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Gman

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Mon Feb-23-09 11:20 AM
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Obama Derangement Syndrome (ODS)

that's the only name for it. If these guys think we were bad with Bush, we don't hold a candle to what they are doing in their reaction to Obama being inaugurated. The ODS of the far right is now a mass psychosis. They've all got it and are trying to infect anyone around them. They're like friggin' Zombies.

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WeDidIt

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Mon Feb-23-09 11:25 AM
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1. At least with Bush in 2001, there was a valid REASON to be pissed off

IT wasn't like ti didn't come down to 535 votes in Florida and a questionable decision by the SCOTUS.

But here we have a president who won in a landslide and they're being far more insane than anybody on the left ever was with Bush.

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Enthusiast

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Mon Feb-23-09 01:20 PM
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8. but ACORN manipulated

the vote. That's why Obama was elected. Dead people voted and everything! :sarcasm:

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yurbud

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Mon Feb-23-09 01:26 PM
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11. wouldn't it be great if grassroots groups were as powerful as right thinks ACORN is?

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Mon Feb-23-09 02:47 PM
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13. Wingnuts are stll claiming ACORN

will receive 5 billion $ from the stimulus plan. :banghead:

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vaberella

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Mon Feb-23-09 04:42 PM
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18. Not to defend the nutters...but lets put it on Bachmann...

That woman is just plain old EVIL.

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Deep13

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Mon Feb-23-09 11:27 AM
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2. I keep getting emails and hearing rumors...

...about all kinds of horrible things Obama is planning--most of which involve undermining "American" (read uptight, repressed, white bread conservative) "values" (read prejudices) or national security. It's all made-up, but people repeat it like it was fact.

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mwb970

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Mon Feb-23-09 05:02 PM
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19. Have you heard about his personal paramilitary Army?`

I read about it on Free Republic! His Communist Army is going to go state to state subjugating the citizens and of course confiscating everyone's guns. I've read discussions there of what order the states will be attacked in. Apparently the South will be last.

You think I'm kidding? Check out this FR thread, which says that his Army will be drawn from a civilian defense force he will establish, whereas this thread says that the Army will be drawn from his campaign contributors.

The wingnuttiest of the alleged sources for Obama's personal Army is the Middle East. In this thread and many others the Freepers fret because Obama has "invited Hamas terrorists to America". And why would he do that? Why, to use them to take over America and establish a Communist dictatorship, of course. And if you're gonna do that, you gotta have terrorists from the Middle East to help you!

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Deep13

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Tue Feb-24-09 09:24 AM
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21. The Hamas one is what I read recently.

1. Make something up.

2. State it firmly, even arrogantly.

3. Encourage others to repeat it as often as possible.

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nxylas

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Tue Feb-24-09 09:31 AM
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23. In other words, catapult the propaganda

They're only following Junior's lead.

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Bicoastal

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Mon Feb-23-09 11:28 AM
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3. Somewhere in the middle of all this...

...they became huge fans of Hillary Clinton. :crazy:

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Deep13

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Mon Feb-23-09 12:30 PM
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7. They have?

I keep hearing that as further evidence that "they're gonna take our guns away!"

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Enthusiast

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Mon Feb-23-09 01:21 PM
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9. At least she is white.

:sarcasm:

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polmaven

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Mon Feb-23-09 02:59 PM
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15. But she DOES still

lack a penis. Or did she grow one since the (R)s got over the CDS and caught ODS? WOW! Maybe that is WHY the CDS went away!!!!!!

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liberal N proud

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Mon Feb-23-09 11:46 AM
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4. It is anti liberalism combined with racism and post partum depression

They are depressed because they no longer have a fool to idolize. They have always been racists and anti liberal.

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jaksavage

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Mon Feb-23-09 11:51 AM
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5. I hope they all

have acid reflux and gastritis for the next eight years.
I am mostly over mine, almost killed me.

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TlalocW

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Mon Feb-23-09 11:53 AM
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6. I have a college friend suffering from this

He stopped liking Bush and didn't even vote in 2004, but he doesn't recognize how far down the road to fascism, W. led us, but now that Obama has won, he's convinced that 1. we're going to be a communist country within a year and 2. that gun rights will disappear. In fact, he's been make the charge of disappearing gun rights as if they're actually happening right now because there was something in the stimulus package about de-arming Americans. When I showed him a page from the NRA's own websie denying the rumors, he changed the message to it will happen based on Obama's voting records. He is literally beside himself with anger over far-fetched things that are likely not to happen.

I, of course, enjoy goading him. When Obama directed employers to start implementing his tax cuts that were going to save 95% of American $65.00 a month, I sent him an email with the title, "Obama says, 'You're welcome, John.'" Of course, that pissed him off, and he tried to go the line that $65 a month was nothing, and I schooled him by saying, by itself, maybe, but getting $65.00 a month back into the hands of 95% of us probably equates to over an extra billion dollars a month - the majority of which will probably be spent and will hopefully give the economy a jumpstart. It's more than any republican tax cut for the uberrich has ever done.

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Enthusiast

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Mon Feb-23-09 01:24 PM
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10. These crazy allegations about Obama

are all over the internet. I have a friend that believes all this shit. Well, he is no longer a friend.

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WeDidIt

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Mon Feb-23-09 01:53 PM
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12. 120,000,000 tax payers X .95 X 65 = $7,410,000,000.00/month

That tax cut amounts to $88,920,000,000.00 pumped back into the economy in the next year.

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TlalocW

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Mon Feb-23-09 04:25 PM
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16. Hmmmm...

I was being more conservative with my numbers... but then I was just pulling them out my butt on the number of people who would get them. That's even better.

TlalocW

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eshfemme

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Mon Feb-23-09 02:52 PM
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14. Ugh, don't even mention this to me. I get so fucking pissed at how fucking stupid people are.

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Peace_Sells

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Mon Feb-23-09 04:39 PM
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17. ODS

I've noticed it too its insane! People who never once critisized bush are all over Obama. My dad thinks bush was the greatest president ever and that his stimilus saved the economy from crashing. Dad thinks Obama is bailing out the banks and making the rich richer and the poor poorer. Its ridiculous!

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mwb970

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Mon Feb-23-09 05:17 PM
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20. Read this rant from the Freeper site. They are over the top with hate and fear.

I really don't see how we can survive the combination of an economic collapse and a citizenry that is apparently 30% in sympathy with this kind of red-hot rage and mind-numbing level of fear:

I want to talk more about the president's plan for the economy which will be unveiled tomorrow night. And as I've said a couple of times in this hour, I'm convinced now that its not stupidity. That its not just bold ideology. I'm convinced now that there is a global agenda to destroy the economy of the United States of America.

And the reason? Very simple. You cannot establish a socialist nation until you destroy something that is standing in your way. Now what is it that you think, stands in the way of socialism in America. A total socialist, collectivist, marxist take-over of our entire economic system. What stands in the way of that?

(snip)

I'm beginning to really believe that's true. I'm really beginning to believe, that the agenda here is to kill the wealth of the middle class, because the middle class in control of its own wealth, you saw what happened when Bush suggested that 2 percent of your social security payments ought to go to a private account you could manage yourself. It was like holding a cross in front of Dracula with these Democrats. The whole idea that you would be in control of ANY money that they wouldn't be in control of just sent them spinning into orbit.

THEY HATE YOUR FREEDOM!

And you're going to have to understand that about this party. This is not the party of Hubert Humphrey anymore. This is not the party of Zell Miller anymore. This is a socialist party filled with radical socialists. I've been warning you about them for years. Democratic Socialists of America, there's about 58 of them, Barbara Lee is one of the worst, she is probably the worst, and I'm telling you these people are about to visit ruin on this country, and all because they think its a good idea, because they hate wealth, they hate capital, they hate everything about this country. They were born and breed in the 1960's to hate it, and the 1970's, and now they're in charge of it.

The comments on this are filled with "they must be stopped" sentiments that make me sick at heart. They are sure that the economic collapse was planned to benefit liberals and to initiate a Communist takeover. It's like reading dispatches from the loony bin. Except that the inmates are armed.

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mmonk

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Tue Feb-24-09 09:25 AM
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22. The power of propaganda turns people into zombies.

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