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Like The Manchurian Candidate, but stupider
By Ned | April 25, 2008
A lot has been made of the rank hypocrisy of this Krauthammer column in the blogs today, but Tom Barnett accidentally sheds light on what’s truly insane about this column in a completely unrelated post.
McCain would scare me on many levels, but a Dem prez plus strengthened Dem majorities in both houses? Yikes, that’s got Smoot-Hawley written all over it, and that would be significantly more damaging to world stability than even nuking Iran–I kid you not. [Emphasis mine]
Yep, that’s right. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are more destructive than nuclear weapons. Based on this Wikipedia article about the death toll of Hiroshima, that means that if a Democrat gets elected this year, that would kill over 200,000 people. Comparing that to other world leaders, Augusto Pinochet only managed to put 200,000 people in “situations of extreme trauma.” That includes murders, but it’s not all murders.
So in other words, it is the position of what I’d say is a not insignificant minority of Republicans that whether or not Obama ever high-fived Ayers or whatever is a relevant question because there’s a chance that Obama, as president, would condone or even commit acts of unspeakable violence against his own country.
Meanwhile, I’m waiting for someone to explain to me how people who actually believe that are any less insane than 9/11 truthers.
Topics: Elections, Terrorism, The Media |