Desperate to catch Barack Obama, Hillary let a nasty secret escape: Her affinity for power exceeds her fidelity to the public interest.
This became clear in a recent campaign commercial tailored to the politics of paranoia. The gist of the commercial was that she was better suited than Obama to “answer the phone” when the ominous call (exact context unspecified) arrives at 3 am in the White House and “your children are asleep in bed.” The ad implied that she, not Obama, is the one who can safeguard your spawn from the overseas evils that daily threaten our excellent (not to mention skillfully governed) domestic existence. It is pathetic to watch the Hill-Billy campaign play the Republican bogeyman card: Elect me, or your kiddies will be killed!
As an antidote to this kind of campaign – which may presage her style of leadership – I recommend a recent investigative article in Rolling Stone magazine titled “The Fear Factory.” Humorously, the article illustrates how the Keystone Kops in the Joint Terrorism Task Force, for want of any actual terrorists to track, are busy protecting us from pizza guys and radioactive turds.
On a more somber note, the article reveals that the modus operandi of the FBI and the JTTF is to orchestrate otherwise non-existent terror threats: They invent and outfit attempted attacks using their own agents, operatives, and arms, and then “save” us from them at the last second. They are actors in an ongoing Orwellian odyssey, leaving one to wonder what is needed for real change to occur in our crumbling country. “The Fear Factory” is online at rollingstone.com (or Google “Rolling Stone Fear Factory”).
Matt Orr
This article appears in Mar 13-19, 2008.
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Orr: How did you divine that the 3am call originated from “overseas evils?” Perhaps the evil was domestic. The name Timothy McVeigh ring a bell?
I’m no friend of Hillary or Obama, but I couldn’t help but notice the notorious “change” word in your missive.
Presumably, because clearly you are anti-Hillary and trash the “crumbling country” you are for Obama.
Please list in bold print on the back of a postage stamp, anything Obama has ever changed, other than his diaper or the oil in his moped.
I note that you live in a crumbling country. You really ought to try it here in the good ol’ USA, not crumbling here, unless the raise taxes Crumblecrats get in power!
“the article illustrates how the Keystone Kops in the Joint Terrorism Task Force, for want of any actual terrorists to track, are busy protecting us from pizza guys and radioactive turds.”
The “pizza guys” you refer to were radical islamists collecting spatial intelligence on a United States Army base with the intent of using said information to carry out attacks on the Service members you nut case leftists claim to care so much about. They were arrested attempting to purchase weaponry to carry out the attack.
From WPVI Philadelphia:
One defendant, Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer, spoke of using rocket-propelled grenades and other weapons to kill at least 100 soldiers, according to court documents.
“My intent is to hit a heavy concentration of soldiers,” he was quoted as saying. “You hit four, five or six Humvees and light the whole place (up) and retreat completely without any losses.”
“It doesn’t matter to me whether I get locked up, arrested or get taken away,” another defendant, Serdar Tatar, was alleged to have said. “Or I die,it doesn’t matter. I’m doing it in the name of Allah.”
A real, credible threat inside our borders. And still ignorant people like you choose to pretend it doesn’t exist.
You want real change? Start with yourself.
And how funny is it that Hillary, once the queen mother of the democratic party, has fallen so out of favor with her former constituency. I suppose it’s not surprising, though, considering her only political accomplishment to date has been playing the innocent victim of a womanizing pervert.
That’s right! There was no World Trade Center Incident! There was no Madrid Train Bombings! There was no London Bombings! There is no Al Qaeda! There is no Bin Laden! There is no Atomic bomb plan in Iran! There is no Putin! There was no London plan to bring down twenty airliners! There are no Bear Bombers! No one has any Missiles! Evil is a right wing myth! When the Bible spoke of evil, they just meant all Republicans! Even Spitzer was a secret Republican!
There is only us. WE are always the bad guys. We are never the good guys. All is lost. All is crumbling down. WE are the enemy. We need a SAVIOUR!
WHO can save us? Obama can! Obama can! Look at all he’s DONE! A miracle man with a track record like that, hell, he could even save us from us! Look at all the change he created in the Illinois Legislature where he cleverly voted ‘present’ rather than ‘for’ or ‘against to save all his mighty votes up in his burlap change sack to create massive change when the time was right! He can do it all! He can make 10,000 others in the Government follow him like the sheep they are, all he has to do is give the same speech over and over and over since 2002… and that will fix everything!
Yeah! Vote for Jesus H. Obama! HE now walks among us!Change will fall from heaven! Gold coins will rain down upon us! EEEEEHAAA!!!!
Obama, “Change doesn’t happen from the top down, it happens from the bottom up!” From a speech made continuously from 2002, including today 3-15-08.
So, by Obama’s own rhetoric, he cannot bring change as President.
Why? Because he is running for the “top” position where, by his own words, change does not radiate downward from.
Sounds to me like ordinary double-speak from an ordinary self serving wet behind the ears political hack.
It’s mystifying to many of us how someone who has never changed anything is going to change the entire United States and all it’s institutions, including 2.7 million Federal employees, not counting military. It reminds me of a braggadocio saying he is going to kick ass when he’s never been in a fight in his entire life.
Obama derides experience. Really? Is the best candidate to run General Motors the guy rounding up shopping carts at Safeway? Obama thinks so.
The proof, as they say, is in the pudding. Where is Obama’s pudding? It doesn’t exist.