As inauguration approaches, Obama’s most virulent foes want the celebration stopped

[Faygo Kid]

Source: Washington Post

Eldon Bell, a retired Air Force officer and physician, is making no plans to see Barack Obama’s second inauguration, in part because Bell considers the president arrogant and dishonest, but more so because Bell is not yet persuaded that the swearing-in will occur at all.

“Whether I watch depends on who’s being inaugurated,” says Bell, 78. “If it’s this guy, probably not, because I don’t pay much attention to illegitimate things.”

At this late date, Bell and his fellow believers in the notion that Obama was born overseas or is otherwise ineligible to be president still expect some court somewhere to buy into one of their theories. After more than 100 court cases, no judge has.

Even after Obama convincingly won reelection despite four years of low popularity ratings, a sluggish economy and a highly motivated opposition, advocates of various counterfactual theories about the president — he’s a foreigner, he’s a Marxist, he’s a Muslim — say they’re sticking to their fight.

“This inauguration is a mistake and those who permit it to happen will have to live with their own consciences,” says Bell, a former Washingtonian who retired to South Dakota. . .

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/on-inaugural-eve-obamas-most-virulent-foes-want-the-celebration-stopped/2013/01/14/2050f75e-54f6-11e2-a613-ec8d394535c6_story.html?hpid=z2

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They are getting screwier and screwier by the day; no doubt the security at this Inauguration will be the heaviest ever.

It needs to be.

[liberal N proud]

1. More f@#% birther bullshit.

[Blue_Tires]

6. I'm betting 70% of the "birther" crowd would grow the fuck up overnight...

if the media stopped giving them coverage and publicity...

[Brigid]

13. I would totally bet with you.

You don't reward a two-year-old with attention when he or she is throwing a tantrum. Even a non-parent like myself knows that.

[freshwest]

21. The media created this bullshit and they are going to push it or something between now and 2014.

It worked to elect the Tea Party in 2010. So there's no way to count on something that good from them.

Their shills are paid way too much to shut up now. Their mewlings get more bizarre everyday, but it's not gonna stop, I'm sorry to say.

The fact that they gave Wayne LaPierre and Alex Jones as much air time as they did and Jones on every single talk show - ranting and raving - even though these wackjobs are inciting near riots, hasn't stopped them giving them coverage.

This is the Tea Party Two movement that Grover Nordquist and the Koch brothers are funding. Tea Party One worked in 2010 and they're aiming for 2014.

[kardonb]

27. Obama

this guy is just another demented old fool .

[liberal N proud]

34. Oh pleeese go on.

Expound on your description.

[bluestateguy]

2. We have had the accountability moment, and Obama won

And any criticism now would be un-American.*


*The George W. Bush model. And I intend to stick to it.

[Kalidurga]

3. Yeah, good luck with that...

Can we stop posting RW "thought". It's like I don't care, but it's a train wreck and very hard to not watch.

[Laurian]

4. Another old, white, ignorant asshole. As a current retiree, I hate

that I probably won't be around by the time all these old farts die off. It will surely be a better world.

[Plucketeer]

9. Trouble is...

these sorts breed and raise offspring.

[Paladin]

5. Hey, Eldon: Now You Know How We Felt About Dubya.

Have a nice wallow in your misery.

[truthisfreedom]

7. Naw, he doesn't. We were right about dubya.

Completely right. Eldon is completely wrong.

[Paladin]

8. Excellent Point. (nt)

[Plucketeer]

10. While Obama's not been my cup of tea - not progressive enough -

he sure beats the Kool-Ade the other side offers!

One BIG "hats off" to Obama is the real and omni-present danger of some looney wanting to take him out. I would not want to live with that threat dogging me (or my family!) for the rest of my life. In this respect, he's literally sacraficed himself for this nation.

[penndragon69]

15. Obama already admited;

If this were the 70's or 80's
he would have been a moderate RepubLIEcon.

[penndragon69]

12. He's just confused.

The illegitimate inaugurations were held after the 2000 and 2004
elections. And we are still suffering from the results of having a TWICE,
NEVER ELECTED military DESERTER as destroyer in chump.

[Towlie]

14. Politician popularity ratings are meaningless because they always suffer from the Goldilocks Effect.

"Even after Obama convincingly won reelection despite four years of low popularity ratings..."

In a nation of people divided roughly down the middle by radically opposed ideologies, it's hard to imagine how any politician could obtain a popularity rating of even 50%. In practice, the limit seems even lower than that, due to the Goldilocks Effect: There's a large portion of the population that doesn't like the politician because he's too liberal, another large portion that doesn't like him because he's too conservative, and a small portion that like him because he's "just right." Polls that ask people to rate a politician without comparing him to a competing politician will always produce useless and misleading results.

In the case of an election between two candidates the situation is very different. Voters are forced to choose between two alternatives, and there are many who see their choice as "the lesser of two evils." Our president won reelection due to the combined votes of people who considered him "just right" and people, both liberal and conservative, who considered him "the lesser of two evils."

[BumRushDaShow]

16. The media are the only ones keeping this nonsense in the news

They need to drop the shit, marginalize these folks, and stop trying to fill column inches with useless tabloid birther stories.

[Stuckinthebush]

17. Arrogant?

Where do they get this stuff? You want to see arrogant? Look at George W. Bush.

I guess this is their way of saying "uppity".

Assholes.

[Auntie Bush]

18. Glad we don't thave those kind of screwballs retiring in my state.

[madrchsod]

19. why is this news?

the washington post must be really hard up for anything to print.

[jpak]

20. Get A Brain Moran

[Cha]

22. Stupid assholes who render themselves

braindead when it comes to our great American President.

[murielm99]

23. It boils down to racism. n/t

[rocktivity]

24. Candidate for this year's "You Call This NEWS?" Award

The word "racism" appears in this story only once -- Obama's race has NOTHING to do with any of it, of course. And why the hell is WAPO enabling these people?


rocktivity

[BlueNoteSpecial]

25. Same trumpets blaring, still out of tune, irritating good ears everywhere...

...and it's MORON.... MORON, FOR F#(&$ SAKE, MORON, GAW.........ahem....sorry.

[yardwork]

26. I wonder if the internet is enabling these cranks to become more organized.

There were always cranks. Those guys who wrote letters to the editor every day. The man who yelled at kids to get off his lawn. The women who had coffee in their kitchens every morning and ranted about the way things ought to be. People who listened to Rush.

But now with the internet all these people can be organized and controlled and directed. Millions of people being fed the same talking points, the same propaganda, every day. No need to use mimeograph machines to spread the word.

[bongbong]

28. He is an apt example of the tremedous irony & cognitive dissonance that fills wingnut "brains"

He, along with so many other deranged anti-government wingnuts, earn/earned their living via government paychecks/retirement checks.

A law should be passed saying that if you hate the government, you can't take their money.

And no, there is no equivalence to left opposition to government policies. Liberals just hate SOME of the POLICIES (only). These insane wingnuts hate government in general. IOW, all of it.

[BainsBane]

29. They never stop

They are unreal. Has there ever been such a group of people committed to pure Idiocy in human history?

[aggiesal]

30. And this is a guy . . .

who probably thought that both GWIdiot's elections were legit.

Why are we even paying attention to this loser?

[Kip Humphrey]

31. he retired to South Dakota....

enough said. Next...

[Botany]

32. The King Canute syndrome

Back in the day King Canute believed that he was all powerful and had his
throne placed on the beach and ordered the tides not to come in .....



... but the tides kept coming in anyway. Dr. Bell is much like the King
Canute because President Obama will be sworn in for a second term this
saturday and sworn in a 2nd time for show next week

[Veruca Salt]

33. My brother, an Air Force veteran, has made plans to see President Obama's inauguration

We went to the President's first inauguration, just after my brother got back from Afghanistan, and we're going to this one too.

I love how these articles stick in useless bits like 'retired Air Force officer' as if every person in the military think like this or it lends him more credence to his cracked conspiracy theories.

[blackspade]

35. This is pathetic.

Obama didn't win 'convincingly,' he crushed Romney.
The fact that the WP and other outlets even run stories like this underscores the lie that we have a 'liberal media.'

[kelliekat44]

36. Scary that this man was an Officer in the Air Force.

Really speaks low of our military brass. I always knew some physicians were full of it.