There is one more angle of attack that has just begun to emerge. The Chinese oil company that Freeman serves on the advisory board of is on the verge of completing a multibillion dollar oil deal with Iran. This would flout the sanctions regime that America has worked to impose on Iran’s energy sector as a method to dissuade it from pursuing its development of nuclear weapons. When Barack Obama was in full campaign mode, he routinely touted his work and support for sanctions on Iran.

As president, will he reward a man who worked to help a company that is intent on evading those sanctions with one of the most plum spots in the field of national security.

The latest revelation may be the smoking gun that dooms the Freeman appointment. Ironically, the gun was held by none other than Chas Freeman. Michael Goldfarb of the Weekly Standard found an email from Freeman encouraging the Chinese to engage in more lobbying on Capitol Hill.

Freeman:

When you do the math, it looks like almost all of the $19 million figure for cumulative lobbying expenditure “on behalf of China” since 1997, is Hong Kong-generated or related. And to put the figure in perspective, over $3 billion is spent annually on lobbying activities in this town. (I don’t know how much of that is foreign government-related.) This goes a long way toward explaining why our government decision-making processes are generally considered by international investors and businessfolk to be both venal and corrupt, producing the best government policy decisions money can buy.

Why shoud foreign government hire a lobbyist? To ally the foreign ambassador or appear to ally him to a US domestic interest with the ability to make campaign contributions or otherwise affect electoral realities. To advise the ambassador on the pet peeves and domestic political circumstances and agendas of the congresscritter in question so as to facilitate flattery, concrete gestures with possible impact on the electorate in question, or arrange a pseudo-event at which the congresscritter can claim credit for one his/her district’s companies having made a sale to the country represented by the lobbyist. To do research on the congresscritter so as to expose duplicity, where and when it exists, as it almost always does.

He then concludes with a description of Congress (using a quote from Mark Twain) as the “closest thing to a native American criminal class.”

Congress may ignore sharp comments on our allies, entangling ties with foreign tyrannies, faulty judgments, stupid comments, and the spreading of propaganda to our children — but Congress will not be mocked.

I feel and hear a bus coming towards Chas Freeman.

It may seem cruel to reveal the true college of someone who already wakes up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat worried that he’s a fraud. But I believe that by pointing out that Olbermann actually is a fraud, I am liberating him.

You may not realize it now, Keith, but you will look back on this day and say, “That was the best thing that ever happened to me!”

Finally, you can stop pretending that you went to the hard-to-get-into Cornell.

Now you won’t have to quickly change the subject whenever people idly remark that they didn’t know it was possible to major in “communications” at an Ivy League school.

No longer will you have to aggressively bring up Cornell when it has nothing to do with the conversation.

Relax, Keith. Now you can let people like you for you.

COPYRIGHT 2009 ANN COULTER

To read the full article:
http://www.anncoulter.com/
It’s right on the front page.

if anything, the proliferation of overeducated, Gucci-wearing, smart-ass MBAs inventing ever more sophisticated and opaque mathematical models and debt instruments helped get us into this credit catastrophe in the first place.”

Every patriotic American should kick a culpable MBA squarely in the backside, at least until their foot gets sore.

guess you are gonna have to dig up that white tape.

Well then, you’re gonna be mighty uncomfortable considering that it resides next to your head up your backside.

And yes, MEchille, cover your arms. I wouldn’t go to any of the churches or mosques showing your biceps either.

Maybe I should apply for a job with the Department of Vital Statistics at the Daily Kos.

We will see the truth come out one day. Maybe he was born in Hawaii. Why would anyone know? He had his BC sealed by the Governor when visiting Granny. Considering what a liar you all are, there’s no reason to take his or your word or that of any liberal judge. I didn’t notice that the judge had viewed the “sealed” certificate. He was just winging it.

“At the very center of our economic near-depression is a credit bubble, a housing collapse and a systemic failure of the entire banking system. One can come up with a host of causes: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pushed by Washington (and greed) into improvident loans, corrupted bond-ratings agencies, insufficient regulation of new and exotic debt instruments, the easy money policy of Alan Greenspan’s Fed, irresponsible bankers pushing (and then unloading in packaged loan instruments) highly dubious mortgages, greedy house-flippers, deceitful homebuyers.

The list is long. But the list of causes of the collapse of the financial system does not include the absence of universal health care, let alone of computerized medical records. Nor the absence of an industry-killing cap-and-trade carbon levy. Nor the lack of college graduates. Indeed, one could perversely make the case that, if anything, the proliferation of overeducated, Gucci-wearing, smart-ass MBAs inventing ever more sophisticated and opaque mathematical models and debt instruments helped get us into this credit catastrophe in the first place.”

The full article can be found here:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/03/a_dishonest_gimmicky_budget.html

guess you are gonna have to dig up that white tape.

“Owners of capital will stimulate working classes to buy more and more expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credit, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks, which will have to be nationalized, and the State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism.”

– Karl Marx, 1867