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Title: Obama: I don't carry a Council on Foreign Relations card or know any 'special handshake'
Source: Raw Story
URL Source: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_no_secret_trade_deals_0331.html
Published: Mar 31, 2008
Author: David Edwards and Eric Mayes
Post Date: 2008-03-31 18:47:26 by robin
Keywords: None
Views: 1293
Comments: 98

Worries about One World Order and a North American Union have been "ginned up by the blogs and the Internet," Sen. Barack Obama told a Lancaster, Pennsylvania audience in a stump speech as he continued his tour through the battleground state.

The Illinois senator also defended the recently re-authorized Patriot Act.

Responding to a question from the audience, asking whether he was a member for the Council on Foreign Relations, a group many allege is leading a move toward one world government, Obama said:

"I don’t know if I’m an official member. I’ve spoken there before. It basically is a forum where people talk about foreign policy. There is no official membership. I don’t have a card, or you know a special handshake or anything like that."

Sen. Hillary Clinton has spoken several times to the club. Comments she made today against NAFTA, were posted on the group's website.

Often, because the council has served as lightning rod for conspiracy theorists, candidates shy away from listing their affiliation with the group.

Vice President Dick Cheney is a former director but has taken pains not to publicize the fact.

"I’ve been a member for long and was actually a director for some period of time," he told members in a speech broadcast on C-Span and now on YouTube, adding, "I never mentioned that when I was running for re-election back home in Wyoming."

The council has been at the center of several One World Order conspiracies with theorists contending that the group is conspiring to bring about one world government and a North American Union similar to the European Union.

Obama dismissed those notions.

"I see no evidence of this actually taking place," he said. "I think this is something that has been ginned up on certain blogs and the Internet. It was based mostly on the fact that there is this highway being built in Texas that will facilitate transportation more transportation between Mexico and the intercontinental United States and Canada...NAFTA helped to break down barriers, but I don’t think there is some conspiracy to create this one continental government."

This video is from CNN.com, broadcast March 31, 2008:

Defends portions of Patriot Act

Obama said he opposed NAFTA because it didn’t offer enough protections to American workers but he defended portions of the Patriot Act which he said he worked on to cut out some of the most objectionable portions.

Free trade has been an issue across the nation in this campaign particularly as many once prosperous industrial states struggle with ways to cope with the changing global economy. It was a critical issue for voters in Ohio where Clinton managed to beat Obama. Pennsylvania voters have expressed similar concerns.

Obama said he did not support NAFTA.

"I was opposed to NAFTA because I thought that it didn’t have the labor and environmental standards and the safety standards that would look out for US workers," replied Obama.

Clinton’s husband oversaw passage of NAFTA but today she called for parts of it to be renegotiated.

"I spoke out against it starting in 1992 -- the president made a different decision," Clinton said. "I think now with 14 years of experience under our belt, we can see that in some parts of our country there have been, perhaps, some economic advantages, but in other parts of our country, like where we are right here in northwest Indiana, it hasn't worked as it was promised, and therefore I think we need to renegotiate it," she told an Indiana audience today.

Obama also spoke about the Patriot Act, which he voted to re-authorize.

The Patriot Act is not the problem, he said. A series of executive orders is what has really eroded civil liberties.

"Most of the problem that we have had in civil liberties were not done in the Patriot Act they were done in executive order by George W. Bush...I will reverse them with the stroke of a pen," he said, listing the establishment of Guantanamo Bay, warrantless wiretaps and the suspension of Habeas Corpus.

Other parts of the law were valid, he said.

"There were some provisions in the Patriot Act that did address changes that needed to take place," said Obama, citing as an example a clause that now allows the government to tap cellular phones.

His work he said, kept many of the worst portions of the law from being re-enacted.

"We instituted a series of amendments that changed some of the worst excesses of the previous law," he said.

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#22. To: robin (#0)

You cannot make it as far as these three candidates have made it without embracing the non-elected rulers and the Council on Foreign Relations.

honway  posted on  2008-03-31   19:33:04 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

You cannot make it as far as these three candidates have made it without embracing the non-elected rulers and the Council on Foreign Relations.

YES!

christine  posted on  2008-03-31   20:20:22 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

IF 4um is a microcosm of the state of our country right now, I think that the vacuum created when Ron Paul left the battlefield has further fractured us. His candidacy turned out to be much more divisive than unifying. Disclaimer: I am not criticizing or blaming Ron Paul. Just sayin'. This is my most humble opinion.

christine  posted on  2008-03-31   20:28:57 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

I think that the vacuum created when Ron Paul left the battlefield has further fractured us.

Did he leave willingly with no undue influence or pressure?

The last time he left due pressure from Pat Buchanan.

Cynicom  posted on  2008-03-31   20:31:14 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Did he leave willingly with no undue influence or pressure?

RP took the dive and stated "I am a Republican Congressman" in his "Surrender To November" "Trotsky" letter...RIGHT AFTER *CPAC* and Romney's endorsement of Juan McStain!

FOH  posted on  2008-03-31   20:35:21 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

RP took the dive and stated

I still have my doubts if Paul wrote that email. If in fact he did, I have to wonder if he was trying to say something between the lines.

Cynicom  posted on  2008-03-31   20:37:31 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

I still have my doubts if Paul wrote that email. If in fact he did, I have to wonder if he was trying to say something between the lines.

I wonder if we'll ever know.

In my heart I believe Ron was honest and sincere...in hindsight he took on the fight reluctantly and who knows what kind and how much pressure or where it originated from, but something about that week wreaked of quit.

I have two vids where RP said, when asked whether or not he would bolt the GOP and run, he was called a "Spoiler" by the NeoCons/Politboro.

He responded "That's what I want them to think".

I wonder if someone of the evil ilk conveyed to him potential personal costs to he and his for doing so...who knows?

FOH  posted on  2008-03-31   20:46:10 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

..who knows?

The Trotsky reference was totally out of context and character, or was it????

Cynicom  posted on  2008-03-31   20:50:05 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

The Trotsky reference was totally out of context and character, or was it????

2 more things:

1) It's alleged that his wife denied that he wrote it. That's all I ever heard about that...

2) The Trotsky quote was never addressed by anyone at the campaign, including RP...

FOH  posted on  2008-03-31   20:53:28 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

1) It's alleged that his wife denied that he wrote it. That's all I ever heard about that...

2) The Trotsky quote was never addressed by anyone at the campaign, including RP..

I was taught long about analytical reading and comprehension.

Namely, taking what is said and was is not said and combining them into one context to arrive at the real and full meaning. Trotsky was 180 degrees out of character, so was there a purpose, a meaning, a warning, a hint, what?

Damned if I can figure it out. If Paul did not write, then Trotsky reference is meaningless, if he did write it, what was the unspoken instigation, or was he in a high state of emotion or frustration.

Time will tell

Cynicom  posted on  2008-03-31   21:02:10 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Time will tell

Do you believe that? I wonder...if I knew then what I know now, I'd have infiltrated the Establishment when I had the chance and be of more use.

FOH  posted on  2008-03-31   21:05:46 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Do you believe that?

Go back to 1913, the warning voice was of Charles Lindbergh speaking against the FED RES, he was ruined and his life threatened.

Later came Huey Long, he was shot, then McFadden he was shot and poisoned then Lindbergh Jr, baby was killed and there were others I have forgotten and now Paul.

Cynicom  posted on  2008-03-31   21:10:06 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Apparently Perot and family were threatened...

FOH  posted on  2008-03-31   21:11:38 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

#74. To: FOH (#73)

But my hand was made strong
By the and of the almighty.
We forward in this generation
Triumphantly.

buckeye  posted on  2008-03-31 21:15:24 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Does anyone see anything odd here???

"McCain, a champion of campaign finance reform, has just $7.9 million cash on hand compared to $33.1 million for Hillary Clinton and $38.8 million for Barack Obama, according to Federal Election Commission filings through Feb. 29. Additional numbers for the first quarter of 2008 will be out within weeks. McCain also has $4.3 million in debt, compared to $8.7 million for Clinton and only $625,000 for Obama, according to the latest figures."

Cynicom  posted on  2008-03-31 21:28:08 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Apparently Perot and family were threatened...

... never heard from again. Can the case be more plain?

Old Fud  posted on  2008-03-31 21:42:59 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

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