NP: Problems with Obama presidency

[Joe Allonby]

That was Linda Lovelace.

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 5:15 PM, <malignd at aol.com> wrote:

> And didn't he play Deep Throat?
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> Hal Holbrook?  A proxy Mark Twain could only be a good thing in any
> Administration:
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
> To: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:35 am
> Subject: Re: NP: Problems with Obama presidency
>
>   malignd wrote:
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> > Hilary may be fine but Daschle is a JOKE... Daschle?  I said Holbrooke.
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> Hal Holbrook?  A proxy Mark Twain could only be a good thing in any
> Administration: Twain decried waterboarding way back in the
> Spanish-American War.
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> Or some other Holbrooke?http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread360930/pg1
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> Obviously few will follow this link, knowing I'm a sucker for conspiracy sites.
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> Richard Holbrooke is the one who may have a frequent visitor pass to
> the White House next year.  Scouring Wikipedia for how this person
> may've aroused malignd's ire, I find this about East Timor:  "Behind
> the scenes, Holbrooke and Zbigniew Brzezinski played point in trying
> to frustrate the efforts of congressional human rights activists to
> try and condition or stop US military assistance to Indonesia and in
> fact accelerated the flow of weapons to Indonesia at the height of the
> genocide"
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> Also he wrote one of the volumes of the Pentagon Papers
> (thread seepage: that is another doorstopper I've got my eye on; and
> having read the White House Tapes back in the day, I hope someday to
> reread that as well)
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> He urged the US toward military action in Central Europe.
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> He negotiated a big United Nations membership dues reduction for the
> US in 1999, and got Ted Turner to chip in a bunch of it, earning a
> standing ovation from a Senate Committee for so doing.  Active in
> bringing Indochina refugees to the US.  Wrote some books, edited
> Foreign Relations magazine, active dude.  Member of CFR, was on board
> of AIG till last July, also Lehmann Brothers in the 80s.
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> All roads lead to the Bilderbergers, Trilateral Commission, Council on
> Foreign Relations...but hey, maybe those guys are also tired of war
> 'n' shit...
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> and it makes me think perhaps this president - since he is connected
> with those groups - will not be assassinated, which can only be a good
> thing even if Mr Obama isn't exactly the idealist we may have been
> hoping for (can you imagine if that grenade had gone off near Bush in
> what was it Croatia? President Cheney declaring new Homeland Security
> Initiatives...)
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