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susanbanks44 Donating Member (449 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-08 03:32 PM
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McCain-Palin announces a character assassination campaign
The McCain-Palin campaign has announced that because it can get nowhere on the issues, it will spend the rest of the campaign assassinating Obama's character.

Here again, McCain and the regressive minions who long for totalitarian, police-state rule in the U.S. are taking the pages of Orwell's 1984 as their strategy manual in their desperate attempt to make W-style fascism the new national order. Their objective is to malign and eventually eliminate all opposition to their party line and rule. They have no compunction about altering the factual record with distortions and contrivances in order to give the "people" a motive to adopt a political philosophy of discrimination and oppression as the only expression of patriotism. We saw the technique used in the Swiftboating of John Kerry and, on the state level, in the beauty-queening of Tom Daschle by John Thune's little ministry-of-truth-style bloggers. (One of their favorite ploys was to incite proletarian jealousy by portraying Tom Daschle as living in palatial style in Washington, D.C., with a beauty queen for which he "dumped" his first wife.)

In 1984, one of the characters is a founder of "the party," Emmanuel Goldstein. As the party grew obsessed with totalitarian power, it branded Goldstein and his fellow founders as "enemies of the people" because their original political principles opposed totalitarian rule. Goldstein had written a book which contained implicit criticisms of the betrayal of those original principles and their displacement with mind-numbing slogans and lies. During Hate Week, Goldstein's picture was flashed on the television screens as the image for vilification and of the danger he posed to the totalitarian and repressive new world order. The McCain campaign plans to turn Obama into its Goldstein.

Brain-washed bloggers have been doing ministry-of-truth type denials and manufacturing of facts since Obama entered the presidential picture. They are determined to portray him as a smooth talking black dude who down deep is harboring racial and political resentments he plans to unleash on whitey should he obtain the power of the presidency.


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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-08 03:40 PM
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1. It is nice of them to announce they are going to do this.
:wtf:
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tblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-08 03:41 PM
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2. 1984 is MUST reading. McCain is losing his fucking mind.
He's scared and he's as dangerous as a wounded animal.
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ellaydubya Donating Member (301 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-08 03:42 PM
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3. It has already begun!
A woman I work with told me just this past Friday that her mother heard on the radio that people were buying up all the guns and the ammo they could because Obama is going to take them all away. If Obama does not win, she continues, there will be a civil war. Either way, we have unrest....kinda scary thinking, if you ask me. My answer was (we had a previous conversation about this topic)- "Yeah, and he's a Muslim, too." She turned around and left. What in the world!?!?!?!
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