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Originally posted by RRconservative
reply to post by kosmicjack
Lots of people are falling for "The Magical Negro" (That's what the LA Times called him.)
Originally posted by RRconservative
Does anyone know what "Hope" means? "Hope" is an excuse for doing nothing...
I "Hope" I live past 100! But I smoke 2 packs a day.
I "Hope" I get a raise! But I hate my job and am a slacker.
I "Hope" I win the lottery! But I'm spending so much money on tickets so I'm 2 payments past due on my house.
I "Hope" my car keeps running good! But I'm 5,000 miles past due for an oil change.
I "Hope" my pet dog comes back home! I'm sure I fed him 2-3 wks ago?
Does anyone get the point? I "Hope" so!
I'd like to ask Obama resisters: Are you against the rider or are you against the wave? If you're against the wave, is it because you're against bottom-up energy in general, or are you holding out for a wave that's made up of people as brainy and dignified as Noam Chomsky? I'm sorry, but this is as good as it gets. And if you're against the rider, do you have a better idea for how the energy could manifest? How about through Huckabee? Or maybe you're holding out for a leaderless movement of people replacing the dollar with local currencies and planting fruit trees on land technically owned by banks. That would be great, but what would President McCain do to that movement?
Several people sent me this excellent article about how America is about to have a revolution. The only question is what kind. Obama's candidacy is only one move in a peaceful revolution. If he wins, his supporters will feel their power and take bolder steps on the same path. If that path is blocked enough times, the energy will move to a path of violence -- instead of happily marching to vote, Americans will be angrily marching to break windows and set stuff on fire, and of course being met with full paramilitary force. And when we're kneeling in blood choking on tear gas, we'll be thinking how much better this is than kids with bad punctuation prattling about change while supporting a candidate who's friends with Zbigniew Brzezinski.
Originally posted by kosmicjack
While I appreciate the perspective of the more conservative, party-line Republican or Libertarian ATS members, the purpose of this thread is to find out if anyone else, who otherwise would not typically be voting Obama '08, is now inclined to do so. And, if so, why?
Jonestown was the short-lived settlement which was made in northwestern Guyana by the Peoples Temple, a cult from California, and which became lastingly and internationally notorious in 1978, when nearly its whole population died in a mass murder-suicide orchestrated by their leader, Jim Jones. The name of the settlement thus became, also, a term for that incident. The site is now an abandoned ruin.
If the Obama media advisors and spin-doctors are in fact planting swooners at Obama's rallies in order to further the "Obama Rock Star" meme, it's starting to backfire. Another powerful and rapidly-disseminating meme is taking its place: "Obama As Cult." Pundits are going beyond coining such phrases as "Obamapalooza" and "Obama-mania" and are inserting powerful triggering words and phrases such as "drink the Kool-Aid." Allusions to Germany's Third Reich and the orchestrated spectacles of Nietzsche-inspired mass rallies in "Triumph of the Will" filmed by Leni Riefenstahl (www.brightlightsfilm.com...) are being invoked, and the "Utopia Turns Dystopia" meme is festering, just waiting to burst forth.
Originally posted by kosmicjack
Yes. I was being tongue-in-cheek, at the time, playing off of the propensity for his supporters and enthusiasts to swoon. Little did I know that the MSM, the neo-con machine and a desparate Billary faction would swing into action and try to draw a clearer picture as to the origins of the phrase.
Originally posted by kosmicjack
My mistake for being so naive. I should definitely know better and now it's too late to amend the title.