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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BWAA HA HA HA!
Does the America in your universe have an extra state?
(State of Denial ;o)
This is hilarious! The right wing absolutely HATED Kennedy at the time.
>>> Really? Then I guess you have been 'pallin around' with terrorists also? Wonder how far the 'guilt by association' thing extends?
It isn't guilt by association...it's poor judgment and questionable character by association. Didn't your white granny ever tell you..."show me who your friends are and i'll tell who you are"?
>>> I spoke to William Ayers once - does that make me a terrorist too?
No, why would you think that?
>>> It is just as it is naive to believe that Obama will be "tested" any more than any new president.
Why? It happened to Kennedy...and "experienced" Joe Biden was quite certain that it would happen to Obama specifically to "test his metal." There is no such "uncertainty" about McCain's "metal."
>>> Do you think that Obama will say something so stupid as "bring it on" to enemies?
No, I think Barry will have difficulty getting those words out with his nose shoved so far up our enemies a__e_.
>>> Seriously...what kind of bravado is that?
A message of defiance to those who wish to terrorize us.
>>> "Bring it on" is probably one of Bush's stupidest statements ever.
I doubt most people share your sentiment. I certainly don't.
>>> Bottom line...all new presidents get tested.
No...not with a CRISIS specifically GENERATED by our enemies to TEST THEIR METAL. Biden wasn't speaking in generalities, and he wasn't speaking about McCain as well...he was specifically referring to Obama and he likened the CRISIS to the "Cuban Missile Crisis" that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war...and he followed up by warning that, in his opinion, Barry would get his response WRONG.
>>> All new presidents have the choice of how to react. Whether they keep a cool head or not is a matter of their unique temperaments.
Re-read Biden's words...try to look at them without the spin and kool-aid induced haze.
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>>> At a heavy price. Cost to date: $565,219,814,982....and counting.
That's nothin'...we just paid a TRILLION dollars to bail out a bunch of corrupt banks...and Barry wants to spend $300 BILLION on a screwy "stimulus" package...and another TRILLION on socialist programs. At least with the war we can see some progress.
>>> 30,275 casualties (as of July 2008)...4,500 coalition deaths ---- including 4,186 Americans.....and counting
Did you know that almost 43,000 people die in auto accidents each year?...and the cost is more than $230 Billion...and they're not even in a war zone.
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