This is the sort of conspiratorial nonsense some of my otherwise sensible Facebook friends are passing along:
"I honestly believe that if Obama gets re-elected, that he will finalize the economic collapse of America and in so doing, will declare martial law and take control of all communications. He will arrest and detain anyone who opposes him. In all likelihood, he will disband Congress, the Supreme Court and stop all elections."
We need to be vigilant in protecting our freedoms, and I have not always agreed with President Bush or President Obama as they struggled with how America would respond to a cataclysmic terrorist or other disaster that destroyed a significant part of our government, (I don't like the Patriot Act) but I've never suggested that the President was out to overthrow the government.
It saddens me that good folks have gotten so het up over such absolute hogwash.
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John Countryman
I'm surprised that anyone could be so irresponsible and participate in such hysteria. No one in their right mind would find such groundless nonsense persuasive.
Tersi Bendiburg
Sadly, Mr. Countryman, you would be surprised.
John Countryman
Actually, confession: nothing about this election really surprises me anymore! Alice in Wonderland is tame compared with the political narrative unfolding in 2012.
Jared Lathem
http://www.americanthinker.com/.../do_obamas_executive...
Terrell Shaw
Howard Smith
I drop "befriends" who have gone off the deep end...who qualify as "nuts". I like a good argument and certainly one can be made regarding liberal vs. conservative political thought. But I will not submit to "Chicken Little" reasoning...there is no point in arguing with or listening to those who belief the earth is flat, that the United States did not land a man on the moon or that evolution is a myth except to be amused and, after awhile I cease to be amused.
Duane Parsons
I could not get past the first sentence in the “Do Obama’s Executive Orders Reveal A Pattern?” article on the known extreme far right American Thinker. I have written about Executive Orders and American Thinker before. Articles in American Thinker are widely known to give the smear campaign against President Obama an air of respectability from little-known bloggers.
Nevertheless, give me a break. “Over 900 Executive Orders” is outlandish hyperbole. Barack Obama to present has issued 130 Executive Orders. George W. Bush issued 291 Executive Orders.
http://www.archives.gov/.../executive.../disposition.html
Darrell Fedchak
... people said similar things about Bush getting re-elected in 2004. Really not sure how this garbage gets started.
Terrell Shaw
Thank you again, Duane, for introducing calming facts into the wild fray. It looks like FDR, Truman, and Hoover are the champs at exec. orders.
Yes, Davy Jones, all sides are capable of hyperbole and fear-mongering -- of course I believe the other side are the experts.
Duane Parsons
Thanks Terrell for the kudos. I enjoy research. With more time today, I find it interesting and reveling that the illusive and “right-wing extremist” (his words) Dr. Warren Beatty does not directly disclose his identity nor have any opinions on his blog (rwno.limewebs.com). I can only surmise that this Warren Beatty is a lone wolf that has taken up conspiracy mongering as a pastime in his dotage.
I must admit to digging really deep to discredit Warren Beatty’s Vita. However, I believe I found him at the University of South Alabama where he was an Associate Professor of Management starting in 1980.
“BEATTY, WARREN A., Associate Professor of Management. B.S., Mississippi State University; M.B.A., University of South Alabama; Ph.D., Florida State University”
However, I am always reading between the lines and suspicious of word choice. In the University of South Alabama, Faculty Senate Approved Minutes dated 19 September 2001, there is a Report from Caucus Leaders that says, “elected Michelle Slagle of the Department of Management to fill the Senate position left open when Warren Beatty left the University”. Did Warren Beatty retire? That is, IMO, “left” is a strange and obscure word choice. I dislike being cynical, but “left” conjures up thoughts of “resignation”; possibly from mis-something-or-other allegations. Then there are always those who forfeited position and power with the often unbelievable “to spend more time with my family”.
Anyway, I posted the following link on my FB wall yesterday with the comment: “The Ancient Greek maxim admonishes us to “Know Thyself”. Guess we still lack the motivation to gain knowledge of ourselves.”
Of course we must be careful in pointing fingers and it goes both ways, but perhaps the phrase from the article, “dumb people are too dumb to know it”, will shed some light on the “disconnect” we are experiencing in civil discourse.
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