The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants

Every time the progblogs tell you that the dreaded mainstream media favors Hillary, ask yourself: How much does the average person know about the Tony Rezko trial? Does the average person even know that the trial exists?

Does the average person know that Rezko made millions from fraudulent state contracts that Obama helped him get? Does the average person know that Obama lied about knowing Rezko until an FBI mole revealed that the two men were in communication nearly every day? Would the Rezko trial be unspeakable if it involved Hillary?

Time and again, the progblogs refer obliquely to Hillary's alleged "Republican" associations. Oh yeah? Look at Obama's crew:

On economics, we have Austan Goolsbee, a Milton Friedmanite who strongly supports unfettered "free trade." (An Obot reader tells me that Austan is a left-wing Friedmanite. That's like saying "I was the tallest midget in Time Bandits.") We also have the Cato Institute's Jeff Liebman, who wants to privatize Social Security, as Bush had hoped to do. David Cutler is the guy who put together the health-care plan designed to leave millions of the poorest uninsured. Both Cutler and Goolsbee strongly oppose single-payer health care -- and both opposed Michael Moore's Sicko. (Not that Moore cares about consistency; in his case, "Clinton Derangement Syndrome" trumps all other concerns.)

Militarily, we have the strange General Tony McPeak, recently a strong supporter of George W. Bush. McPeak is one of the authors of the obscene "bomb now, die later" campaign against the civilian economic infrastructure during the first Iraq war.

A key Obama adviser is Bill Daley, brother to the Richard, King of Korruption. Obama's campaign is in the hands of David Axelrod, another Daley crony. Michelle Obama is also a cog in the Daley machine (as was her father); she was rewarded with a do-nothing, high-paying job with a corrupt hospital that rips off the poor.

In the field of foreign policy, Obama's mentor is Zbigniew Bzrezenski, the man who funded Pol Pot, the Ayatollah Khomenei, and the Afghan jihad -- a man who opposes the Iraq war only because he still hungers for war on Russia.

Until recently, Obama's most prominent religious association was with the Reverend Wright.

Obama's main propaganda honcho is Markos Moulitsas -- a Libertarian, recently a Republican, a CIA trainee (alumnus?), and a "states' rights" advocate. He hails from one of the families that constitute El Salvador's fascistic oligarchy. In El Salvador, Moulitsas' family helps run ANEP -- the National Association of Private Corporations -- which funded the death squads and agitated against Archbishop Romero before his murder. At present, ANEP is pushing for the "privatization" of water in El Salvador.

Obama's other great internet champion is Arianna Stassinopoulos (latterly Huffington), the power-mad "former" Republican who, though foreign-born, once schemed to run the White House through her passive puppet of an ex-husband. (Think of James Gregory's character in The Manchurian Candidate.) Arianna hoped -- and I believe, still hopes -- to establish ultra-Libertarian screw-the-poor policies. She is also the priestess of a cult movement run by the outrageous John-Roger, a sexually-abusive nutcase who makes L.Ron Hubbard seem like a nice guy.

A third pro-Obama propagandist is the ultra-Libertarian Andrew Sullivan, also a recent Republican. Like Stassinopoulos, he hopes to dismantle the social safety net. Like Liebman, he favors privatization of Social Security. He also favors the regressive flat tax.

Strange, isn't it, that most of the prominent figures in Obama's media posse did everything they could to make sure that Al Gore never attained office in 2000? Sullivan, Stassinopoulos, Ehrenreich, Moore...

Such is a brief glimpse of the Obama posse. Most of them are, like Rezko, former Republicans whose affiliations have "mutated." It's the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.