Thursday, September 04, 2008
Notes from the Home Front
Great to hear about [your child]’s connection to Obama. Just after [my child] turned three, she was answering on cue the three important questions of this past spring: (1) who’s going to be the next President of the United States?; (2) who’s he going to beat in November?; and (3) who’s trying to destroy the Democratic Party? (The last answer was “Billary”, just so you know we were not singling out the better half of that couple). Her favorite chant is still Obama! Obama! Obama! It really is about the future for the [your child]’s and [my child]’s of the world.
[my child] has a large Obama poster on her wall and gets very excited every time she sees him on TV. Of course, she also starts yelling Obama when we see any tall, good looking African-American man in public, but I am working with her on that . . . .
From: XXXX
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 9:09 AM
To: XXXX@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: More Obama
Speaking of daughters, "Obama" was one of our 2 year old daughter [my child]'s first words, and she calls out "Obama" each time she sees him on TV. We are keeping our fingers crossed, as it has been a grueling few years here in D.C.
There is no way these same people wouldn't find it incredibly creepy if they discovered someone else's kid's first words were "McCain".
And then there's this from a group supposedly built around geographical affiliation and local interest, but has recently sunk deep into the fever swamps.
Sarah Palin is the face -- the poster woman, if you like -- of American Christian fascism, which intends to control the world. ...
Sarah Palin is the face of distortion that Bush & Company -- McCain, Lieberman (especially Lieberman), Giuliani, and all the other brutal warmongers and their neo-con Zionist allies who have led this country to where it now it.
Sarah Palin is the duplicitous face of the "military industrial complex" that President Eisenhow warned against.
Sarah Palin is the Manchurian Candidate's mother. She'll sacrifice her son to the military-industrial complex and her daughter to public scrutiny and criticism in exchange for power and cotnrol. She is a corruption of everything that is supposed to be good and beautiful in Christianity and Judaism. Hers is the face of all the Christian and Jewish fanatics who have fanned the flames of hatred against Islam and have projected all of their evil intentions for global hegemony, violence, and power onto "Islamo facist terrorists" and their other "emenies" (ie anyone who doesn't agree with them).
Sarah Palin is the face of American terrorism, the kind that would (and has, only yesterday!) bomb and kill innocent unarmed civilians.
This is the big one. If these people hold onto power in this next election, it will be worse than the last eight years and it will be the end of many things as we know them. But there is also the possibility, some say likelihood, that Israel will manufacture an "incident" with Iran and pull the U.S. to a war either before the election (in which case, Bush could cancel the election, imagine that!) or before the next president takes office in January.
You have good reasons to be scared, [].
They can all spout off as they like, and I know many of these folks are tremendous human beings. I have to say, though, I absolutely hate the way they assume that everyone has to agree with them. These are the same people who criticize others for 'voting their feelings', 'lacking nuance' and getting whipped up by overheated partisan rhetoric!
UPDATE: The author of the second item, in response to a mild reminder against extremism has this hysterical affirmation:
I'm sorry to make you shudder, but with all due respect, words are the tools of my trade, I use them every single day, and I choose them consciously, deliberately and specifically. When I say American Christian Fascism, I mean precisely and literally that. It's not extreme rhetoric and I'm not alone in seeing it and identifying it by it's correct name. In fact, I think it's crucially important to call it what it is -- as crucially important as it is to call racism, racism.Il Duce's definition of fascism above is the perfect description of what the U.S. goverment began back in the Reagan days and which has come closest to reaching its goal with the Bush administration. If McCain and Palin are elected they will bring the country even closer to fascism.
As for the Christian aspect of American fascism, you can remain in denial about its existence, but if so, I would guess that you've missed the growing discourse over the past few years on that very subject, including a remarkable book by Chris Hedges called American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America, which was on the NYT bestseller list when it came out last year. I have a copy, if you'd like to borrow it. And below is a bunch of articles on the subject beginning with one by Hedges.
9 Comments:
By 
, at
Thu Sep 04, 10:04:00 PM:
[pssst ... they learn it at home]
Here in the communist enclave in nc where we are, my daughter was asked about who we were voting for during the Bush/Kerry race ... she said "we're voting for George Washington"
She got half of it right, but I feel pretty certain she's going to be a conservative when she grows up.
By 
TigerHawk, at
Thu Sep 04, 10:59:00 PM:
No, I'd say George Washington was right, just metaphorical.
By Dawnfire82, at
Thu Sep 04, 11:10:00 PM:
They don't sound like tremendous human beings to me... they sound like conspiratorial, cultic fools.
By Andrew X, at
Fri Sep 05, 12:41:00 AM:
"it will be worse than the last eight years".... "Bush could cancel the election"...
So, isn't this, like, the third or fourth election that Bush was "supposed to cancel"? How come he never gets around to actually doing it? That lazy-ass bastard.
This "it will be worse" mantra reminds me of KCNA, the North Korean News Agency. (Give it a read, it's.... unique. http://www.kcna.co.jp/ ) Every other article there says that US imperialism "grows ever more aggressive", is "more dangerous than ever", etc.....
Last year: "ever more aggressive". Five years ago: "A new high in aggression". Ten years ago: "more aggressive than ever". Twenty years ago.... you get the picture.
Amazing how Bush is/was "the worstest President EVER.... but THESE guys will be WORSER! EVER!"
Oh, and after McCain wins in the E-LEC-TIONNNNN.... watch out.
He's just gonna cancel the next ones. Some really smart people told me so. (Sorry, WILL tell me so.)
And so it goes, and goes, and goes...
By , at
Fri Sep 05, 12:46:00 AM:
"Conspiratorial cultist" would adequately describe quite a large portion of the political left these days.
By Gary Rosen, at
Fri Sep 05, 01:42:00 AM:
"I know many of these folks are tremendous human beings"
Not the antisemitic scumbag you quoted.
By , at
Fri Sep 05, 02:50:00 AM:
The first post cited is scary, but the second is amuzing in a tired sort of way. It's funny because the poster does not believe any of it, but nevertheless thinks that other people will be convinced by it. The poster thinks they are so smart and clever that they can type the magic words and people will see the light.
It just more of the juvenile self-absorption that their preferred candidate wallows in. And they love him for it -- he's just as self-absorbed and shallow as they are.
By Andrew Hofer, at
Fri Sep 05, 09:38:00 AM:
The second poster does this in public. Google "Gale Courey Tensing"
By Purple Avenger, at
Fri Sep 05, 09:59:00 AM:
I know many of these folks are tremendous human beings.
Once fruit starts to rot, it rots to the core.
