[servantboy777]

I read FT’s answer to her question.......I found it to be vague.

He did not answer whether he supported open borders or a NAU.

I do not trust the CFR.

I think it is predominantly an organization of government and corporate elites working to further solidify power and ability to bolster cash streams.

[ejonesie22]

Capitalism is just plain terrible ain’t it.

[GingisK]

I read FT’s answer to her question.......I found it to be vague.

...and then the woman was expelled. She didn't utter a sound after Fred answered her question. Was someone was afraid she'd ask another legitimate question?

I am very concerned over this incident. I am no longer sure I will vote for Fred.

[Reagan Man]

>>>>>I read FT’s answer to her question.......I found it to be vague.

I found FredT`s answer to be honest and straightforward.

Another case of much to do about very little.

[MeanWestTexan]

Oh, come on. As the resident former member of the CFR (I was on an energy task force, vice chair), I call B.S.

Think of the CFR as “Hardball.” The CFR itself has no “positions” (while any given task force will have its own positions).

Obviously, the guests on “Hardball” do not agree with one another. Same concept with the C.F.R.

For example, I met John Edwards discussing Russian oil. The only thing we agreed on was that his hair was pretty.

It’s a marketplace of ideas. That’s it.

Conservatives should have no fear of the marketplace of ideas because we have logic on our side, and win.

Again, here is how it works.

The CFR appoints committees (”Independent Task Forces”), generally of three chief people, who are wholly independent. They generate a paper or proposal.

Then other members debate the value of the same, oftentimes generating articles critcal of the committee report.
Sometimes a committee’s idea is good, sometimes it is bovine excrement.

But the membership comes from ALL OVER the polictical spectrum, left, right, sane, insane.

The entire thing is seriously misunderstood.

Here is an explaination of the Task Forces (that generate the reports, some good, some B.S.), note “wholly independent.”:

http://www.cfr.org/about/task_forces.html

Here is a particularly foul report from one of those task forces, often cited as the evil of CFR:

http://www.cfr.org/publication/8102/building_a_north_american_community.html?breadcrumb=%2Fpublication%2Fby_type%2Ftask_force_report

Here are responsive articles stating that the previous task force report is B.S. (from Tom Tancredo):

http://www.cfr.org/publication/11141/tancredo.html?breadcrumb=%2Fissue%2Fpublication_list%3Fid%3D27%26page%3D3

and this:

http://www.cfr.org/publication/8814/immigration_benefits_and_terrorism.html?breadcrumb=%2Fissue%2Fpublication_list%3Fid%3D27%26page%3D4

Here is an example of the back-and-forth generated (again, bit like Hardball, but polite):

http://www.cfr.org/publication/12971/path_to_citizenship_for_current_illegal_immigrants.html?breadcrumb=%2Fissue%2Fpublication_list%3Fid%3D27%26page%3D2