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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I'm with you on this one.
If Obama is elected I hope (and pray) you are right.
Of course you and I disagree on who will be able to best handle the financial crisis, but I understand why you would disagree, coming from Canada. From what I understand, most of you do not embrace Capitalism with the same affection most of us do down here. But, something to think about, if Obama's Socialist plan brings our economy further down, your country will suffer also. If our country becomes energy independent under McCain, though, your economy would also suffer, so the way I look at it, Canada will be somewhat worse for wear either way.
If we have to deal with a nuclear crisis, then you guys could be in the same boat with us, depending upon when and where.
I don't think McCain feels immune to "further testing", but I don't think his "tests" will be of the same magnitude as the tests that will occur with a young, untested, inexperienced man as president.
Most people prove that something comes from U.S. News and World Report by posting a link to to the actual article in that publication. What I have witnessed is left wing websites quoting legitimate sources, but leaving out pertinent facts from the story in an order to sway their readers to believe something that really isn't so. That is called "Stacking The Deck" and is a well known propaganda technique that these left wing sites use.
Recently on this board one of the extremist sites published a very convincing story and actually posted a link to the legitimate source hoping that their readers wouldn't actually investigate, but take their word for it. When you went to the site and actually read it, a completely different analysis could be reached.
So, if you quote a valid source, please post a link, so that I can go the original story and read it for myself.
From what I remember, the press loved Reagan (but even they had to report on Iran-Contra).
We won't try to rewrite history, chilly - we just actually read it.
So, if you quote a valid source, please post a link, so that I can go the original story and read it for myself.
I gave you the book title and the exact date of the US News publication. If you have any questions or doubts, or if you are that curious look it up yourself. The article that I posted wasn't contained online, at least when I looked, it was only in the magazine.
It's 3 very old fashioned concepts.
1). Books
2). Magazines
3). Doing your own homework.
The Internet is a wonderful tool but it contains very little primary material.
dablacksox
Cynic: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.---Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.
I've actually lived through this history, lol. I don't have to read about it - I was THERE. Some left wing websites are trying to rewrite history. And....
da blacksox didn't post any link.
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