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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Registered: 03-30-2007
Wed, 10-22-2008 - 10:07am
The last paragraph stated,
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Registered: 08-29-2008
Wed, 10-22-2008 - 10:14am

Please re-read the original article posted to this thread. It does not say "Obama is not a citizen", nor does it say, "Obama is a Muslim".

I thought we were discussing the original article.

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Registered: 08-29-2008
Wed, 10-22-2008 - 10:16am
I think it's troubling that Palestinians are making large donations to Obama. I also find it troubling that they will not disclose who else is making these "under the radar" donations.
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Wed, 10-22-2008 - 10:20am
The money from the Palestinians
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Wed, 10-22-2008 - 10:24am


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Registered: 10-08-2008
Wed, 10-22-2008 - 10:28am

My guess is with that posted article, you just unleased a bomb.


Keep it handy and post it under the Biden thread.

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Wed, 10-22-2008 - 10:32am

Oh yes, I'm sure that why Palin credits a witch hunter from Africa for supernaturally jump starting her political career.

He land hands on her, and prayed for the spirit of witchcraft to be gone or some such twaddle.

How very, very logical.

And let's not forget that extremely "liberal" (NOT) Pat Robertson and his "logical" response to 9/11, saying America Got exactly what we deserved, and that this was God's punishment on America for gays, separation of church and state, blah, blah, blah. So "logical" and so "patriotic: too.

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Wed, 10-22-2008 - 10:36am

There are 2 defining characteristics of the right wing in this country.


The first is a lack of concrete ideas. Right wing politicians, when they are elected, aren't elected to accomplish anything, they aren't elected because of any particular vision, and they don't take office with that prospect in mind. Instead, they are elected as opposition-to change, to progress, their whole point of existence is to say "NO" to any and everything possible.


The second defining characteristic is the need for "enemies", and this probably ties into their lack of substance and their need to say no. They maintain personal lists of enemies, Nixon's enemies list, Bush43's litmus test for federal prosecutors, judges, etc. The same is true internationally, of course the old Soviet Union was a tailor made enemy and when it collapsed they desperately looked for a new "enemy". When Bush was first elected they were trying to manufacture this with China, blogs and right wing "thought" (there's an oxymoron for sure) were full of talk of the Chinese plan to take over the world, this probably reached it's height with that plane incident about 2000 or 2001 or so, I don't remember the exact date. 9/11 gave them the successor to the Soviet Union they were so desperately looking for, Islam, and so we hear very little today about the coming Chinese world takeover.


Personally I would think that living your life in opposition to something and everything, rather than embracing anything positive, is a pretty sad existence. I guess that's why I'm not a right winger. YMMV.


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: 05-05-2008
Wed, 10-22-2008 - 10:40am

Consider the source of the orginal article. Hardly a

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Registered: 08-29-2008
Wed, 10-22-2008 - 11:41am
They SENT IT in an effort to HELP Obama get elected. The fact that these Palestinians have sent him large amounts of money is troubling, regardless of whether it was sent back or not. This shows WHO is hoping Obama gets in. It is also troubling that the campaign will not disclose who else has sent money under the radar.

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