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February 26, 2008 - 4:42pm.
Imagine, if you will, that you have just been awarded a new NFL franchise. One of the big things you have to do, other than coming up with gobs of money, is pick a head coach. So you look around at head coaches, assistant coaches, offensive and defensive coordinators, etc., and develop a short list of perhaps five people. Your interview process is one question: How popular are you going to be with the fans? Dumb! You will ask lots of questions; do you believe in run and gun offense? Do you think defense is more important than offense? Whom would you pick to be your coaching staff? Assuming the following list of players from an expansion draft, which would you pick and why? But here we are more than halfway through our Presidential election cycle and we haven't asked any of the short list candidates about the kind of advisors, assistants, and team they would put together. Look at some of the bad advisors and team members from the last 50 years: Sherman Adams, Richard Nixon, Bush I, Dick Cheney, Ed Meese, Earl Butz, Halderman and Ehrlichman, John Dean, Oliver North. The list goes on and on; this is just the tip of the iceberg. But that is exactly how we pick our Presidents. We get the candidates to prove how popular they are with the voters, then nominate them. Almost without exception there has been no input on the candidates for Vice President, let alone for the team members the candidate is contemplating. And I do not for a second believe that McCain, Obama, or Clinton would be telling the truth if they said, prior to the election, "I haven't given it any thought. I will after I have been nominated." I wonder if John Kennedy would have won in 1960 had the public known that he was intent on having his brother as Attorney General. On the other hand, he may have won much more handily if the electorate had seen that he did have a team in mind, and not too bad a team at that. I would like to see one of our three frontrunners be the first to take this step towards giving the voters a look at his or her team-building ability. I wish I could sit there on the podim at the next debate and say to each of the candidates: Who is on your short list for each of the following positons and why? What are their characteristics as people and as managers? What makes you think they can work with one another well at the Cabinet level to ensure that you have the best administration we as voters can ask for? I don't want a politician in a poke, I want a team approach to running our government.  Technorati Tags: News
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Hi Ted
Submitted by Carl Nemo on February 26, 2008 - 8:42pm.Hi Ted Remington...
Excellent commentary concerning the duds that make it to the Whitehouse as well as the advisors to these same losers.
There's a reason as to why this happens. The American electorate has never "picked" anyone for the Whitehouse in the history of this nation even in the earliest days of the Republic. Rest assured the super wealthy regardless of the time and place in history are not going to allow the unwashed proletariat to select their leaders or advisors to the same.
Whether it was via the newspapers of old, or the use of modern electronic media, the players are first selected through a culling process that goes on via the network of "rich man's club" systems throughout the U.S.; ie., the Knickerbocker Club, the Cleveland Club, the National Press Club and a host of other exclusive nationwide clubs. Once a consensus is reached then they utilize their wealthy media connection counterparts through these very same clubs to proffer their pre-selections to the U.S. electorate via their national media outlets; ie., newspapers, magazines, TV, radio, the www etc.
Then all the campaign hoopla unfolds up to an including the conventions, but regardless of who is seemingly elected by the unwashed masses the super rich always get one of their duty shills indemnified to the Whitehouse through this smoke and mirrors process. Btw, all the money thought of as wasted on campaigns gets conveniently funneled into the pockets of these wealthy mattoids that own all the nation's media outlets too. One hand washes the other.
It doesn't matter one bit if Obama, Hillary, or McCain makes it to the Whitehouse in January 2009 because all three will marching to the drumbeat of their super rich, shadowy corporatist controllers.
For some time I've urged CHB'rs to pick up a copy of "The Rich and the Super Rich" by Ferdinand Lundberg. It lays out how the entire U.S. corporate and political system really works and no finer work has ever been written that either contradicts or supersedes this seminal work.
http://www.namebase.org/sources/dZ.html
http://www.amazon.com/Rich-Super-Rich-Study-Power-...
I guarantee that once folks read this work, it will leave them both hushed and humbled as to why the more things seem to change the more they remain the same or worse. Nothing just happens in politics or world events, we are being being led up the ramp to our collective slaughter by pol "judas goats" that we all so willingly embrace; only being allowed to think we are selecting them through the nomination process. Electing; ie., indemnifying the shadowy oligarchs' choices yes, but definitely not selecting or controlling them while in office.
Carl Nemo **==