Candidates: Crisscrossing Paths (Kemp and Edwards form bond)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10663344/site/newsweek/

With no government salary or special stationery, former vice presidential candidates have only each other. As co-chairs of a Council on Foreign Relations task force on Russia, Jack Kemp, the Republican vice presidential candidate in 1996, and John Edwards, the Democratic candidate in 2004, have forged a friendship in the past six months—traveling halfway around the world, coauthoring an op-ed and appearing in public forums together. "It's probably raised some eyebrows among his friends and among my friends," Kemp tells NEWSWEEK, "but we work very well together."

Kemp and Edwards, who'd never met before the Russia project, bonded quickly. During an initial meeting at Edwards's Georgetown home, Kemp gave him Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "The Red Wheel"; Edwards told his son Jack of Kemp's football triumphs as a Buffalo Bills quarterback. In early meetings, and on a trip to Russia in September, they traded debate-prep notes and war stories from the trail. "It takes a long time to get to Russia," Edwards tells NEWSWEEK. "We became very close."

[blm]

1. PLease John - do not put any trust in Kemp. He is a deceiver, ala McCain.

.

[iconoclastNYC]

2. A former Republican would be boon on our ticket

But they'd have to be a real out and proud progressive after thier switch.

Take for example....Ariana Huffington....she was a pretty nasty Republican back when, but I really beleive she's a true progressive.

If we could score someone like William Weld, it'd really help us with the Independant vote.

[KoKo]

3. Jack Kemp is not Ariana Huffington......he's someone we DO NOT NEED!

Do a Google on him. Reminds me of some who thought Kerry should pick John McCain. I don't want to lie in bed with more fleas....

[iconoclastNYC]

4. I'm not advocating Jack Kemp

I'm just saying we need some high-profile former Republicans. Whether the media would allow them a high profile is an open question however.

[buff2]

5. Cozying up to repukes is a HUGE mistake.

Repukes love it though,because they outsmart the Dems every time. Will the Dems ever learn???? I doubt it.

[cosmicdot]

6. bonding with the Council on Foreign Relations, too??

'the citadel of America’s establishment' ... won't set too well with those hoping for a populist message and/or image (break from the business as usual establishment) to lead us ..

CFR? another table without chairs for We the People ... certainly Henry Kissinger has a seat

Jack Kemp - egad, John - i.e., he's a 'distinguished fellow' at the Heritage Foundation; i.e., he's an adviser to Thayer Capital, yet another closed-books private equity investment entity like Carlyle, 'cept this one was founded by Frederic V. Malek, a Poppy Trustee and Nixon errand boy (search 'Malek Manual').


use one's favorite search engine to self-educate re CFR ...

David A. Rockefeller

imho, it's just another part of the good ol'boy global corporate/Republican elite think-tank donation-tax deductible network ranging from the Hoover Institution to the Heritage Foundation to the Trilateral Commission with The Center for Strategic and International Studies in between.

c. 1999, the CFR helped to map out the geopolitics (Proposed US Trans-Caspian US Corridor) of the Caspian Sea basin (note the countries bordering the Sea, the 'stans, Iran, etc.) http://www.treemedia.com/cfr/library/library.html


CFR Board of Directors - the 1st 2 names alone should be a clue of this organization; note the Carlyle Group is represented as well as its mirror entity, The Blackstone Group. Too bad extended bios aren't provided at the CFR site. The Nixon Center links with Maurice Greenberg (AIG-American International Group, where Carla Hills sits on the Board), Leslie Gelb, Peter G. Peterson)


Peter G. Peterson
Chairman; Senior Chairman and Co-Founder, The Blackstone Group

Carla A. Hills
Vice Chairman; Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Hills & Company (and, so much more)

Robert E. Rubin
Vice Chairman; Director/Chairman of the Executive Committee, Citigroup, Inc.

Richard N. Haass
President
Former State Department Director of Policy Planning and lead U.S. official on Afghanistan and Northern Ireland (2001-2003), and principal Middle East advisor to President George H.W. Bush (1989-1993). Author or editor of ten books on U.S. foreign policy, including The Opportunity: America’s Moment to Alter History’s Course.
Expertise: U.S. foreign policy; international security; globalization; Asia; Middle East

Peter Ackerman
Managing Director, Rockport Capital, Inc.

Fouad Ajami
M. Khadduri Prof. of Middle Eastern Studies, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Madeleine K. Albright
Principal, The Albright Group LLC

Charlene Barshefsky
Senior International Partner, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP

Jeffrey Bewkes
Chairman, Entertainment & Networks Group, Time Warner, Inc.

Henry S. Bienen
President, Northwestern University

Stephen W. Bosworth
Dean, The Fletcher School, Tufts University

Tom Brokaw
NBC News

Lee Cullum
Columnist, Dallas Morning News

Kenneth M. Duberstein
Chairman and CEO, The Duberstein Group, Inc.

Martin S. Feldstein
President, National Bureau of Economic Research

Richard N. Foster
Managing Partner, Foster Health Partners, LLC

Helene D. Gayle
Director, HIV, TB & Reproductive Health, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Maurice R. Greenberg
Chairman & CEO, C.V. Starr & Co., Inc.

Richard C. Holbrooke
Vice Chairman, Perseus LLC

Karen Elliott House
Publisher, Wall Street Journal

Michael H. Moskow
President, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
Distinguished Service Professor, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Ronald L. Olson
Senior Partner, Munger Tolles and Olson LLP

Thomas R. Pickering
Senior Vice President for International Relations, The Boeing Company

David M. Rubenstein
Co-Founder and Managing Director, The Carlyle Group

Richard E. Salomon
Chairman, Mecox Ventures, Inc.

Anne-Marie Slaughter
Dean, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

Joan E. Spero
President, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

Laura D'Andrea Tyson
Dean, London Business School

Vin Weber
Partner, Clark & Weinstock

Fareed Zakaria
Editor, Newsweek International


Officers and Directors Emeriti:

Leslie H. Gelb (President Emeritus)
Maurice R. Greenberg (Honorary Vice Chairman)
Charles McC. Mathias, Jr. (Director Emeritus)
David Rockefeller (Honorary Chairman)
Robert A. Scalapino (Director Emeritus)

http://www.cfr.org/about/people/board_of_directors.html

International Advisory Board - includes reps from the Rothchilds to Saudi Arabia - Brian Mulroney is one Poppy's Trustees

The International Advisory Board (IAB), established by the Board of Directors in 1995 under the chairmanship of David Rockefeller, Honorary Chairman of the Council.

http://www.cfr.org/about/people/international_advisory_board.html

[Freddie Stubbs]

8. Why would this be a surprise?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3773019.stm

[Freddie Stubbs]

7. Good for him

Any Democrat who is going to be elected is going to have to be able to get support from outside of the party as well as in. Neither party is a majority.

[youngred]

9. This is what the Dems need to start doing

not sell out to the middle, but reach across the aisle and restablish themselves as a big tent party by working with Republicans as fed up with this admin and their congressional cronies as we are