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Eric Holder, Jack Quinn and the Rich pardon

It's premature to criticize Obama for his establishment-soothing appointments. But it's just as premature to heap praise on him for those appointments.

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  • Tuesday, December 2, 2008 10:41 PM

    Oh come on, Glenn

    You said:

    "By all means, wait to judge Obama based on his decisions and policies, not who he appoints to administer them."

    I can't believe this is the same Glenn Greenwald I've been reading for almost a year! Did the fact escape you that Obama's cabinet appointments *are* his first decisions? Who he appoints to administer his policies will make all the difference in the world. Think Rumsfeld, Rove, Card, Ashcroft, oh my, how much clearer a picture do you need.

    Obama had an entire universe to choose from; he's supposedly in sympathy with rising-star types like himself, yet we see the same troubling faces, the same elitist framework, only this time it's the left-hand version of the Council on Foreign Relations crowd, with Zbigniew Brzezinski and Henry Kissinger in the wings feeding everyone their lines.

    I'd puke if I wasn't so scared. These people are crazier than the neocons. They talk delightedly of a world monetary system, one-world government, elimination of 80% of the population, grand theft of global resources for their own benefit-- the most despicable ideas imaginable. Why are we trusting a man who has been groomed by these Brzezinski-ites for 25 years?

    I hope you'll join the rest of America as we exercise together in Obama's cheery civil preparedness camps, getting buff for our new positions as laborers rebuilding America's crumbling infrastructure--roads, bridges, and schools-- because all our jobs are disappearing into thin air. (google Obama rebuilding infrastructure)

    Yes, it's a happy day for the globalists.

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