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

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Registered: 10-20-2008
Fri, 10-24-2008 - 7:19pm
I thought you said that you spoke with him once? If Barry had only had a cursory interaction with Ayres then it would be a non-issue as well...but that's not the case. Obama had a close relationship with Ayres and knew exactly who he was and what he believed in. That says a lot about Obama.
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Sat, 10-25-2008 - 1:23am
ITA! It's amazing that so many can be duped by the lies and propaganda of such an obvious charlatan like Obama.
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Sat, 10-25-2008 - 6:23am
I SOOOOO agree. There is nothing logical about all the B.S. I have been reading, seeing and hearing.
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Sat, 10-25-2008 - 8:25am
Please point out the arguments that you find illogical. I'm curious.
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Sat, 10-25-2008 - 9:43am
I expected a more compelling argument from you. Nice try though, too bad you had to resort to the 'kool aid' arguments again. Kind of hard to take seriously but entertaining non the less.


Edited 10/26/2008 4:31 pm ET by janetheteacher
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Sat, 10-25-2008 - 9:48am

Not too surprising when you remember how many people actually voted for Bush not once but twice. it was inevitable that people would eventually come to their senses. After all, as your commander in chief once brilliantly said: "fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKgPY1adc0A

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Sat, 10-25-2008 - 2:18pm

>>> I expected a more compelling argument from you - guess you didn't have enough to work with.

That's true. I was hoping that your posts would contain at least smatterings of facts or some kind of evidence that your argument wasn't cut and pasted right from the inane blogs of the Daily KOS...but, alas, I expected too much. Do a little research and we'll try again.

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Sat, 10-25-2008 - 2:38pm

>>> Not too surprising when you remember how many people actually voted for Bush not once but twice.

I guess the first time, they were looking for a leader with integrity and a strong moral compass, which is why they didn't elect Gore. The Second time, they wanted a leader who would defend the nation, which is why they didn't elect Kerry.

>>> it was inevitable that people would eventually come to their senses.

You mean "the people" decided not to elect Bush to a third term that they couldn't actually elect them to? LOL!

>>> After all, as your commander in chief once brilliantly said: "fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again."

Hey...here's a gem from your fearful leader...

“Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.”

and here's Barry, the wanna-be-President of the 57 States of America making Bush sound positively eloquent...

"What they'll say is, "Well it costs too much money," but you know what? It would cost, about... It -- it -- it would cost about the same as what we would spend... It... Over the course of 10 years it would cost what it would costs us... (nervous laugh) All right. Okay. We're going to... It... It would cost us about the same as it would cost for about -- hold on one second. I can't hear myself. But I'm glad you're fired up, though. I'm glad."

"Everybody knows that it makes no sense - that - you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma. They end up taking up a hospital bed - it cost - when - if you - they just gave - you gave him - treatment early - and they got some treatment - and...uh - a breathalyzer - or an inhalator, not a breathalyzer"

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Sat, 10-25-2008 - 3:24pm
I haven't cut and pasted anything from Daily KOS - but since that is the standard talking point, aside from the kool-aid I guess it will have to do.


Edited 10/26/2008 4:30 pm ET by janetheteacher
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Sat, 10-25-2008 - 4:25pm
Yes...as long as you insist on using propaganda as the basis of your argument, instead of the readily available facts, there's probably very little left to discuss.

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