Looking ahead

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McCain has lost control of his monster. This was evident a few days ago as he found himself having to correct snopesworthy concerns of audience members at a rally, but stumblingly - at one point uttering a soundbite that seemed to backhandedly endorse an Obama presidency. Yikes.

Here is my biggest fear: If the last five years of US foreign relations have planted the seeds for a new generation of bin Ladens to sprout out yonder, then the last five months of let the hate flow through you rhetoric from the desperate Right are gonna stir up a new batch of homegrown McVeighs. Yum yum.

Is there anything that the rest of us can do about this latter business, other than hoping that the DHS and the Secret Service know what they're doing?

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[keimel.livejournal.com]

Is there anything that the rest of us can do about this latter business, other than hoping that the DHS and the Secret Service know what they're doing?

Sadly, I think not. Really, at this time of year, any explanation one can provide to anyone is received as "YOUR CANDIDATE SUCKS!" even if it's not politically motivated.

As far as the second supposition... We can hope they continue with their intelligence gathering, as that's the single only thing that has prevented more tragedies. Not a single piece of their security theater otherwise has helped.

Tell your congress critters that you support intelligence gathering as method but you're not supportive of their security theater methods.

*sigh* I am, in some ways, ashamed to be an American. I'd feel worse if I were traveling outside the country. Don't get me wrong, it's still one of the best damn places to live, but we've embarrassed ourselves on the world stage too many times in the last six years. Way too many. (Yes, I know you know this... just repeating, cause I'm feeling guilty)

[radtea.livejournal.com]

I'm almost afraid to hope right now. Obama looks like a near-certainty, with a genuine possibility of a landslide, and the right-wing nutjobs don't like to lose. There are two things they have left: Diebold, and assassination.

I wouldn't put it past them to try both, in that order. On that basis, the hate-mongering of recent weeks is theatre to set up deniability when they murder the president-elect. It will let them claim that some redneck loser did it, rather than an assassin in their pay (whoever, precisely, "they" are.)