Check out this story in the Dallas Star Telegram. Apparently the Secret Service ordered the Dallas police to stop security checks an hour before an Obama rally. They wanted the lines to move faster. As of this writing, none of the major news networks have picked this story up. Ed Schulze has been talking about it on his radio show but that's it.
Folks, I can see this shit happening all over again. The people (and you know who the fuck I am talking about) who have the most to lose from an Obama presidency are going to try to take him out and blame some crazed racist.
Was this a test run?
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Actually, it's the headline on Drudge.
I was about to comment on the creepy messiah complex that so many people seem to now have over Obama and the oddity that it’s his followers that seem to be fantasizing most about assassination rather than his opponents, when it occurred to me that my pal Mark Steyn penned a piece on the very topic. So, since I could never write w/ such tongue-in-cheek humor and political insight and don’t want to waste time summarizing & plagiarizing the bits I like best, I’ll do the shameful cut/paste job below…
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…On the other hand, if you’re running for president not as an unexceptional first-term senator with a thin resume but as the new Messiah, the new Kennedy, the new Gandhi, the new Martin Luther King, you can’t blame folks for leaping ahead to the next stage in the mythic narrative. Around the world, a second instant sub-genre has sprung up in which commentators speculate how long it will be before some deranged Christian-fundamentalist neo-Nazi gun-nut deprives America of its fleeting wisp of glory. Setting a new standard for fevered slavering Obama-assassination porn, Earl MacRae warned Canadians in the Ottawa Sun this week:
"To be black and catapulting towards the presidency on charm, intellect, and popularity is unacceptable to the racist paranoid and scary in America the beautiful… They do not want to hear that he is a better American than they are, these right-wing extremist fascists in the land of America who no doubt believe it’s God’s will Barack Obama not get to the White House, no method of deterrence out of bounds, in their zealotry to protect and perpetuate Roy Rogers, John Wayne, Mom's apple pie, and the cross of Jesus in every home."
And you can’t protect and perpetuate Roy Rogers without a Trigger. By this point, Mr. MacRae wasn’t so much warming to his theme as typing up his first draft for Miramax: “Barack Obama is waving his arms. The crowd is cheering. I see the image I don’t want to see. I see the image that is the terrible sickness in the great republic. I see Barack Obama one minute smiling, the people crying his name. I see Barack Obama grab his chest and his eyes widen and his mouth opens and the crowd screams as Barack Obama, black candidate for the presidency of the United States of America, falls to the ground dead, an assassin’s bullet inside him.”
Er, okay. But would it help if I made you a nice cup of chamomile tea and you lie down in a darkened room for half an hour? Right now Obama’s more at risk of being taken out by traces of polonium-210 left in his hotel by a Clinton operative than by Roy Rogers saddling up for Jesus. Every president is a target for assassination, though George W. Bush is unique in having been the subject of explicit murder fantasies by so many non-right-wing non-extremist impeccably reasonable artists (the British movie Death Of A President; the novella Checkpoint by Nicholson Baker) and even the occasional straightforward exhortation: “On November 2, the entire civilized world will be praying, praying Bush loses,” wrote Charlie Brooker in London’s Guardian in 2004. “John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr. — where are you now that we need you?”
Well, wherever they are, they’re probably saying: “Why bring us into it? When ol’ Lee Harvey decided it was time for JFK to get assassinated, he didn’t sit around whining, ‘John Wilkes Booth, where are you now that I need you?’ Get off your butt and do it yourself, you big Euro-ninny.” Ah, but for the armchair insurgents of the western Left, the vicarious frisson is more than delicious enough. Anything else would interfere with dinner plans.
The Bush-assassination fantasies are concocted by his political opponents and at least arise from his acts — invading the world; slaughtering 14 million Iraqi civilians or whatever it’s up to by now; shredding the constitution. By contrast, the Obama-assassination porn is written by his worshippers and testifies to one of the most palpable features of the senator’s campaign — its faintly ersatz quality, its determination to appropriate Camelot and every other mythic narrative.
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Well, Steyn is wrong. He really doesn't get how things work in this country. This is another example of how the people that have run this country, more or less, since 1963 take care of their power. They don't hire someone to do the job...they just remove the layers of security and let someone do it for them. It's called plausible deniability.
It's worked quite well so far. Dave, anyone that tries to make things better for more people gets killed. Being a Christian, you should really understand that.
here is some things I have read recently about barack. Cut and pasted too.
It goes without saying that Barack Obama will end the hardship and "struggle" in our daily lives. Under the Yes We Can Man, folks (other than conservative bloggers) will be able to quit their second jobs, the price of gasoline will plummet, and Ivy League grads will never again have to work for hedge funds to pay off their college loans.
Nor does Obama's magic end at our borders. Last night, he said he would solve our immigration problem in part by improving the economy of Mexico to the point that illegal immigrants will have no need or desire to enter the paradise Obama will create here.
Most magically of all, Obama will fix Mexico's economy even while refusing to trade with Mexico unless it complies with U.S. labor and environmental standards.
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Victor Davis Hanson - Barack Obama may have gone to exclusive private schools. He and his wife may both be lawyers who between them have earned four expensive Ivy League degrees. They may make about a million dollars a year, live in an expensive home and send their kids to prep school. But they are still apparently first-hand witnesses to how the American dream has gone sour. Two other Ivy League lawyers, Hillary and Bill, are multimillionaires who have found America to be a land of riches beyond most people's imaginations. But Hillary also talks of the tragic lost dream of America.
Help, I'm afraid, is on the way.
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Limbaugh -
Barack Obama, ladies and gentlemen, is a blank canvas upon which anybody can project their fantasies, or their desires. You look at Democrats in the audience, and they're swooning. He's saying nothing. He's saying nothing better than anybody in my lifetime ever has. The reason he says nothing so well is because everybody thinks that he's saying what they want. So they're able to project onto Obama their fantasies. If they believe in allowing somebody to marry a dog, they think Obama will support it. Therefore, I would like today to announce a tentative decision, I'm stilling thinking about it, to endorse Barack Obama, since everybody is asking who am I going to endorse, and here's why. Barack Obama is pro-life. Barack Obama is a Constitutionalist. Barack Obama believes in limited government. Barack Obama is in favor of health care savings plans. Barack Obama loves free markets and wants to protect them. Barack Obama is strong on national defense. Barack Obama is a tax cutter extraordinaire. Barack Obama makes my leg tingle when I hear him speak. Barack Obama will end the designated hitter rule. Barack Obama will establish a college football playoff once and for all so we will genuinely have a champion. Barack Obama will get to the bottom of Spygate. Barack Obama will offer free beer Fridays. Whatever you want Obama to be, folks, he's a blank slate, he's an empty canvas, and this is the nature of his appeal. Whatever people fantasize about, whatever they want, they are confident Obama supports it, too.
When we instead join arm in arm and decide we're going to remake this country block by block, precinct by precinct, county by county, state by state, that's what hope is. Nope. What he's describing there is action. But I don't want to get into my hope riff. Now, there's no question that this kind of stuff, to the right audience, can lift 'em up. It is, in its own way, inspiring. It's telling the hopeless that there is hope in hope. (laughing) Look, here's my point about this. There was nothing substantive; there was nothing about policy here; there was nothing about what he was going to do in the future. It was all psychological, the Oprahization of a presidential campaign.
You cannot take a part of this and appropriate it as your own in your campaign. This is Obama. He owns this, whatever it is. He has a patent on saying nothing, but he owns it and it's his, and you can't appropriate it. Senator McCain can only beat this back by embracing conservatism. You can't out-speech Barack Obama. Just isn't going to happen, especially when he has a TelePromTer. You're not going to be able to out-charisma Obama. And you're not going to be able to out-sex-appeal Obama. Ideas are going to be the only way to stop this guy, because his ideas he's trying to hide. Like all liberals, he's trying to get away with not having to be public about what his ideas are; they are socialist, slash, liberal. Ideas are not embracing him halfway, say, oh, we love Obama. I think Hillary said this, I'm not sure, I've been hearing so many things, but I think Hillary said that Obama has not had one negative ad run against him in this campaign, because they're scared to.
basically he's about "hope" and "the future." And, of course, everybody said, "Well, who's possibly against the future?" Well, I'm not necessarily against the future, but somebody's gotta be for right now, and I am for right now. If you don't pay attention to right now, then the future could be bad. We're all for the future. I'm not necessarily against the future, but somebody gotta stand up for right now.
Well, that's nice but what do you think? Let's put aside the sarcasm and tell me..what do YOU think about Barack Obama? In other words, don't look at him through the lens of the media or the people reacting to him...read his web site, read his books...tell me what you think.
Ah, Rush...love him.
But what do I think (other than almost exactly what the above had said more eloquently)...I think Obama is a charalaton and I think his follows are brain dead zealots who either lack the education, intelligence or insight to see through his empty rhetoric. I think his followers are a cultish lot with some type of messiah complex and hope that he will fulfill whatever needs they're missing in their lives. Empty, sad, shells of people looking for someone else to make them whole. And when it's President Obama, the veil will be pulled back and the awakening will be very rude.
"the awakening will be very rude"
Well, it will be because that's what it HAS to be for conservatives. I find your comment amusing, Dave, considering the absolute bag of shit that our children will have to endure for the next 20 years due to Bush-Cheney. As is the case with folks on your side of the aisle, I'm sure you will shirk the responsibility and blame Obama.
Yes and no. It will be a rude awakening for both Republicans and Democrats alike. Republicans, being the McCain supporters w/ the general tilt that allows them to be able to work w/ people like Ted Kennedy, will awaken to the fact that you cannot make a deal w/ the devil. And the Democrats will awaken to the realization that this guy really doesn’t have the experience to do the job, and worse, the his arrogance & inexperience may put us in a very dangerous position.
Actually, I’ve found Republicans in general and even the conservative commentators to be quite conciliatory in such matters as assigning blame. For instance, when GW took office, he inherited a budget surplus (despite the Clintons) but a failing economy (if a recession begins within 6 months of taking office, how could anything you’ve done possibly be responsible for it?) and terrorism left unchecked. Commentators of course blamed the previous administration for their due but at the same time admitted failing in the current or past GOP administrations. GW didn’t mention a word; simply rolled up his sleeves and did the best he could. I remember Clinton’s first years in office. He’d break campaign promise after promise and say he had to do it because he hadn’t realized how bad the previous administration really was. No class. Even out of office, liberal ex-presidents are a disgrace, constantly putting their noses in where they don’t belong. Retired GOP presidents seem to have the class to know, agree or disagree, their turn is over and they should just keep quiet.
Again w/ the “what we’re leaving our children”. …you really should bin the lines that you can support the least. Now, is this in reference to the many liberty’s that we’ve lost that you cannot name? Or is this in reference to the national respect we’ve lost world wide…except that the biggest detractors that people loved to toss out (France & Germany) are now more friendly than they’ve been in decades. Or is this in regards to the economy which is certainly slowing down but in panic mode only for those looking to make a buck off panic mode. Or is this about the war? How will keeping terrorism in check adversely affect my children?
I dearly love these comparisons. Because, whenever a liberal does this, the best they can muster are gross generalities and abstract ideas/theories whereas I can illustrate tangible items by comparison. You say we’ve lost liberties at the hands of the conservatives but cannot name one when pressed. I say we’ve lost liberties at the hands of the liberals and can name them by the bucket load. Want examples? I’ve got oodles. Private property, supposedly protected explicitly in the Constitution, can now be taken from you and given to another private party. Thanks to liberals. Gun ownership, explicitly protected by the Constitution, is being slowly removed by law after law. People are prevented from doing things in their own homes (smoking comes to mind, even though I’m not a smoker). I can go all day, but it’s Sunday and I’m already stuck at the office and need to get home to the boys.
"make a deal w/ the devil"
Dave, please. You are losing it..
"his arrogance & inexperience may put us in a very dangerous position."
Um..you mean like George Bush?
"you really should bin the lines that you can support the least"
Until you experience what I am talking about, I fear that it is beyond my capability to prove to you how bad off we are because of the last seven years...
Policy differences does not constitute arrogance.
Again and again...what experience pray tell am I missing? The experience that allows multimillionaires like John Edwards & Barak Obama to understand the "2 Americas"? It's ok...you don't have to answer; we already know.
Well, I am going to answer with a column later today...
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