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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" Conservatives do tend to look at things more logically, and are more concerned with actual facts rather than how someone or something makes them "feel", imo. I think that may be part of your answer."
Oh no you didn't! McCain is running a 'fear and smear' campaign and you want to say democrats don't think logically? Seriously? Sarah Palin thinks more logically? Seriously?
McCain's obvious frustration during the debates belies your assertion that McCain isn't concerned with how something makes him 'feel' while Obama's calm was an indication of his ability to think logically while putting aside his 'feelings'. If McCain was thinking logically at all he would never have picked his running mate, he would never have said the fundamentals of the economy were sound, he would never have 'suspended' his campaign, he would never have bailed on Letterman - thereby allowing Letterman to dis him regularly in the following days, he would simply not have done most of the things he has done recently.
Sopal
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If Barack Obama is elected, then we all in a very dangerous situation and be much worse off than just "scared".
It's not good that you feel that way, but I've got to say, chilly, those who feel that way need to prepare themselves.
I'll put you down for a yes, then.
"The liberals are being conned" = right wing paranoia
< If Barack Obama is elected, then we all in a very dangerous situation and be much worse off than just "scared". Not because he is a bad man, but his inexperience and perceived weakness is dangerous. This is the most important issue we face. >
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Sopal
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Thanks for the warning. The two robocalls I got from the RNC, the "terrorist" flyer from RNC and a robocall from Rudy Gulianni weren't enough to scare me. I don't think there's anything you can post here about Obama that will scare me either.
Maybe you should try your tricks on the trick-or-treaters on Halloween. They might be gullible enough to believe you.
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