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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iVillage Member
Registered: 08-29-2008
Thu, 10-23-2008 - 8:22am
My statement is representative of what Joe Biden warned us about, and what anyone who lived through the nuclear crisis of the Kennedy administration will be thinking about, and what anyone with foreign affair experience is concerned about. With an inexperienced man in office - and really this is the most inexperienced candidate EVER - who is perceived weak we are ASKING for a crisis of the magnitude!
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Registered: 08-29-2008
Thu, 10-23-2008 - 8:24am
I look at Real Clear Politics every day, sometimes twice a day. I am very concerned.
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Registered: 08-29-2008
Thu, 10-23-2008 - 8:45am
Newsweek didn't state that they returned the money. It stated that campaign workers SAID they returned the money. Apparently there has been no proof offered that they returned the money - I looks like Newsweek didn't investigate that far. If it had been a Republican you can bet Newsweek would have checked to see for sure if the money was returned!
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Thu, 10-23-2008 - 8:50am

I suppose all the CHRISTIAN websites BRAGGING about how this man drove "Mama Jane" out of Africa for refusing to convert to Christianity were also fake too.

And I suppose Pat Robertson's "logical" ranting after 9/11 that America "got what it deserved" were also faked.

The sound was lagging on the video, it was not completely different.

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Thu, 10-23-2008 - 8:54am
Well, if you really believe that, then what about your hero McCain saying that Obama is a decent man and we have nothing to fear if he becomes president. Was that a "logical" statement ?
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Registered: 07-03-2008
Thu, 10-23-2008 - 9:01am
Maybe Biden feels, but obviously couldn't say-- maybe he feels that if the Republicans loose, they could do something to cause the "crisis".I wouldn't put ANYTHING past vicious Republicans. They have proven here lately just how hateful and vengeful they really are.
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Registered: 08-29-2008
Thu, 10-23-2008 - 9:05am

I didn't say Democrats don't think logically. I have said that there are lots of conservative Democrats (although you wouldn't be able to tell it by reading this board). I said "conservatives" tend to use logic and facts when making decisions, rather than raw emotion - as is the case with many liberals, ESPECIALLY the extremist left wing variety.

Regardless of whether or not Obama is "calm" - why INVITE a HUGE crisis that is comparable to the crisis this country had to face with another young president who was perceived as weak? Why do we want to ASK FOR A MAJOR CRISIS when it isn't necessary????

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Registered: 10-08-2008
Thu, 10-23-2008 - 9:11am

I haven't noticed any "extremist left wingers" on this board, but have noted quite

 

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Registered: 08-29-2008
Thu, 10-23-2008 - 9:13am
I believe that Obama is a decent man, too. John F. Kennedy was a decent man. That isn't the issue! Joe Biden has warned us, and he has 30+ years of experience in foreign affairs that we will see a crisis that is the MAGNITUDE of the crisis that Kennedy faced! That was a NUCLEAR crisis! Do you think Obama is strong enough to handle something like that? Do you think he would be able to convince anyone that he was ready and willing to use nuclear weapons against anyone? We do not have to face a crisis of this magnitude! An experienced commander in chief who has served 20+ years in the military will not be tested the same way!
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Thu, 10-23-2008 - 9:16am
Well, that is interesting - that you haven't noticed any, isn't it?

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