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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Don't think for one minute that Canada will not be affected should this country face a nuclear crisis.
Wasnt' it George W. Bush who said, "Bring it on"? He isn't running this time. McCain and Bush don't even like each other. McCain has openly opposed President Bush for the last 8 years on any number of things. Some I agree with, some I do not.
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Undoubtedly. However, if this were to happen, I doubt very much that the identity (or party) of the president will make all that much difference as far as the motivating factor is concerned.
Edited 10/23/2008 9:43 am ET by suemox
That is a very real concern, Suemox. It is evident in the way that the left wing hated George W. Bush for eight years, unmercifully, and how the right wing hated Bill Clinton, unmercifully, for the 8 years before that.
For me, personally, I pray for my country and for our leaders. If B.O. is elected I will accept it and pray for him and my country just as I have prayed for previous leaders.
I am gravely concerned for my country (as you should be for yours) if we elect this unproven, inexperienced man to be our president - because of the extreme dangers in the world today. If we elect someone who has said up front that he will legitimize Akmadenijad, and Chavez, etc., we are in huge trouble. If the world "tests" him like they did John F. Kennedy (another young president who was perceived to be weak), we are in some grave danger. I really think people should think long and hard before voting to put our country into this kind of danger.
It is the young, untested, inexperienced presidents who rogue nations think they can test.
I see. So Bush41 was a young, untested, inexperienced president who Saddam thought he could test by actually invading and occupying Kuwait? Reagan was a young, inexperienced, untested president who Iran thought they could test by actually bombing 4 of our embassies along with the Marine barracks in Lebanon, killing 241 Marines?
I really wonder just when the Republican Party, the party of principals, of Lincoln, morphed into an intellectually, morally and spiritually bankrupt party with nothing to offer except pure, raw, unmitigated FEAR. It would be good for this country if the defeat of McCain forced the Republican Party to examine just how far they've slipped into the cesspool of fear, but my guess is the hard right will again sieze control and resume their wholesale pedaling of fear, since it's all they have.
If Lincoln could see what the modern Republican Party has descended to he would be spinning in his grave.
dablacksox
Cynic: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.---Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.
dablacksox
Cynic: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.---Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.
Sopal
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What you fail to note is that it was Obama's own running mate who raised the issue, NOT a Republican.
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