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February 16, 2008

Barack Obama enjoys Widest National Lead yet

This is definitely positive news for Obama and his supporters: a 49% to 42% lead in popularity nationally.

Note also that Clinton peaked at 51%-52% on Super Tuesday and the day after. Her current 42% matches her lowest point, on January 29th, just before Edwards left the race. She held a 13 pt edge at her zenith, on Super Tuesday. The net shift since then has been 20 pts. (She dropped 10 while he increased 10).

It looks like Obama may match her peak by Tuesday’s primary, when WI and HI vote.

In such a short period, I’ve never seen such a turnaround in a Democratic primary race before, though I suspect something similar occurred between Dean and Kerry in Dec2003/Jan2004. Which makes it a precarious place for Clinton to be. She’s set the bar high for her March 4th performance. This Tuesday and that date, she can’t afford to miss the bars she set for herself.

2 Responses to “Barack Obama enjoys Widest National Lead yet”

  1. Obama Says:

    First, let me share the facts:

    **Democrat CFR member Candidates:**
    Barack Obama: Also, his wife Michelle Obama is on the Board of Directors in the Chicago branch of the CFR.
    Hillary Clinton
    John Edwards
    Chris Dodd
    Bill Richardson

    **Republican CFR member Candidates:**
    Mitt Romney
    Rudy Giuliani
    John McCain
    Fred Thompson
    Newt Gingrich
    Mike Huckabee: Huckabee is not a CFR member, though he named Richard Haas, president of the CFR, as his adviser on foreign policy. On Feb. 21, 2006, Hass wrote a column for the Taipei (China) Times titled, “State Sovereignty Must Be Altered in Globalized Era.” This is an explicit solicitation for global government. Here is the article –http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2006/02/21/2003294021

    So what is the “CFR” anyway?

    The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is David Rockefeller’s private thinktank. This group has nothing to do with our government since it is entirely private. This group is pro-war and pro-North American Union (loss of American sovereignty and loss of Constitutional protections). You can read more about this group at –
    http://www.infowars.com/articles/nwo/cfr_stacks_deck_with_dem_gop_presidential_candidates.htm

    Here’s a short video of a discussion between Dick Cheney (ex-director of CFR) and David Rockefeller, which reveals their close-knit ties –
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbnpN07J_zg

    The Money Masters (documentary, part 1)
    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6076118677860424204

    The Money Masters (documentary, part 2)
    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7336845760512239683

    Reviews of “The Money Masters” documentary from financial experts
    http://www.themoneymasters.com/reviews.htm

    America: Freedom to Fascism (documentary)
    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1656880303867390173

    About the director of “America: Freedom to Fascism,” Aaron Russo
    http://www.freedomtofascism.com/about_aaron/about_aaron.html

    Spin (documentary)
    Spin is a surreal expose of media-constructed reality
    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7344181953466797353

    About the creator of “Spin,” Brian Springer
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Springer

    “Corporate Media Censorship (part 1)” by Daniel Estulin
    http://www.danielestulin.com/?op=noticias&noticias=ver&id=349

    “Corporate Media Censorship (part 2)” by Daniel Estulin
    http://www.danielestulin.com/?op=noticias&noticias=ver&id=353&idioma=en

    QUOTES OF INTEREST, RELATING TO CFR, TRILATERAL COMMISSION, AND BILDERBERG:

    “The most powerful clique in these (CFR) groups have one objective in common: they want to bring about the surrender of the sovereignty and the national independence of the U.S. They want to end national boundaries and racial and ethnic loyalties supposedly to increase business and ensure world peace. What they strive for would inevitably lead to dictatorship and loss of freedoms by the people. The CFR was founded for “the purpose of promoting disarmament and submergence of U.S. sovereignty and national independence into an all-powerful one-world government.” Harpers, July l958

    “This present window of opportunity, during which a truly peaceful and interdependent world order might be built, will not be open for too long - We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.”
    -David Rockefeller speaking at the UN, Sept. 14, 1994

    “We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the work is now much more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries.” — David Rockefeller, founder of the Trilateral Commission, in an address to a meeting of The Trilateral Commission, in June, 1991.

    1973, August 10: The New York Times publishes “From a China Traveller” by David Rockefeller, who writes about Communist China: “One is impressed immediately by the sense of national harmony….There is a very real and pervasive dedication to chairman Mao and Maoist principles. Whatever the price of the Chinese Revolution, it has obviously succeeded not only in producing more efficient and dedicated administration, but also in fostering high morale and community purpose. General social and economic progress is no less impressive….The enormous social advances of China have benefited greatly from the singleness of ideology and purpose….The social experiment in China under Chairman Mao’s leadership is one of the most important and successful in history.”

    1974 - Richard N. Gardner writing in Foreign Affairs (CFR’s publication) April 1974 Article entitled The Hard Road to World Order, “In short, the “house of world order: will have to be built from the bottom up rather than from the top down. It will look like a great “booming, buzzing confusion,” …….but an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault.”

    “We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money.” Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., in Foreign Affairs (CFR publication) (July/August 1995)

    “Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order [referring to the 1991 LA Riot]. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government.” Dr. Henry Kissinger, Bilderberger Conference, Evians, France, 1991

  2. Kevin Hayden Says:

    I’m familiar with the cfr. You also ought to read Who’s Running America? by Thomas Dye. I do think the cross-pollination of corporate boards, and the think tanks spawned from similar quarters are something to be aware of.

    I’m not convinced membership on the CFR or others are automatic evidence that such folks can’t make decisions independent of what they hear and debate. Participation permits weighing a broad range of opinions from a lot of experienced people (and, yes, some stinkers, too.)

    One can’t develop policy and implement it without hearing views one may oppose. So I’m not alarmed by CFR membership but I think it important to be aware of it.