WeAreTheKey

Well....here we go.
Obama is filling his administration's different posts with Washington insiders and long-time politicians, just as we feared he might.

What I don't get is, if Obama could win the freaking PRESIDENCY as a general newbie, and that's OK, then why not fill the relatively less important other cabinet positions ALSO with people who haven't been around forever and become likely corrupted by the political disease?

It's kinda hard to make any real sweeping changes when you just swap out the Bushes and put the Clintonians back in charge...
WTF OBAMA.

Man, I don't want to spend the next four years becoming increasingly disillusioned with this guy and end up despising him as much as our last (current) president. I can't handle that.
Anyway, read this.
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27816818/

I wish - sincerely and deeply - that I was surprised by the choices he's made for his cabinet members... but I'm not. Not getting one's hopes up wins out again. It increasingly is looking like more of the same under a different guise - with maybe a couple genuine small budges in the right direction. A small piece of me keeps hoping the necessary change can will it's way through this clusterf&%k but at this point that piece is getting very very tiny...

Yup, after Ron Paul was forced out, the only slivers of hope rested on Mr. Obama. They have to go somewhere, ya know? Can't just smother all hope and call it good I guess. BUT - he's now taken it a step further in the worst possible direction.
Check it out.
Here's a really happy article from Infowars today...

Obama Picks CFR Insider to Head Treasury

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars
November 22, 2008

It’s change we can believe in. President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and CFR member Tim Geithner will take over the job of administering the banker bailout in January.

NBC’s Chuck Todd and former Fed mob boss Alan Greenspan’s wife, Andrea Mitchell, report on Obama’s nomination of Treasury bureaucrat and CFR member Tim Geithner to head up the Treasury.

“NBC News has learned that the president-elect is preparing to roll out his economic team on Monday — and will personally announce the team and answer questions — part of an effort to reassure markets,” writes Domenico Montanaro for MSNBC.

It looks like a more seasoned insider will be pulling Geithner’s strings. “Former Treasury Secretary Summers — also considered for the post — might still play a major future role in the Obama administration, according to sources.” The bankers wanted Summers as giveaway executor but he is politically unacceptable. He blurted out “controversial comments” on “gender issues” while lording over Harvard. Sexism does not play well with the politically correct image of a diversified Obama administration.

Geithner was a senior fellow in the Economics Department of the Council on Foreign Relations and director of the Policy Development and Review Department at the International Monetary Fund. After obtaining an M.A. in International Economics and East Asian Studies from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies in 1985, Geithner went to work for Kissinger and Associates. In 1988, he joined the International Affairs division of the U.S. Treasury Department and was named president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in 2003. He is also a member of the Rockefeller “financial advisory body,” the Group of Thirty, an organization comprised of members from the Bank of England, the European Central Bank, the Federal Reserve, Citicorp and Citibank, the China Construction Bank, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan Chase, in short the very heart of the international banking elite.

In June, Gary Weiss wrote that Geithner was a “central figure” in the “drama” that was J.P. Morgan Chase acquisition of Bear Stearns. “It was Geithner’s Federal Reserve bank, not the Treasury, that came up with the $29 billion loan that made the deal possible or, more precisely, acceptable to J.P. Morgan.” In other words, Geithner was taking orders directly from the international bankers. He is also cozy with AIG, Lehman, and Goldman Sachs.

Obama’s choice of a Federal Reserve, CFR, and Rockefeller insider reveals there will be no change for the plebs, but more of the same and then some — a continuation of pillage and debt slavery. It means we will continue to be subjected to international monetary and trade agreements at the behest of the international bankers and the corporatists. It means our sovereignty will be further eroded and the self-perpetuating cycle of borrowing will continue. It means the bankster plan to loot the country, consolidate wealth, and turn the United States into a third world country based on the China slave labor gulag model will move forward.



Son of a bitch...

And now, in a move that is completely unsurprising, Obama has chosen a man to head the CIA, one of the most important posts a president can make. And WHO does he go with? Someone new, with a fresh perspective, innovative ideas or maybe NOT tied into previous administrations?
NOOOoooo of course not. He chooses none other than Bill Clinton's Chief Of Staff.
To head the CIA.
Ugghhh.....

Transfixed, he needs people who do know how government operates. Look at it this way, Obama isn't loading up his cabinet with cronies and campaign doners who don't know how to do what they were appointed to do.

Remember where the Republicans have taken us since 1995 in general, and 2001 in specific. We now have the highest deficit and debt in the nations history. We can actually track that back to Ronald McDonald Reagan.

The sad truth is that Obama is indeed loading his administration up with long-time Washington insiders, and people from previous administrsations. It isn't at all shaping up to resemble the change we've come to hope for.
Bill Clinton may have been good for the economy, but in reality he was just about as corrupt as the rest of them. People voted for Obama OVER Hillary largely because we didn't WANT to simply return to the Clintons again after Bush.
But Obama makes Hillary Sec. of State, puts Clinton's Chief of Staff into the CIA, and loads up the rest of his positions with CFR members.
The budget deficit may be important, but there are other, extremely important factors to a presidential administration as well.
If a relatively inexperienced individual is good enough for the Presidency, then why not the rest of the administration?
If this "experience" and "knowledge" of how "Washington works" is so important, then why do we swap out Presidents every four years? Why don't we use that logic to justify keeping the same insiders in power indefinitely?!
It is incredibly important, especially at this pivotal time in history, to NOT RELY on the same people who've already become deeply imbedded in the nefarious underbelly of U.S. Intelligence and the secretive geopolitical dominance scheme we've been continually running for decades now.
Keep your fingers crossed for Obama to magically avoid a disastrous attack in the first months of his presidency, because it's almost certain to happen. And not because some vague terrorist entity wants to "test his mettle", but because it allows the entire rest of his term to enact the 'response'. That's how it works these days.
Never underestimate the size of the games these people play. Very big games, which require very big moves. The banker 'bailout' is one of them. Rook to Bishop 4!

Anyway, this article sheds a small amount of light on the uh, less than fresh group of folks about to take power.
Keep your eyes open...

Obama Advisory Board Member Is Senior Exec With Firm Under Federal Investigation For Tax Scam

By Zachary Roth - February 10, 2009, 7:30PM

Last week, President Obama announced the members of his new Economic Recovery Advisory Board.

And one of the names piqued our interest:

Robert Wolf, Chairman & CEO, UBS Group Americas

That's because UBS isn't exactly the kind of company you'd expect Obama might want to associate with just at the moment. It's the subject of a widening federal investigation, being conducted by both DOJ and the IRS, into its offshore private banking services, focused on allegations that it helped an estimated 19,000 wealthy clients evade billions in taxes.

Last fall, Raoul Weil, who ran the firm's global wealth management and business banking division, was indicted in connection with the alleged scheme.

A few months earlier, a former UBS exec, Bradley Birkenfeld, pleaded guilty to helping a client evade millions of dollars in federal income taxes while with the firm.

Of course, there's no indication that Wolf had any connection to the alleged scheme. But it's worth noting that he and Weil did serve together on UBS's Group Executive Board. So it's not like they don't know each other, it appears. (Weil stepped down from the board temporarily after his indictment.)

You'd think President Obama could have rounded out his advisory board with someone from a firm that's not under federal investigation for helping rich people cheat on their taxes -- especially given the current financial climate. Guess not.
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And so the story goes...
Makes me wonder, just as I did with Bush...is Obama really choosing these people? Does he actually have the 'say' in who gets appointed to what? Cause it sure as hell looks like it's shaping up once again that those with the most underhanded power, money, and 'authority' are getting appointed to lead us into a "changed world". What a freaking joke.

I know, I know, big surprise right?

Well, I'm still angry seeing it play itself out. It just really feels like it did under Bush: the ones making decision aren't the ones we think they are. I'm sensing that same old feeling of people pulling strings behind the scenes. Not unexpected, but deeply upsetting nonetheless...

Wow.. you think it would be possible to fill your administration with people who arent in trouble.. I mean this is a rather large country full of alot of people, are we to believe that there arent anyone in the government system who isn't breaking a law of some sort? Wow.. This is truely dissapointing, either we all have been duped, led with the peid pipers false tone of "change" intentionally, OR someone is controlling the situation and is using Barak as the puppet..

which sounds erily like that of the bush administration and truly dissapointing..and infuriating. The last thing this country and this planet needs is another major pitfal in forward momentum. Having an "Icon" for lack of better word such as Barak Obama, the first black president;standing for change, the future, and positivity,eloquent and intellegent, with heart and determination..

Seeing that fall in line, mold and assimilate into all that machine that has controlled and ravaged our societies, and planet for centuries... Seeing that happen is either going to pull everyone into the abyss of jaded apathetic depression, or ferocious rebellion...I tend to believe between the two-due to the fragile state of things the first is more likely than the latter... but maybe I am just.. jaded..