But I didn't see a whole lot of what you describe here. I don't see any conspiracies or "puppet-master".

I see a number of folks who believe in the same thing, with similar or mutually supporting agendas, all GOING FOR THEIR AGENDAS, whether it means trouble for the USA and Americans or NOT.

I see a bunch of like-minded extreme left-wingers going for it. It is as simple as that. What they end up with, we'll see. My guess is when we get to the next level of the outline, they all might not agree on what the final draft will look like.

If you could see into heads of Pelosi, Frank, and Dodd right now, you'd probably see something like, "Just re-elect us 14% approval rating folks, and THEN we can go for it". But if you looked closer, each might have a different view of what "going for it" is.

That is a good thing. On the surface, with a broad brush, we have a far left FORCE, but in practice, it might not work out so cleanly for them.

Nice try at making a point with hyperbole and humor though...

For all you fearmongers out there, suck on this.

John McCain was a major backer of the latest $700 billion bailout for the richest 1% of all financial firms. He backed a Republican administration that has bought a handful of other financial firms, a ton of banks and has part of his plan basically bailing out even more banks from the bad loans that they made. All in all, he wants to and has backed more than $1 trillion dollars in spending to the richest 5% of the country at the expense of the rest of us. Not to mention more tax breaks for companies in the Fortune 500 to create new jobs that aren't being created while the CEOs line their pockets with money.

Now come Obama who says, "why can't the rest of America get a piece of the pie?" and you get mad at him? This is total and utter hypocrisy and I really hope that you are secretly racist because then it would make sense. If you not, then you have some kind of blinders because the Republican party has put on a magic show for you with the most expensive smoke and mirrors ever made. Have you made more money under the Republican socialist plan for the rich? Are you more secure? Can your kids pay for college without loans? And you think McCain isn't a socialist? He's the biggest socialist that ever walked the earth. Do you think that the French government would ever even consider given $50 billion dollars to their auto industry, or Germany? I mean do some research here people. You are embarrassing us all with this totally transparent argument of something that you understand less than how your cell phone works. Its really sad that somehow you believe these people who have stolen your rights, stolen your money and worst of all have stolen your children's future just so that they could get that bigger yacht that their college roommate at Williams has down the block will ever do what is right for America as a whole. They have gotten a taste of the good life and they will do whatever they can to keep it. Wouldn't you? Its just sad that you think that they are thinking about you as they sail at Cape Cod or take a trip to Tahiti with the money that the Repubs gave them in tax breaks to create new jobs. Where's your job? And you think that a guy who just paid off his student loans, who is still paying his mortgage, who still has to make sure that his kids can get a good education, who still, even if he is elected president of the United States of America, might get pulled over in his car because of the inherent inequality in this country, doesn't understand what you might be going through just a tad bit better than some rich douche who only cares about power and money? Its just sad.

Hope it's okay to post my video link here -- it's a poem/music video in response the use of Nazi propaganda tactics by the Republican Party. It's shocking to see how blatant the Republican party has been about this.

Genocide begins with words. They're a way of softening the terrain, rendering one's supposed enemy as 'other' and ultimately not quite so human. At which point, murder loses its taboo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzwIikmqiU4

Obama is going to hypnotize us into getting gay married to Bill Ayers!!!

Because he is a Marxist secret Muslim Atheist Drug Addict who wants to give kindergartners abortions!

It is all part of the Puppet master, Barney Franks, evil scheme! So that he can use his secret army of latte liberals and genetically modified super fruit flies to kill Joe the Plumber!!!!

Bugga Bugaa!!!

These are like...the most funny trolls ever! Is this what Rush Limbaugh is like? Sounds like a laugh riot.

Like attracts like, I guess. Inherent in SunnyJim's posts are many of the same kinds of approaches we see in Obama's behavior

...throwing daily Newspapers that endorsed McCain off airplanes in favor of monthly glossies that adore him;

Blacklisting a TV network in Florida...

Nice...

The article was so strangely paranoid, I was inspired to register. If any other bizarre articles from Salon appear in Google news, I might prove tempted to contribute again. ;-) Those are the ones that will get a lot of eyeballs! :-)

'WTF' is right!

What, 8 or 9 brand new letter writers just signing on in the past few hours, all doing the same Obama bashing? Could this be the same person re-registering with different e-mail addresses? Who sent you here?

Most of the others that have done the same thing in the past few months have already disappeared from Salon. Expect "all of you" signing up today to do the same thing.

-- Sunny Jim

I can't speak for anyone else, but personally I got here from a google news link. The title of the article interested me... and I'm guessing the rest that posted that you didn't recognize.

The registration didn't mention anything about someone named Sunny Jim deciding who could post here and who couldn't, or if they could stay or not. You should make some calls and have that corrected since you obviously have some say about it. Or better yet, maybe you should consider getting a chat program where you can choose who you talk to and not be bogged down with opposing opinions.