A Bag of Puke

"I Knew He  Was No Good"

Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg

Some conservatives in the media, including Fred Barnes, Bill Kristol and Mona Charen, have stated that they are impressed by some of Obama's high-level appointments and that he is coming across as mainstream and moderate. But what are the former terrorists who are backing Obama saying?  “ On the Rag Blog website, Mark Rudd makes some revealing remarks of his own, defending the "conservative appointments" of the President-elect and saying that they are part of a deliberate strategy to "feint to the right" and "move left." He explains, "Any other strategy invites sure defeat." Rather than immediately propose cutting the military budget, for example, Rudd suggests that Obama will pursue security "through diplomacy and application of nascent international law" and lay the groundwork for eventual defense cuts. [Cliff Kincaid's Is Obama Following the Leninist Line? continued] ” I wonder if Bill Kristol will call him Obooty-boot, and see God in his eyes?  In somewhat the same vein, The Financial Times's Gideon Rachman sees a world government in our future [duh]. “ I have never believed that there is a secret United Nations plot to take over the US. I have never seen black helicopters hovering in the sky above Montana. But, for the first time in my life, I think the formation of some sort of world government is plausible. g But – the third point – a change in the political atmosphere suggests that “global governance” could come much sooner than that. The financial crisis and climate change are pushing national governments towards global solutions, even in countries such as China and the US that are traditionally fierce guardians of national sovereignty. Barack Obama, America’s president-in-waiting, does not share the Bush administration’s disdain for international agreements and treaties. In his book, The Audacity of Hope, he argued that: “When the world’s sole superpower willingly restrains its power and abides by internationally agreed-upon standards of conduct, it sends a message that these are rules worth following.” The importance that Mr Obama attaches to the UN is shown by the fact that he has appointed Susan Rice, one of his closest aides, as America’s ambassador to the UN, and given her a seat in the cabinet. [Continue to find the name Strobe Talbot crawling out of the Clinton crypt of horrors.] ”