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What a phenomenon, this scare tactic. I have a feeling that many of these people, who are evidently very susceptible to believing the flashiest, scariest scenario that underscores an adamantine world-view shaped largely by the ancient fears of the cold war, are going to wake up sometime soon and realized that they have been "had" in the same way radio listeners woke up the morning after Halloween Night in 1938, when Orson Wells fooled them with his famous "War of the Worlds" broadcast.
I have a feeling that Sarah Palin will go down as the same kind of historical (hysterical?) footnote, one that causes us to laugh at how ridiculous we can be.
