Posted on 11/22/2011 11:05:10 AM PST by mas cerveza por favor
Q. "You were asked about world government and you said 'there is no world government'. What is your role in groups like the bohemian club, freemasonry, and that sort of thing, Council on Foreign Relations?
Gingrich: "I don't belong to the Bohemian Club, I have no role in freemasonry. And my primary activity in Council on Foreign Relations was on figuring out how to fight terrorism"
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
Yeah, but does he belong to the Knights of Columbus now that he’s a Catholic?
Let’s all give Romney a free pass and attack every candidate that is ahead of him in the polls.
Will he sign a pledge?
What attack? I just past along Newt own words and I never said that Romney was any better.
Ridiculous distractions.
uuugh... Wait until someone comes up with the Trilaterals, Buildacheeseburger, or Stonecutters..
Well lets see. Reagan was a member of the Bohemian Club and George Washington was a Mason...who cares
I am starting to think that a good many so called FReepers are purposely doing their level best to help Romney win.
Ridiculous distractions.
Better than the one that has Newt wanting to build sweat shops for nine year olds.
Is he Shriner? I know they like tiny cars. So if he’s a Shriner, I’ll know he’ll support tiny government.
Indeed, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
and so? Gingrich has CFR ties? LOOK at who else is on the council...can you say, “Dick Cheney, Rush Limbaugh” ...here is the list of CFR council members...check it out yourself...sorry it is soooo long. Notable current council members
Roger Ailes (Chairman and CEO of Fox News)
Madeleine Albright {64th United States Secretary of State, 20th United States Ambassador to the United Nations under Bill Clinton}
Lamar Alexander {45th Governor of Tennessee, United Stetaes Republican Senator, 5th United States Secretary of Education under George H.W. Bush}
Eliot Abrams (international lawyer, former state department official under Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush)
Morton I. Abramowitz {diplomat}
John Abizaid {U.S Army General, former head of CENTCOM}
Michael F. Adams {President of University of Georgia}
John B. Anderson (former Republican/Independent congressman from Illinois)
Anthony Clark Arend (international lawyer, and academic)
Fouad Ajami {academic, middle east analyst}
Howard Baker (13th Senate Majority Leader of the United States Senate, 12th White House Chief of Staff under Ronald Reagan, husband of Nancy Kassebaum Baker)
James Baker (61st Secretary of State of the United States under Bush-41, and 67th Secretary of the Treasury of the United States under Ronald Reagan, 10th & 16th White House chief of staff to President’s Reagan and George H.W. Bush}
Thurbert Baker (former Democratic Party attorney-general of the state of Georgia)
Michael D. Barnes (former United States democrat congressman from Maryland, and president of the Brady Campaign)
Reginald Bartholomew {diplomat}
Evan Bayh (former Democrat U.S senator and 46th Governor from Indiana)
Peter Bergen {journalist, national security analyst for CNN}
Joe Biden (47th Vice-President of the United States)
Josh Bolton (22nd White House chief-of-staff under George W. Bush)
Rudy Boschwitz (former Republican United States Senator from Minnesota)
Sandy Berger (19th United States National Security Advisor under President Bill Clinton)
Warren Beatty (actor, film producer, director)
Jeffrey Bewkes {president of Time Warner}
Stephen Biddle (theorist setting U.S. counter-insurgency policy)
Michael R. Bloomberg (108th Mayor of New York City, founder of Bloomberg L.P.)
Bill Bradley (former Democratic senator from New Jersey, NBA hall of fame basketball player)
Ian Bremmer (Eurasia Group founder and president)
Bill Brock (50th chairman of the Republican Party, 8th U.S. trade ambassador and 18th United States Secretary of Labor under Ronald Reagan, former Republican United States Senator from Tennessee)
Dan Burton {Republican Party United States congressman from Indiana}
Erin Burnett (journalist, CNN anchor)
George H.W. Bush (41st President of the United States)
Tom Brokaw (NBC journalist)
Howard Berman (Democratic Party United States Congressman from California)
Peter Beinart (academic, columnist)
Richard Branson (founder of Virgin Group)
L. Paul Bremer (diplomat)
Edgar Bronfman, Sr. (a member of the Bronfman dynasty, president of the World Jewish Congress)
Ethan Bronner (deputy foreign editor of The New York Times)
Zbigniew Brzezinski (10th United States National Security Advisor under President Jimmy Carter)
Stephen Gerald Breyer (United States Supreme Court justice)
Jonathan S. Bush (healthcare CEO, son of Jonathan Bush, brother of NBC entertainment reporter Billy Bush)
Sanford Bishop (Democratic Party United States congressman from Georgia)
David Boren (former Democrat U.S. senator from Oklahoma and president of the University of Oklahoma)
Jimmy Carter (39th President of the United States)
Frank Carlucci (16th Secretary of Defense and 1th U.S. national security adviser under Ronald Reagan, 13th deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency under Jimmy Carter)
Dick Cheney (46th Vice-President of the United States)
Juju Chang (journalist, reporter for ABC News)
Bill Clinton (42nd President of the United States)
Hillary Rodham Clinton (former first lady of the United States, 67th United States Secretary of State under Barack Obama)
Henry Cisneros (10th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under Bill Clinton)
Mario Cuomo (Democrat politician, 52nd Governor of New York)
Michael Crow (president of Arizona State University)
Katie Couric (former CBS and NBC journalist, talk show host)
Stephen F. Cohen (jrofessor of Russian studies at NYU, husband of Katrina vanden Heuvel)
Edward F. Cox (international attorney, chairman of the New York Republican party, son-in-law of Richard Nixon)
William M. Daley {24th White House chief of staff under Obama, 32nd secretary of commerce under Bill Clinton}
Kenneth Duberstein (13th chief of staff under Ronald Reagan)
Peggy Dulany (fourth child of David Rockefeller)
Joseph Duffey (academic, educator)
Chris Dodd (Former United States Senator from Connecticut)
William H. Donaldson {former chairman of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission}
Michael Dukakis (65th and 67th governor of Massachusetts, 1988 Democrat Party nominee for the Presidency)
Mervyn M. Dymally (former Democratic congressman from California)
John Edwards {former Democratic U.S. senator from North Carolina, 2004 democrat Vice-Presidential nominee}
Karl Eikenberry (United States Army General, ambassador to Afghanistan)
Ari Emanuel (head of Endeavor Agency)
Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. (former vice-chairman of the Federal Reserve)
Noah Feldman (academic and author)
Dianne Feinstein (United States Democratic Party Senator from California)
Donald M. Fraser (former Democratic United States congressman from Minnesota)
Bill Frist {Republican politician, former United States Senate Majority Leader of the United States Senate}
Mikhail Fridman (Russian oligarch, International Advisory Board member)
Thomas Friedman (columnist for the The New York Times)
Martin Feldstein (economist, Harvard professor)
Tom Foley (57th speaker of the United States House of Representatives)
Francis Fukuyama {political scientist, for state department official}
Pamela Gann {President of Claremont McKenna College, former dean of Duke University School of Law}.
Robert M. Gates (22nd United States Secretary of Defense under Bush & Obama, 15th Director of Central Intelligence under George H.W. Bush)
Robert P. George {Academic, professor at Princeton University, theologian, philosopher}
David Geffen (president of Universal Music Group)
Leslie Gelb (former journalist for the New York Times)
Dick Gephardt (22nd Majority Leader of the United States House of Representatives)
Sam Gejdenson (former Democratic Party United States Congressman from Connecticut)
Alan Greenspan (13th Chairman of the Federal Reserve)
Maurice R. Greenberg (former chairman and CEO of AIG)
Bob Graham (Democratic Party 38th governor of Florida and United States Senator}
Janet G. Mullins Grissom (Republican lobbyist,former state department official)
David Gergen (advisor to Richard Nixon, Gerald R. Ford, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton, commentator for CNN)
Mikhail Gorbachev (last President of the USSR)
Roy M. Goodman (former Republican member of the New York State Senate)
Newt Gingrich (58th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (United States Supreme Court justice)
Tenzin Gyatso (14th Dalai Lama)
Richard N. Haass (former State Department official)
David A. Harris (director of the American Jewish Committee (AJC))
Lee H. Hamilton (former United States democratic congressman from Indiana)
Michael Hayden (United States Air Force general, 15th director of the National Security Agency under Bill Clinton, and 20th director of the CIA under George W. Bush)
Gary Hart (former Democratic U.S. Senator from Colorado, Council for a Livable World chairman, advisory board member for the Partnership for a Secure America)
Heather Higgins {women’s advocate, chairman of the Independent Women’s Forum, president of the Randolph Foundation}
Chris Heinz (heir to the H. J. Heinz Company ketchup fortune)
Carla Anderson Hills (5th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under Gerald Ford, 10th United States Trade Representative to George H.W. Bush)
Kim Holmes (foreign policy and defense expert)
Douglas Holtz-Eakin (economist)
Auren Hoffman (investor/entrepreneur)
Warren Hoge (American journalist, formerly of the New York Times)
Malcolm Hoenlein (vice-chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations)
Katrina vanden Heuvel (editor of [[The Nation]], wife of Stephen F. Cohen, daughter of William vanden Heuvell}
William vanden Heuvel (diplomat and international lawyer, father of Katrina vanden Heuvell)
Jimmy Iovine (chairman of Interscope-Geffen-A&M)
Frederick Iseman (businessman, inventor)
Angelina Jolie (actress, UN Goodwill Ambassador)[6]
Vernon Jordan (advisor to President Bill Clinton)
Nancy Johnson (former Republican United States congresswoman from Connecticut)
Woody Johnson (investor, owner of the New York Jets, heir to Johnson & Johnson)
Sheila Johnson (businesswoman, president of the Washington Mystics)
Walter H. Kansteiner, III (American diplomat)
Peter J. Katzenstein (political scientist, academic)
Robert Kagan (cofounded Project for the New American Century)
Nancy Kassebaum (former Republican Senator from Kansas, daughter of Alf Landon, and wife of Howard Baker)
Thomas Kean, Sr. (Republican politician, 48th Governor of New Jersey)
John Kerry (United States Senator of Massachusetts, 2004 Democratic Party nominee for the Presidency)
Vanessa Kerry (doctor of medicine, liberal activist, daughter of John Kerry)
Henry Kissinger (8th National Security Advisor under Richard Nixon and 56th United States Secretary of State under President’s Nixon and Ford)
Joe Klein {Time Magazine columnist}
Paul R. Krugman (economist, columnist for the New York Times)
Larry Kudlow (economist, radio talk-show host, CNBC anchor)
Anil Kumar (businessman, former senior partner at McKinsey)
Charles Krauthammer (columnist for the Washington Post and political commentator at Fox News)
Zalmay Khalilzad (26th ambassador to the United Nations under George W. Bush)
Philip Lader {diplomat, chairman of WPP Group}
Jim Leach (former Republican United States congressman from Iowa, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities under Obama)
John Robert Lewis (Democrat United States congressman from the state of Georgia, famed civil-rights leader)
Jim Lehrer (journalist, former anchor for PBS)
Joe Lieberman (United States Democrat Senator from Connecticut)
Rush Limbaugh (radio talk show host and author)
Lewis Libby (attorney, former chief-of-staff to Vice-President Dick Cheney)
Nigel Lythgoe (television producer)
Fred Malek {businessman, former President of Marriott Hotels and Northwest Airlines}
David Malpass (economist, Republican Party politician)
John McCain (United States Republican Senator from Arizona, 2008 Republican Party nominee for the Presidency)
Bud McFarlane (13th national security advisor to Ronald Reagan)
George McGovern (former Democratic senator from South Dakota, 1972 Democratic Party nominee for President)
William Green Miller (United States Ambassador to Ukraine under Bill Clinton)
George J. Mitchell (17th Senate Majority Leader of the United States Senate}
Walter Mondale (42nd Vice-President of the United States)
Les Moonves (President and Chief Executive Officer of CBS)
Bill Moyers (former press-secretary to Lyndon Johnson, public commentator for PBS)
Rupert Murdoch {founder/chairman/CEO of News Corp and Fox News}
Heather Nauert (journalist and anchor for Fox News)
Janet Napolitano {3rd United States Secretary of Homeland Security under Obama, 21st Governor of Arizona}
John D. Negroponte (former United States Deputy Secretary of State and former Director of National Intelligence under George W. Bush)
Joseph Nye (academic)
Sandra Day O’Connor (former United States Supreme Court justice)
Stan O’Neal (former Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Merrill Lynch)
George Pataki {Republican politician, 53rd Governor of New York}
Henry Paulson (74th United States Treasury Secretary under George W. Bush)
Robert Pastor {national security adviser, son-in-law to Robert McNamara}
David Petraeus (United States Army General, former head of CENTCOM, 22nd director of the CIA)
Peter G. Peterson (20th United States Secretary of Commerce under Nixon)
Steve Pieczenik {former state department official, 911 conspiracy theorist}
Kitty Pilgrim (journalist and anchor on CNN)
Richard Pipes (academic, father of founder/director of Middle East Forum Daniel Pipes)
Daniel Pipes (academic, writer, historian, son of Richard Pipes)
Norman Podhoretz (former editor-in-chief of “Commentary”, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, Project for the New American Century (PNAC) signatory)
Steve Poizner (California businessman and Republican politician)
Roman Popadiuk (former United States Ambassador to Ukraine, Executive Director of the George Bush Presidential Library Foundation)
Colin Powell (65th United States Secretary of State under Bush-43, 16th National Security Advisor under Reagan, 12th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Bush-41)
Tom Petri (Republican United States congressman from Wisconsin)
Charles Prince (former chief executive officer of Citigroup)
Janet Reno (78th United States Attorney General under Clinton)
Condoleezza Rice {66th United States Secretary of State under Bush-43}
Dan Rather (journalist, formerly anchor at CBS)
Charles Rangel (United States Democrat Congressman from New York City)
Alice Rivlin (economist, former U.S. cabinet member)
David Rockefeller, Jr.
John D. Rockefeller, IV (United States democrat party Senator of West Virginia, 29th Governor of West Virginia )
Charlie Rose (PBS journalist)
Liz Rosenberg (publicist)
Chuck Robb ( 64th Governor of Virginia, former Democratic Party U.S. Senator from Virginia , son-in-law of Lyndon B. Johnson)
Edward Regan (former state comptroller of New york)
Robert Rubin (70th Secretary of the Treasury under Bill Clinton)
Haim Saban (founder of Saban Capital Group)
Jeffrey D. Sachs (American economist)
Diane Sawyer (ABC News journalist)
Stephen M. Schwebel (jurist, former judge on the International Court of Justice)
Michael Shifter {academic, president of the Inter-American Dialogue}
Dan Senor (former foreign policy advisor to George W. Bush, Fox News foreign policy analyst)
Amity Shlaes (Bloomberg News columnist, and author)
Timothy Shriver (chairman & CEO of the Special Olympics)
David Stern (commissioner of the NBA)
John Spratt {former Democratic United States congressman from South Carolina}
Karenna Gore Schiff (daughter of Al Gore)
Olympia J. Snowe (Republican United States Senator from Maine)
Brent Scowcroft (9th & 17th United States National Security Advisor under Presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush)
George Shultz (60th United States Secretary of State under Reagan, 62nd United States Secretary of the Treasury and 11th United States Secretary of Labor under Richard Nixon}
Frederick W. Smith (CEO and founder of FedEx)
Walter B. Slocombe (former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy)
George Soros (currency speculator, investor, businessman)
Lesley Stahl (CBS News journalist)
Donna Shalala (18th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services under Bill Clinton, President of the University of Miami)
Eduard Shevardnadze (2nd President of Georgia)
Eric Shinseki {7th United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs under Obama, 34th Chief of Staff of the United States Army under Clinton & Bush}
Adlai Stevenson III (former Democrat United States Senator from Illinois, son of Adlai Stevenson II)
George Stephanopoulos (former White House press-secretary under Bill Clinton, ABC News journalist)
Laurence H. Silberman (United States federal judge)
Robert Silvers (editor of New York Review of Books)
Stansfield Turner (United States Navy Admiral, 12th director of the CIA under Jimmy Carter)
Doug Turner {Republican party operative/Politician, public relations operative}
Richard Thornburgh (76th Attorney-General of the United States of America under Reagan & Bush, 76th Governor of Pennsylvania)
John L. Thornton (chairman of Brookings Institution, academic, former president of Goldman Sachs}
Fred Thompson (actor, radio talk-show host, former Republican United States Senator from Tennessee,)
Shirley Temple (actress, diplomat)
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend {Former democrat Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, member of the Kennedy family}
Tom Vilsack {30th United States Secretary of Agriculture under Obama, 40th Governor of Iowa}
Paul Volcker (12th Chairman of the Federal Reserve)
Rick Warren (American Christian leader, Senior Pastor of the Saddleback Church)
Peter J. Wallison (20th White House Counsel to Ronald Reagan, former lawyer to Nelson Rockefeller)
Barbara Walters (ABC News journalist)
Vin Weber (former United States Republican Congressman from Minnesota)
Steven Weinberg (American physicist)
John C. Whitehead (chairman of the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation, former United States Deputy Secretary of State under Ronald Reagan, former Goldman Sachs chairman)
Christine Todd Whitman (50th Governor of New Jersey, 9th administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under George W. Bush)
Shirley Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby (British member of parliament, International Advisory Board member)
Richard S. Williamson (diplomat, lawyer, former chairman of the Republican Party of Illinois)
James D. Wolfensohn (former president of the World Bank)
Paul Wolfowitz (10th President of the World Bank, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense under Bush-43)
James Woolsey (16th Director of Central Intelligence under Bill Clinton)
Dov S. Zakheim {academic and Department of Defense official under Reagan and George W. Bush}
Paula Zahn (journalist, former anchor at Fox News and CNN)
James Zogby (academic, political commentator and pollster)
Robert Zoellick (11th President of the World Bank)
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I am starting to think that a good many so called FReepers are purposely doing their level best to help Romney win.
Not really a ridiculous distraction when you look at what is happening in Europe and the amount of world control the UN has managed to wrest. It is very important that we don’t elect another one worlder. If you don’t think those people can erode away at our sovereignty, just look at what they have done to England.
......and he reads and writes books too.
A little reaching from the Newt club is to be expected.
Good job!!! LMAO
You’re a good shot. ;>)
What’s not to like?
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