Friday, May 06, 2011
Prestidigitiation
It never ceases to amaze me that otherwise intelligent and logical people can be so easily duped. It'a an illusion people. The question of whether or not OBL is dead should have been a non-starter from day one. There's no reason to think he isn't dead, and it doesn't really matter either way. What does matter is they have to keep your eye on the bouncing ball, so the illusion will work properly. While you are watching the left hand do nothing, the right hand is robbing you blind and putting shackles around your throat. Ask yourself this question. If GWB had suddenly announce the killing of OBL just before the 2008 elections, giving a boost in the polls to then candidate McCain, wouldn't everyone on the left be screaming and ranting and raving and demanding proof of death, with the right using the exact same arguments to resist presenting that proof? The point is that no matter which side does it, the other side responds the exact same way. It's obviously a game and it's not even original, just the same old parlor tricks. But for some reason, it continues to work. We'll spend the next few weeks engrossed in this nonsense, while they rape the national treasury again, through oil speculation this time. Time more folks realized that it takes the left and the right hand to pull of this scam.
