dawg,,i for one think this a great idea,,,i would like to go to one thread for all my NWO,conspiracy shit,,but there isn't one on here,,,all the info is on bgol but not compiled into one place,,i'll help you run/start one,,all the stuff i come across on the board i will forward it to your post,,to get started,pick a topic and do a search of the board,,all kinda of shit will pop-up
hell i getyou started
the speach from Obama yesterday was outstanding,,now let me say this here first
I like Obama,,i really like that he can communicate with people
He is a very good speaker,,and i don't mean this in an insignificant way,,there are a lot of people that can speak to a crowd well,,you have peple all across the human spectrum that can talk people into shit i.e. cult leaders,preachers,politicians,,but Dawg was not reading shit yesterday,he sp[it that shit out off the top of his head,,he was just being him and showing these MF's who they are talking to
like i learned on here:"This is Chess,not Checkers"
what i really appreciated about the forum was that it showed a very intelligent,stong,confident man,,not a black man,,but a very strong MAN,that displayed that he earned his position,,our last president didn't display these qualities
now when i first learned of his announcement for running for Pres.
my first thought was that he had have some very powerful backers to be able to try and he was realivetly unknown,,,that was my first red flag
then i started paying attention,,i know that there are people that control things from behind the scenes,you might call them KingMakers
i want to introduce one for the fam.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lugar#Senate_career_and_presidential_ambitions
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Richard Lugar
United States Senator
from Indiana
IncumbentAssumed office
January 3, 1977
Serving with
Evan BayhPreceded by
Vance HartkeChairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
In office
January 3, 1985 – January 3, 1987
January 3, 2003 – January 3, 2007Preceded by
Charles Percy (1985)
Joe Biden (2003)Succeeded by
Claiborne Pell (1987)
Joe Biden (2007)
Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture
In office
January 4, 1995 – January 3, 2001
January 20, 2001 – June 6, 2001Preceded by
Patrick Leahy (1995)
Tom Harkin (2001)Succeeded by
Tom Harkin (2001)44th
Mayor of Indianapolis
In office
January 1, 1968 – January 1, 1976Preceded by
John J. BartonSucceeded by
William H. Hudnut IIIBornApril 4, 1932 (1932-04-04) (age 77)
Indianapolis, IndianaPolitical party
RepublicanSpouse(s)Charlene Smeltzer LugarResidence
Indianapolis, IndianaAlma materDenison University,
Oxford UniversityProfessionmanufacturing executiveReligion
United MethodistWebsite
Senator Richard LugarMilitary serviceService/branch
United States NavyYears of service1957-1960
Richard Lugar with then-Senator
Barack Obama in August 2005 near
Perm, Russia
Richard Green "
Dick"
Lugar (born April 4, 1932) is the
senior United States Senator from
Indiana. He is a member of the
Republican Party and served as the mayor of Indianapolis from 1968 to 1976 and was elected to the United States Senate in 1976 where he has been the Chairman of the
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations from 1985 to 1987 and 2003 to 2007. Much of Lugar's work in the Senate is toward the dismantling of
nuclear,
biological, and
chemical weapons around the world.
On January 3, 2009, upon
Ted Stevens' losing his reelection bid, and the retirement of
Pete Domenici, Lugar became the
most senior Republican in the U.S. Senate. By tradition, were the Republican Party to gain control of the Senate, Lugar would be elected the
President pro tempore of the United States Senate.
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[edit] Family background
Lugar was born in
Indianapolis, Indiana, to Bertha Green and Marvin Lugar.
[1] He attended the public schools of Indianapolis. During this time he attained the
Boy Scouts' highest rank:
Eagle Scout.
[2] Later, he became a recipient of the
Distinguished Eagle Scout Award from the
Boy Scouts of America.
[3] He graduated first in his class at
Shortridge High School in 1950 and from
Denison University in 1954 where he was a member of
Beta Theta Pi.
[4] He went on to attend
Pembroke College,
Oxford,
England, as a
Rhodes Scholar, and received a graduate degree in 1956. Lugar was a member of
Phi Beta Kappa. He served in the
United States Navy from 1957 to 1960; one of his assignments was as an intelligence briefer for Admiral
Arleigh Burke.
Lugar manages his family's 604-acre (2.4 km²)
Marion County corn,
soybean and
tree farm. Before entering public life, he helped his brother Tom manage the family's food machinery
manufacturing business in Indianapolis.
[4]
Senator Lugar is member of the
United Methodist Church. He married Charlene Smeltzer on September 8, 1956, and the couple has four sons and thirteen grandchildren.
[4]
[edit] Political career
[edit] Entry into politics
Lugar served on the Indianapolis Board of School Commissioners from 1964 to 1967. At the age of 35, he was elected
mayor of Indianapolis in 1967 and began serving the first of two mayoral terms in 1968. A political cartoon of the time questioned how an Eagle Scout could survive in the world of politics.
[2] He is closely associated with the adoption of
Unigov in 1970, which unified the governments of Indianapolis and
Marion County. The Unigov plan helped trigger Indianapolis' economic growth and earned Lugar the post of president of the National League of Cities in 1971. In 1972, Lugar was the keynote speaker at the Republican National Convention.
[5] During this time he became known as "
Richard Nixon's favorite mayor" due to his support for
devolving federal powers to local communities.
[6]
[edit] Senate career and presidential ambitions
Lugar unsuccessfully sought election to the
U.S. Senate as the Republican nominee in the 1974
U.S. Senate election, losing to
incumbent Democrat Birch Bayh. Two years later, he ran again, unseating incumbent Senator
Vance Hartke in the
1976 election. He was reelected in
1982,
1988,
1994, in
2000, and again with over 85% of the vote in
2006. During the
1980 Republican National Convention, Lugar was rumored as a potential Vice Presidential nominee for Presidential nominee
Ronald Reagan.
[7] Lugar served as chairman of the
National Republican Senatorial Committee during the 1984 Senate elections. In 2006, he ran without a
Democratic Party challenger and earned over 87% of the vote, and won over three fourths of the votes in every county. In 1994, Lugar became the first Indiana senator to be re-elected to a fourth term. He is currently the fourth
most senior senator.
Lugar ran for the Republican nomination for President
in 1996, but his campaign failed to gain traction. His announcement of candidacy speech was made on April 19, 1995, in Indianapolis. He finished fifth in the Republican primaries, with 127,111 votes or 0.83%.
Lugar has been influential in gaining Senate
ratification of
treaties to reduce the world's use, production and stockpiling of
nuclear,
chemical, and
biological weapons. In 1991, he initiated a partnership with then-
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sam Nunn – a fellow Eagle Scout – aiming to eliminate latent
weapons of mass destruction in the former
Soviet Union.
[2] To date, the
Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction program has deactivated more than 5,900 nuclear
warheads. In 2004, Senators Lugar and Nunn were jointly awarded the
Heinz Awards Chairman's Medal for their efforts.
[8]
As Chairman of the
Agriculture Committee, Lugar built bipartisan support for 1996 federal
farm program reforms, ending 1930s-era federal production controls. He worked to initiate a
biofuels research program to help increase U.S. dependency on ethanol and combustion fuels, and led initiatives to streamline the
U.S. Department of Agriculture, reform the
food stamp program, and preserve the federal
school lunch program.
Lugar has received numerous awards, including Guardian of Small Business, the Spirit of Enterprise, Watchdog of the
Treasury, and 34
honorary doctorate degrees. In October 2008 Lugar and
Joe Biden, his partner in the Committee on Foreign Relations, received the Hilal-i-Pakistan (Crescent of Pakistan) Award from the government of
Pakistan for their continued support of the country. In July 2008 Lugar and Biden introduced a plan that would give $1.5 billion in aid per year to support economic development in Pakistan.
[9]
Senator Lugar is a member of the board of the
Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI).
During the August recess of 2005, Lugar and freshman Senator
Barack Obama visited
Russia,
Azerbaijan, and
Ukraine to inspect nuclear facilities there.
[10] He was detained for three hours at an airport in the city of
Perm, near the
Ural Mountains, where they were scheduled to depart for a meeting with the President and the Speaker of the House of Ukraine. He was released after a brief dialogue between U.S. and Russian officials, and the Russians later apologized for this incident. In January 2007, President Bush signed into law the Lugar-Obama Proliferation and Threat Reduction Initiative which was furthering Lugar's work with Senator Nunn in deactivating weapons in the former Soviet Union. The Lugar-Obama program focuses on terrorists and their use of multiple types of weapons.
[11]
In April 2006,
Time magazine selected Lugar as one of America's 10 Best Senators.
[12]
On the day of the
final 2008 presidential debate, Lugar gave a speech at the
National Defense University praising Obama's foreign policy approach, and warning against the isolationist, reactive policies espoused by Senator McCain.
[13] At that debate, Obama also listed Lugar as among the individuals "who have shaped my ideas and who will be surrounding me in the White House."
[14] There were rumors that either Obama or McCain would select Lugar to be
Secretary of State, but that he would rather keep his Senate seat.
[11][15]
Although Lugar's party is in the minority in the Senate, he has good relationships with President Obama and Vice President
Joe Biden. Lugar was named an honorary co-chairman of their inauguration.
[16]
On March 18, 2009, Lugar cast his 12,000th Senate vote, putting him in 13th place for all-time most votes. In 32 years in the Senate, he has a better than 98% attendance record.
[17] Senator Lugar does intend to run for reelection
in 2012.
[18]
According to journalist
Jeff Sharlet, he is a member of
the Family also known as the Fellowship, described by prominent evangelical Christians as one of the most politically well-connected fundamentalist organizations in the US.
[19]
[edit] 2006 re-election campaign
Senator Richard Lugar meeting with actress
Ashley Judd
Main article:
United States Senate election in Indiana, 2006
Lugar was opposed by
Steve Osborn, a
Libertarian candidate in the 2006 election. The
Democratic Party did not field a candidate – in part because of Lugar's popularity in Indiana – deciding instead to focus on key state and national races. Lugar won the election with 87% of the vote, the highest percentage of the 2006 senate elections despite a Democratic take-over of Washington.
[edit] Other Career activities
Lugar is a member of the board of the
International Foundation for Electoral Systems, an organization involved in international elections.
[20]
[edit] Political positions
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