If he wasn't the darling of the Right, then please explain to me why I was attacked so vehemently by plenty of people on the Right every time that I said something bad about him and/or his administration?
No, that's just because you have this annoying, delusional tendency to pigeon-hole anyone who disagrees with you as being "on the Right." And then you usually make bizarre claims that whoever it is must be taking marching and talking point orders from whatever you imagine is "the Right's" central-command talking-point distribution center.
Anyway, back to the "there is no right/left" issue, I'm going to bring up the
Council on Foreign Relations. If you haven't heard of that group, you need to research it. They are the ones leading the country, regardless of who's actually in the White House. This is where the
real central-command talking-point distribution center is!!!
Don't take my word for it, take
Hillary Clinton's. On the 15th, she addressed the CFR at their new office in DC, saying:
Thank you very much, Richard, and I am delighted to be here in these new headquarters. I have been often to, I guess, the mother ship in New York City, but it’s good to have an outpost of the Council right here down the street from the State Department. We get a lot of advice from the Council, so this will mean I won’t have as far to go to be told what we should be doing and how we should think about the future.
If you read that other thread on Goldman Sachs, the tip of the CFR's
corporate membership roster may be interesting:
Corporate Membership
(as of July 20, 2009)
Founders
Bank of America / Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
Hess Corporation
McKinsey & Company, Inc.
The Nasdaq OMX Group
Their membership rosters are public, and you can google up lists where people have cross-checked the roster to find out what the person's job is. It is just plain jaw-dropping finding out how many members are in top government, financial, educational, legal, corporate, and media positions.
Every presidential administration since Woodrow has been packed with CFR members from top to bottom. The CFR picks the candidates, the CFR-media members hype the candidates they want and ignore the ones they don't (example: Ron Paul vs John McCain -- I don't know any Republicans who actually liked McCain or even wanted to vote for him, but Ron Paul got ignored off of the mainstream media) and ask soft-ball questions that shape the debate. And when that candidate is elected, the CFR tells him whom to appoint to all the various cabinet positions. No matter which "party" is in power, the leadership and agenda is the same.
This is barely a lightweight-class conspiracy theory, and only because the CFR publicly claims that it is just a non-partisan think-tank. It is indeed non-partisan -- they don't prefer Republicans vs Democrats -- but as Hillary says, they tell their members how to think and what agendas to support.
Two books on the CFR:
The Shadows of Power: The Council on Foreign Relations and the American Decline
Tragedy & Hope: A History of the World in Our Time by Carroll Quigley (Bill Clinton's favorite and most influential (Bill's words) teacher)
