One has to go back to Exodus 3:13-14 to find such strict instructions concerning the use of a name. ...

Yes, one has to go back to scripture when one has nothing relevant so say.  Scripture, always the fallback.  But then, this is a Christian nation, isn't it?  

Fear will keep the local systems in line. -Grand Moff Tarkin -SLB-

Because, really, it's making my head spin.

Most of McCain's folks around here are still stuck on the "He's a Muslim"  (...like Louis Farrakhan) or "He won't say the Pledge of Allegiance")

They've not yet gotten with the PLAN.

50 states, 210 media market, 435 Congressional Districts, 3080 counties, 192,480 precincts

The editorials of St. Petersburg Times is generally known  as being "very liberal" by those on the right, and generally progressive yet sometimes overly pro-business by those who lean leftward.

In that context, it was very surprising two of its leading editors/columnists recently published screeds that follow the PLAN.

"Obama, you're not the president yet" by Philip Gailey

Obama won't officially claim the Democratic nomination until Aug. 28, and when he does, the event will take place in a Denver football stadium that can hold up to 75,000 cheering fans. Obama apparently is too big a star for an ordinary convention hall.
[...]
Maybe a Bible verse is in order here. The book of Proverbs warns us: "Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall."

The op-ed piece cites a large portion of Dana Milbank's work which provides the basis for many cheap shots.

And there was this other column which conforms to the PLAN:

Don't dare disagree with Obama by Bill Maxwell

Be forewarned: If you say, sing, write, draw, paint or sculpt anything unflattering about Obama, expect the Spanish Inquisition. The salvational fervor and unfiltered euphoria surrounding the man have cast a halo around his head. A halo, as you know, suggests something otherworldly.
[...]
The hypersensitivity coming from Obama and his minions is dangerous.]

There's more, but you get the picture.  FWIW, Bill Maxwell is African-American.  

There's something about Obama which rouses an irrational negative passion, even among those one might otherwise expect to be rational.  Fundamentally, I think these people don't believe that Obama is real; to the contrary, it is because he is very real that I support him--I think he's at his best when speaking candidly in interviews, and when dealing with disruptions like he's experienced recently in town halls.  

I don't believe there is an antidote for the PLAN; people like Gailey and Maxwell apparently have their preset filters (a.k.a. biases, but not necessarily racial*) and only when Obama starts to deliver some results might they begin to cut him some slack.

* My sense is that the paper was pro-Hillary during the primaries--Maxwell definitely was--, and may still bear grudges.

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Presumptuous is the new uppity.

I wrote the original sender and the forwarders back saying no one under 30 has any reaction to the word "communist" anymore. It's a proven failure, and it's not coming back. End of story. Can you imagine, Obama as communist? I can't! I cannot even imagine that working for any but the over 70 set.

"If you look for the social economic motive, you will not have to wait for history to tell you what was propaganda and what was truth." - George Seldes

The RPM is deathly afraid that the Obama campaign will do something HORRIBLE, like publish highlights from John McCain's 25 or 26 year voting record in the Congress. Maybe the Obama campaign might decide to bring up how McCain treated his ex-wife in her hour of greatest need. This is not made up crap folks, these are facts on the public record. RPM is thinking if roles were switched and they were running the Obama campaign, they would bury McCain in piles of ads about the hundreds of misdeeds in McCain's past. They frankly can't figure out why the Obama campaign is sitting on this stuff?

So the first part of their PLAN is flood the media with personal anti-Obama gossip style ads, making it as difficult as possible for any discussion of the real issues to get any space in the media. This is the "beat down" phase, of which the idea is to deflate Obama's popularity as much as possible before the general election. A casual check of the TV media will confirm that the first part of their plan is definitely in effect now and it is likely to remain so up until the conventions.

The second part of the PLAN will be to turn up the racial smears and racist crap big time after the conventions. This RPM output will be mainly for red state consumption leading up to the election. This final part of their plan will be to use the mass media to hammer home the propaganda that "it is every patriotic duty of every American to defeat Obama at the polls in November"! They will play this as being the greatest threat that America has ever faced without giving a reason for this fear. They will rely on racially sensitive textures incorporated in the ads to provide the subconscious answer.

When Barack campaigned in the primary, the centerpiece of his speeches was that once elected, he would take Congress out of the influence/control of the Washington Lobby. The people loved it. However, an unfortunate side effect of this popular goal puts him in the quixotic position of battling the titans of American business in the general election if he became the candidate of the Democratic Party. (The most formidable member of this group happens to be big American Oil.) While the news media was obsessed with the primary campaign, big business was also watching, but not for the reason that Barack would be America's first African-American candidate for President. If Obama won the Democratic nomination, American Big Business knew that they had to get invoved to insure his defeat to prevent him carrying out his pledged goal of removing the influence of the Washington Lobby over Congress. So the struggle for votes in November will be between the DNC and the Obama campaign AGAINST the RNC, the RPM, and Big American Business as the financiers with the deep pockets.

Generally speaking Americans are too stupid to recognize that when they turn Obama away at the Polls, their alternate selection will by default place the nation in the unholy grip of the greatest international oligarchy that the world has ever seen, and representative American government will no longer work on the national level.

The future of America is very much at stake in this election and we must not lose to the RPM and their associates.

fuck

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Btw, the "dollar bill" reference is to a McCain ad on YouTube that photoshops Obama's face on a 100-dollar bill -- and calls him "presumptuous."  And note how the MSM decided not to note that and take off instead on the meme of "playing the race card" -- a racist reference to the OJ trial.  That Obama still leads in the polls is a friggin' miracle.

"Listen, nowadays you have to think like a hero -- just to behave like a merely decent human being"