GlasVegas wrote:
Doctor? wrote:
Actually, the other thread was really on the subject of the incredible faith that's been placed in the man, yet he's unlikely to live up to it.
American IS a very big country, that pushes the extremities of the bell curve outwards, so I have no doubt that as we speak, SOME nutter is mumbling to himself about getting rid of him.
But as it happens, I'm quite glad he's still alive.
Then again as Dr Fradley said, he might be a bit of a blair, stroking the national brow while uninvitedly availing himself of the national ringpiece.
And from my own, ubercynical megaparanoid point of view, I do not actually believe there HAS been all that much of a change of administration.
You're right, there hasn't been that much change in administration. The frontman in the suit happens to be black this time. America is still a big planet-raping capitalist bohemoth and always will be. Nothing's ever gonna change that.
What Obama's election (hopefully) represents however is a sea-change in outlook and perspective among the MAJORITY of the American population. And that's no bad thig.
I still think your obsession with him getting shot is odd. There'll have been plenty of nutters mumbling about shooting Bush and there'll be a similar amount about the next guy. The anti-goverment extremists are the most active nutters out there and they don't discriminate on the grounds of race. They want shot of them all!
They're also quite paranoid about everything. You've got more in common with them than yer average Joe in Arkansas!
Thing is, I believe the people who wanted to shoot Shrub, wanted to do so because he was an evil,warped, end-timer who was too stupiud to make money in oil in Texas, and as such were completely rational, and therefor never WOULD.
The ones who want to shoot Obama, want to do so based on the frequencies of light reflected by his external cell membrane, which pretty much = mental/dense/both and therefor much more likely to give it a go.
Paranoia is merely awareness on a finer scale ;)
EDIT: From reading things linked here earlier, it seems Mrs Clinton has MUCH more to worry about. Which is a shame, as her hubby, as well as being a pot-head jazzer, is the only foreigner ever to stick his nose into NI and leave less of a clusterfuck than he found.