Are all right wingers paranoid?
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| Wed, 10-22-2008 - 9:10am |
What do you make of the right-wing paranoia? Is it pervasive enough to take seriously? How do you make sense of conservatives concerns about how to take care of their families if Obama becomes president?
As it becomes more and more clear that Obama is likely to win the conservatives are becoming more desperate. They need avenues to vent and a Conspiracy Theory feels that void.
But the whole idea is so implausible. Yet, somehow they are able to rationalize it by believing the conspiracy is real and anyone who doesn’t see it is blind.
Help me out here, is they any way to diplomatically and realistic address this stuff? Are they any conservatives out there who agree that it’s bunk?
>>By Klaus Rohrich Tuesday, October 21, 2008
In October 1962 the film The Manchurian Candidate was released to rave reviews. Directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Frank Sinatra and Lawrence Harvey, the film was about a nefarious plot that involved brainwashing, an assassin with a post-hypnotic trigger and a conspiracy to deliver the US presidency into the hands of foreign enemies whose plan it was to destroy the country from within. Eventually cracks began to appear in the plot and in the end the evildoers met their just rewards.
Fast-forward 46 years into this year’s presidential contest between Barack Obama and John McCain. Out of nowhere Barack Obama appears on the scene full-blown and manages to snatch the democratic nomination from Hilary Clinton, despite his complete lack of experience in both domestic as well as foreign policy. In fact, Barack Obama’s experience is so thin that it isn’t even possible to ascertain exactly what he stands for, given that he voted ‘present’ on over 130 Senate bills.
Yet the mainstream media have embraced Obama as the Messiah, the Chosen One, the One Who Will Bring About Hope and Change. No matter that there is no voting record or even a clear history of Obama’s activities since graduation, save and except that he was a ‘community organizer’. Most candidates for political office including those running for dogcatcher of Gnarled Gulch, Montana face close scrutiny by the electorate and especially the media.
But it appears that no amount of subterfuge and skullduggery with which Barack Obama is associated, is enough to raise any questions about his suitability to hold the highest office in the land. Call me paranoid, but suppose there is a vast left-wing conspiracy to take over the United States, there wouldn’t be a better time to do it than now and it seems that there’s no better candidate to do it than Barack Obama. << cont’d


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Sopal
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My concern is that it might not be a "blooper".
If he just messed up, and there's no crisis, all well and good.
To be honest, I won't be especially more concerned for my country whoever wins this election. I think the relationship between Canada and the U.S. will continue to be good regardless. As far as an international crisis goes....if it's going to happen (and considering the state of the world these days, I wouldn't be surprised). Crises tend to happen regularly anyway no matter who is in the Whitehouse.
BUT, I must say that the economy is a definite concern and does (IS) affecting Canada. Also, economic instability in the world is often a major precursor to international crises/unrest. I feel more confident in Obama's ability to address that than McCain's....As well, if some sort of threat were to hit the USA/the west...I also have more confidence in Obama's calm thoughtful approach than McCain's potentially knee-jerk reaction.
I also don't think the fact that McCain has said he has already been tested (though not as president during an international crisis) makes him immune to further testing in the future.
In short, I have confidence in Obama's "spine of steel" (as Biden also went on to elaborate....something that has been conveniently overlooked during all this hoopla) that should something happen under Obama's watch that we are going to be in good hands and he is the best of these two men for the job. so....if I were JUST considering the welfare of my own country, I'd still have to give Obama the edge.
*edited to add a very important word I forgot
Edited 10/23/2008 5:25 pm ET by suemox
Huh.....just realized that Texas was more deadly to Kennedy than the Cuban Missile Crisis was.
<< Why INVITE a crises of this magnitude?>>
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Sure sounds to me like that's what you said. What I replied is that if you call the Biden comment an invitation to crisis, then you must admit that the right wing hate talk is also an invitation to crisis.
If you choose to read only the parts of a post that you agree with, let me know. You can join the poster that goes by 1000 names on the "ignore post" list.
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Honestly I think his liberal supporters would like it if he sat back and did nothing. Biden said that they would NOT like the response, so what IS it that his supporters will not like?
I think he knows from experience that this young man will have to, because of his youth and inexperience, handle a HUGE crisis (that a more experienced, stronger man would not have to face) - and in his own way he is trying to warn the rogue nations ahead of time that Obama has a "spine of steel" and will retaliate, and the liberals will turn against him once he does. Everyone knows Obama does not have a "spine of steel", but I think it was a patriotic attempt at posturing for the rogue nations to try to get them not to do it.
Sopal
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