Obama as the New Face of the Rebranded Neocons

Recently, this blogger received an email from a regular visitor who suggested that the title of this blog be changed from, "The Great NeoCon Swindle" to something more appropriate as there is a new administration in power that cannot be said to be NeoCon at all. The reader went on to state that the NeoCons themselves have officially disowned the term as well as abandoned their big-boy club, "The Project For A New American Century" (PNAC).

In actual fact, the NeoCons survive and Figurehead-In-Chief, Barack Obama, is firmly in their graces. It's all the rage for entities in trouble with public rage to simply re-brand themselves in hopes of building a new public perception - and for some, new no-bid government contracts in areas where public outrage otherwise forced them out(i.e. AIG is now AIU and Blackwater is now Xe). So it is with the NeoCons.

Enter the "new", Foreign Policy Initiative.

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