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Obama hosts George H.W. and Jeb Bush at White House
The above photo (White House Official photo), and the below story re-posted from source , politico.com.
Unbeknownst to the press, President Obama met Friday evening with former president George H.W. Bush and his son, former Florida governor Jeb Bush, in the Oval Office.
White House officials did not list the meeting on the president's schedule but released a photo on Flickr. According to the photo's time stamp, the meeting occurred shortly after 5 p.m., about the time the president returned to the White House from a fundraiser.
When asked what the men discussed and why it wasn't on the schedule, the White House released a statement saying, "The three men enjoyed a personal visit in the Oval Office -- as they have done on previous occasions when President Bush is Washington."
The Bushes are in town to attend the exclusive Alfalfa Club dinner Saturday, an annual get-together for Washington power brokers that Obama also is scheduled to attend, according to the Associated Press.
The meeting came at an interesting time politically, just one day after Obama, in an interview with ABC News, blamed predecessor George W. Bush for policies that brought on the greatest recession since the Great Depression. He also blamed him for initiating the expansion of food stamp rolls.
Jeb Bush has also played a critical role in the GOP presidential primary contest in Florida -- primarily by saying he wouldn't play a role. His endorsement would have been key in the race, currently neck and neck between Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, but Jeb Bush said last week that he would remain neutral.
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From Mr. James Corbett:
Resisting the Police State: Answers and Solutions
Text with video:
Uploaded by corbettreport on Jan 24, 2012
CONTINUE WATCHING: http://ur1.ca/7os9i
TRANSCRIPT AND SOURCES: http://www.corbettreport.com/?p=3797
With
TSA abuses back in the headlines, continued concern over the NDAA and
other legislation codifying martial law, President Obama's unchallenged
use of his self-proclaimed authority to assassinate American citizens
without trial, and an increasingly bewildering array of tracking,
tracing and pain-compliance technology being used against law-abiding
citizens, more and more people are becoming aware of the police state
that currently exists in the US, and indeed throughout much of the
so-called "free world."
With this understanding comes a certain
amount of apprehension: after all, the enemies of liberty are organized
and persistent, and they inhabit positions of authority. The defenders
of liberty, meanwhile, seem few and far between, and more time seems
spent convincing others that the police state even exists than in
working to dismantle these systems of control.
What these
concerns obscure, however, is the simple fact that the police state
constitutes a mental prison as much as a physical one, and that part of
its power is in convincing the public that it is all-seeing, all-knowing
and all-powerful. Once that illusion is shattered, the police state can
be seen for what it is: a system of coercion that can only function if a
majority of the people go along with it.
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The Steven G. Erickson effort [ found here ]
