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Texan

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(LMAO - this is almost too funny to be true.)

I did a search to see if anybody was discussing President Obama's new National Security Adviser - hoping to find out that it was just a joke. Couldn't find any discussion of Mr. Donilon in that position, but there were several hits for the name that I had forgotten about.

Wonder if any of you Obama supporters would like to comment on this appointment with respect to the Obama pledge not to have any lobbyists in his White House?

Or maybe some of you would like to comment on having a FATCAT lobbyist "Bilderberger" for....National Security Adviser? Huh???




From April of this year:

Obama’s close hometown crony, campaign finance chief and senior adviser Penny Pritzker was head of Superior Bank of Chicago, a subprime specialist that went bust in 2001, leaving more than 1,400 people stripped of their savings after bank officials falsified profit reports. Pritzker’s lawyer at O’Melveny and Myers, Tom Donilon, is now Obama’s deputy national security adviser. He earned just shy of $4 million representing her and other high-profile meltdown clients including Goldman Sachs.

http://ranchers.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=43894&highlight=donilon


From April of last year:

Thomas E. Donilon, Obama’s deputy national security adviser, was paid $3.9 million by the power law firm O’Melveny & Myers to represent clients including two firms that receieved federal bailout funds: Citigroup and Goldman Sachs. He also disclosed that he’s a member of the Trilateral Commission and sits on the steering committee of the supersecret Bilderberg group. Both groups are favorite targets of conspiracy theorists.

http://ranchers.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=33863&highlight=donilon


From 2008:

Several of the officials have ties to Fannie Mae, the government-backed mortgage firm whose implosion this fall contributed to the financial meltdown. Thomas Donilon, overseeing the State Department, is a partner in the law and lobbying firm O’Melveny and Myers who until three years ago lobbied for Fannie Mae.

http://ranchers.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=29774&highlight=donilon


And again from 2008:

Tom Donilon was Fannie Mae's executive vice president for law and policy and secretary to the board of directors until 2005.

http://ranchers.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28517&highlight=donilon
 

Texan

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So....anybody up for a discussion of FATCAT lobbyists in the Obama White House? :lol:

Is this guy really the best person for the job? National Security Adviser? :???:
 

Mike

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Texan said:
So....anybody up for a discussion of FATCAT lobbyists in the Obama White House? :lol:

Is this guy really the best person for the job? National Security Adviser? :???:
I think I know one that won't discuss this with you. :lol: :lol: :lol:

Or maybe he'll say it's Bush's Fault? :wink:
 

hopalong

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Mike said:
Texan said:
So....anybody up for a discussion of FATCAT lobbyists in the Obama White House? :lol:

Is this guy really the best person for the job? National Security Adviser? :???:
I think I know one that won't discuss this with you. :lol: :lol: :lol:

Or maybe he'll say it's Bush's Fault? :wink:

Now who would that be??? :D :D
 

hypocritexposer

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hopalong said:
Mike said:
Texan said:
So....anybody up for a discussion of FATCAT lobbyists in the Obama White House? :lol:

Is this guy really the best person for the job? National Security Adviser? :???:
I think I know one that won't discuss this with you. :lol: :lol: :lol:

Or maybe he'll say it's Bush's Fault? :wink:

Now who would that be??? :D :D

Me?, I refuse to discuss this with Texan, because there are more important things going on in the world of politics.


Did you hear that Christine O'Donnell once slept with a black cat at the foot of her bed. :lol:
 

Lonecowboy

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Oldtimer wrote: http://ranchers.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=29669&highlight=revolving+door

Obama Team Moves to Keep Its Distance From Lobbyists

By Michael D. Shear
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, November 12, 2008; Page A04

Barack Obama campaigned as an anti-Washington candidate, and the leader of his presidential transition team made it clear that the president-elect would seek to build on that theme over the next two months.

His transition chief, John D. Podesta, announced a set of broad regulations yesterday that ban federal lobbyists from participating in Obama's transition, saying the move is designed to ensure "that the undue influence of Washington lobbyists and the revolving door of Washington ceases to exist."
The transition team will not allow lobbyists to work in the subject areas in which they have previously lobbied, Podesta said. And if someone becomes a lobbyist after working on the transition, they will be prohibited from lobbying the administration for 12 months on matters on which they worked.

"I've heard the other complaint, which is we're leaving all these experts on the side. . . . We're leaving all the people who know everything out in the cold," Podesta said. "And so be it." He said a similar ban was likely to be in effect for the actual administration, including an extension of the lobbyist ban to two years.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/11/AR2008111102661.html?hpid=topnews
 

Texan

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None of you people on the O-team want to discuss the qualifications of this political hack/lobbyist to be the freakin' National Security Adviser to the President of the United States of America?
 
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