Democratic Underground Latest Greatest Lobby Journals Search Options Help Login
Google

I have a suspicion about Gaddafi

Printer-friendly format Printer-friendly format
Printer-friendly format Email this thread to a friend
Printer-friendly format Bookmark this thread		 This topic is archived.
Home » Discuss » General Discussion Donate to DU
 
UndertheOcean Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-11 04:47 PM
Original message
I have a suspicion about Gaddafi
crazier than a run-over dog.

has a screw loose.

insane in the membrane.

needs a check up from the neck up.

one fry short of a Happy Meal.

two cans short of a six pack.

And I mean LITERALLY.


Now here is the part that scares the shit out of me : Who can be this pathological and still rational enough
to maintain power for decades.

~shudder~
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
secondwind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-11 04:52 PM
Response to Original message
1. All of these despots are crazy, look at Idi Amin, Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, Salazar of


Portugal, and good 'ole Fidel Castro. The can do it for decades using torture, suppression, etc.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
ret5hd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-11 04:53 PM
Response to Original message
2. maybe one part or the other of your conclusion is wrong...
Edited on Thu Aug-25-11 04:54 PM by ret5hd
now, being that it is a FACT that he has maintained power for decades, I will leave it up to you to determine what part of your hypothesis is incorrect.

edit: typos
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
hifiguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-11 04:56 PM
Response to Reply #2
6. Someone can be goofier than a left-handed football bat
and still be a cunning and ruthless SOB. Which pretty much sums up Gaddafi Duck. Not to mention most of the announced challengers for the Repig nomination.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Motown_Johnny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-11 04:55 PM
Response to Original message
3. I am quite often two cans short of a six pack.... Literally
Sometime after I am one can short of a six pack and a little while before being three cans short of a six pack.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-11 04:55 PM
Response to Original message
4. With lots of help.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
SolHankovic Donating Member (7 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-11 04:55 PM
Response to Original message
5. I have a suspicion about Gaddafi
Gaddafi is just trash that has been flushed. Let's get him off the front page and forget him.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
OffWithTheirHeads Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-11 04:57 PM
Response to Original message
7. Rick Perry? See my post above.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
C_U_L8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-11 06:53 PM
Response to Reply #7
12. Ever wonder...
why you never see Ricky and Muammar in the same room at the same time?

Hmmmm.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
TheWraith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-11 04:58 PM
Response to Original message
8. Most despots get into power due to sociopathic tendencies.
Coups tend to favor the guy who has the fewest restraints on what he's willing to do. You might have two generals each take over a small country, but one is basically rational and hesitates at murdering all his political opponents, while the slightly crazier one has them publicly gibbeted, their wives and children raped, and their hometown burned to the ground. Guess who stays in power longer.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
DJ13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-11 05:17 PM
Response to Original message
9. Its worked for the Bush family for decades
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-11 06:58 PM
Response to Reply #9
13. + 1
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
dynasaw Donating Member (664 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-11 05:37 PM
Response to Original message
10. Hey! We've Got A Bunch Our Own
back here in the good ole USA who could be Kadafi clones. . .Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann, What his name Perry.
Scott Walker and so on and so forth.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Distant Observer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-11 06:20 PM
Response to Original message
11. Gaddafi planned his coup for years in secret cells -- and toppled the King with no bloodshed.

He has left Libya with an educated populace and a vast surplus with no debt.

The West is not so careful with their regime change operations.

Being Crazy may not be so bad.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
riverwalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-11 07:55 PM
Response to Original message
14. imagine Cheney
with unlimited power, wealth and total authority. Imagine him ruling us for 42 years, unfetterd, unrestrained in all his evil Cheney-ness. Cheney acting out his every psychotic delusion. Imagine every jail a his personal Abu Ghraib. Imagine he wrote a little green rule book telling us how to think and act. ~shudder~
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
DU AdBot (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun May 05th 2024, 05:17 AM
Response to Original message
Advertisements [?]
 Top

Home » Discuss » General Discussion Donate to DU

Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators

Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.

Home  |  Discussion Forums  |  Journals |  Store  |  Donate

About DU  |  Contact Us  |  Privacy Policy

Got a message for Democratic Underground? Click here to send us a message.

© 2001 - 2011 Democratic Underground, LLC