Posted on 03/09/2009 1:21:15 PM PDT by blasater1960
Imagine that some hypothetical enemy state spent years preparing a "Manchurian Candidate" to destroy the U.S. economy once elected. What policies might that leader pursue?
He might discourage private capital from entering the financial sector by instructing his Treasury secretary to repeatedly promise a brilliant rescue plan, but never actually have one. Private firms, spooked by the thought of what government might do, would shy away from transactions altogether. If the secretary were smooth and played rope-a-dope long enough, the whole financial sector would be gone before voters could demand action.
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Is Obama a real mind-controlled Manchurian Candidate? What does anyone really know about his background or what he was doing in college and during the years as a community organizer?
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