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: 08-29-2008
Tue, 10-28-2008 - 10:25am

The legislation would commit the U.S. to spending 0.7 percent of gross national product on foreign aid, (under the management of the U.N.) which amounts to a phenomenal 13-year total of $845 billion over and above what the U.S. already spends.

If Obama is elected he will have a Democrat led congress, maybe even a filibuster-proof congress. It is a guaranteed that this will be one of the things enacted, along with censorship for opposing views (Ie: the "Fairness Doctrine"), and other extreme ideas and expenditures.

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Registered: 10-20-2008
Tue, 10-28-2008 - 5:28pm

Please! You very conveniently cherry pick which of Biden's statements you chose to believe. Perhaps I should call Joe tonight and see if he can give me the DE lottery numbers for this evenings pick then I can just drive up to the state line and buy a ticket or two. Or maybe I will ask him to predict the winner next Tuesday, since you seem to think he is infallible. Oh but wait, he is only infallible if the message supports your agenda - isn't that right?

Insert eyeroll here. There is no point in continuing this conversation as you clearly will only attend to the bits of information that you like and disregard the rest.

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Registered: 08-29-2008
Tue, 10-28-2008 - 5:47pm
He was speaking from 30+ years of experience. This is something that should be taken very seriously.
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Registered: 10-20-2008
Tue, 10-28-2008 - 6:02pm
yada yada yada and chicken little says the sky is falling...
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Registered: 09-25-2008
Tue, 10-28-2008 - 6:02pm

>>The legislation would commit the U.S. to spending 0.7 percent of gross national product on foreign aid, (under the management of the U.N.) which amounts to a phenomenal 13-year total of $845 billion over and above what the U.S. already spends.<<

Yes, so you've said. What you haven't done is show where the BILL actually says this. I provided the entire text for you, please point to the sections or clause, or perhaps just cut and paste the part.

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Registered: 08-29-2008
Tue, 10-28-2008 - 6:44pm
You didn't provide the entire bill. lol! You've provided the synopsis. Did you think they posted the bills in their entirety online?
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Tue, 10-28-2008 - 8:59pm
OK, I'll put you down as a very firm yes.

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Tue, 10-28-2008 - 9:03pm

>>If we don't elect Obama, America will not have to face a crisis of this magnitude! <<

What I'm thinking is that you regret having put George W. in office in 2000, since his election probably brought on 9/11 as a test of his mettle. Do I have it right?

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Tue, 10-28-2008 - 9:44pm

Yes, they post the

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Registered: 08-29-2008
Wed, 10-29-2008 - 9:42am

Yes it does state specific amounts of money, although they were deceptive about it in order to get it passed.

The bill defines the term "Millennium Development Goals" as the goals set out in the United Nations Millennium Declaration, General Assembly Resolution 55/2 (2000).

The U.N. says that "The commitment to provide 0.7% of gross national product (GNP) as official development assistance was first made 35 years ago in a General Assembly resolution, but it has been reaffirmed repeatedly over the years, including at the 2002 global Financing for Development conference in Monterrey, Mexico.

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