The "Is it right?" thread ended inconclusively, and I'm not sure where and how it began. Which part of the American right was originally meant: folks who are welcome at a Gingrich fund-raiser in suburban Atlanta, or the rustic cousins they haven't visited in ages and whose politics are, well, indecorous? If you check out the less academic districts of the Net you'll find much consternation over the government that was supposed to "look like America" but instead looks a good deal more like Beverly Hills. In other words, for some, maybe a whole lot, the Clinton White House is a categorical scandal; the deathless Elders of Zion are goal-to-go on the 2-yard line, have in fact pretty much wrapped up the game. Statements like this below, sometimes less subdued and more speculative, are easily come by in some cyber-neighborhoods. I have nothing to say about the line-up myself; obviously it's a totally random event. Everyone knows that American Jewry is not represented disproportionately in finance capitalism. Shades of Weimar? valis ------------------------------------------------------------------ THE JEWS IN CLINTON'S CABINET Who Run Clinton and the USA The following is a list (which doesn't include lower staff levels) of Jews in the present Clinton adminstration. Madeleine Albright Secretary of State Robert Rubin Secretary of Treasury William Cohen Secretary of Defense Dan Glickman Secretary of Agriculture George Tenet CIA Chief Samuel Berger Head National Security Council Evelyn Lieberman Deputy Chief of Staff Stuart Eizenstat Under Secretary of State Charlene Barshefsky U.S. Trade Representative Susan Thomases Aide to First Lady Joel Klein Assistant Attorney General Gene Sperling National Economic Council Ira Magaziner National Health Care Peter Tarnoff Deputy Secretary of State Alice Rivlin Economic Advisory Janet Yellen Chairwoman, National Economic Council Rahm Emanuel Policy Advisor Doug Sosnik Counsel to President Jim Steinberg Deputy to National Security Chief Jay Footlik Special Liason to the Jewish Community (no other group has a special liason) Robert Nash Personal Chief Jane Sherburne President's Lawyer Mark Penn Asia Expert to NEC Sandy Kristoff Health Care Chief Robert Boorstin Communications Aide Keith Boykin Communications Aide Jeff Eller Special Assistant to Clinton Tom Epstein Health Care Adviser Judith Feder National Security Council Richard Feinberg Assistant Secretary Veterans Hershel Gober Food and Drug Administration Steve Kessler White House Counsel Ron Klein Assistant Secretary Education Madeleine Kunin Communications Aide David Kusnet Dept. AIDS Program Margaret Hamburg Dir. Press Conferences Many Grunwald Liason to Jewish Leaders Karen Adler Dir. State Dept. Policy Samuel Lewis National Security Council Stanley Ross National Security Council Dan Schifter Director Peace Corps. Eli Segal Deputy Chief of Staff ----------------------------------------------------------------- Add to the list, the name of the Vice President. Al Gore, who is not Jewish, is a very strong member of the American Zionist organization. He has been a guest speaker on many Zionist programs and conventions in the last several years.