Posted on 12/23/2011 2:23:19 PM PST by decimon
Id say if you live in the United States of America and you vote for George Bush, youve lost your mind. John Edwards
When does the legitimate I oppose Obama descend into the illegitimate I hate Obama?
It is popular now to suggest that conservatives in general and congressional Republicans in particular suffer from an obsession characterized by an uncontrolled antipathy for Barack Obama personal and visceral that warps their entire political outlook. No doubt some do experience the same obsessions that infected the Left in their furor at George W. Bush. One can find unhinged posters at anti-Obama rallies similar to those at anti-Bush demonstrations. Bloggers can show hatred for Obama in the manner one found them despising Bush. Perhaps for Howard Deans rants about Bushs supposed foreknowledge of 9/11, we have Donald Trump insisting on a fraudulent Obama birth certificate. Truthers are analogous to Birthers. And for every conspiracy theory that Bush was continuing a long family tradition of profiting from Nazi trade, there was a suggestion that Obama was a Manchurian candidate planted here by Islamic interests to destroy from the inside the United States.
But again, I am not talking about conspiracy rants and raves, but a general psychiatric affliction that infects the influential political class politicians, journalists, and those in popular culture and the arts.
So how does one distinguish natural political opposition from a psychotic state? In other words, when will we know that popular opposition to Obamas worldview and a dislike at the way he seeks to divide the country degenerate into the paranoid venom that was unleashed against Bush?
Here are some things to watch on the national scene to warn us:
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
“Obama has an immutable hardened heart.”
I fear you’re right. I believe that some people are beyond hope, and he’s one of them.
I hate Obama as well as anything connected to him.
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