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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From a visitor to The Corner at the National Review Online:
So I went to the Obama website this afternoon and clicked on the "Donate" button.
I used my real MasterCard number (but was not asked for the 3 digit security code).
Used the following information and it was accepted...
First name: Fake
Last Name: Donor
Address: 1 Dollar To Prove A Point
City: Fraudulent
State: AL
Zip / Post: 33333
Email Address: allmyinfoismadeup@mediabias.com
Phone Number: 2125551212
Employer: Mainstream Media
Occupation: Being in the Tank
And incredibly, my $5 donation was ACCEPTED!!!
I then went to the McCain site and used the exact same information (and WAS asked for the 3 digit security code for my MasterCard). There, my contribution was rejected with the following message: "Your transaction was not approved for the following reason(s): Invalid data", and then: "We have found errors in the information that you have submitted. Please review the information below and try again."
I have screen shots and printouts of all of this as well.
Please tell me what I can do with this information?
Welcome to the board!
:o)
You are now bordering on harrassment.
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You are looking at this way too simplistically.
One can be perceived as weak for different reasons. Youth could be one way but being thought of as too old is another. Experience can be a weakness also if it is perceived as the wrong experience or wrong for a particular situation. Decisive action can be a strength (unless it is too rash and careless without first carefully making sure you have a compete understanding of the problem).
Conversely, you can define strength in different ways. Experience can be an asset if it's perceived as the right kind. However, if a fresh approach is desired or required, that can be considered a strength and more desirable. Youth and energy can be a strength too. A calm, cautious and/or a thoughtful approach can be a strength (and better than a knee-jerk or emotional reaction).
....and in EVERY situation, intellectual curiosity and discipline (which is NOT the same as just having innate intelligence) is a strength. This quality is not dependent on experience....You either have it, or you don't.
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At a heavy price.
Cost to date:
$565,219,814,982
....and counting.
http://www.nationalpriorities.org/costofwar_home
30,275 casualties (as of July 2008)
4,500 coalition deaths ---- including 4,186 Americans
.....and counting
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/
There's a big difference between "getting it wrong" or doing something that some may not like.
It is amusing to see those who have consistently been saying that bush's decision to invade Iraq (particularly when it became less and less popular) was a strong president doing an unpopular thing for the good of the nation are now saying that what Biden said (that if some of Obama's decisions in this hypothetical situation could be unpopular) that automatically means "getting it wrong".
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