Not only coservative Republicans are wishing for Obama to fail, they are preparing groundwork for a wholesale offense, if and when depression happens or terrorists attack. Obama supporters should preempt before Americans start believing lies about Obama policies.
The Republicans are wishing for Obama to fail on economy and terrorism. They are already brainwashing Americans about ills of Obama’s policies so that they can blame him when and if depression happens or terrorists attack. In fact they are rooting for him to fail, like Limbaugh has proclaimed. So Democrats and liberals need to go on preemptive offense.
Republicans are going to tell us that Obama’s (and Democrats’) spending and socialism have caused depression. They will point to opposition of the stimulus package by the Republican Congressmen and Senators. They are going to repeat their mantra for the effect similar to phony 9/11-Iraq connection. It is up to Obama’s supporters to remind Americans that George Bush and Republicans’ free-for-all capitalistic deregulations and greed that got us in this mess in the first place. It should start now, before millions of Americans start believing Obama caused the depression.
Second, even more important, Republican effort to hurt Obama is on terrorism. We know that another attack is going to happen, probably under Obama’s presidency. Talk radio and FOX are already pushing the theory that Obama’s undoing of Bush’s effective security measures (torture, spying on Americans etc.) will result into a terrorist attack. Cheney couldn’t keep his mouth shut and had to predict hundreds of thousands of causality by an attack. Again, we constantly need to remind Americans that absence of torture doesn’t cause terrorist attack. Need for torture assumes that the prisoner has valuable information and will tell the truth. Besides, 9-11 planning and failure to capture Osama show that the terrorists are good at "need to know" type slotted assignments.
Let us call the conservative attack dogs unpatriotic (or traitors) for rooting for a terrorist attack, and wishing for depression.
Don’t underestimate Americans’ gullibility.