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Title: Huckabee’s Elite Backers
Source: JBS
URL Source: http://www.jbs.org/node/6728
Published: Jan 3, 2008
Author: By JBS Staff
Post Date: 2008-01-03 00:51:13 by TwentyTwelve
Keywords: Huckabee, CFR, GOP
Views: 99
Comments: 3

Huckabee’s Elite Backers

By JBS Staff

Published: 2008-01-07 06:00

The much-touted “Huckabee Surge” in November-December opinion polls has been attributed by the major media pundits to the former Arkansas governor’s performances in the televised GOP candidate debates and the recent discovery of him by Evangelical Christian voters. However, more skeptical observers might be inclined to note that Mike Huckabee’s sudden jump in the polls was assisted by a quantum jump in media publicity, and that Huckabee, the supposed “outsider,” has been given the stamp of approval by the ultimate political “insider” organization: the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).

In a December 16 interview, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer asked the candidate who his foreign-policy advisers are. “Well, I have a number of people from whom I get policy,” Mr. Huckabee responded, mentioning by name Frank Gafney, Richard Haass, and John R. Bolton. Two of the three, Haass and Bolton, are members of the CFR. In fact, as Wolf Blitzer pointed out to the CNN audience, Richard Haass is president of the CFR.

Huckabee’s anointing by the CFR was evident before the CNN interview, however. The council clued in its members that Huckabee was an acceptable candidate with a November 9 Washington Post op-ed by CFR Senior Fellow Michael J. Gerson entitled “The Huckabee Difference.” In the article, Gerson complimented Huckabee’s “compassion,” as exemplified by his record of government programs for the poor while he was governor. Gerson is the author of Heroic Conservatism, published by the CFR, which attempts to redefine political conservatism into a philosophical view that promotes government as the solution to poverty, rather than the traditional conservative view that individual charity, private charitable organizations, churches, and the free market are better fitted for assisting and uplifting those in need. Before joining the CFR staff in 2006, Gerson had been a chief policy adviser and speechwriter for President George W. Bush.

Huckabee penned an article for the January-February 2008 issue of the council’s journal, Foreign Affairs, entitled “America’s Priorities in the War on Terror.” In doing so, he has trod the same path as his fellow presidential aspirants from both parties who have sought to display their CFR imprimatur with recent essays in Foreign Affairs: Hillary Clinton, Mitt Romney, Bill Richardson, Rudy Giuliani, Barak Obama, John Edwards, and John McCain.

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#1. To: TwentyTwelve (#0)

Why beat around the Bush?

The CFR represaents the New York banks. The 300 biggest international banks launder over $500 billion annually in bribes. Source Asia Times www.ATimes.com .

The CFR, the Bilderbergers and associates stea; over $200 billion a year from unaudited federal government contracts. Source: http://www.solari.com/learn/articles_missingmoney.htm

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Horse  posted on  2008-01-03   3:12:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Horse (#1)

The 300 biggest international banks launder over $500 billion annually in bribes.

And a trillion in drug money !

"Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money, and with the flick of the pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again. However, take it away from them, and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in. But, if you wish to remain the slaves of bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create money ." --- Josiah Stamp

noone222  posted on  2008-01-03   3:45:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Horse (#1)

The CFR, the Bilderbergers and associates steal over $200 billion a year from unaudited federal government contracts. Source: www.solari.com/learn/articles_missingmoney.htm

Good website, thanks for the link.

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robin  posted on  2008-01-03   9:40:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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