You don't really want to go there - do you?

Post his advisors, I would like that - proud progressive NM

The presidential advisers have been discussed extensively for years. - Respectable. No shockers, no weirdos. nm

Many competent, less extreme people are stepping up too - but WHY would he gather these around at all?

Mother Jones=Media Matters=Georgie boy. Won't waste my time (nm) - backwards typist

Okay- can't resist. I'll take on your challenge with the following (sorry-will be long) - backwards typist

A sampling of President Barack Hussein Obama's morally bankrupt White House "Brain Trust"
1.  Valerie Jarrett-Jarrett served in the administration of Chicago Mayor Harold Washington (who, prior to his election, failed to file income tax returns for 19 years and during it maintained dubious Socialist ties) as well as in the scandal-ridden, current Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley.   Her step-father, Vernon Jarrett was associated with Frank Marshall Davis, the youthful Barack Obama's mentor from age 10 until college - a Chicago Communist Party (USA) member who moved to Hawaii from Chicago.  Frank Marshal Davis is now immortalized in President Barack Hussein Obama's "autobiography" as "Uncle Frank" -- conveniently with no mention of his last name nor who he was.  

2.  Patrick Gaspard -Prior to coming on board as President Obama's right-hand man, Mr. Gaspard was a registered federal lobbyist for the SEIU - the union members (thugs?) called-in by the Administration to run interference (sometimes violent) between Democrat members of Congress who support ObamaCare and their own constituents.  Prior to that, Gaspard worked for ACORN -  the community organizing front which Barack Obama worked for as a trainer, represented as a lawyer, helped as a politician, and funneled money to as a presidential candidate. In 2004, Patrick Gaspard served as National Field Director for America Coming Together (ACT), a group which was later fined $775,000 in civil penalties by the federal government.  ACT hired felons - some convicted of sex offenses, assault and burglary - to conduct door-to-door voter registration drives in Missouri and at least two other swing states, and also employed felons as voter canvassers in major metropolitan areas in Missouri, Florida, Ohio.
3.  Eric Holder- Mr. Holder is a shiningly despicable example of everything wrong when politics and personal ambition dictate the parameters of American justice. 
Prior to grasping the brass ring of the department where he'd toiled during the Clinton Administration, Mr. Holder was responsible for these widely-reported miscarriages of justice:           

(1) He streamlined the Clinton Administration's pardon of fugitive billionaire Marc Rich by steering Rich's representatives to a former White House counsel, then helped lobby the President to pardon Rich ("an unrepentant fugitive wanted on extensive fraud, racketeering, and trading-with-the-enemy charges").  Holder did so for personal gain, later admitting he hoped this would help him become Attorney General in a Gore administration.  Mr. Holder concealed the pardon negotiations from other prosecuting and investigative agencies to prevent their opposition.  Mr. Rich's wife was a generous donor to both President Clinton's library as well as his legal-defense fund.
(2) "In 1999, over the objections of the FBI, the Bureau of Prisons, and prosecuting attorneys, Holder supported Clinton's commutation of the sentences of 16 FALN conspirators. These pardons - of terrorists who even Holder has conceded had not expressed any remorse - were issued in the months after al-Qaeda's 1998 U.S. embassy bombings.... The commutations were nakedly political, obviously designed by Clinton to assist his wife's impending Senate campaign by appealing to New York's substantial Puerto Rican vote."
(3) Holder was also instrumental in the "stealth pardons" of two Weather Underground terrorists, Susan Rosenberg and Linda Evans (both closely associated with President Obama's terrorist friends, Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn).  Rosenberg and Evans had been serving decades-long sentences for bombings targeting American government facilities. Again Holder helped circumvent the pardon process and  evade objections from prosecutors regarding the terrorists' jail terms.
(4)  Holder dismissed prosecution of an obvious case (it was filmed) of voter intimidation by members of the New Black Panthers, while also instigating prosecutorial investigations into CIA interrogation techniques of terrorist combatants.  Attorney General Holder is a strong advocate for the release of the Islamofascist enemy combatants currently held at Guantanamo Bay. 

4.  Cecelia Muñoz -Ms. Muñoz was Senior Vice President of The National Council of La Raza.  La Raza (literally, "The Race") is the largest Hispanic lobbying organization in America, and is committed not merely to a socialist agenda, but, essentially, the return of California, if not larger portions of the American West, to Hispanics.  It lobbies heavily for completely open borders with Mexico, as well as amnesty for all illegal aliens.  In order to carry out this agenda, the U.S. federal government awarded over $15.2 million in grants to the organization in 2005 alone.  

La Raza is intimately involved with the "the radical racist group Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, or Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan (MEChA), one of the most anti-American groups in the country, which has permeated U.S. campuses since the 1960s, and continues its push to carve a racist nation out of the American West."  Aztlan's goal is the formation of a Chicano state.  The closing two sentences of Atzlan's motto are:  La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada":  "For The Race everything. Outside The Race, nothing."  Which ought to be as chilling as the idea of the U.S. government funding these people.

5.  Samantha Power(s) - Ms. Power, a "fierce critic of Israel,... was indisputably Barack Obama's closest foreign policy adviser during the campaign. They go back years."  Ms. Power is a notorious acolyte of appeasement-challenged, Neville-Chamberlain-clone Zbigniew Brzezinski (former President Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser) who recently stated that the U.S. should shoot down any Israeli planes which, out of self-preservation, might fly through Iraqi air space to destroy Iran's developing nuclear facilities. Ms. Power agrees with the Charles-Freeman-published Walt-Mearsheimer-essay school of thought that America is run and being destroyed by a cabal of Jews.  Power promotes the policies of disgraced anti-Semitic, Israeliphobic, pro-PLO, pro-Syria, Obama adviser Robert Malley who advocated not merely talking with Hamas, but funding the terrorist organization because he feels their policies and governance mirror that of Israel.  The Obama Administration cut visible ties with Malley shortly after the election.

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6.  Charles Freeman - Mr. Freeman has a distinguished résumé of long service in both the State and Defense Departments, however, his "distinctive political views and affiliations" include:  troubling financial ties to King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia who funds the Middle East Policy Council (formerly the American Arab Affairs Council) which Mr. Freeman heads; organizational support for professors John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt's lengthy, controversial, and essentially anti-Jewish essay, "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy"; his stated viewpoint that "the primary reason America confronts a terrorism problem today is "the brutal oppression of the Palestinians by an Israeli occupation"; praise for the terrorist organization, Hamas, as the only "democratically-elected" government in the Middle East; and, bizarrely, unabashedly siding with the Chinese government over the massacre at Tiananmen Square in 1989 - Mr. Freeman criticized the Chinese government for being "overly cautious."    

"We've got to think about giving out cookies," said Gration who was appointed in March, "Kids, countries -- they react to gold stars, smiley faces, handshakes, agreements, talk, engagement." 

 14.  Kevin Jennings - Jennings is a former schoolteacher who has very successfully advocated promoting homosexuality in schools, written about his past drug abuse, unashamedly and vituperatively expressed his utter contempt for religion, and detailed an incident in which he did not report to authorities his knowledge that an underage student told him he was having sex with older men - Jennings instead counseled the boy to "use a condom.  " In 1990, as a teacher in Massachusetts, [Jennings] founded the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), which now has over 40 chapters at schools nationwide. He has also published six books on gay rights and education...."  

15.  Chai Feldblum - who signed a manifest seeking, inter alia, to legalize polygamy ("to protect households in which there is more than one conjugal partner").  See, online petition entitled Beyond Same-Sex Marriage: A New Strategic Vision For All Our Families and Relationships.  Feldblum is an outspoken homosexual rights activist and Georgetown University law professor.  She is "co-director of Workplace Flexibility 2010, which she described at [a] UCLA symposium as a homosexual rights group that aimed to change ‘the American workplace and revolutionize social mores.  This is a war that needs to be fought,'' Feldblum asserted, "'and it's not a war overseas where we are killing people in the name of liberating them."

 16.  William Ayers - Perhaps Mr. Ayers most notable statement  was made to the New York Times in a story released on September 11, 2001: 

                         "I don't regret setting bombs; I feel we didn't do enough,"

 It has gradually come to light that Mr. Ayers, far from the casual acquaintance President Obama made him out to be during the 2008 election, is quite likely the real author of Mr. Obama's "autobiography," Dreams of My Father.  

 Mr. Ayers approach to education is as authoritarian as is his approach to society as a whole - otherwise he would not have planted terrorist bombs in an effort to compel his personal beliefs upon the rest of society.  As Sol Stern of City Journal wrote:

 Ayers’ influence on what is taught in the nation’s public schools is likely to grow in the future. He was elected VP for curriculum of the 25,000-member American Educational Research Association, the nation’s largest organization of education-school professors and researchers. There’s no doubt that his fellow education professors knew whom they were voting for as in his biographical statement distributed beforehand, he listed “Fugitive Days”, his unapologetic memoir about his 10 years in the Weather Underground with accounts of how he bomed the Pentagon and other public buildings.

 He still boasts about working full time to bring down American capitalism and imperialism.  Instead of planting bombs, he now indoctrinates America’s future teachers in the revolutionary cause urging them to pass on the lessons to their public school students. 

 The Chicago Annenberg Challenge's $100,000,000 was a total failure, producing zero results in student learning, but succeeded in massive transfers of wealth to Leftist, Socialist, and even the Communist causes of long-time Ayers ally, Mike Klonsky, a former S.D. S. leader, college professor and Director of the Small Schools Workshop.