Chilly on Latest Obama Appointments

What do you know about mega-lobbyist super insider firm Stonebridge International L.L.C.? 2 of Obama's most recent picks, Mona Sutphen and Michael Warren, work for it, when they're not attending meetings at the CFR.

This firm is headed up by Clinton's National Security Advisor Sandy Berger, and they recently aquired former Citigroup CEO Chuck Prince as their Vice Chairman and Chairman of the Board of Advisors.

Change?

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[AzraelsJudgement]

Different person and skin pigment, same old destructive politics in 2009. I would still take capimunism China over Mao China lol. I think we should just appoint emperors so the delusion we are free is over. The Mises think tank who does not get government aid/power is the only one I like lol. Keep up the good work.

Have not got snow here yet, but expect to next month.

[FeelFreeToArgue]

My concern is not that superficial. I'm more worried about the modern state because what concerns me is sustainable autocracy, which the Chineese seem well on the way to perfecting.

The Chineese people are setting all kinds of standards, the most important is how little actual freedom people need to get by while still thinking of themselves as a free people. It's part of a worldview that's being sold that increasingly looks at freedom purely in economic terms.

[AgentLogik]

Great work!! Thank you for your courage and sincere honesty.

[FeelFreeToArgue]

And I really like your idea about drug tests. Barbara Ehrenreich has pointed out that this is yet another 2 tier class system, where the poor and powerless are tested and the rich and mighty are not.

[FeelFreeToArgue]

Like Naomi Klein, I'm not disillusioned by Obama because I never believed in him. My decision to not vote 3rd party, which I now realize was a mistake, was based on thinking that the race was closer than it seemed (instead of less so) & the valid assessment that no 3rd party was close to reaching the fed. funding threshold. I also saw some potential influences in Obama's past which I thought might have some sway over his policymaking, like his childhood in Indonesia & his yrs in Wright's church.

[FeelFreeToArgue]

Thank you for always inserting "zionist' in front of jew. The fact that there is a distinction bewtween harmful and non-harmful jews is lost on a lot of people, which leads to anti-semitism. There are jews in Israel right now who are taking terrible chances with their lives to try and stop the repression of the Palestinian people.

[wazooavenue]

Well said. McCain/Obama not much of a choice and not much difference. They both voted the same way in the senate for 8 years- both on the payroll of corporate America. Both way too deep in the CFR.

~Off the track a bit~ I would like to see all who Obama hires be drug tested and prior to January 20 Obama drug tested too.

I have no reason to believe any are on drugs but there is no reason to believe I am either but still I have to prove my innocence and so should they. Humiliating? I think so.

[Icling2gunsnGod]

Poor poor Obama followers. You thought your "Messiah" was the great saviour of all mankind and now you find out he's just another politician with the same agenda every politician before him has had. I say this to the unhappy Obama faithfull who are now realizing they've been had by the Obama bait and switch. If some body's trying to sell you something that sounds to good to be true it probably is. Next time do some research on the candidates before you vote and don't get suckered by hype.

[flyboymd82]

LOL! Change my ass! Its the Clinton administration all over agian.

The Who's "Don't get fooled agian" come to mind?

[markwtr77]

change... change....

NOTHING IS CHANGING, MR OBOMBA, I SEE ONLY MORE OF THE SAME

[s031720]

Ron Paul would have been a choice for change. Afterall, Obama have declared that he will not be blinded by partyallegiances when appointing.

Somehow, hes just doing more of the same.

[s031720]

If that truly is the intent, we will see peripheral but controlled-media attack Obama on account of his "blackness". These will be attacks without any substance, and be dilligently dismissed, and it will help change the psyche of the american public: "Obama is beeing unjustly attacked because he is black".

After that, any critique will come labeled as atleast partly racist.