Obama’s Authoritarian Adviser Sunstein Steps Down

[Peter Lemkin]

I would like to answer your concerns about my optimism, Peter.

It was a very long time ago when I read Webster Tarpley's two books on Obama and his ties to Zbigniew Brzezinski who was his professor in the last two years of his sollege career in International Relatuions studies. And I knew of Zbigniew Brzezinski's co-founding of the Trilateral Commission with David Rockefeller, and other such links to the bankers of the world. So, I am not so naive in my optimism as you appear to think. That was before the November 2008 election, too.

I am also aware of the changes experienced by John Kennedy as he matured during his shortened term as president of the United States, and the many battles he had to fight with Wall Street traitors and his own Joint Chiefs of Staff and CIA. Presidents cannot always have the upper hand in leadership and in governance over a large bureaucratic government and a population of a nation of, say as of now, 310 Million people, with many different views, and a mass media which is not always truthful in their journalistic duties. Presidents have always been subjected to compromises with no help from their advisers; even their advisers can be of poor quality. And every president since November 22, 1963, knows that they can be eliminated easily and with no justice to be provided the citizens with the truth of the murder.

Yet look at what Obama has tried to do. He's proposed and supported legislation in various forms, such as his Jobs Act, early and higher education, gender equality in various forms, health care, etc., to improve the economic, political, cultural life, and well-being of the citizens. His opposition in Congress has been strong because of corporate lobbying and the unelected Grover Norquist, and because of Supreme Court rulings (Citizens United Vs. Federal Election Commssion ruling) and other forces that are broadly undemocratic.

That's why I retain some sense of optimism about Obama because the will of the majority of the people is still to be known on November 6, 2012.

That's all for now, but I still like you, Peter, and respect your views. Don't forget that.

Adele

Adele, I don't have any 'concern' about your optimism, nor about your ability to see America clearly - and the players and actions within and of it. I said I hope you were right and I wrong and I repeat that. Somewhere between Dallas and today I have grown very cynical about America changing course [the Elites that run America allowing a course change]...but have never given up the fight to bring about such change. It would be lovely if Obama would begin a change as JFK did [and was IMO eliminated for that change], we can always hope. I just don't see many signs of it - and many signs the other direction. More persons have been secretly arrested, imprisoned and tortured than under W; no part of the UnPatriot Act has been deleted or removed or even challenged; His financial advisors are the vampire squid team itself...and I could go on. Yes, Germany 'changed', but not of its own volition. It lost a war. Who can defeat or even threaten the USA into sanity?! Only the American People, and half of them are brainwashed and the other half too frightened to act. Only a small % dare to speak up and act and are often brutally attacked - physically, with their jobs, or in other ways. As long as one doesn't give up the Good Fight, I thnk it matters little if we are 'optimistic' or 'pessimistic'. Despite my (growing) pessimism I fight on - or why would I post the kinds of things I do here on this Forum [and I do other things in the real world to try to turn things around]. It is just my own best guess; although no one can see the future. As an Environmental Toxicologist I also see with great sadness the killing of the Environment and all the creatures that make it up - by the same forces and with the same lack of moral principles that destroy our polity. A better World IS possible!...and I fight for it anyway I can - mostly to try to awake the sleeping and cowered masses of Americans, and others of developed nations. We're in the same fight. At the EF one of my many signatures under my posts was the quote of Margaret Mead: 'Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." I guess I'm of the 'constructive cynicism' school of philosophy at this point in my life. I personally have lost most everything and suffered greatly at the hands of the bad guys - and perhaps that makes me more the curmudgeon than I would be had I not suffered and lost so much. I'm glad you have hope. I have a little and I fight on, in case I'm wrong and we can pull it off...there really is NO alternative but to try with all out might.