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The GOP attack plan for Hillary Clinton
If Clinton beats the odds and wins the Democratic nomination, Republicans will say she stole it. And then they'll try to give voters a 1990s flashback.
By Mike Madden [2008-03-26]

  • Tom Payne

    Thanks for your post regarding my two earlier posts. It's not wise to argue with someone who doesn't know what they are talking about, but I will make a brief exception in this case to clear up a few points.

    First, I'm not just a white southern populist, I'm a conservative white southern populist. I have a degree in History and english, and with more than 300 years of Southern Heritage in my background, I do love my region, with all its virtues and faults. As a matter of fact, I find a lot to admire in Huey Long, particularly his fight against Standard Oil and the Rockefeller family. Big Government and Big Business are both bad, us conservative populists feel.

    I do not believe Barack Obama is merely a liberal in the great Western Liberal Tradition. I think Obama is a marxist, and that he embraces the tenets of Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution and its chief mechanism--political correctness. He's not a communist any more than are his lefty trust-baby supporters: they love wealth way too much.

    As for the references to Hitler and Lenin, they spring from the endless mantra of Obama's supporters that he makes great speeches. To which I reply, that is no reason to support Obama. Lenin and Hitler were among the most effective orators of the last century, and among mankind's greatest monsters. Lenin took over a country which covers what, 9 time zones, with 121 supporters: he did it with speeches, threats, intimidation, determination and organization, and a lot of uninformed emotional "hope" on the part of a gullible populace. The Bolsheviks took over Russia at a time when the country was engaged in a disastrous, unpopular war, there was widespread disillusionment with the existing government and society, and people yearned for--"change". I don't think my reference was off the mark at all.

    The three remaining Presidential candidates are perhaps the worst crop ever, but the best of the three evils is undoubtedly Hillary Clinton. McCain is the last survivor in high places of the WWII-Cold War mentality. And Barack Obama is decidedly not the candidate his well-polished image presents to the world. Nor was Lenin's and Hitler's.

    -- rphillips111
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    Thursday, March 27, 2008 07:51 PM
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