Everybody Stay Calm — Open Thread
By Anita Finlay ("Ani") on October 4, 2008 at 9:45 PM in 1st Amendment, 4th Amendment, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, Hillary Clinton, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.
Last night I was scrolling though the comments about my piece, “What Rev. Martin Luther King Wanted and What Obama Hasn’t Got.”
I noticed that a few posters were feeling completely distraught about the possibility of an Obama presidency and the devastation that might ensue.
In the name of keeping all of us on an even keel, a reader named Ivory Bill Woodpecker wrote the following very entertaining comment that I think I’ll share with you. It gave me a much needed chuckle at the end of a very long week.
Cheers to you all.
Comment by Ivory Bill Woodpecker| 2008-10-04 02:35:08
Uh, before we push the panic button so hard it goes through the control panel…
If Plastic Jesus Obama wins, he is not going to be able to turn the USA into a dictator state even if he wants to do that. If the Chimperor and Darth Cheney couldn’t do it, neither can Plastic Jesus do it. …
Ivory Bill Woodpecker continues:
Oblahma will still be facing a very powerful, well-funded Right-Wing Noise Machine and a GOP that will remain powerful even as a minority party.
And if you see our police and military forces–whose cooperation would be needed to make a dictatorship work, and whose members are still drawn mostly from the “bitter” white working class–dutifully lining up behind a Whole Foods Nation snob who snuggles up to Rev. GDA and Billy “the Bomber” Ayers, well, your Imagination Fu is stronger than mine.
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Hitler 2.0? Castro 2.0? Mugabe 2.0?
Jimmy Carter 2.O would be more like it–a freak accident who got in because the GOP Just. Screwed. Up. That. Bad.
An Obama presidency, if it happens, will galvanize the GOP base and bring the GOP back from death’s door in 2010 and 2012, in a way that a Clinton presidency probably would not do. What in sulfuric HELL were the Democratic bigwigs thinking?
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