What Change?

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"Change you can believe in." This was Barack Obama's campaign slogan. There
is no doubt that the American people were fed up with George W. Bush and his
fellow Republicans. Who can blame them?

After campaigning for change back in 1999 (What political challenger doesn't
campaign for change?), President Bush and his fellow neocons promptly set
out to continue business as usual in Washington, D.C. Federal spending and
meddling exploded under the leadership of the GOP. In fact, one has to go
back to the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt to match the increases
in Big Government and Big Brother by Bush and Company. Add to the
out-of-control spending habits of the GOP an unnecessary war, a
near-Depression economy, and a burgeoning police state. It is no surprise
that the American people were ready for change. And Obama excelled in
delivering the message of change. So, what kind of change will Obama
actually deliver?

Will Obama remove U.S. troops from Iraq and Afghanistan? Probably not. Oh,
he might reduce troops in Iraq, but if anyone believes that he will not
leave a significant U.S. presence in Iraq, they are living in a dream world.
Furthermore, many, if not most, of the troops from Iraq will most likely
find themselves in Afghanistan. Mark my words; Barack Obama has no plans to
remove U.S. troops from the Middle East. Net result: no change.

What about America's economic woes? What changes will Barack Obama bring to
the table? Hardly any. America will continue it's trademark deficit
spending; we will continue to send manufacturing jobs overseas; so-called
"free trade" deals will continue to advance; Big Business will continue to
receive government bailouts; the Federal Reserve will continue to call the
shots for America's financial decisions (and reap gargantuan profits in the
process); Congress will continue to be inept, irresponsible, and clueless;
there will be no attempt to return the United States to sound money
principles; and there will be no reduction in foreign aid. In a nutshell, it
will be business as usual in Washington, D.C., and New York City.

Don't get me wrong: Barack Obama will doubtless throw out some bones to his
liberal supporters in much the same way that Republican presidents throw out
a bone or two to their conservative constituents. Watch for Obama to
overturn the ban on embryonic stem cell research. America's upper income
earners can expect some sort of tax increase. No doubt oil companies will
end up losing some tax exemptions. Watch for additional environmentalist
policies to be enacted. And, yes, there will be some sort of "universal
health care" proposal. But the Bush administration has already given America
a socialized financial system, so how can Republicans complain about
socialized medicine?

Obama might try to resurrect the "Fairness Doctrine." Some suggest that
Obama might try to rid the prohibition of homosexuals serving in the armed
forces, but I doubt that he will take on this one. The political net gain
would not be worth the potential fallout.

Although he might want to, I doubt that Obama will actively promote
additional gun control (Democrats always lose when this happens). He may
push for a ban on "high capacity" magazines that hold over ten rounds, as
Bill Clinton did. If Obama does not go after guns directly, we can expect
some sort of attack on ammunition (which is already happening) that will
drive up the cost of ammo even more. Of course, some sort of gun
confiscation or martial law could materialize in the wake of another
"terrorist" attack. But a McCain administration would act no differently,
so, again, the net result is zero change. Remember, it was Republican George
W. Bush who expunged Posse Comitatus and deployed 20,000 army troops on U.S.
soil to be used for domestic law enforcement. If Obama really wanted to
bring about change, he would reverse Bush's draconian decisions, would he
not? Don't hold your breath.

We can also expect more harassment of gun owners and lawful gun dealers by
the BATFE. But this is no change at all. The current leadership at BATFE is
already about as hostile to gun owners and gun dealers as it can possibly
be. An Obama BATFE will be no worse. But neither will it be any better. Net
result: no change.

So, what will be the overall change to the direction of America? Answer:
there will be no change to the overall direction of the country. There will
be no change to the welfare state. There will be little change to the
warfare state. No change to NATO, except to expand it. Very little change,
if any, to foreign policy. No change to America's open sieves, otherwise
called national borders. And there will be absolutely no change to the
burgeoning New World Order that began in earnest under both Bushes and Bill
Clinton.

The NAFTA superhighway will have the support of the Obama administration.
The North American Community will proceed unimpeded by the Obama White
House. In all likelihood, the Amero (a common currency with Canada and
Mexico) will materialize during Obama's first term. But this would all have
happened had John McCain been elected. No change here.

One reason why it is so easy to predict a business-as-usual Obama Presidency
is the people that Obama has surrounded himself with. Former New York
Federal Reserve chairman Timothy Geithner* for Secretary of the Treasury;
former Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence Summers* for National Economic
Council director; Bush's Defense Secretary Robert Gates* will keep his job;
Illinois Representative Rahm Emanuel for Obama's Chief of Staff; Hillary
Clinton for Secretary of State; Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano* for
Secretary of Homeland Security; former South Dakota Senator Tom Daschle* to
head the Health and Human Services Department; former Assistant Attorney
General Eric Holder to be Attorney General; New Mexico Governor Bill
Richardson* as Secretary of Commerce; Susan Rice* for U.S. Ambassador to the
United Nations; Paul Volcker* for the Economic Recovery Advisory Board;
James Steinberg* as Deputy Secretary of State; Mona Sutphen* for Deputy
White House Chief of Staff, and Louis Caldera* for Director of the White
House Military Office.

Does anyone see "change" with the above names? Every one of them is a
longtime political insider. And at least eleven of them (those with an
asterisk [*] behind their names, above) are members of the globalist Council
on Foreign Relations (CFR). In fact, six out of the eleven cabinet-level
positions in the Obama administration are CFR members.

The CFR has dominated both Democrat and Republican Presidential
administrations for decades. Presidents such as Dwight Eisenhower, Richard
Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton have all
been members of the CFR. Vice Presidents such as Hubert Humphrey, Nelson
Rockefeller, Walter Mondale, and Dick Cheney have been CFR members. And over
the last several decades, practically every secretary of defense, secretary
of the treasury, and most CIA directors have been CFR members. And let's not
forget that this year's Republican Presidential nominee, John McCain, is a
CFR member.

Do you now see why--no matter who is elected President of the United
States--nothing changes? Republican or Democrat, it does not matter: the CFR
and their collaborators remain in power. And as Sonny and Cher used to sing,
"The Beat Goes On."

There will be no real change in Washington, D.C., until the CFR and their
elitist cronies are thoroughly and universally removed from power. And the
only way this will happen is if we elect an Independent President of the
United States (someone who truly understands the New World Order and is
dedicated to defeating it), because the two major parties will never allow
someone opposed to the CFR to become their nominee. The only Republican
candidate for President in 2008 who demonstrated those credentials was Dr.
Ron Paul. And to a lesser degree, the only Democrat who even seemed to
vaguely understand this was Dennis Kucinich. Notice that both men were
thoroughly repudiated by their respective parties' leadership and all but
totally ignored by the national news media. (The CFR and their surrogates
also control the national news media. What a coincidence!)

So, while the occupant at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue may have changed, there
will be no real change to the direction of these United States. Count on it!



(c) Chuck Baldwin

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