VI. Grabbing a Senate Seat with a Little Help from his Trilateral Friends 249U.S. history, the third to have been popularly elected, and the only African-American currently
serving in the Senate.’ (Wikipedia entry on Obama)^108
Especially sinister is the presence of Tom Daschle, notorious as the senator from Citibank,
which happens to be one of the largest employers in the state of South Dakota because of the
presence of some of its back-office facilities there. Daschle embodies in the cringing appeasement
and milquetoast opposition which was typical of the Democratic Party during Bush’s first term. He
lost his seat to the upstart Thune because of his numerous betrayals and he is now attempting to
reinvent himself thanks to the Hope Meister.
STRIPPING THE RUSSIAN NUCLEAR DETERRENT WITH DICK LUGAR
Naturally, everybody in Washington is in favor of stripping away as much of the Russian nuclear
deterrent as can be managed, so this was a very noncontroversial choice for Obama, and happened
by some coincidence to also coincide perfectly with the anti-Russian priorities of his longtime
mentor and controller, Zbigniew Brzezinski. Soon after he was sworn into office on January 4,
2005, Obama partnered with Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana to craft a bill that attempted
to undermine the Russian deterrent under the pretext of destroying weapons of mass destruction in
Eastern Europe and Russia. The choice of the reactionary Lugar was significant, since this is a
figure whom Obama is known to be considering either for the vice presidency or for a post like
secretary of state.
Lugar was one of Obama’s first mentors in the Senate, and was at that time the chairman of the
Foreign Relations Committee. Lugar later invited Obama on a trip through the former Soviet
Union, inspecting projects to decommission Cold War-era weapons. The two joined hands to
pass legislation to control the spread of weapons. “I like him, and I appreciate working with
him,” Lugar said. “It seems to me that he was adept in finding partners and coalitions and
actually was able to achieve results.” In addition to a legislative accomplishment teaming with
Lugar, the partnership gave Obama the added credibility he sought in an association across
party lines. A former presidential candidate who has seen many fellow senators launch White
House bids during his 30-year Senate career, Lugar offers unusually strong praise for Obama.
“He does have a sense of idealism and principled leadership, a vision of the future,” Lugar said.
“At certain points in history, certain people are the ones that are most likely to have the vision
or imagination or be able to identify talent and to manage other people’s ideas. And I think he
does this well.” (New York Times, March 9, 2008)AUSTERITY FANATIC TOM COBURN AND WARMONGER JOE LIEBERMAN
Obama also gravitated to another notorious reactionary, Republican Sen. Tom Coburn of
Oklahoma, with whom he created a website that tracks all federal spending. Radical right-wingers
were intrigued by Obama’s ability to camouflage proposals for brutal austerity and savage cuts in
the standard of living under the fatuous cloud of utopian babbling. By now, these reactionaries also
had a pretty good idea that Obama was a candidate with a glass jaw, and much less formidable in
the 2008 election than Senator Clinton would be.
“...nobody should imagine that the right-wing media whose voices now praise Obama will
continue to do so if he wins the Democratic nomination, or that the mainstream media, which
still takes so many cues from the right, will do likewise.” This article also talks about Obama’s
“free ride” that I have been talking about for the longest time along with his “mentor”