That is exactly what I think. People can scoff at the notion of the “Manchurian Candidate”; but, I think we have someone running for the Presidency that has been groomed for many years.
The following thread is about a booklet written by a conservative in 1938 talking about the New Deal as Revolution. A very important and foretelling read for 2008.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/929392/posts
Here’s an excerpt - I added a couple of names to bring it up to date seventy years later:
“There was a prodigious literature of revolutionary thought concealed only by the respectability of its dress.”.....
“To the revolutionary this same dreary stuff was the most exciting reading in the world. It was knowledge that gave him a sense of power. One who mastered the subject to the point of excellence could be fairly sure of a livelihood by teaching and writing [AYERS], that is, by imparting it to others, and meanwhile dream of passing at a single leap from this mean obscurity to the prestige of one who assists in the manipulation of great happenings; while one who mastered it to the point of genius [OBAMA] that one might dream of becoming himself the next Lenin.”