What company did SHE work for before she got on the government teat, that she knows how CEOs are picked. Does she actually think any company would pick Obama?

Obama has Brzezinski on his team.

According to the book America’s Half-Century, Brzezinski and Kissinger were both proteges of David Rockerfeller. Kissinger and Brzezinski have very similar world views, which the neocons dislike.

Brzezinski gave George H.W. Bush a solid B for his “global leadership” skills, while giving Bill Clinton an uneven C.

I read an interesting article last Spring which outlined the difference between the Democrats and Republicans. The Republicans use National Security issues to build a coalition of support and spend U.S. dollars at home and in foreign countries. The Democrats use environmental and social justice issues.

Either way, the same groups and individuals stay wealthy and in power; they just create new corporations to fit the needs to gain contracts. So, under an Obama Administration, the power brokers with Corporation A (e.g., Halliburton) would create a subsidiary company that cleans up the hazardous materials left behind by a war field and turn the area into housing or parks or ? The leftist in the U.S. feel like they are taking care of the “injustices” of the world but the same people are still making money, but under a different corporate name.

There is no issue which provides a starker contrast between the McCain and Obama than their attitude towards the Global War on Terror. This is one area where no American should be deceived by happy talk or seduced by the intoxicating effects of Obama’s Kool-Aid into taking a chance. 911 not only cost the lives of thousands of innocent civilians from 85 countries, it also sent the US economy into a devastating economic downwind. When the President took over the country was already heading towards a recession caused by the bursting of the dotcom bubble. After the catastrophe of 911, it would not be until June 2003 that the US economy would start to add jobs.

Every time Obama promises another Government handout for his adoring supporters by reallocating dollars away from the Global War on Terror, its important to remember that nothing will damage business confidence, and therefore tax revenues, more than another catastrophic event such as 911. Without tax revenues, every single one of Obama’s expensive promises which many already regard as wishful thinking become guaranteed non-starters.

In any case, recognizing Obama’s “commitment” to redeploy troops from Iraq to Afghanistan its far from clear where Obama plans to find substantial savings in the Global War on Terror…in other words he wants it both ways…”rhetorically” tough on terror while simultaneously promising the dollars to his anti-war constituencies.

We will open “America Houses” in cities across the Islamic world, with Internet, libraries, English lessons, stories of America’s Muslims and the strength they add to our country, and vocational programs. Through a new ” America’s Voice Corps” we will recruit, train, and send out into the field talented young Americans who can speak with — and listen to — the people who today hear about us only from our enemies.

As President, I will lead this effort. In the first 100 days of my Administration, I will travel to a major Islamic forum and deliver an address to redefine our struggle. I will make clear that we are not at war with Islam, that we will stand with those who are willing to stand up for their future, and that we need their effort to defeat the prophets of hate and violence. I will speak directly to that child who looks up at that helicopter, and my message will be clear: “You matter to us. Your future is our future. And our moment is now.” Source Barack Obama official website – extracted from a text of speech delivered on 1/8/07

Yes it would be nice to sit down with our enemies and talk through our differences in the spirit of finding a solution so we could all work towards global peace. But the simple fact is its not possible to negotiate with people who do not want to negotiate. On the contrary the Fundamentalist Muslims are commanded by their leadership to kill Americans and Jews in the name of meeting their religious duty.
OSAMA BIN LADEN: Text of Fatwah Urging Jihad Against Americans -1998
Published in Al-Quds al-’Arabi on Febuary 23, 1998
Statement signed by Sheikh Usamah Bin-Muhammad Bin-Ladin; Ayman al-Zawahiri, leader of the Jihad Group in Egypt; Abu- Yasir Rifa’i Ahmad Taha, a leader of the Islamic Group; Sheikh Mir Hamzah, secretary of the Jamiat-ul-Ulema-e-Pakistan; and Fazlul Rahman, leader of the Jihad Movement in Bangladesh
…and in compliance with God’s order, we issue the following fatwa to all Muslims
The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies–civilians and military–is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it, in order to liberate the al-Aqsa Mosque and the holy mosque from their grip, and in order for their armies to move out of all the lands of Islam, defeated and unable to threaten any Muslim. This is in accordance with the words of Almighty God, “and fight the pagans all together as they fight you all together,” and “fight them until there is no more tumult or oppression, and there prevail justice and faith in God.”
This is in addition to the words of Almighty God “And why should ye not fight in the cause of God and of those who, being weak, are ill-treated and oppressed–women and children, whose cry is ‘Our Lord, rescue us from this town, whose people are oppressors; and raise for us from thee one who will help!’”
We — with God’s help — call on every Muslim who believes in God and wishes to be rewarded to comply with God’s order to kill the Americans and plunder their money wherever and whenever they find it. We also call on Muslim ulema, leaders, youths, and soldiers to launch the raid on Satan’s U.S. troops and the devil’s supporters allying with them, and to displace those who are behind them so that they may learn a lesson.
Almighty God said “O ye who believe, give your response to God and His Apostle, when He calleth you to that which will give you life. And know that God cometh between a man and his heart, and that it is He to whom ye shall all be gathered.”
Almighty God also says “O ye who believe, what is the matter with you, that when ye are asked to go forth in the cause of God, ye cling so heavily to the earth! Do ye prefer the life of this world to the hereafter? But little is the comfort of this life, as compared with the hereafter. Unless ye go forth, He will punish you with a grievous penalty, and put others in your place; but Him ye would not harm in the least. For God hath power over all things.

Nothing tells me Obama “doesn’t get it” more than his oft-stated position that we should give ILLEGAL aliens drivers licenses. Investigations into 911 confirm that having easy access to drivers licenses was one of the enablers for that grotesque act of slaughter. Another compelling reason to just say no deal to Obama.

This article by the New York Posts emphasizes many of the other sharp contrasts between Obama and McCain on Homeland Security

THE LESSONS OF 9/11
BARACK OBAMA V. JOHN MCCAIN

McCain believes America was an innocent victim of Islamic terrorism.
TODAY’s joint visit to Ground Zero may give the impression that John McCain and Barack Obama share a common analysis of the causes of 9/11 and how to deal with its legacy. They don’t.
The divide starts with the question: Why was America attacked?
McCain’s answer is simple (or, as Obama might suggest, simplistic): The United States was attacked because a resurgent Islam has produced a radicalism that dreams of world conquest and sees America as the enemy.
In different shapes and sizes and under a range of labels, that radical streak of Islam has waged war on America since 1979, when Khomeinists seized the US embassy in Tehran and held its diplomats hostage for 444 days.
The killing of 241 Marines in Beirut in 1983, the first World Trade Center attack in 1993 and a host of other operations that claimed more American lives were episodes in a war – the reality of which the United States faced only after 9/11.
McCain doesn’t hesitate to acknowledge that his country is engaged in a Global War on Terror. He doesn’t believe that 9/11 might’ve been prompted by some wrong America did to others. To him, the nation was an innocent victim of “Islamic terrorism.”
McCain asserts, “America faces a dedicated, focused and intelligent foe in the War on Terrorism. This enemy will probe to find America’s weaknesses and strike against them. The United States cannot afford to be complacent about the threat, naive about terrorist intentions, unrealistic about their capabilities, or ignorant to our national vulnerabilities.”
He’d pursue and fight these “enemies” wherever they are – including, especially, in Iraq. “If we run away,” he says, “they are going to follow us home.”
OBAMA, by contrast, doesn’t use terms such as “the Global War on Terror” or “Islamic terrorism.” Nor does he claim that America was simply an innocent victim.
In one speech, he used the image of a US helicopter flying over the poor countries in Africa and Asia, where it’s seen as a symbol of oppression. He says his objective is to turn that helicopter into a symbol of American aid to the downtrodden.
For Obama, the threat comes not from terrorists but from “extremists” and their “program of hate.” He never uses such terms as “jihadist,” judging them hurtful to Muslims. He speaks of “violent extremists who are a small minority of the world’s 1.3 billion Muslims.”
In one speech, he claimed that the Islamists aim only at “creating a repressive caliphate.” He seemingly hasn’t heard of jihadist movements whose declared aim is to destroy the United States in the name of Islam.
For McCain, the War on Terror is a “just war” in which Americans fight for their security and their allies’. Obama rejects the concept of “just war.” He dismisses the Iraq war as both “unnecessary and unjust” – though the struggle in Afghanistan is “a necessary war.”
ONE constant Obama theme is the claim that poverty and economic factors breed terrorism; this echoes the analysis of Jimmy Carter back in the ’70s. Strengthening that impression is Obama’s pick of Sen. Joseph Biden as running mate.
Biden denies there’s a War on Terror in the first place or that the United States even knows whom it’s fighting. He has declared that “terrorism is a means, not an end, and very different groups and countries are using it toward very different goals. If we can’t even identify the enemy or describe the war we’re fighting, it’s difficult to see how we will win.”
While McCain puts the emphasis on hard power – that is, on meeting and defeating the enemy on the battlefield – Obama, echoing Carter and Bill Clinton, promises a greater use of soft power.
He plans to double US foreign aid to $50 billion a year, allocate a further $20 billion to offering “alternatives to madrassa education” in Muslim countries, provide Afghanistan with another $1 billion a year in support and spend $5 billion on a “Shared Security Partnership Program” with foreign governments.
And he promises to “bolster our ability to speak different languages and understand different cultures” – as if America’s unique cultural spectrum didn’t already include large numbers of speakers of every living language, with millions of immigrants each year. Sorry: The nation was not attacked because Americans don’t speak Arabic or don’t understand Saudi or Egyptian cultures.
Obama also says he’ll open “America Houses” in Muslim capitals. These would be community centers with libraries, Internet cafes and English-language classes. Has he considered the possibility that these might become prime targets for terrorists?
Plus, he’d set up an “America’s Voice Corps,” which would recruit and train thousands of young Americans to go to Muslim countries to explain “American values” and, in return, “listen to Islamic voices.”
More important, perhaps, Obama promises to attend “a significant Islamic forum” (presumably, the summit of the Organization of the Islamic Conference) within his first 100 days in the White House. He believes that the magic of his eloquence might do what America’s hard power has failed to achieve. In an early version of this idea, Obama wanted to invite all Muslim heads of state to a Washington summit. He doesn’t realize that this would endorse the claim that Islam merits a special treatment even in international relations.
ONE might expect Obama to be more convincing on Afghani stan, his pet war. Yet all we get is a promise to increase aid – despite the fact that the Afghan economy hasn’t been able to absorb the $20 billion pledged since 2002. He would also send in two more combat brigades – precisely the number that other NATO allies were supposed to supply by next January. (President Bush just announced that, from now until January, he’ll be sending an even larger reinforcement to Afghanistan.)
The Democratic platform’s section on foreign policy contains several references to “restoring American leadership.” When it comes to tough issues, however, we’re told that “the world must do” this or that.
An example: “The world must prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.” What if that abstract entity, “the world,” of which Obama once claimed to be a citizen, fails to do so? Obama’s answer is “tougher sanctions and aggressive, principled and direct high-level diplomacy without preconditions.”
He promises to talk to all the “bad guys,” including the Khomeinist leaders in Tehran. He ignores the fact that successive US administrations, from Carter to George W. Bush, have talked to the mullahs – so far to no avail. He also forgets that then-Secretary of State Colin Powell traveled to Syria and was rewarded with a series of political murders of US friends in Lebanon.
The platform’s Middle East section promises to “stand with allies and pursue diplomacy.” Apart from Israel, however, we’re never told who those “allies” are.
While Bush fixed the creation of two states, a Palestinian one besides Israel, as the aim of his strategy, Obama takes a step back by claiming merely that the US should “lead the efforts to build the road to a secure and lasting peace.”
HE also abandons Bush’s message of democratization in the Middle East as the long-term weapon against terrorism and strengthens the fiction that the Palestinian issue is the region’s main, if not the sole, problem.
In fact, despotism may be the more important issue. Yet Obama sneers at the elections held in Iraq, Afghanistan and several other Muslim nations thanks to US encouragement and pressure. He would leave America without a core message in the Middle East.
McCain believes that America is at war; Obama doesn’t. McCain believes the United States can win on the battlefield; Obama doesn’t.
For Obama, the problem is one of effective law enforcement. His model is the way Clinton handled the first attack on World Trade Center in 1993. Obama says: “We are able to arrest those responsible, put them on trial.” This means the United States reacting after being attacked.
McCain, however, doesn’t fear the politically incorrect term “pre-emption” – hitting the enemy before he hits you.
WHEN all is said and done, this election may well have only one big issue: the existential threat that Islamist terrorism poses to America’s safety. Since McCain and Obama offer radically different policies for facing that threat, American voters do have a real choice.
Source New York Post

Right, he’s a smart guy and writes a mean academic paper, but he’s driven the economy to the ground.

Sorry about the rant, though. Just ugh! Greenspan

Now where is Biden? Rehab?