sad isn't it-----but even will all the enemies of this country openly supporting him they voted him in anyway

It's called the BOFC. They see in him a man that is a smooth talker and having the potential to maybe unwittingly further their goals around the world. Hopefully that will not be the case. We will see how emboldened they become, and whether BO is up to the job of protecting the American people. 

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List of Barack Obama presidential campaign staff , 2008

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List of persons holding prominent positions within the Barack Obama presidential primary campaign, 2008.

According to Deputy Campaign Manager Steve Hildebrand, the Obama campaign will have "large-scale operations in 22 states, medium operations in many others, and small staffs in only a handful of states,"^[1] with several thousand paid operatives on the ground between Obama staff and Democratic Party staff. These numbers will include "about 200 paid staffers working in Florida and more on the way, 90 in Michigan with plans to expand to 200 by August, at least 200 each eventually in Pennsylvania and Ohio, and 50 in Missouri with plans to expand to 150, according to published reports and interviews with Obama campaign officials."^[1]

[edit] Inner circle

• Penny Pritzker, National Finance Director.

The vice presidential search committee included:

• Jim Johnson (not accused of any wrongdoing but later resigned to avoid being a distraction)^[2]
• Eric Holder
• Caroline Kennedy

[edit] Early advisors

An early 2007 article in the Chicago Sun-Times lists the following persons in Obama's White House team:^[3]

• Paul Tewes, adviser; business partner of Hildebrand's.
• Bill Burton, national press secretary. Spokesman, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee this cycle.
• Paul Harstad, pollster. Handled Obama's 2004 campaign.
• Cornell Belcher, pollster. Democratic National Committee pollster.
• Devorah Adler, research director. DNC research director.
• Shauna Daly, deputy research director. DNC deputy research director.
• Alyssa Mastromonaco, scheduling and advance. Political director for Obama's Hope Fund political action committee.
• Saul Schorr, media consultant. Runs a Philadelphia firm.
• Julianna Smoot, finance director. Finance director for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee this cycle.
• Cassandra Butts, policy advisor. Previoustly the Center for American Progress think tank. Obama law school classmate. Former senior policy adviser to then-House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt.
• Pete Giangreco, direct mail, Iowa adviser. Partner, the Strategy Group, Evanston. Veteran of several Iowa primaries.
• Dan Pfeiffer, traveling press secretary. Former press chief for Senator Evan Bayh (D-Ind.).
• Matt Rodriguez, New Hampshire campaign manager.

[edit] Foreign policy

By July, 2008 the Obama campaign had some 300 persons working on foreign policy, and organized along bureaucratic lines like a "miniature State Department."^[4] Notable among these people are:

• Dennis McDonough, 38, Obama's "top foreign policy aide."
• Susan E. Rice, assistant secretary of state for African affairs in the Clinton administration.
• Anthony Lake, Clinton’s first national security adviser, who was criticized for the administration’s failure to confront the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 and now acknowledges the inaction as a major mistake.
• Greg Craig, a former top official in the Clinton State Department; also served as Clinton’s lawyer during his impeachment trial.
• Richard J. Danzig, a Navy secretary in the Clinton administration.
• Mark W. Lippert, Obama’s former Senate foreign policy adviser.
• Mark Brzezinski, foreign policy expert and partner at the McGuireWoods law firm. He is the son of former US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski
• Samantha Power, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, writer, and academic. She is currently affiliated with the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Resigned in March 2008 after being quoted in an interview with The Scotsman that Hillary Rodham Clinton "is a monster."
• Dennis Ross, the Middle East envoy for President Clinton and the first President Bush, now a member of the Obama campaign’s Middle East team.^[5] He has advised the Obama campaign on legal issues, including the rights available to Palestinians in the Occupied Territories.^[6]
• Michael McFaul, a Russia scholar at Stanford University and co-director of Hoover Institute's Iran Democracy Project^[7] with Larry Diamond and Abbas Milani, leads the Russia and Eurasia team for the Obama campaign.
• Ivo H. Daalder, a scholar at the Brookings Institution who has organized his 40-member nuclear nonproliferation team into eight working groups.
• Philip H. Gordon, also of Brookings, is in charge of Obama’s Europe team.
• Sarah Sewall, a Kennedy School professor and former Clinton Defense Department official who wrote the introduction to the University of Chicago edition of the new counterinsurgency manual Gen. David Petraeus revised for the military, is advising on counterinsurgency strategy.
• John O. Brennan, president and CEO of the Analysis Corp., advises Obama on foreign policy and intelligence issues.^[8] He is also a former CIA official and the current chairman of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance.
• Merrill McPeak, USAF (ret) figures prominently among Obama's military advisors.^[9]
• Colin L. Powell, former Secretary of State, "has contributed outside advice."^[4]
• As has Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Advisor under Jimmy Carter.^[10]

Former Hillary Clinton supporters:

• Madeleine K. Albright
• Warren Christopher

[edit] Energy policy

• Howard A. Learner, Senior Environmental and Energy policy adviser; prior to the campaign, Executive Director of the Environmental Law and Policy Center.
• Jason Grumet, formerly executive director of the National Commission on Energy Policy.^[11]
• Elwood (Elgie) Holstein, Jr, former Assistant Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere under Bill Clinton.^[12]

[edit] Economic policy

• Austan Goolsbee, 37, a University of Chicago professor and columnist for The New York Times
• Jason Furman, 38, Brookings Institution scholar and expert on tax and budgetary policy and health care
• Jeffrey Liebman 39, a pension and poverty expert at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts
• David Cutler, 41, a Harvard health economist
• Karen Kornbluh, 44, served as policy director in Obama's Senate office, having joined in 2002 after working for the Clinton administration and the New America Foundation in Washington.
• Daniel Tarullo, a professor at Georgetown University in Washington, and a former senior economic adviser in the Clinton administration
• Michael Froman, the chief of staff for former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin who now works with his old boss at Citigroup.

[edit] Domestic Policy

• Cassandra Butts, policy advisor. Obama's friend and Harvard Law School classmate. Previously with the Center for American Progress think tank. Former senior policy adviser to then-House Democratic Leader *** Gephardt.
• Heather Higginbottom, senior policy strategist, former national policy director on John Kerry's presidential campaign

[edit] New Media

• Chris Hughes, developer of Facebook.

[edit] Former members

• Samantha Power, journalist, academic; resigned in April 2008 after calling Hillary Rodham Clinton a "monster."
• Jim Johnson, tapped by Obama to lead his vice presidential search committee. However, Johnson soon became a source of controversy when it was reported that he had received loans directly from Angelo Mozilo, the CEO of Countrywide Financial, a company implicated in the U.S. subprime mortgage lending crisis.^[13], and resigned abruptly on June 11, 2008.^[14]

 I think the author of Magoo's article has a vivid imagination. This is the list of Obama's campaign staff and I don't see the fellow mentioned above on it.

 MAGOO  clinically mad, concludes top psychiatrist
Eminent doctor makes case conspiracy ideology is a mental disorder

One of Barack Obama’s Middle East policy advisers disclosed yesterday that he had held meetings with the militant Palestinian group Hamas – prompting the likely Democratic nominee to sever all links with him.

Robert Malley told The Times that he had been in regular contact with Hamas, which controls Gaza and is listed by the US State Department as a terrorist organisation. Such talks, he stressed, were related to his work for a conflict resolution think-tank and had no connection with his position on Mr Obama’s Middle East advisory council.

“I’ve never hidden the fact that in my job with the International Crisis Group I meet all kinds of people,” he added.

Ben LaBolt, a spokesman for Mr Obama, responded swiftly: “Rob Malley has, like hundreds of other experts, provided informal advice to the campaign in the past. He has no formal role in the campaign and he will not play any role in the future.” The rapid departure of Mr Malley followed 48 hours of heated clashes between John McCain, the Republican nominee-elect, and Mr Obama over Middle East policy.

p.s. Barb thats a pretty scary whos who list, but i guess that is what passes as bipartisan in liberal lala land

Iceman that in recent memory of the Democratic party has been what passes as bipartisan, probably the last 30 years. Thank you Jimmy

the iceman:

One of Barack Obama’s Middle East policy advisers disclosed yesterday that he had held meetings with the militant Palestinian group Hamas – prompting the likely Democratic nominee to sever all links with him.

Robert Malley told The Times that he had been in regular contact with Hamas, which controls Gaza and is listed by the US State Department as a terrorist organisation. Such talks, he stressed, were related to his work for a conflict resolution think-tank and had no connection with his position on Mr Obama’s Middle East advisory council.

“I’ve never hidden the fact that in my job with the International Crisis Group I meet all kinds of people,” he added.

Ben LaBolt, a spokesman for Mr Obama, responded swiftly: “Rob Malley has, like hundreds of other experts, provided informal advice to the campaign in the past. He has no formal role in the campaign and he will not play any role in the future.” The rapid departure of Mr Malley followed 48 hours of heated clashes between John McCain, the Republican nominee-elect, and Mr Obama over Middle East policy.

p.s. Barb thats a pretty scary whos who list, but i guess that is what passes as bipartisan in liberal lala land

unfortunately theere is nothing we cAN do about it now

RachelLG:

Mr. Obama seems to share some eery traits with another historical menace... Hitler.

RachelLG:

Mr. Obama seems to share some eery traits with another historical menace... Hitler.

Um...how so?  That is the most hateful thing I have ever heard.  He doesn't want to kill anyone, or herd them about like cattle.  

NuttyBuddy:

Laugh

irishgreek:

NuttyBuddy:

Laugh

  Hopefully the last laugh won't be on the American people.

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Don't worry it will be.

They voted him in and that is not a Pie in the Sky,

It's a cloud of Nucear debris

NuttyBuddy:

irishgreek:

NuttyBuddy:

Laugh

  Hopefully the last laugh won't be on the American people.

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Don't worry it will be.

 

 

Since you seem to be so sure you know better than the majority of Americans and people across the world that believe Obama is an excellent choice what are you doing just posting crap here about him. Why aren't you trying to run for political office of some kind to help get the country straightened out since you know so much ?

They voted him in and that is not a Pie in the Sky,

It's a cloud of Nucear debris

To call Arafat the most prolific Jew-killer since Hitler is grossly overstating his impact, I think.  Not to mention completely ignoring Stalin...  Arafat clearly killed his share of Jews and other non-Arabs, but thankfully he never got in a position to effect the genocide that he envisioned.

Barbara Jones:

the iceman:

One of Barack Obama’s Middle East policy advisers disclosed yesterday that he had held meetings with the militant Palestinian group Hamas – prompting the likely Democratic nominee to sever all links with him.

Robert Malley told The Times that he had been in regular contact with Hamas, which controls Gaza and is listed by the US State Department as a terrorist organisation. Such talks, he stressed, were related to his work for a conflict resolution think-tank and had no connection with his position on Mr Obama’s Middle East advisory council.

“I’ve never hidden the fact that in my job with the International Crisis Group I meet all kinds of people,” he added.

Ben LaBolt, a spokesman for Mr Obama, responded swiftly: “Rob Malley has, like hundreds of other experts, provided informal advice to the campaign in the past. He has no formal role in the campaign and he will not play any role in the future.” The rapid departure of Mr Malley followed 48 hours of heated clashes between John McCain, the Republican nominee-elect, and Mr Obama over Middle East policy.

p.s. Barb thats a pretty scary whos who list, but i guess that is what passes as bipartisan in liberal lala land

   LOL  Iceman this is a campaign list, one would expect it to be all democratic I would think,  YES ?

NO another of his ideas was to REACH ACROSS the isle, lets see mccain, snow that idiot from pa & i know there is one more liberal that pretends to be republican but i cant think of it right now,    still hopping about over the bill loss to the browns!!!!    WIDE RIGHT AGAIN :))))))))))))))))   thats my BIG grin