[CitizensTruth] More questionable characters

[Richard Fobes]

What is most concerning to me is Obama's foreign policy.  Zbig Brzenski is a dangerous fellow, defining the term 'hawkish' and very war hungry.  Obama promises to enhance the 'good war' in Afghanistan by tens of thousands of troops and re-depolying troops from Iraq to Afghanistan.  These promises are not humanitarian.  There is no 'good war', especially the illegal war of agression that we engaged in Afghanistan.  I don't want to engage in anger and defensiveness either in talking about Obama, but these things shouldn't be ignored.  

This justification is under the guise of the so-called War on Terror, which we KNOW is based on a lie that is 9/11.  A more accurate decription is the War OF Terror, including ther biggest domestic spying program in history that Obama, unfortunately, is inheriting, not to mention the policy of torture and the Bush doctrine of 'taking the fight to the terrorists'.

Obama's recent FISA vote is concerning.  


The promise to estabish tens of thousands of domestic troops is concerning.  His past loyalties to Israel and AIPAC is concerning, though I read an article yesterday in the Guardian saying the Obama's transition team is saying that they will be ready to talk to Hamas on a low-level diplomacy level.


While I am grateful for the change from Bush, anything would have been better.  


Obama has his plate full (overly full!).  I'm encouaged by some of his words, but not most of his words about foreign policy.  His actions will be interesting.


-Rich


-----Original Message-----
From: Connie Smith <dimension04 at sbcglobal.net>
Sent: 1/11/2009 5:51:28 PM
To: Robin Migalla <rmigalla at earthlink.net>, Truth Group (E-mail) <citizenstruth at six.pairlist.net>
Subject: Re: [CitizensTruth] More questionable characters




I've lost track of it now -- I didn't archive it because I thought it was 
common knowledge anyway -- it being a commentary by Obama about the need to 
create jobs "from the bottom up, not from the top down" -- in other words, 
priority given to local business-building, not global.

I still think he's playing it safe with APPEARING to be no threat to the 
powers-that-be, initially, easing his way into power until he can (almost 
safely) be who he really is -- possibly one of the greatest humanitarians we 
will ever know.

Here's someone he's appointed that's being lauded as a "brilliant pick." 
Being a constitutional law professor -- gosh, we finally have a politician 
who actually KNOWS the Constitution and cares about it!! -- I think this 
sort of appt. shows Obama's true colors.

by Frank Rich:  "One of the sharpest appointments yet made by the incoming 
president may support decisive action: Dawn Johnsen, a law professor and 
former Clinton administration official who last week was chosen to run the 
Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice.

"This is the same office where the Bush apparatchik John Yoo produced his 
infamous memos justifying torture. Johnsen is a fierce critic of such 
constitutional abuses. In articles for Slate last year, she wondered 'where 
is the outrage, the public outcry' over a government that has acted 
lawlessly and that 'does not respect the legal and moral bounds of human 
decency.' She asked, 'How do we save our country's honor, and our own?'

"As Johnsen wrote last March, we must also 'resist Bush administration 
efforts to hide evidence of its wrongdoing through demands for retroactive 
immunity, its assertions of state privilege -- and the implausible claims 
that openness will empower terrorists.'  "

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/opinion/11rich.html?_r=1&th&emc=th





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robin Migalla" <rmigalla at earthlink.net>
To: "Truth Group (E-mail)" <citizenstruth at six.pairlist.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 9:52 AM
Subject: [CitizensTruth] More questionable characters



> Happy Sunday Everyone,

>

> Here's a new site I've just been turned onto that seems like it might be

> another lightworker among us...

>

> http://www.small-mart.org/

>

> Michael Shuman's Blog

> Ideas for Obamanomics: Post-Meltdown Thoughts (Part II)

>

> Posted on November 25, 2008

>

> Many of you were probably dancing in the streets on election night. I 

> was -

> even though I identify myself as an independent. That the country will

> finally enjoy a leader who actually cares about ideas, who speaks

> grammatical English, who believes in science more than ideology, who

> doesn't see ecological or women's rights as liberal conspiracies, who

> exudes discipline, confidence, and charisma, who sincerely cares about the

> have-nots in society, and who won't always resort to war as the answer to

> every national security problem is a huge relief.

>

> But beware. Or, more precisely, be wary. Two weeks before the election, a

> Sunday talk show featured a debate between representatives of each

> campaign: Senator Evan Bayh (D-Indiana) representing Barack Obama versus

> Senator John Kyl (R-Arizona) representing John McCain. When the debate

> turned to which candidate would improve the nation's economic

> competitiveness, the two senators agreed that the goal was to attract more

> global corporations and spent the rest of their time quibbling over the

> best means of doing so. The role of small business was relegated to Joe 

> the

> Plumber.

>

> Obama's Big Thinking

> President-elect Obama has surrounded himself with the visionary captains 

> of

> global capitalism - those who believe that "kinder, gentler" free trade 

> and

> free finance, qualified with corporate responsibility, will save our

> fast-sinking economy. Obama's chief economic advisor during the campaign,

> Jason Furman, is best known for a paper arguing that Wal-Mart, because it

> provides cheap goods for all, is one of the most progressive corporations

> in America. Robert Reich made his career in a series of arguments in early

> issues of The American Prospect suggesting (against Laura Tyson, another

> Obama advisor) that ownership of business generally - let alone local

> ownership - no longer mattered. And as John McCain fairly observed,

> candidate Obama has surrounded himself with experts who made awful calls

> over the past decade about relaxing standards for low-income housing loans

> and deregulating Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, all of which contributed to

> the current financial mess.

>

> What's most worrisome is that no one on the Obama A-Team understands that

> the key to revitalizing the economy and to fixing the financial crisis is

> nurturing and expanding locally owned business. But at the B- and C-Team

> levels there is enormous sympathy for the views of us locavores. So what

> should they be doing? (Full article http://www.small-mart.org/obamanomics)

>

> Color me really grateful for the internet,

> Robin

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