Posted by
Juwar74 on Friday, October 17, 2008 7:17:38 PM
In the conservative mind, anyone who votes for Obama is a kool-aid drinker. So I suspect that, as of the latest national polls, 51% are drunk on Obama.
The desperate McCain/Palin camp are providing the rocks to throw at their rallies. And yet, after twenty months of getting to know Obama, there are still those who believe, come hell or highwater, that Obama is a "Marxist, socialist, and left-wing loon" who hangs out with "former terrorists, and America-hating Revs." Neo-cons like to whisper, "There's still some things we don't know about him." Usually, it is those who refused to know him personally who make such statements. They would rather feel comfortable believing the rumors, the innuendos, and the suspicions that Obama's ultimate goal is to destroy America with Left-Wing Radicalism.
I capitalized "left-wing radicalism" to evoke a sense of omnipresent force of nature--like a Greek god. Neo-cons love gods, or God, that they see any idea different from them as such.
However, this characterization of Obama as the destroyer of America if elected president is somehow rather inconsistent. Why would someone who hates or wants to destroy America run for president? To even run for President, you must love it with all your heart. Are they suggesting that Obama loves the country so much he is willing to destroy it?
And why would Democrats in the primaries, as well as the growing number of American voters in the general election season would lean toward such a radical? American voters are not that stupid. They can recognize a phoney when they see one. They can also recognize a left-wing nut when they see one too. I don't think people see Obama that way. If they had, he would have been swept under the rug in the primaries, as John Edwards had been, or Christopher Dodd and others, long before the general election. But yet, they chose him, and realistically, all those people can't be kool-aid drinkers. It wouldn't make much sense.
And now, with only 19 days left, that would also mean that 51% of the electorate is totally brainwashed.
The neo-con would say, "Yep."
Well, I don't think there is that much kool-aid to go around.