Call me cynical but it's almost like it had to happen, the feds just busted a plot involving two skinheads who planned to drive towards Obama and shoot from open windows and also for good measure to shoot up a black high school. Now I agree with Joe the Blogger who holds that Al-Qaeda poses the biggest threat to Obama, radical Muslims who hold that Muslims converting to Christianity is punishable by death but there's a point to this whole ObamaDrama with two skinheads in the dramatis personae. I caught the report on the UPN 9 News last night here in New York and there was some expert talking of course and up flashed on the screen "Keeping Tabs on the Radical Right", you know something the ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) might have as a regular bulletin for concerned citizens. Now I've lost alot of respect for Abe Foxman's group over the years ever since they lumped Ralph Reed and the Christian Coalition in with various and sundry hate groups, being strident or shrill or rigid is not necessarily the same thing as being hateful and plotting mayhem. It's hard to read these things when they flash up on the screen and you're about to go to bed but I caught part of a sentence that went "even on more traditional websites..."
OK, so there you have it. There is a metaphysical, mystical association between the rest of us right-wingers and those skinheads, this goes beyond the loose ties of Obama/Ayers, these are spiritual wisps in the minds of the Left. To the msm we all share the same politics but the neo-Nazis rachet it up a notch or two is all. "Keeping Tabs on the Radical Right", um no, there's the right-wing and then there are skinheads and we don't inhabit the same political universe, sorry. Same thing they tried to do a few years back with mainstream pro-lifers and the occasional abortion clinic bomber, lump us all together and I can only think that this latest episode in ObamaDrama can only help the candidate, a few independents out there may equate conservative opposition to affirmative action let's say with a couple of weirdos out in the hinterlands. You've heard of sleight-of-hand, well the media practices sleight-of-mind, juxtapose certain things on the screen when you're tired and have to work the next day, it's a political imprint and the average person ain't even aware of it and not only that McCain looks positively dull by comparison. I mean if some people hate Obama that much he must really stand for something, the only person McCain might piss off is the cashier at the local supermarket ("it says here the Metamucil's on sale"). It's all like a coloring book, pass the crayons please.
Question everything. Here's a link ("Feds disrupt skinhead plot to assassinate Obama" by Lara Jakes Jordan, Washington AP 10/28):
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Seems overly dramatic esp. the part about beheading people. Also they didn't seem very close to pulling it off, if they killed or tried to kill people in various states before they went after Obama they would've been caught by then and there's also the question of why they were so glib in telling investigators all this. You read the article and it sounds authoritative but at best it's sketchy. There's alot of Obama-hatred on the websites they chose to frequent, you talk about your use of the n-word and so it's probably easy enough to make a case against them whether they're guilty or not and it is one of those emotional election years. Such a case can have political ramifications in the sense of look at the nature of Obama's enemies, the traditional side is calling him a Communist and the furthest fringes want to kill him, it kinda shades the election his way imo.
All the insanity of these elections, I cannot wait for it to be over.
ReplyDeleteGreat analysis here, btw.
Like I said you read these stories and there's holes in them like these two skinheads' main goal was to kill Obama but they were saving that for last and if anything when most people are arrested don't they maintain their innocence, geez I mean how many times was Drew Peterson on the Today Show already? Let's say the feds had a loose case here but thought such a case could help Obama, well they're two skinheads anyway why not go with it? all people will remember is the headline.
ReplyDeleteThe conspiracy minded person could say that it was all staged to make the right look bad, too.
ReplyDeleteI'm not willing to go that far yet,
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but if the case is right, they're a bunch of scumbags anyway and at least thought about it if you're the feds why not pursue it? I know skinheads exist and they're filled with hate but when was the last time they shot up a black school? It's a little off-center, just a tad.