Bush's opponents drift into the political paranormal.

[AmyStrange]

Dems Get Mad, Not Even
Bush's opponents drift into the political paranormal.

BY DANIEL HENNINGER
Friday, June 4, 2004 12:01 a.m. EDT

FROM: http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/dhenninger/?id=110005165
A series of odd, but possibly interconnected phenomena happened in the past two weeks. Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11," a hyper-virulent anti-Bush documentary, won the top prize at the Cannes film festival in France. Al Gore gave a hyper-virulent anti-Bush speech, sponsored by MoveOn.org, which is supported by George Soros, who believes George Bush's policies are ruining the world. And over Memorial Day weekend, the movie "The Day After Tomorrow" opened, in which tornadoes rip through Los Angeles, New York City is destroyed in a flood and the Earth's Northern Hemisphere is destroyed by snow and ice high as the Statue of Liberty's shoulders--because Dick Cheney refused to believe in global warming.

What each of these events has in common is that they are not quite normal. They were launched from a wing of Democratic politics that has drifted into what one might call the political paranormal.

The participants in the political paranormal share a slightly psycho desire to remove George Bush from the presidency. It has qualms about the pedestrian mechanics of election politics--two men campaigning and people voting. But what if Bush wins?!! To ensure that the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld triumvirate is dislodged from its illegitimate (Florida) grip on power, something more is needed so that all voters will see what, possibly, only they see.

More for Michael Moore is propaganda; more for Al Gore is hydrogen-filled speeches about "the most dishonest president since Richard Nixon" and for German filmmaker Roland Emmerich it's the glorious destruction of America for its political leaders' multiple sins.

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[NJCher]

1. they love to fling words like "paranormal" around

....even when they have no relevancy whatsoever to the subject at hand.

The participants in the political paranormal share a slightly psycho desire to remove George Bush from the presidency.

Not to worry, Mr. Henninger. George Bush is removing himself from the presidency quite nicely: no assistance required from higher powers, thank you very much.


Cher

[On the Road]

2. The Antonym of "Normal" is "Paranormal"?

LOL -- has the Wall Street journal lost its mind?

I realize the authors and editors know better. But it's sophomoric to even make the comparison. Would they make a joke using "inflammable" as the opposite of "flammable"?

[checks-n-balances]

3. Why have you been posting so many articles from RW sources today?

As if we don't get enough of this stuff through our so-called "liberal media" of talk radio and TV? How is proliferating the DU board with this stuff helpful to any of us who are dedicated to the defeat of BushCo? Just wondering.

[AmyStrange]

4. I don't chose where they come from...

I merely post what I find from my source (which is not RW) that I think is relevant to the 2004 campaign,

d

[PurityOfEssence]

5. Thou shalt not be non-normal

Dammit.

Remember the anti-Dean ad from Iowa with the old white couple spewing hate and derision at anyone who wasn't normal? That's the core of reactionary thinking. If you're not like me, you don't deserve to exist.

How they can trumpet personal freedom while crushing any untidy differences is incredible; how they do it while systematically eroding civil liberties is astonishing. But, then again, the primitive tribal self-affirmation of those afraid of change should never surprise us.

[fujiyama]

6. I thought we're

supposed to post a warning when posting from RW sources....