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
Wed, 10-29-2008 - 9:48am
Actually I don't think it was a test of his mettle (although if it was, he passed). I think that Al Qaeda viewed us as a "papger tiger" based upon the way we handled terror attacks in the past. I think they thought they could continue to attack us without retribution. They found out that, at least under George W. Bush, that wasn't going to happen any more.
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Wed, 10-29-2008 - 9:49am
It doesn't have to fall. Your vote is private. Nobody knows what you decide to do when alone in the voting booth.
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Registered: 09-25-2008
Wed, 10-29-2008 - 10:03am

Do you simply not understand how laws work in the US?


Do you not understand what findings are in a bill, or definitions?

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Registered: 08-29-2008
Wed, 10-29-2008 - 11:03am
I understand perfectly. Do you?
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Registered: 09-25-2008
Wed, 10-29-2008 - 11:45am

Apparently you do not, as you believe referring to UN goals means those goals would become US law.

But then you didn't believe the full text of bills were avaialble on line either.

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Registered: 08-29-2008
Wed, 10-29-2008 - 11:51am
It STATED THAT IN THE BILL! Please re-read it. Then I will accept your apology.
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Wed, 10-29-2008 - 12:10pm

From YOUR link:

SEC. 5. DEFINITIONS.
4) MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS- The term `Millennium Development Goals' means the goals set out in the United Nations Millennium Declaration, General Assembly Resolution 55/2 (2000).

The U.N. MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS state that each country commits 0.7% of gross national produce (GNP). That amounts to about 845 BILLION DOLLARS for the U.S.

Here is is IN THE BILL:

"To require the President to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to further the United States foreign policy objective of promoting the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the *MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL* of reducing by one-half the proportion of people worldwide, between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than $1 per day."

"a) Strategy- The President, acting through the Secretary of State, and in consultation with the heads of other appropriate departments and agencies of the United States Government, international organizations, international financial institutions, the governments of developing and developed countries, United States and international nongovernmental organizations, civil society organizations, and other appropriate entities, shall develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to further the United States foreign policy objective of promoting the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the *MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL* of reducing by one-half the proportion of people worldwide , between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than $1 per day."

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Wed, 10-29-2008 - 1:03pm

Sopal

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Wed, 10-29-2008 - 1:17pm

To add to my previous post.

Sopal

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Wed, 10-29-2008 - 1:20pm

Yes there is. It is stated in DEFINITIONS that the MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS are those SET OUT IN THE UNITED NATIONS MILLENNIUM DECLARATION, GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION 55/2 (2000)

The UNITED NATIONS MILLENNIUM DECLARATION, GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION 55/2 (2000) states that each country commits 0.7% of gross national produce (GNP). That amounts to about 845 BILLION DOLLARS for the U.S.

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