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4/1/2008- Worries about One World Order and a North American Union have been "ginned up by the blogs and the Internet," Sen. Barack Obama told a Lancaster, Pennsylvania audience in a stump speech as he continued his tour through the battleground state.
The Illinois senator also defended the recently re-authorized Patriot Act.
Responding to a question from the audience, asking whether he was a member for the Council on Foreign Relations, a group many allege is leading a move toward one world government, Obama said:
"I don’t know if I’m an official member. I’ve spoken there before. It basically is a forum where people talk about foreign policy. There is no official membership. I don’t have a card, or you know a special handshake or anything like that."
Sen. Hillary Clinton has spoken several times to the club. Comments she made today against NAFTA, were posted on the group's website.
Often, because the council has served as lightning rod for conspiracy theorists, candidates shy away from listing their affiliation with the group.
Vice President Dick Cheney is a former director but has taken pains not to publicize the fact.
"I’ve been a member for long and was actually a director for some period of time," he told members in a speech broadcast on C-Span and now on YouTube, adding, "I never mentioned that when I was running for re-election back home in Wyoming."
The council has been at the center of several One World Order conspiracies with theorists contending that the group is conspiring to bring about one world government and a North American Union similar to the European Union.
Obama dismissed those notions.
Originally posted by CaptGizmo
Well after watching this I think it makes me believe that he is just another of the same old same old and just giving everyone lip service. How can he sit up there and say there is no evidence of a proposed American Union or Amero.I mean the former President of Mexico went on Larry King and admitted it for crying out loud!
youtube.com...
See it is the same old same old....we are just trading one A-Hole for another A-hole.Washington needs an ENIMA!!!!!
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[edit on 1-4-2008 by CaptGizmo]
Originally posted by CaptGizmo
Obama said: "I don’t know if I’m an official member. I’ve spoken there before. It basically is a forum where people talk about foreign policy. There is no official membership. I don’t have a card, or you know a special handshake or anything like that."
Originally posted by 12.21.12
YUP! That about sums it up. They are all related. Ron Paul for President!
Originally posted by CaptGizmo
"I don’t know if I’m an official member.
I’ve spoken there before.
It basically is a forum where people talk about foreign policy.
There is no official membership.
I don’t have a card,
or you know a special handshake or anything like that."