for those who are dying to know Conrad Black's opinion of Obama...

[Enrique]

seems to have some good thoughts, maybe Obama will find a place for him in the administration. :shrug:


http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/03/08/conrad-black-obama-offers-to-share-the-poverty.aspx

Conrad Black: Obama offers to share the poverty

President Obama has had a rocky start, though he has inspired a powerful spirit of hope and goodwill and renovation in America and the world. In this, it has been a little like the elections of 1932 (Franklin D. Roosevelt), 1960 (John F. Kennedy) and, up to a point, 1980 (Ronald Reagan).

A “post-partisan” era was promised, like James Monroe’s “era of good feeling” (1817-1825); there would be 80 Senate votes for the stimulus bill (i.e., almost half the Republicans); lobbyists would be straight-armed, and Cabinet and agency-head candidates would be, in Dwight D. Eisenhower’s famous (and misapplied) 1953 phrase, “cleaner than a hound’s tooth.” There would be profound, original, reforming “change.”

No incoming president has suffered the pre-confirmation withdrawal and embarrassment of so many senior designees. Only three Republican senators voted for the obscene stimulus grab-bag of treats that polls indicate most Americans opposed and that will chiefly stimulate Democratic Congressional chairmen. Lobbyists swarm the ante-rooms as in olden times (i.e., six weeks ago). The first Obama spending bill has an astounding 8,570 “earmarks,” personal projects of legislators, a shabby practice Obama promised to end, which had been hammered by McCain in the election campaign.

Through the election campaign, the U.S. political class locked arms in righteous terror, to blame all that was going wrong economically on the greed and turpitude of Wall Street, which has become a generic label for almost anyone who has worn a tie or a dress in the last ten years. Both parties wished to bury their own indispensable role in bringing on the financial debacle.

This was the extent of post-partisanship. The election over, Obama has dumped all blame for the economic crisis on the Republicans, even though the legislated requirement of trillions of dollars of non-commercial mortgages was a brainwave of the Clinton administration.

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[Joe Chi Minh]

1. Alas, Conrad, like so many other press magnates, is not a font of wisdom.

He wouldn't have the remotest inkling of an insight into the hearts and minds of the likes of Roosevelt and Lincoln.

His "..... fictitious “malefactors,” such as “war profiteers, monopolists, money-changers, economic royalists,” and his "... Reagan's march to Mt Rushmore", say it all.

[Cirque du So-What]

2. I see the corporate media are lining up to worship at the feet

of this unrepentant criminal. Enjoy the rest of your time in stir, SIR Conrad! May you have many days and nights to ponder the depth and breadth of your sagaciousness :eyes:

[irislake]

3. Or pardon him?

Flattery didn't work with Bush. Obama has probably never heard of the guy.

Besides he bad-mouths your country's legal system now after years of saying U.S. was better than Canada in every way. Even gave up his Canadian citizenship to become an English Lord. Now he has to serve his sentence in an American jail cuz we won't take him back.

He has a lot of wonderful things to say about Canada now. Maybe he can come back after his 6 years are up.

[annabanana]

4. Who the hell is conrad black and why should anyone listen to him?

There was nothing edifying in the clip.. I see no reason to click on the link.

[FrenchieCat]

5. Is there a reason this garbage was posted,

and if so what is it? :shrug:

[Sannum]

6. Is he still in prison?

[Blue-Jay]

7. Conrad Black, the criminal

The one who had Perle and Kissinger serving on his board?

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/01/business/media/01conrad.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print&position=

And I don't know if felons can serve in the White House.