Are all right wingers paranoid?

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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

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/5697

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iVillage Member
Registered: 01-28-2004
Thu, 10-23-2008 - 6:09pm

Maybe the reason that other countries want Obama to win is that they want a weaker America. IMO


My bet would be on a weaker stock market on an Obama win. (I think they are trading that already, a lot of money being pulled out and leaving the country)

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Registered: 10-08-2008
Thu, 10-23-2008 - 6:13pm

I frankly don't want any president of ours to be WILLING to nuke another country.

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 11-11-1999
Thu, 10-23-2008 - 6:13pm

Thanks for the link. I originially posted my material about a year ago and at that time US News didn't have it online. I was in a hurry this morning and didn't have time to look that up, I just reposted what I posted from a year or so ago.


Someone who will only believe material if it's

dablacksox


Cynic: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.---Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.

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Registered: 08-29-2008
Thu, 10-23-2008 - 6:14pm

Kennedy had to convince Khrushchev that he was willing and ready to use nuclear weapons. Do you think Obama is that strong?

If we elect him we are asking for a crisis of this magnitude. Is Obama as strong as Kennedy? We really don't have to find out. McCain will not be tested in the same way. Biden knows it, and those who watched this happen before know it, and those with foreign policy experience also know it.

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-08-2008
Thu, 10-23-2008 - 6:15pm

You're welcome...and no, it doesn't look like you changed anything.

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-20-2008
Thu, 10-23-2008 - 6:16pm

Well that just gets to the point then doesn't it? Willingness to 'nuke' another country. I hope none of the world's rulers are too eager to do that. I prefer to think that we can solve problems in other ways. I think one of the enduring lessons from our atomic bombing of Japan would be just what a last resort it should be. What truly scares me is that McCain and Palin just might be TOO eager to do that.

Under what circumstances do you think 'nuking' another country is justified? What actions would you like to see attempted before resorting to nuclear options?

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-20-2008
Thu, 10-23-2008 - 6:22pm

Aren't you the one who said conservatives approach things more logically? And the left is ruled more by 'feelings'? An awful lot of 'feelings' in your posts - not a lot of logic.

So you have insight into what our enemies are thinking? They have assured you that McCain would not be 'tested' in the same way? Seriously? Cause the last I heard Al-Queda wanted McCain to win so they could ensure we bankrupted ourselves fighting them. Wouldn't that count as a test?

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-08-2008
Thu, 10-23-2008 - 6:28pm
I lived through it too.
iVillage Member
Registered: 04-04-2003
Thu, 10-23-2008 - 6:29pm

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Actually, so is Obama's.


Anyway, I'm sure

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-29-2008
Thu, 10-23-2008 - 6:32pm

Ok, once I was supplied with a link I went back and read the post. Someone posted quotes from a left wing book in U.S. News and World Report.

I am correct that Reagan won the Cold War without firing a shot, and there was nothing in that opinion piece that even said otherwise. I could tell by reading it, though, that the guy didn't like "neocons"...

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