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cali

(114,904 posts)
Sun Oct 13, 2013, 06:17 PM Oct 2013

Racist Pig Orson Scott Card Worries About Obama Turning "Urban Gangs" Into His Personal Police Force



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.
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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.

In other words, Obama already acts as if the Constitution were just for show. Like Augustus, he pretends to govern within its framework, but in fact he treats it with contempt.

Here on Earth, Obama has actually signed off on a series of compromises that fell short of what he demanded—the health care law, the debt limit increases—and he's only the latest president to appoint a series of advisers who are termed "czars." Back on Planet Card, it's clear that Hillary Clinton will not be the Democrats' 2016 nominee.

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

I wish him the very, very worst. fuckwad.

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Racist Pig Orson Scott Card Worries About Obama Turning "Urban Gangs" Into His Personal Police Force (Original Post) cali Oct 2013 OP
Police Forces are urban gangs. Even in small towns. Downwinder Oct 2013 #1
Yep, projecting what the RW is doing with all the militias into their delusional world on point Oct 2013 #2
fucking paranoid crazy bastard gopiscrap Oct 2013 #3
I'm up in the air... M.G. Oct 2013 #4
This guy is *seriously* delusional, if he actually believes all that. nomorenomore08 Oct 2013 #5
Hey Orson, google "Blackwater" Blue Owl Oct 2013 #6

M.G.

(250 posts)
4. I'm up in the air...
Sun Oct 13, 2013, 07:02 PM
Oct 2013

After reading the complete essay I'm honestly up in the air as to whether Card has lost his mind regarding politics or cynically decided to write an essay solely to annoy liberals, possibly out of spite for the bad press his homophobia has netted.

nomorenomore08

(13,324 posts)
5. This guy is *seriously* delusional, if he actually believes all that.
Sun Oct 13, 2013, 09:28 PM
Oct 2013

Though, as others have suggested, he may have a more cynical motive...

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