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Obama's Brain Trust

A new series from the Council on Foreign Relations profiles the main foreign policy advisers for Barack Obama.

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  • Posted By: BoogieStik @ 11/06/2008 9:49:41 AM

    Just what we need...Canadians writing in to American publications, sowing hatred and spouting fallacious rhetoric.

    "Concerned Canadian", if you have a place in your heart for hatred, keep it in Canada.

  • Posted By: Glenno @ 11/05/2008 7:09:59 PM

    Hey Sassyfrassy, Kenya majority are christians, like Obama. Dont worry, im sure he wont be too different. The American Empire will surely continue to expand on the expense of other nations security/

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 11/05/2008 7:46:02 AM

    It was interesting to see Louis "Black Panther" Farrakhan , William Ayers , Tony Rezko, and Rev Wright follow Barack Hussein Obama to the voting booth...yup....America has changed !!

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 11/04/2008 9:39:25 PM

    Thank you US propaganda Nazi machine for buying the election for terrorist sympathizer Barack Hussein Obama and let me the first to congratulate and say that American voters are so stupid!!

  • Posted By: SassyFrassy @ 11/02/2008 10:22:43 PM

    TO the present OBAMA holds DUAL CITIZENSHIP for US and for KENYA. SINCE when does this mean he has the best interest of our country in mind? here is what is on his mind and we need to make sure we don't accomodate it. i would say his DUAL CITIZENSHIP is a conflict of interest which highly reveals the nature of his politics.

    Obama, Odinga & Kenyan Jihad
    by Kurt Schulzke on February 25, 2008

    Last night, I reported on Barack Obama???s active support of Kenyan candidate and Obama cousin Raila Odinga. What escaped mention was Odinga???s explicit plan to turn Kenya into an Al Qaeda terrorist incubator. A close analysis of Odinga???s MoU with Sheikh Abdullahi Abdi shows that ??? if Odinga had been elected as Kenyan president in the fall of 2007 ??? he would have made it impossible under Kenyan law for ???any Muslim arrested for or suspected of Terrorism??? to be tried anywhere but Kenya under Kenyan law.

    Kenyan law, in turn, would henceforth be exclusively Shariah law in ???Muslim declared regions??? ??? the ???coast??? and ???North Eastern regions??? of the country ??? see the map, below ??? now visited by hundreds of thousands of western tourists each year. [See Odinga, Abdi & Obama: Which Islamic MoU is real? for an updated, detailed discussion of two competing versions of the agreement.] Obama and Odinga supporters want to label as a ???lie??? the MoU version discussed here. However, the evidence suggests the opposite is true.



    It is no coincidence that this area of Kenya borders Somalia ??? for many years an Al Qaeda stronghold ??? site of the Clinton administration???s Bay of Pigs-redux, in Mogadishu, the event that serves as the basis for the movie Black Hawk Down. Also noteworthy is Kenya???s proximity to Tanzania, focus of much of George Bush???s efforts to save Africa and, arguably, where Bush is today most loved in the world.

    In these ???Muslim declared??? regions, the Odinga-Abdi agreement would outlaw ??? among other things ??? Farmer???s Choice, pork, other ???haram products??? and ???women???s public dressing styles considered immoral or offensive to the Muslim faith??? for all women, not just Muslims. At the same time, Odinga would establish a Sharia law court in every Kenyan ???divisional headquarters.??? One foreseeable result of these machinations is that Al Qaeda would be safe-havened in Kenya, free to foment mahem and terror around the world. Little wonder that Louis Farrakhan has endorsed Obama for president.

    The question every Democrat should be asking is how any American president ??? as Barack Obama seeks to become ??? could support a scheme so obviously designed to further the global jihad? Restated: With Americans like Obama, who needs Al Qaeda?

    Conservative Republicans face a related question: In light of this information, could you in good conscience not vote for John McCain in November if the Dems stupidly choose Obama as their ???daddy????

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 11/02/2008 4:42:47 AM

    Number of unrepentant terrorist friends with anti-American views for Obama = 57

    Number of unrepentant terrorist friends with anti-American views for McCain = 0

    The choice is obvious...vote for the patriot and war hero...JOHN MCCAIN!!

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 11/01/2008 8:20:40 PM

    WELL SAID BILL COSBY!!

    'They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English.
    I can't even talk the way these people talk:
    Why you ain't,
    Where you is,
    What he drive,
    Where he stay,
    Where he work,
    Who you be...

    And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk.

    And then I heard the father talk.

    Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads.
    You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth.

    In fact you will never get any kind of job making a decent living.

    People marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an Education, and now
    We've got these knuckleheads walking around.

    The lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal.

    These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids.

    $500 sneakers for what?

    And they won't spend $200 for Hooked on Phonics.

    I am talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange suit.

    Where were you when he was 2?

    Where were you when he was 12?

    Where were you when he was 18 and how come you didn't know that he had a pistol?

    And where is the father? Or who is his father?

    People putting their clothes on backward:
    Isn't that a sign of something gone wrong?

    People with their hats on backward, pants down around the crack, isn't that a sign of something?

    Isn't it a sign of something when she has her dress all the way up and got all type of needles [piercing] going through her body?

    What part of Africa did this come from??

    We are not Africans. Those people are not Africans; they don't know a thing about Africa ...

    I say this all of the time. It would be like white people saying they are European-American. That is totally stupid.

    I was born here, and so were my parents and grand parents and, very likely my great grandparents. I don't have any connection to Africa, no more than white Americans have to Germany , Scotland , England , Ireland , or the Netherlands . The same applies to 99 percent of all the black Americans as regards to Africa . So stop, already! ! !

    With names like Shaniqua, Taliqua and Mohammed and all of that crap .....And all of them are in jail.

    Brown or black versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.

    We have got to take the neighborhood back.

    People used to be ashamed. Today a woman has eight children with eight different 'husbands' -- or men or whatever you call them now.

    We have millionaire football players who cannot read.

    We have million-dollar basketball players who can't write two paragraphs. We, as black folks have to do a better job.

    Someone working at Wal-Mart with seven kids, you are hurting us.

    We have to start holding each other to a higher standard.

    " We cannot blame the white people any longer."
    Dr. William Henry 'Bill' Cosby, Jr., Ed.D.

  • Posted By: RO in Reno @ 10/22/2008 2:05:50 PM

    Obama is clearly picking the best and the brightest, perhaps we are getting beyond the cronyism that has been the method of selecting advisors by the Bush Administration.
    What a concept the Country run by intelligent people; what next? Common sense? Now that will be the change American has been looking for.

  • Posted By: MegaDeath @ 10/22/2008 1:44:54 PM

    It is very interesting that The Little Rascals are going to be the foreign policy advisers for Barack Obama. As always, Obama has no idea, or experience in what it takes to have an definitive plan for foreign policies around the world. Obama thinks that his used car salesmanship tactics will win them over.

  • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 09/08/2008 9:56:09 AM

    ATTN; HERE IS THE OBAMA PLAYBOOK ! GO TO THIS SITE AND READ ALITTLE ABOUT WHERE HE GOT HIS PLATFORM ! http://www.tysknews.com/Articles/dnc_corruption.htm NOT ONLY IS THIS OBAMA'S PLAYBOOK BUT THE WHOLE D.N.C.'S THIS IS WHAT THEY HAVE IN STORE ! ITS NO SURPRISE THAT THE CLINTON'S AND POLOSI WORK OUT OF IT ! READ AND THEN YOU WILL UNDERSTAND WHAT OBAMA IS TRYING TO DO !

  • Posted By: charliesitzes1973 @ 09/06/2008 4:43:17 PM

    Barrack Obama is the Change America so Desperately Needs now and for the future of our country right now

  • Posted By: HillBillyBill @ 08/15/2008 8:07:05 AM

    Barring the effectiveness of some "swift boats" ads (that are sure to come), Obama is the odds-on favorite to become the next president of the US. Therefore, the reaction to his speech in Germany shows that the world is eager for a change in America's foreign policy from the past 8 years. From all indications, the citizens of this country also want a change toward more friendly reations and less antagonistic relations with the world. There are plenty of well qualified people to put in key offices to accomplish this if the president sets the tone for them to succeed.

  • Posted By: peace4world @ 07/09/2008 1:33:11 PM

    Thanks for your article. By now people who have brains have figured already. He is a neo-Marxist. I do not buy any rumors yet what he has said does not make sense at all.

  • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 07/05/2008 8:59:23 AM

    This section of DiscoverTheNetworks examines Barack Obama's connections to a number of key individuals and organizations. In some cases, these affiliates are notable for the leftist views and objectives they share with Obama. In other cases, they are notable for their collaboration with Obama in controversial or unethical activities. In all cases, they offer a window into Barack Obama's values and priorities. Taken as a whole, they verify Thomas Sowell's observation that Obama has "spent decades aiding and abetting people who hate America."


    Radical and Socialist Influences:

    Saul Alinsky
    Bill Ayers
    Carl Davidson
    Frank Marshall Davis
    Democratic Socialists of America
    Bernardine Dohrn
    Gamaliel Foundation
    New Party
    Socialist Scholars Conference


    Political Allies and Advisors:

    Ali Abunimah
    Mohamed Salim Al-Churbaji
    David Axelrod
    Gregg Craig
    Jim Johnson
    Marilyn Katz
    Anthony Lake
    Robert Malley
    Alice Palmer
    Eli Pariser
    George Soros
    Cass Sunstein
    Dorothy Tillman
    Joyce Wheeler
    Tim Wheeler


    Religious Affiliations:

    Louis Farrakan
    Rev. Joseph Lowery
    James Meeks
    Rev. Otis Moss
    Rev. Michael Pfleger
    Rev. Al Sharpton
    Jim Wallis
    Rev. Jeremiah Wright


    Organizational Affiliations:

    ACORN
    Arab American Action Network
    Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, P.C.
    International Crisis Group
    MoveOn
    National Council of La Raza
    Planned Parenthood Federation of America
    Project Vote
    Sojourners


    Academic Affiliations:


    Rashid Khalidi
    Edward Said
    Cornel West


    Foundations:

    Joyce Foundation
    Woods Fund of Chicago


    Money Scandals:

    Nadhmi Auchi
    Robert Blackwell, Jr.
    Tony Rezko


    Family:

    Michelle Obama
    Raila Odinga

  • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 07/04/2008 11:08:48 AM

    WELL ITS THE FORTH OF JULY AND I'M GOING TO THE LAKE WITH MY FAMILY AND MY MARINE CORP BUDDIES WE ARE GOING TO PARTY !!! I'VE GOT MY TRUNKS AND THE SUN SCREEN FOR THE KIDS AND WE ARE ALL GOING TO WEAR OUR NEW OBAMA SLIPPERS ! (THEY ARE FORMERLY KNOWN AS FLIP FLOPS ) THATS WHAT WE ARE CALLING THEM! NOW OBAMA SLIPPERS ALL MY FREINDS SAY THAT IT FITS PERFECTLY... SO LOOK OUT AMERICA BECAUSE OBAMA SLIPPERS ARE COMMING TO A STORE NEAR YOU !!

  • Posted By: j1ggy @ 06/20/2008 4:40:23 PM

    Obama says new politics yet the campaign continues to pick old guard politicians.

  • Posted By: sharenews @ 06/11/2008 7:37:50 AM

    Posted By: sharenews @ 06/11/2008 6:46:41 AM
    Comment: IMPORTANT BULLETIN FOR ALL BLOGGERS ON THIS SITE:

    TO NEWSWEEK STAFF:

    This is to report that there is a FRAUD going on, on this site, in which bloggers are using the names of various bloggers (Obama supporters are most likely the culprits) who are fraudulently writing blogs that are deplorable and tagging them under other bloggers names (non-Obama supporters names). I officially reported such a fraudulent abusive use of fake postings that I just viewed on this site today that affected me personally. This is what it said in which the blogger fraudulently used my name as the poster:

    IT SAID THIS. I NEVER WROTE THIS. SO ALL OTHER POSTERS, ESPECIALLY FORMER HILLARY SUPPORTERS, BEWARE:

    Posted By: sharenews @ 06/11/2008 03:05:43

    Comment: I agree. So why do so many Obama supporters make him out to be a Messiah?

    I NEVER wrote the above comment or ANY mention of Obama being a Messiah. At this point I am ready to bring this abusive process that you are using on your site to FOX NEWS as I have done this before and they are very responsive. I have copied this report to send onto the media if I dont see a stop to the smearing of my name or others on this site moving forward!

  • Posted By: James Wittmeyer @ 06/06/2008 2:30:59 PM

    I'm going to assume that the absence of some people from this story reflects Obama's present status as a candidate (and now nominee), rather than a reflection of the final team he might assemble should he be elected. He has had discussions with such folks as Joe Biden, Jim Woolsey and Colin Powell, all of whom could prove invaluable in constructing the bipartisan, pragmatic, and overarching foreign policy he seems to want. The Clinton approach to foreign policy -- given the tenure of the times -- was inherently small bore; that of Bush has been ideologically, if not politically, driven. I think what most people here and overseas would welcome is an understandable and consistent world view from the planet's only superpower, rather than an America reeling from crisis to crisis.

  • Posted By: mohd sheikh @ 06/06/2008 12:00:21 PM

    The obamas policy to take out forces from Iraq will pave the for reconciliation.I do hope that Obama shall adopt the poicy of peaceful co-existance with the muslims.

  • Posted By: Lee Holmes @ 06/05/2008 3:24:36 PM

    Obamas ''picking the right people and strategies''is in need of desperate tweaking. We will recall that McPeak and Power are no longer on board the Obama foreign policy train,Goolsbee gets involved in amateurish NAFTA theatrics with Canada,and the ''best and brightest''Lake and Rice sat on their damned hands while nearly a million Rwandans were butchered under Clinton. Confusion reigns. Obama is all over the place on his Iran policy and is promptly busted by ABC NEWS yesterday for his flipflopping. He then goes on to state before AIPAC with uncertain certainty that al Qaeda is growing stronger through new recruitments at a time when al Qaeda itself disputes this view in the ongoing fraternal fighting between more moderate blocs within the organization and Zawahiri,which have been observed by NEWSWEAKS Dickey and Zakaria,clearly displaying splintering inside of this group which has ramped up what ire it has left against,of all nations,tiny Denmark. Quite stupidly,those of the old Clinton economic hands Obama brings on board are still tied to the KYOTO failure which even Europe has backpedled away from,knowing that its embrasure will bring national economies to a grinding halt. With Obama,his worshipers will live to see the day when they too can mutter,''all hat and no cattle.''

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