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• Saturday, November 22, 2008 05:54 AM

  AKA the Straw People

  regulars here who think Obama is the messiah -- heru-ur

  You are angry about the imperial/human rights abuses of our USA. Got that. Near as I can tell, Obama supporters who post regularly here seem to be taking a wait-and-see approach, and that really grates on you for some reason. Got that, too. None of them (except maybe one, but so far, even she gets the benefit of the doubt) has indicated a messianic view of an "Obama, the One" administration, much less a merely myopic view. No, instead you (having opened a door to making wild judgments about people you do not know) seem obsessed with being proven "right" ahead of events, an attitude which could (among many possibilities) reflect a constitutional inability to internalize an understanding (according to studies cited by ondelette, for example) of the innate potential barbarity of virtually all people, including yourself. Somehow in this mode, maybe you think you can exculpate yourself, or at least avoid heartbreak. Since we are making wild contemptuous judgments about people we don't know.

  ;-)

  Maybe, on the other hand, the reference to "messianism" is rhetorical excess. That probably doesn't help whatever case it is you are trying to make, but that is your problem. Or maybe that's just me.

  ;-)

  You are just as guilty as everyone else.

  "Regular posters" here are just as innocent as you.

  You might be "right." Who cares about being "right" besides you?

  Work the problem*.

  *Hint: The problem is not in these pages.

  —L.W.M.'s sockpuppet Read L.W.M.'s sockpuppet's other letters
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