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 am looking at this the way Joe Biden, the head of the Foreign Relations Committee, and Vice Presidential nominee for the DEMOCRATS looks at it. I am looking at it the way someone who lived through the first NUCLEAR crisis who DOESN'T WANT TO SEE ANOTHER ONE would look at it. I am looking at it the same way that any student of history would look at it.
Here is what Biden said:
"Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy. And he’s gonna have to make some really tough — I don’t know what the decision’s gonna be, but I promise you it will occur. As a student of history and having served with seven presidents, I guarantee you it’s gonna happen."
He spoke SPECIFICALLY about what will happen when we elect BARACK OBAMA. We can avoid this kind of thing by NOT ELECTING HIM!
>>> I don't have to imagine - it would imply that Palin was willing to sleep with the enemy - if you consider someone being part of a secessionist party the enemy.
Only if you're a big kool-aid consumer. The AIP hasn't been a "secessionist group" since 1986. So you could hardly call Todd Palin a "secessionist," let alone "the enemy," when he registered with the party in 1995.
>>> Since she is so big on the whole Anti-American/Real American bent I would assume that if Obama or his wife had ever belonged to an organization that advocated for a state to secede from the US it would be a big deal.
It would be...but I doubt that the press would have any more interest in Obama being a secessionist than they are in the fact that he's a racist, a radical or a socialist.
>>> Interesting that she doesn't seem to think those rules apply to her marriage, even more interesting that you don't.
You'd have to know what the "rules" are first and stop getting your arguments from wacko sources like the Daily KOS.
>>> But I am sure you won't disappoint me with endless spin on the subject.
Nah...I'll stick with the facts...you seem to be enjoying the spin.
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