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2008: A Conspiracy Theory Odyssey

Filed under: US Elections

I've never been much of a one for conspiracy theories, I'm what you might call a lone-gunman girl. But this election cycle is making me think twice.

There are two things John McCain would like to have in order to maximize his chances in the general election: (1) A really inspirational, young conservative running mate; (2) a really vicious smear from the hardcore left. Now, he's got the second in his pocket in the form of a New York Times story alleging without the slightest shred of actual proof that he had some type of lurid relationship with a female lobbyist. Of all things, the allegation is that the story originates with the even more provocative (for conservatives) and discredited New Republic. The right is breathing fire and rallying around McCain as if he were the second coming of Ronald Reagan.

Now, maybe it's just a coincidence, but let's not forget that the New York Times endorsed Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama suddenly seems positioned to take her out. The Times also endorsed McCain. Would it rather see McCain become president than Obama? Are they, as they should be, scared of what might happen if this totally untested, utterly unqualified person becomes president in a time of global tension? Sure, the Times is a left-wing institution and McCain is a Republican. Sure, in theory the editorial board that endorsed Clinton doesn't control news coverage. But what's the alternative? That the Times editors are so stupid that they'd run a story universally being condemned as unfounded whose effect would be to solidify McCain's support with his base while attacking him on the issue where he's least vulnerable? That sounds almost grassy-knollish to me. It seems there is a conspiracy, either to violate the basic precepts of journalism and use any means possible to sink McCain, or actually to get him elected via subterfuge.

And then there's Bill Clinton. Has he really become senile? Is he really capable of putting his foot in his mouth so many times while purporting to campaign for his wife? Or is it the case that he really doesn't want her to win, to the endless frustration of the Times editorial board?

To round things out, one can ask WTF is going on with Mike Huckabee? The man is mathematically excluded from getting the nomination, he's being soundly repudiated in state after state, and yet he keeps running? What's he angling for? Is he helping McCain by keeping the "race" alive so that McCain is seen racking up win after win? Or is he undermining McCain among conservatives, giving them the chance to continue to express a "protest vote"?

We welcome your thoughts, budding mysteriologists.

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Artfldgr says:

Now, maybe it's just a coincidence

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

This from the man that knew he had spies in his office, and was Americas first communist president.

Obama’s Communist Mentor
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamas-communist-mentor/

Care to read about Clinton and senator Fullbright and how he went to the soviet union to study? or Condoleeza rice? How about hitleries thesis on Marx that no one can read that Wellesley changed the rules for?

However, through Frank Marshall Davis, Obama had an admitted relationship with someone who was publicly identified as a member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). The record shows that Obama was in Hawaii from 1971-1979, where, at some point in time, he developed a close relationship, almost like a son, with Davis, listening to his "poetry" and getting advice on his career path. But Obama, in his book, Dreams From My Father, refers to him repeatedly as just "Frank."
The reason is apparent: Davis was a known communist who belonged to a party subservient to the Soviet Union. In fact, the 1951 report of the Commission on Subversive Activities to the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii identified him as a CPUSA member. What's more, anti-communist congressional committees, including the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), accused Davis of involvement in several communist-front organizations.

AIM recently disclosed that Obama has well-documented socialist connections, which help explain why he sponsored a "Global Poverty Act" designed to send hundreds of billions of dollars of U.S. foreign aid to the rest of the world, in order to meet U.N. demands. The bill has passed the House and a Senate committee, and awaits full Senate action.

Meanwhile I am laughing at your characterization of the Times. The times I failing financially. They are about to fire tons of authors. Many of the leftists plageirized, made up news, and left lots out.

We didn’t know to what degree till the internet came by, and the dinosaurs there didn’t get it (and still don’t).

It seems there is a conspiracy, either to violate the basic precepts of journalism and use any means possible to sink McCain, or actually to get him elected via subterfuge.


First of all, the question of such violation was answered a long time ago in the US. the American federation of teachers answered it. they asked was it right to indoctrinate children, and they said yes. And so those kids grew up, and they started working where?

If it was morally ok to program children behind the backs of parents, and reform the school system to copy the Hungarian and soviet models, and then create little radicals. And its ok to have shows on nickleodean pushing it, and Disney puishing it, how can it be that they have morals to report the news honestly?

The end justifies the means, and so there is and has bee no such thing as the “basic precepts of journalism” for a long time.

We sit and talk about what socialist’s states do to journalists, and yet we forget that since the 60s and a bit before America has been a SOCIALIST STATE.


Is he really capable of putting his foot in his mouth so many times while purporting to campaign for his wife? Or is it the case that he really doesn't want her to win, to the endless frustration of the Times editorial board?

Nope, he really is that capable. He is a sociopath, and so is his wife. Therefore their behavior is ORCHESTRATED to elucidate what they want from people.

However given that they don’t have the emotions, the guilt, the things that make most of us human, they will occasionally act “wrong” in bizarre ways.

Another term that is often used is Malignant Narcissm

The unopposed Grandiose Self gives rise to tyrants big and small; to megalomaniacal dictators and dictator wannabees; to unbelievable corporate greed and plundering; and to the typical criminal sociopath in all his/her glory. The damage that such individuals do in individual relationships, in business, in politics and in all spheres of human behavior, is well documented and appreciated in the world. Most children are abjured repeatedly never, never to be "selfish". To always consider others. Laws are set up to protect people from victimization at the hands of these unrestrained grandiose monsters, unable to see other people as distinct individuals separate from their own self. These "others" exist only as the means to achieving their own desires.

But far more menacing to humanity is the unrestrained IO, which has unlimited potential to cause human misery and death; and whose destructiveness we have seen dominate the 20th century. The countless dead bodies that are the direct result of this form of malignant narcissism are quickly forgotten because they died as some nations, religions, ideologies attempted to implement their IDEAL in the real world.

This second type of evil is more subtle, and it derives from the ethics of the IO side of the self. The IO also does not see other people as distinct individuals with needs and desires of their own, but only as fodder for the expression of an IDEAL; or as pawns for the wishes of a deified GS. People with this narcissistic defect completely reject the needs of the individual and enslave him or her to the service of their IDEAL. Eventually, the enslavement--whether religious or secular--snuffs out human ambition, confidence, energy, self-esteem, and life. These mindlessly malignant "do-gooders" -- like our Nobel Laureate mentioned at the start of this article-- do far more harm than good and their ideologies can lead to genocidal practices and unbelievable atrocities on a grand scale, all in the name of an IDEAL or GOD.

The malignant and sociopathic potential of both the GS and IO are inherent in the human species. They are flip sides of the same human coin, you see. One side cannot exist without the other. Either a way is found to synthesize the two, or an individual will forever flip-flop between them--coldly and viciously tyrannical toward all humans in pursuit of his own desires on the one hand; and on the other, coldly and viciously determined no matter what the cost in human lives and suffereing to implement his IDEAL in all human society.


The people at the times are leftist who support such malignant narcissists because they support the IDEALS


We are always warned about the individual narcissitic sociopaths; but most people don't appreciate the sociopathic qualities of groups, religions, nations, and ideologies that demand all individuals sacrifice themselves for the good of the latest utopian ideal

Huckabee is like nader. Believes its better if he don’t quit, and that he don’t hurt things by trying.

About the only positive play he can make is to endorce mccain and transfer a number to him when the time is ok. However, I don’t see republicans cooperating the way communists do. and this election is the first tiem in America I have ever heard communism in the dialogue all over the place.







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