Meet Fred's New (non)Campaign Mgr --

-- As introduced by someone who knows him ....

He hasn't yet entered the Presidential race, and yet Fred Thompson,
yesterday, showed us why he's the scariest Republican Presidential candidate.
And maybe the scariest of both parties.

Don't believe Thompson's claim that he understands the Islamist jihadist threat to America. His announcement, yesterday, of his choice of Spencer Abraham as campaign manager, told us everything we need to know.

Although Abraham, of Lebanese descent, is a Maronite Christian, he is a
career water carrier for Islamists of the most extremist stripe and made that
the cornerstone of his failed, one-term Senate career and equally lousy tenure
as Energy Secretary.

A must read by Debbie Schlussel.

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Fred May be a Pilgram, But He's Not John Wayne

Gull posted this one on Fred a short while back. It has as even more significance now:

It occurred to me last night (I read the press release rather than watching
CSpan), that Fred Thompson is setting himself up as America's 21st Century John
Wayne. Folksy. Articulate. Down-home homie for traditionalists. An aging
old-west cowboy hero, capable of leading the charge -- maybe not from the saddle
of a mighty steed, but at least from the back of a borrowed pick-up. Replete
with conservative themes dealing with everything from ethics, family, fair-play,
less government, yada yada yada.

Keep that image, Fred. America needs
it.

But this man of commendable carriage and the mesmerizing voice
(think Garrison Keillor, James Earl Jones, Paul Harvey, Will Rogers) would be
mincemeat on the political stage against Shrillary.

Read on ....
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Fred's Son: In his Father's Footsteps

From Dick Norris reports:

What did Fred Thompson's son, Daniel, do to earn the more than $170,000 that his firm, Daniel Thompson Associates, was paid from his father's federal political action committee, the Fred D. Thompson PAC?

The records suggest he did next to nothing.

The elder Thompson, an undeclared presidential candidate, left the Senate at the start of 2003. He started The Fred D. Thompson PAC with $378,601 transferred from his senatorial campaign committee.

It's perfectly legal for a former public official to roll leftover campaign funds over to a PAC and use that money to support candidates. Yet very little of these funds actually went to candidates - the bulk of the money was paid to Daniel Thompson.

Daniel Thompson did not reply to efforts to contact him.

From the month the PAC started (April 2003), Daniel Thompson Associates began drawing a monthly retainer of $4,000 for "management consultant services.

"In its first election cycle, the PAC made a total of only $18,000 in contributions to federal candidates and about $8,000 in contributions to Republican committees and non-federal candidates. So, the fund spent about 7 percent of its assets on candidates and elections in its first two years - and about 25 percent on Thompson's son.The next cycle (2005-2006), the fund gave $21,200 to federal candidates and about $27,500 to non-federal candidates and party committees - and $84,000 to Daniel Thompson's firm.To date, the PAC has paid $176,000 to the son's firm, $46,000 for federal races, $35,000 in other political donations and $62,700 to charity. The senator's son, in other words, accounts for more than half the outlays.PAC funds can be used to hire relatives.

In 2001, the Federal Election Commission ruled that Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. could use federal campaign funds to hire his wife as his campaign manager. But Mrs. Jackson was experienced in running campaigns and raising funds and had worked on a congressional staff. It clearly wasn't a no-show job.The FEC ruled that a campaign could hire a family member "at market value for bona fide campaign services."

But it's hard to find any evidence of bona fide work done by Daniel Thompson Associates for his father's PAC.

Presumably, Fred Thompson made the decision about what money would go to candidates - especially since many of them were his former colleagues.

Maybe Daniel Thompson wrote the 20 checks a year that the PAC mailed out. How much time or skill could that take? Not $85,000 a year worth.

The PAC appears to have had no office, no phone and no employees other than Daniel Thompson. Minor amounts went for spot telephone and Internet bills, and for an accountant.

And the PAC did no real fund-raising.

In its four years, it raised just $700 - two contributions from former Fred Thompson associates.

All other income appears to have been interest payments.The fund did pay a nearly $7,000 to Aristotle Publishing, a company that licenses software for Internet fund-raising, including a $1,000 licensing fee in the fund's last days several months ago. The initial fees were for "conversion, training, and support."

Interestingly enough, Daniel Thompson is now a professional fund-raiser for Lawson Associates in Nashville. According to the firm's Web site, he consults with clients all over the country to raise funds for non-profit groups in their capital and endowment campaigns.

Too bad he couldn't help Dad raise money, too.

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Fred and the Shadow Government

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is generally known for being a think tank, a VERY powerful think tank.

I actually believe they are more than a think tank and I will go over why.

Their members include the most powerful politicians, corporations, and special interests in the world; I will list some of them later. CFR’s mission is to create a global government, but first they must undermine America’s sovereignty to do so. Right now they are working on creating the North American Union which will make the U.S, Mexico, and Canada basically one entity who share military, police, education, economy, homeland security and more. Our tax money would be poured into those other countries to build them up and put them on the same page as America.

CFR admits that in order to do this we must cede our American sovereignty, and of course that is true if we mesh with the other countries, we would have no other choice.

Here are some quotes from CFR members:

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is the American Branch of a society which originated in England... (and) ...believes national boundaries should be obliterated and one-world rule established." - Carroll Quigley, member of Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), mentor to Bill Clinton

"The main purpose of the Council on Foreign Relations is promoting the disarmament of U.S. sovereignty and national independence and submergence into an all powerful, one world government." - Admiral Chester Ward, former CFR member and Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Navy

"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 (CFR member), founder of the sister organization - Trilateral Commission, in an address to a meeting of The Trilateral Commission, in June, 1991.

"Once the ruling members of the CFR shadow government have decided that the U.S. Government should adopt a particular policy, the very substantial research facilities of (the) CFR are put to work to develop arguments, intellectual and emotional, to support the new policy, and to confound and discredit, intellectually and politically, any opposition." - Admiral Chester Ward, former CFR member and Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Navy

"The powers of financial capitalism had (a) far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences. The apex of the systems was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world's central banks which were themselves private corporations. Each central bank...sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world." - Carroll Quigley, member of Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), mentor to Bill Clinton, quote from “Tragedy and Hope”, 1966

"We shall have world government whether or not you like it, by conquest or consent."-Statement by Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) member James Warburg to The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on February 17th, 1950

"The New World Order will have to be built from the bottom up rather than from the top down...but in the end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece will accomplish much more than the old fashioned frontal assault."-CFR member Richard Gardner, writing in the April l974 issue of the CFR's journal, Foreign Affairs.

"An agreement was reached; the policy of the papers was bought, to be paid for long-held promise of a New World Order where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind."-George Herbert Walker Bush

CFR President Richard Haass, on globalization andsovereignty: http://www.cfr.org/publication/9903/sovereignty_and_globalisation.html?breadcrumb=%2Fi ssue%2F109%2Fsovereignty

I suggest reading it all (it’s not long). There are many interesting and scary quotes; here are a couple of them:

"Globalization thus implies that sovereignty is not only becoming weaker in reality, but that it needs to become weaker. [UN] States would be wise to weaken sovereignty in order to protect themselves, because they cannot insulate themselves from what goes on elsewhere. Sovereignty is no longer a sanctuary.”

"Our notion of sovereignty must therefore be conditional, even contractual, rather than absolute.”

Here are some members of CFR:
Dick Cheney
Al Gore
Jonothan S. Bush – GWB’s first cousin
Tommy Thompson
Fred Thompson
Robert M, Gates
Condoleeza Rice
Paul WolfowitzRichard Perle
Colin Powell
Madeleine Albright
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Henry Kissinger
Alan Greenspan
Jimmy Carter
David Rockefeller Jr.
John D. Rockefeller, IV
Bill Clinton
John Edwards
John Kerry
Nelson Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller, 3rd
and many more…(I’ll give a link to see more)

Corporate members:
Boeing
Halliburton
ExxonMobile
Lockheed Martin
Shell Oil
Time Warner (owns a lot of big media)and …many more including banks and other news agencies, ect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council...eign_Relations

The presidential candidates:

Fred Thompson: This is a program showing upcoming highlights for a convention/meeting for CFR members. Fred's picture is in there and saying how he is a member. http://www.cfr.org/content/about/annual_report/ar_2001/052-058.pdf

Hillary Clinton: http://www.cfr.org/publication.html?id=6600 - Hillary Clinton at a CFR meeting, she talks about moving towards a global government in parts of it. The fact that she is allowed to go to a CFR meeting and give a speech says more about her views on foreign policy than anything. http://clinton.senate.gov/news/statements/details.cfm?id=265807

And here she is again speaking at another CFR meeting on 10/31/06. This time on video.
I know it’s long. You can watch it or not, but the point is she isn’t debating them. She supports them, just like her husband.

John Edwards: http://stage.cfr.org/publication/13432/ -

Here John Edwards gives a speech at CFR. If you read it, you will notice his speech emphasizes hardcore nation building and hardcore policing of the world.

Now here is Dick Cheney (I know he isn’t running). I wanted to leave this for last. Watch Cheney at a CFR meeting, getting a question from Rockefeller…and WATCH Cheney’s response. This will get you angry, especially after all you know about CFR. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdxLYuvvbgs

Here is some history on the CFR. It's not much but it is an introduction to the history. http://youtube.com/watch?v=QvsbJDlYWIw

So should we hope Fred Thompson won’t be like all of his other CFR peers?

Is he really a conservative and not a globalist?

Based on his CFR membership it doesn’t look good. Same goes for all the other candidates.

The theory that the conservatives are the good guys and the liberals are the globalists and there is some kind of battle within CFR...is without any evidence.

If this was true, then the conservatives who are tainted with CFR membership would come out with this. Dick Cheney wouldn't be ashamed of his membership either (watch the video if you haven't).

Also you can only get into CFR through invitations coupled with recommendations. Why would CFR invite people with opposing views and who could sabotage their agenda?

Wouldn't there be WAY more whistleblowers?

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From Educating the Public

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The Sum of All His Parts?

Fred Thompson: Former Senator, lawyer, lobbyist, actor, consultant; current sorta-kinda-maybe candidate for the Presidency of the United States with a far-right following comparable to a pack of hounds baying at a treed possum.

We're gonna watch to see how FT's parts "fit" and frame the man who can't yet decide to decide ....

Our first factor of contention: If Fred D. Thompson were to become the Republican nominee in 2008, his losing percentage will exceed that of Bob Dole who ran against the "other" Clinton in 1996.