Just a little more patience
As an amused observer of rightwing crazies, I notice that they grow more dispirited by the prospect of a President Obama -- a Commie dipped in chocolate in their pinwheeling eyes. It did tickle me so when I saw their recent breast-beating because they were out-matched by this:
"Barack Obama apparently attracted more people to his rally today in St. Louis than to his August acceptance speech at Invesco Field in Denver.
Lt. Samuel Dotson of the St. Louis Police Department placed the crowd count at 100,000 people, according to the campaign...."
Wingnuts are screeching that if Barack Obama wins a squeaker over John McCain, the United States will have its first socialist president.
Only wingnuts have nightmares of creeping socialism. Haven't they heard that socialism is a failure? Even lifelong Communists now accept that wherever socialism has been tried, it has flopped.
BTW--it wasn't President Obama who nationalized the banks...the first socialist president goes by the name of George W. Bush.
It's so irritating to hear unhinged howls of "Socialist!" at those McCain/Palin rallies. A term revived by rightwing talk radio, Rush Limbaugh in particular, to describe the recent financial bailout -- for which both Obama and McCain voted. Rush brayed against the government passing "a socialism bill" to protect the stock market.
So, now the phrase has morphed into a rightie insult aimed not at the government's bailout of banks, but at a government which will take your wealth away from you and give it to others.
They'll say this even as they stand in line to receive help for their own failing mortgage or extended unemployment benefits.
"A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt..." -- Thomas Jefferson
