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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I can remember when I first started school, Eisenhower (a General) was president.
None of these "tests" come close to the NUCLEAR crisis Kennedy faced.
Oh really? 300 dead Marines in Lebanon, dozens more killed in the embassy bombings under Reagan, bin Laden drawing inspiration from the hasty retreat that Reagan beat from Lebanon
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Cynic: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.---Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.
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Biden has warned us that, if elected, OBAMA (this brilliant 47 year old) will face a crisis COMPARABLE to the crisis this nation faced under John Kennedy. We have not faced a crisis like this SINCE Kennedy. Biden has said that the world will test HIM to this magnitude, and that the public will not like the response. That is very troubling. Biden is not a right wing scare monger, he is the V.P, nominee for Obama's OWN PARTY. He also has 30+ years of experience in foreign policy. He should be listened to before it's too late.
He definitely made a big blooper, but I wouldn't say he invited a crisis. In bringing it up, he might actually be averting a crisis--letting the terrorists know that whoever is elected, we will take homeland security seriously.
If you want to say he is inviting a crisis, then you must also admit that all the right wing hate talk about Obama is inviting a crisis.
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Yes, really. Do you know how many people could have been wiped out with an exchange of nuclear weapons between the two countries? It was the most real, and most severe crisis any president has ever faced.
And Reagan's build up of the military WON THE COLD WAR! Without firing a shot.
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