CFR Presidential Candidates
In his article for Reuters, Laurence McQuillan writes about Dick Gephardt's endorsement of Al Gore. McQuillan mentions Gore's chief democratic rival Bill Bradley, and George Bush Jr., Gore's main republican rival.
What McQuillan doesn't mention is Gephardt and Bradley are members of the Council on Foreign Relations, and George Jr.'s father, President George Bush Sr., was a Council on Foreign Relations director from 1977-1979, and a member of the Trilateral Commission.
Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, George Bush Sr., and Bill Clinton are all Council on Foreign Relations members. Most of them hold membership in CFR international branch organizations the Trilateral Commission and Bilderberg group. For over one-hundred years, the Council on Foreign Relations and the organizations from which they evolved have been striving to achieve the union of all nations under one world government.
Last summer, Gephardt told a TV reporter the time is coming for America to become part of an international regime. The words "Globalization," and "Global Economy" are Council on Foreign Relations globalony.
The government of the United States of America is neither a republic or a democracy. The government of the United States of America is a plutocracy under the control of an organization with only 3000 or so members, the Council on Foreign Relations, whose membership controls more than half the wealth of the United States, and whose loyalty is not to the United States of America, but to the members of the Council on Foreign Relations and it's branch organizations in other nations such as Britain's Royal Institute of International Affairs.
Taking a look at the Council on Foreign Relations connections to the next crop of presidential candidates makes it pretty obvious that the next presidential election will do nothing to change this. McQuillan's article modified to identify Council on Foreign Relations members follows:
>Gore Gains Gephardt Endorsement In 2000 Campaign (Last updated 11:51 AM ET March 15)
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> By Laurence McQuillan
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> MANCHESTER, N.H. (Reuters) - Vice President Al Gore, stressing Democratic unity and tightening his grip on his party's presidential nomination, was endorsed Monday by House Democratic Leader [Council on Foreign Relations member] Dick Gephardt, once his chief rival.
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>Council on Foreign Relations member] Gephardt accompanied Gore on a one-day trip to New Hampshire and Iowa -- the first two states to hold contests in the battle for the White House next year.
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> "I've come to talk about ... Vice President Al Gore," [Council on Foreign Relations member] Gephardt told some 400 cheering party faithful. "He's a wonderful human being and we would all be proud to have him as president of the United States."
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> "I am here today to say that I want to make my fight putting Al Gore into the presidency of the United States," [Council on Foreign Relations member] Gephardt declared, formally endorsing his former political foe for the White House.
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> Gore thanked [Council on Foreign Relations member] Gephardt and vowed that "the fight starts today" to make the congressional leader the speaker of the House by putting Democrats in the majority in that chamber.
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> While at least 10 Republicans are vying to become their party's standard-bearer, Gore's status as the Democratic front-runner so far has generated only one major challenger, former Democratic Sen. [Council on Foreign Relations member] Bill Bradley of New Jersey.
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> [Council on Foreign Relations member] Gephardt had been Gore's primary challenger for the nomination, with both men sharing a similar political power base. As public distaste over the impeachment of President Clinton by the Republican-controlled House grew, however, [Council on Foreign Relations member] Gephardt last month decided to run for reelection in Congress in hopes of becoming speaker.
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> Later, during an exchange with reporters, Gore said he was not troubled by polls showing he trailed Texas Gov. George Bush [ son of CFR member George Bush Sr.], who is expected to seek the Republican nomination.
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> "This is going to be a campaign about ideas," Gore said. "Polls don't win elections, ideas do. This is going to be about a vision of America."
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> Although Gore is still reserving the formality of declaring his candidacy for the White House, his campaign has amassed pledges for the estimated $20 million needed to run an effective race. It will pay the cost of Monday's visit to Manchester, New Hampshire, and Des Moines, Iowa.
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> While Iowa still holds the first party caucuses next February, followed closely by New Hampshire's first primary, candidates soon afterward must pay attention to several major states that will hold elections by mid-March, including California, which in the past waited until June for its primary.
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> Although Gore has taken advantage of the benefits of being vice president to solidify his place as front-runner, he and his advisers want to make certain voters in Iowa and New Hampshire do not feel overlooked.
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> The trip "signals that the vice president, not withstanding his very strong position with regard to the party's nomination, is taking nothing for granted and is going to press his cause aggressively in the early states," said Gore's chief of staff, Ron Klain.
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> "We are not going to be caught with front-runneritis or asleep at the switch," he said in an interview. "We're going to work the early states very hard and try to do our best there."
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> Gore and his advisers have studied the successes and failures of previous vice presidents who campaigned to move to the Oval Office and extend their White House lease for four more years.
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> "I think the best advise we've gotten from everyone in Iowa and New Hampshire ... (is) that its important to show that we're not over confident, that we're not taking anything for granted," Klain said.
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> As his public profile increases, Gore faces increasing scrutiny as well. His aides privately cringed when he misspoke last week and took credit for the Internet. "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet," Gore told CNN.
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> The Internet was created in the 1960s by the Defense Department, long before Gore began his political career. His advisers insist Gore was merely referring to his well-known interest in developing the Internet, but the incident quickly prompted ridicule from Republican critics.
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