The Global Elite, The Story of Power

Newsweek by Jon Meacham | Dec. 21, 2008 (Special Report)

Barack Obama has a good Al Gore story. Sometime after the 2000 election, Obama called on a corporate executive in a big office with a terrific view of midtown Manhattan. The businessman had been an ardent Gore supporter, and the former vice president had recently asked him to consider investing in a startup television venture. "It was strange," the executive told Obama. "Here he was, a former vice president, a man who had just a few months earlier been on ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Leo Romero - Dec 20, 2008 - 11:10 PM PST
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Leo Romero
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 by Leo Romero - Dec. 20, 2008
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George Blahusiak
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 by George Blahusiak - Dec. 21, 2008

Greaat story, but unless I missed it the writer should look up the definition of politics in the dictionary. It says "the pursuit of power to exercise control". It doesn't say anything about honest, or integrity, or good government and it certainly doesn't say anything about benefit of the governed. But I give it high marks anyway as it discusses the use of power. Maybe people caan figure it out from there. I mena, look at Julius Ceasar, Big Julie to his friends, until the so called friends decided they wanted the power for themselves.

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Nick Pollitt
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 by Nick Pollitt - Dec. 21, 2008
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Kenneth Sibbett
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 by Kenneth Sibbett - Dec. 21, 2008

Mr. Meacham writes a story with no beginning and no end. That into itself is power.

Let's hope Obama doesn't let the power of the Presidency overwhelm him as Emperor Bush and the Dick of Earl. They had to realize that in some point in time their world was going to stop turning. While it may take years, or maybe decades, what they hath wrath will be undone. Until then, may they have nightmares that will scare the Devil himself.

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