Letters to the Editor
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Fascinating
This
Ask anyone who writes about politics these days and they will tell you the same thing. Obama's followers are unique. Unlike any other candidate's supporters (except perhaps for Ron Paul's), they see him as much more than a mere political candidate. Much, much more.
is tremendous insight Glenn. It's heartwarming to see employing the rhetorically compelling 'ask anyone'. Perhaps people that support him just realize how much of a raw deal he is getting in the press and with the establishment deck stacked against him, and find garbage analysis such as this more of the same (inclusive of the Regan storyline, the race baiter, the neoconservative manchurian candidate, the anti-Semite, etc.)? If you want to criticize things for which you have substantive backing, go right ahead. But, just fyi, Obama = Huckabee, is just looks like you're doing your best to caricature yourself.
As an aside, at this point, my support is not about is not in trying to get a candidate elected- I know enough about politics, to know that Obama is done and its just a matter of time. At this point, I'm just expressing myself, and hopefully annoying some of the self-righteous on the left that have gone off the deep end.
Beyond critique? You can't think up a better strawman than that?
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Obama and Hillary are mere inches apart in terms of policy
The reason we're having these personality, race and religion debates, is that Barack and Hillary are barely distinguishable, along party lines. So the only arguments left are the "how many angels can dance on the head of a pin" kind, and electability.
One month ago, everything was sweetness and light among the Dems, now we're tearing each other apart at the seams, and that's just how Karl Rove wants it. It wouldn't take an over active imagination to suppose that he's the one behind the race and religious attacks, hoping to split the Democratic Party. As usual, he's doing a swell job.
If we allow ourselves rise to the bait, the Republicans and Karl Rove, will live to rule for another four years, at least.
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Come on people now...
Let's try to bring ourselves back to reality.
The Clintons are not behind any campaign whispered or otherwise to discredit Barak Obama by labelling him a Muslim.
My father is a rabid right wing Republican ("Is there any other kind?" you say). He believes, I kid you not, in the following principle:
If you receive one email on a subject, it could be true. If you receive a second email on the same subject, it probably is true. If you receive, a third email, case closed, the email is gospel truth.
Although, I have shown my father on numerous occasions how to access fact check sites like snopes.com, so he can check out the likely truthfulness of the various emails he receives from the RNC, Focus on the Family, Rush Limbaugh, GOPUSA, and the Minutemen, he still believes, for example, that the Clintons have offed several hundred of their political opponents both in Arkansas and our nation's capital, and that a death squad operated under the aegis of Hillary Clinton is responsible for the "murder" of Vince Foster. On the other hand he refuses to believe that FDR died in the bedroom of his mistress and had to be carted out and returned to his own bedroom. Oddly enough, he does believe that Eleanor Roosevelt was a lesbian. Go figure.
*I would point out in my father's defense that he is 85 years old, and was not always this dotty.
Unfortunately, he (like many others) believes these unsolicited emails arriving in his inbox every morning are legitimate. The other unfortunate thing about my father is that he believes what he wants to believe even when there's nothing to back up his belief. He "enjoys" believing terrible things about the Clintons. He refuses to believe me when I tell him that the Secret Service is not paying the Clintons' mortgage on their home in NY. Frankly, trying to keep him straight is a tiring and thankless job, and he is starting to bother my friends by constantly bringing up the NAFTA superhighway.
The Clintons do not need to be the masterminds of some whispering campaign about Obama because these emails have been circulating since Insight Magazine, a subsidiary of The Washington Times, published them in January 2007. The IM story was picked up by (guess who?) Fox and Friends where Steve Doocy asked, "Why didn’t anybody ever mention that that man right there was raised — spent the first decade of his life, raised by his Muslim father — as a Muslim and was educated in a Madrassa?”
People please...there are so many nutcases in this country who are speading all sorts of lies about every progressive politician in the country. The claim that the Clintons, the evil Clintons, who are capable of doing anything, are behind every bad day that Obama has is ridiculous. She's his competition, not his enemy.
This is almost as bad as the urban legend that Jewish doctors created AIDs and then innocculated inner city youths with the virus. This is the kind of stuff Republicans say. We're supposed to be smarter than that.
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Preacher Man Obama
that Obama is a "COMMITTED CHRISTIAN," and includes three pictures of Obama, all of which show him praying or preaching in a Church, and also includes a fourth picture: of the interior of a Church with a large cross lurking in the background
As an atheist, I find Obama's fulsome, preachy style and messianic mission bad enough. But his pandering to xtians puts him way over the top. I don't want this Jesus man anywhere near the WH OR the panels with the red buttons.
There is way too much odious religious palaver in American life as it is. Wherever you turn - if you're an atheist- you have to control the urge to hurl. As a Brit article on American religiosity put it five years ago:
"Never has a nation with such odious, sanctimonious people ever been found on Earth. if one is traveling it is better never to have to land in this Christian Kingdom - and just fly to Canada to do business."
He then want on to skewer all the American politicians that continue to pander to the religious zealots, coming ever closer to wrecking the Wall of Separation.
Obama, as my WWII vet dad put it, reminds him too much of a black version of Hitler with his asserting (in his unique charismatic fashion) what he will do and how great his vision is. As the old man put it: "Hitler also promised to unite everybody and put the old wounds (in this case of the Versailles treaty) behind."
I wouldn't go quite that far, and my dad is from Arkansas so has his own issues, but Obama is definitely not someone I would cast a ballot for.