Good Lawd!Orson Scott is taking another lap around the crazy track:

[Are_grits_groceries]

Orson Scott Card Worries About Obama Turning "Urban Gangs" Into His Personal Police Force[div]<snip>
That's good! The gay marriage foofarah was a distraction from Card's much more fascinating political paranoia. His last column on politics is a sort of masterpiece of that genre, starting with the grouping of "George W. Bush lied about WMDs in Iraq" among "politically useful lies," and continuing with a fantasy of how Barack Obama will stay in power forever.

Obama is, by character and preference, a dictator. He hates the very idea of compromise; he demonizes his critics and despises even his own toadies in the liberal press. He circumvented Congress as soon as he got into office by appointing "czars" who didn't need Senate approval. His own party hasn't passed a budget ever in the Senate.

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Michelle Obama is going to be Barack's Lurleen Wallace. Remember how George Wallace got around Alabama's ban on governors serving two terms in a row? He ran his wife for the office. Everyone knew Wallace would actually be pulling the strings, even though they denied it. Michelle Obama will be Obama's designated "successor," and any Democrat who seriously opposes her will be destroyed in the media the way everyone who contested Obama's run for the Democratic nomination in 2008 was destroyed.

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Where will he get his "national police"? The NaPo will be recruited from "young out-of-work urban men" and it will be hailed as a cure for the economic malaise of the inner cities.
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Instead of doing drive-by shootings in their own neighborhoods, these young thugs will do beatings and murders of people "trying to escape" -- people who all seem to be leaders and members of groups that oppose Obama.

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http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2013/08/14/orson_scott_card_worries_about_obama_turning_urban_gangs_into_his_personal.html

Lurleen Wallace??? Really Orson? Really?
He is a nasty man with a dyspeptic view of life. Card needs to STFU and stay in his cave.

[Dawson Leery]

1. Is it fair to say most of his fans are just as crazed?

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. No, most of his fans care little about his politics

And Enders Game is required reading in sci fi canon

[CBGLuthier]

10. I still cherish a few of his short stories

I think Ender's Game is over rated crap and the author is a size 16 asshat. I will never waste my time reading anything he writes but some day I could see rereading a few of those shorts.

So no, it is not fair to say that. I was a fan until the internet let us know what a nasty loon he is. Even stood in line to get an autograph.

[MisterP]

3. brain rot and racism are a terrible combination

I remember after both Aurora and Sandy Hook the righties were screeching about how they needed their ARs for when Helter Skelter would come and the Black would enslave the White, "like with Rodney King"

it's not a human response--it derives more from machine-lust

[Egalitarian Thug]

4. One good book...

[Rowdyboy]

5. Been reading and loving sy-fy since I was 10 (1964). I'll never read anything by that sorry POS

I'd just as soon buy David Duke or Sarah Palin's autobiography. His bigotry is nauseating but his total disconnection from reality if frightening and should not be encouraged.

[Dawson Leery]

6. +1

[progressoid]

7. I read one of his books.

Meh, you're not missing anything.

[exboyfil]

8. You got to think the producers of Ender's Game the movie

are somewhat concerned about Card's visit to crazy town. This is going to be the first question when folks go out to promote the movie.

I still think Ender's Game is a great book - just like I think early Heinlein is fantastic.

[JHB]

9. "Czars" again? I mean, I get the arguments...

...because I used pretty much the same ones about "Drug Czar" William Bennett roughly a quarter century ago. And those pretty much fell flat because the term is really just a shorthand.

If I recall correctly, OSC was ostensibly a grown-up back then, and couldn't have missed the term if he'd been paying any attention to public affairs. Nor could he (or any of the others) have been ignorant of other "czars" under Bush41, Clinton, and Bush42, at least not if they made any pretense of paying attention to politics. The term itself goes back to Nixon.

Is he really that great of a dumbass? Or does he just assume everyone else is?

On edit: My mistake! The term goes back to FDR, though I don't recall (which would be from late 70s and on) it appearing prominently used until Bennett in 1989. Usage upticked during Clinton (IMO following the Bennett example) and (I'm shocked, shocked!) ballooned under Dubya)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._executive_branch_czars

[DiverDave]

11. I dont understand how the author of

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
could be such an ass.
I thought that book was outstanding, that a future that could go back (twice!) and change the Columbus legacy from genocide to understanding. The 2nd time, anyway.
I just cant see that person being what he is now.
Something in the water,I guess.
I read that book when I'm feeling down, just think, no spanish overrunning the mesoamerican people.
Instead, they use a weird form of christianity to become world citizens...
Oh, and lovelock made me LOL at times.
The rest?
Pap for the masses.