I really wish Barack Obama had actually done that. In case you aren’t familiar with being R I C K R O L L ‘ D, here’s some reference.

More so for left-leaning anti-war politicians and organizations, it is very easy to step into territory in which your allegiances will be questioned and your motives derided. However, this is not an exclusively post-9/11 phenomenon. This sort of backwards thinking has probably been going on for as long as we’ve had civilizations with which to go to war. In my mind this sort of thinking is just one of many symptoms of the psychological deformities that come out of the fear-based, conservative mindset.

I’m frankly sick of hearing from conservative talking heads that anti-war politicians and organizations hate America and want us all to die at the hands of Jihadists. For me, the best illustration of how this sort of mentality is a sick and twisted perversion meant to throw the uneducated masses into hysteria, comes in the form of a quote from one Hermann Goering, Nazi Reichmarshall and Luftwaffe-Chief:

This sort of mentality harkens back to the fascist ideologies of World War II era Europe. Instill fear in the people, make those who question the authorities look like traitors and you can stir a population up into a blind frenzy so that they will march off into any war you deem fit. Those most guilty of this sort of manipulation in our day are clearly the conservative politicians who hold power, but perhaps much more insidiously the news media and political pundits who also spout such garbage.

Rush Limbaugh:

August 24th, 2005

“…And the left always says, “Are you attacking my patriotism? You are attacking my patriotism, you can’t attack my patriotism.” And everybody’s always backed down. And everybody’s always said, “No, no, no, no, I’m not attacking your patriotism. I’m questioning your judgment.

Well, I think we — it’s time to stop dancing around this issue, folks, to tell you the truth. It’s time for somebody to tell the people on the left, you’re damn right we’re questioning your patriotism.” (link)

June 27th, 2005

“I actively think that liberals seek the defeat of the military. I think they’re happy. I think liberals get excited when the military doesn’t work because they have a general pacifist view of everything.” (link)

Speaking about anti-war protesters:

“If they were for peace, they would give every dollar they raise to the U.S. defense department because it’s the U.S. defense department that keeps the peace and liberates the oppressed in the world and gives them the opportunity to have freedom, which is what we want for Iraq. It’s beyond me how anybody can look at these protesters and call them anything other than what they are: anti-American, anti-capitalist, pro Marxists and communists.”

Michael Savage:

August 16th, 2004

Tell me the difference between Al Qaeda seeking to hurt us financially and the left of America. Tell me the difference between Osama Bin Laden and the ACLU… Tell me the difference between those groups and Al Qaeda, in terms of what their intent is.” (link)

Bill O’Reilly:

June 20th, 2006

“The ACLU is rooting for the enemy. They’re rooting for the enemy. They’re helping the enemy in every way they can. The American Civil Liberties Union is Al Qaeda’s best friend. There is not a better friend to Al Qaeda in the world than the ACLU, and that’s the truth. OK?” (link)

Yes, I realize I’m invoking Godwin’s Law, but I don’t give a shit. Fuck those guys, they disgust me about as much as Nazis. This sort of manipulative, fear-based, ignorant thinking is the kind of thing that actually brings our country down. Not iconoclasm, not questioning the motives of the elites who hold power, not hoping and working for peace instead of war. These are the people that hate America. They don’t hate America as an idea, they hate and fear their fellow Americans. They want control and they want power. They are a much greater source of sickness and destruction in our nation than anti-war protesters will ever be. They, if we continue on our current path, will be what destroys the good things America has stood for over its existence.

“Anything else is the delusional fantasy of a fanatical evolutionist mindset that sees only what it wishes to see in the hopes of validating a baseless, illogical belief system. I only hope these heretics see the error of their ways before our Most Powerful God smites them all in His vengeance.”

Gotta love the Onion: http://www.theonion.com/content/news/evolutionists_flock_to_darwin

Yes, it’s a bit melodramatic, what with Lux Aeterna (lol makes everything epic) building ominously in the background, but the commentaries by former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter and General Wesley Clark are especially interesting. Is this a qualified, researched, footnoted argument purporting to definitively show why McCain would be a terrible President? No. So take from it what you will. I’d personally rather not have to think about four, or possibly eight, years of this man as the Commander-In-Chief of our Armed Forces and in our most prominent, visible political position.