your cave. In case you hadn’t noticed, no educated, civilized person cares about the horrors of islam. Your purging is overdue.
ConcernedHuman Reply:
March 25th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Thanks for your comment Republiker.
However, your statements are all incorrect.
Obviously you have been getting your mis-information from the very same people that are master planning the NWO.
If you would like the truth you are welcome to follow the links I gave above.
Best wishes to you, both in this and next life.