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wombat_socho ([personal profile] wombat_socho) wrote2008-02-08 12:57 pm

It's not my fault!

[livejournal.com profile] joel_rosenberg was talking about the twin scourges of BDS/CDS and in the comments we touched on the nutroots' & wingnuts' assassination conspiracy theories.

Which brought to mind the odd phone call I got from my ex when Paul Wellstone's plane went down. We'd been separated a while by then, but the papers hadn't ground their way through the courts yet, so there were occasional calls about this and that. On this occasion, she called me to pass on the news that Wellstone's plane had crashed. "I didn't do it," I replied. "That's not funny!" she snapped, and hung up.

Well, as a well-trained member of the VRWC, what else was I going to say?

[identity profile] luned.livejournal.com 2008-02-10 07:35 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks for that link. That's one of the better explanations I've seen about that sort of thing. (Also makes me wonder how much of Obama's support is not about who he is, but who he isn't.)

[identity profile] wombat-socho.livejournal.com 2008-02-10 03:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Indeed. The Republicans aren't the only ones working on their "anyone but Clinton" plans, nor should they be.