Manipulating An Election

Most recently I was involved in a conversation with a friend who is bright, conservative and stays current on political issues. She is also strongly anti-Obama. During this exchange we both expressed hope and optimism that the results of the November 2010 elections would severely weaken the ability of BHO to continue to push America toward the status of a liberal/progressive/socialist nation. These same election results would serve as a forecast that the 2012 elections would retire Obama from the White House.


After a brief pause, she then told to me of her fear that if the political pundits were predicting an Obama loss as election day 2012 approached, there would be no federal elections. She felt that there would occur a national or international crisis of such an extreme that Obama would "for the good and safety" of our nation suspend all pending federal elections until "tranquility returns". This crisis, she felt, would be secretly designed and implemented by Obama backers.


My reaction was that even Obama is not that evil but today a published quote from an Obama advisor, Ron Shapiro, has lessened the sureness of my disbelief.



Shapiro addressed the forecast that the Democrats will suffer significant losses in both the House and Senate once the November 2010 votes are tallied. He stated, "He (Obama) has to find a way between now and November of demonstrating that he is a leader who can command confidence, short of a 9/11 event or an Oklahoma City bombing. I can't think of how he could do that."


What a strange expression, "... short of a 9/11 event or an Oklahoma City bombing." Is it possible that these two terrible terrorists attacks are being mentioned as the type of event that must be created to better the position of their leader, BHO, and augment his White House years? The mere consideration of such conduct is so extremely wrong that a long jail sentence is mandated for anyone promoting this notion.



I refuse to believe that America can sink to the level of many third world nations in which it is not uncommon for national elections to be postponed or even cancelled. I elect to believe that Obama is not that sinister to allow the engineering of a "crisis" so to justify an interruption of the ultimate American right of electing our leaders.

Unfortunately, I am not as sure as I was just a few days ago.