From MsNBC:
Terrorist strikes on four American cities. Russia rolling into Eastern Europe. Israel hit by a nuclear bomb. Gay marriage in every state. The end of the Boy Scouts.
All are plausible scenarios if Democrat Barack Obama is elected president, according to a new addition to the campaign conversation called “Letter from 2012 in Obama’s America,” produced by the conservative Christian group Focus on the Family Action.
Focus on the Family, for those who don’t know is the organization led by James Dobson, one of the people to whom John McCain outsourced his vetting of Sarah Palin as his running mate. He’s a Christian Dominionist in all but name. He hates gay people, Muslims, the federal government, abortion rights, the ACLU, and anyone who doesn’t suscribe to his peculiar vision of the world. That is, just about everyone here at this blog.
In short, he’s a dangerous demagogue, to whom millions of deluded people turn to for advice on how to raise their families, practice their faith and vote. He wasn’t crazy about McCain until the Palin pick, so that tells you something about how desperate McCain was to shore up the bloc of voters who self identify as Fundamentalist or Evangelical Christians.
And so this is Dobson’s in house contribution to the Palin/McCain campaign: fear-mongering predictions about the terrible things which he “knows” will happen to the world if, God forbid, Barack Obama wins the election. His “prophecies” if you will. Funny how that works isn’t it. No matter how poorly the Republicans have governed the country over the last eight years of the Bush administration, no matter much the country has suffered from the mistakes and lies and corruption of the Grand Old Party, things always are predicted to get worse should a Democrat get elected to office.
I have news for you Mr. Dobson. Your powers are weak old man. Not as many people are willing to believe the crap that you pulled out of your nether regions to attack Barack Obama. His message is one of change, and hope for the future. And all you can say in McCain’s defense is to predict a catastrophe? Trust me, we’ve already experienced the catastrophe of Republican rule. Just ask the folks who live in New Orleans, or the “Ordinary Janes and Joes” who have seen their life savings get wiped out by the collapse of the stock market, in lage part caused by Republican economics. Or ask the dead of Iraq and Afghanistan and the American military what our billions of dollars spent on Bush’s wars have created?
Preach your Jeremiads all you want Dr. Doom. No one but the most deluded Americans still think of you as a prophet, and that number dwindles a little bit more each day. And that goes for your “copy cat” political preachers, as well:
Steve Strang, publisher of Charisma magazine, a Pentecostal publication, titled one of his recent weekly e-mails to readers, “Life As We Know It Will End If Obama is Elected.”
Strang said gay rights and abortion rights would be strengthened in an Obama administration, taxes would rise and “people who hate Christianity will be emboldened to attack our freedoms.”
You know, people are just tired of this crap:
“This reminds me of when I was a school kid, when I had to go out in the hall and bury my head in my hands because of the atom bomb …”
We’re not as stupid, we’re not as ignorant, and we’re not as fearful anymore, Mr. Dobson. The “Big Lie” technique has been overused by you and your ilk for too long. Americans are becoming desensitized to the all the doom and gloom bullshit you spout. History cannot relegate you to its dustbins soon enough. Your vision of the world and your exploitation of people’s fears to feather your own pockets has done enough damage to our nation already.
