What do you think the odds are that James A. Johnson will pick a VP for Obama who is unacceptable to “big business”?
James A. Johnson is (or has been in the past, according to his NNDB profile) associated with- count them 8 Fortune 1000 companies- 5 current Fortune 500 relationships and 2 former Fortune 500 relationships and 1 former Fortune 1000 relationship as follows:
1.) Member of the Board of #53 Fannie Mae (as Chairman, 1991-98 )
2.) Member of the Board of #332 Gannett (2001-06)
3.) Member of the Board of #20 Goldman Sachs (1999-)
4.) Member of the Board of #340 KB Home (1992-)
5.) Member of the Board of #31 Target (2000-)
6.) Member of the Board of #557 Temple-Inland (2000-07)
7.) Member of the Board of #25 UnitedHealth Group (1993-)
8.) #37 Lehman Brothers Managing Director, corporate finance
Additionally, Mr. Johnson is or has been affiliated with the following “conspiracy theorist” elite groups according to NNDB:
Bilderberg Group
Council on Foreign Relations
Trilateral Commisssion (and he is also on the Brookings Institution)
a fairly rare trifecta there, as you can see from this map which has only 22 people’s names on it. I guess we might call those names the Major Arcana, huh? Katherine Graham died in 2001, leaving us with 21 living names- as far as I can tell. Expanded map showing all their non person connections is here.
So, anyway, what are the odds on a non “business friendly” VP candidate? Greater or less than the odds against two Skull and Bones candidates running against each other for President? Consider James A. Johnson as just one more reason I sense an Obama Presidency would be business as usual… trust me, I’d like few things better than to be proven wrong on this.
Tags: Barack Obama, Bilderberg Group, CFR, Council on Foreign Relations, elite, James A. Johnson, NNDB, Obama, Trilateral Commission
June 10, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Oh no I see that you will be one of us bloggers that the Obama war room warrors will be coming after! ROFL
http://goodtimepolitics.com/2008/06/09/barack-obama-sets-up-internet-war-room/
June 13, 2008 at 12:55 pm
looks like he’s stepped down, due to issues such as “at least $7 million worth of home loans from Countrywide through an informal program for friends of company CEO Angelo Mozilo that offered rates below the market average.” http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/10971.html Or so I’ve just read @ http://wwwwakeupamericans-spree.blogspot.com/2008/06/jim-johnsonobama-debacle.html Haven’t had time to track that story down. Maybe Vernon Jordan is available to be Obama’s VP selector? He’s well enough connected to give Jim Johnson a run for his money…