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Reading the heated letters by chhabili in this thread which so strongly and self-righeously attack Senator Clinton for all sorts of sins, I was interested in her statement that she had been a Clinton supporter but gradually switched to Obama; interested enough to spend an hour reading dozens of chhabili's earlier posts. Wow.
I have a cousin who for half a lifetime belonged to the Catholic Church. Then over one week, having been exposed to a series of sermons and of tracts given him to read, he became the most fervent "born-again Christian" I've ever known. Nothing about Catholicism is now for him anything but anathema; the Church is the Whore of Babylon now.
Quite the epiphany.
Back to my recent reading. Thirty-eight days ago, chhabili wrote that Obama was "a flash in the pan" and told "a pack of lies." The next day we heard that he is "a modern-day charlatan." Next, that "he should let the press do his dirty work (against Clinton.) A title of a post was "Media Doing a Great Hit Job on Hillary For Obama." And, "it pains me to see how divisive Obama is."
We hear a lot from chhabili THEN, about how Obama is the fount for injecting racism into the campaign, not the Clintons, and the press is giving them a false characterization on all that SC stuff.
Thirty-five days ago, chhabili told us "Obama is not presidential material." Thirty-four days ago, we read that chhabili is "more than ever convinced that MSM has it in for the Clintons and will continue promoting the vacuous and lightweight candidacy of Barack Obama."
But. On Jan 30th, just 31 days ago, chhabili suddenly says "this article has givien me a lot of pause in regards to Hillary Clinton..." and links to the Robert Scheer Clinton rant from TruthDig and CommonDreams.com.
I guess chhabili had her/his weeklong revival tent experience then, because we hear nothing from that quarter until Feb 11th, 18 days ago. And what do we hear, after the Epiphany?
"Why is the media silent on Hillary's efforts to sponsor a bill to make flag-burning a criminal offense?"
And so, in the past two and half weeks, we have the "born-again Obamaite" with message after message directly contradicting all we'd read from chhabili for weeks and weeks up to the Epiphany. All the contempt once spewed out against Obama is now spewed in a new direction, to Hillary.
And we see the NEW chhabili winning red stars. I suppose that's as good a reward as any for the conversion, huh?
By the way, since others have flogged the flag-burning thing, let me point out what saner minds already know. First, the media is "silent" in Feb of 2008 because it was a bill offered in 2005. Second, it was arguably the sole reason the Senate failed to pass a Constituional amendment on the subject, in a vote that failed by only one vote and failed because senators from both sides said a later bill to deal with the issue would be offered instead. Third, it proffered to make flag-burning illegal in three specific cases: if it is a flag owned by someone else, if it is being burned on Federal property, or if it is being burned on someone else's property as a directly intimidating act comparable to cross-burning on someone's lawn.
That's it. That's the big horrendous flag-burning story. Of course, a lot of the other charges are even less valid, but that's another story.
Talk about drinking Kool-Aid. I invite anyone to read chhabili's interesting "diary" of conversion. Start anywhere you like, but Jan.22 to now will do it just fine. And if you're an Obama supporter, prepare to be incensed. Just as Clinton supporters might be by the more current posts, like those of today's.
