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"Manchurian Candidate" Starts War on Business
American Enterprise Institute ^ | 3-9-09 | Hassett, Kevin

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhomarketcrash; economy; fraud; manchurian; market; obama
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Calling out BHO as "The Manchurian Cadidate" that he is....
1 posted on 03/09/2009 1:21:15 PM PDT by blasater1960
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To: blasater1960

And of course there would have to be time in his life that, although ostensibly accounted for by college, etc., would be an empty record. A resume that claims college, but no actual record such as transcripts to back up the claims.

It might even be possible that he wasn’t born when or where he says he was, or maybe he’s not even the person he claims to be.

Of course much of this could be cleared up in five minutes by providing a birth certificate or other records.


2 posted on 03/09/2009 1:26:47 PM PDT by jwparkerjr (God Bless America!)
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To: blasater1960
Oh ... I thought he was talking about GWB.

Imagine some Manchurian candidate pretending to be a conservative Republican, but while in office:

1. Expanding the powers and budge of the harmful Dept. of Educ.
2. Expanding the federal health program with Medicare Part D.
3. Conducting an expensive and unnecessary war in Iraq that merely emboldened our enemies and prevented us from responding to our real enemies Iran, North Korea, etc.
4. Loosening regulations on the financial industry and allowing so much agglomeration that many corps that in a truly free market would be tood stupid to succeed are now too big to fail.
5. etc. etc. etc.

3 posted on 03/09/2009 1:30:37 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (The cosmos is about the smallest hole a man can stick his head in. - Chesterton)
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To: jwparkerjr

Records that will not be forthcoming unless provided by the NSA or CIA.


4 posted on 03/09/2009 1:31:11 PM PDT by blasater1960 ( Dt 30, Ps 111, The Torah is perfect, attainable, now and forever)
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To: jwparkerjr
"no actual record"

It is chilling, when you consider how efficiently his history has been sanitized.

Seems more like the work of a KGB, rather than the DNC.

Just sayin'.

Soviet subversion of America Explained by Former KGB officer Yuri Bezmenov.

First they demoralized America. Now they destabilize America.

5 posted on 03/09/2009 1:32:38 PM PDT by ChicagahAl (Don't blame me. I voted for Sarah.)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

In my column about Joe the Plumber, I renamed him Joe the Kulak, because we are all Kulaks now. By the time the Bolsheviks were done hunting down class enemies, just having enough money for food made you a Kulak.


6 posted on 03/09/2009 1:32:47 PM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: blasater1960

Imagine in 2002, Bin Laden meets in a cave in Tora Bora to hatch his master plan. Through contacts in Palestine, they contact Calypso Louie in Chicago to begin the plan of planting an Al Queda agent in as President of the United States...... I know a tinfoilmoment.......


7 posted on 03/09/2009 1:37:01 PM PDT by Sybeck1 (All Hail Our Dear Leader..........)
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To: blasater1960
Alan Keyes recitation on O... Oh my
8 posted on 03/09/2009 1:37:33 PM PDT by BigFinn (Guilt by Obamassociation.)
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To: massgopguy

Obama must destroy the ‘merchant class’.


9 posted on 03/09/2009 1:39:02 PM PDT by griswold3 (a good story is more compelling than the search for truth)
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To: blasater1960

One of the strongest and saddest videos I have seen on the NWO.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRLPG_HplrA


10 posted on 03/09/2009 1:40:56 PM PDT by combat_boots (Leave America poor, hungry, sick and defenseless. Wasn't that the plan? How's that Hopenchange now?)
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To: blasater1960

Bold words! The writer is going to be top of the enemies’ list.


11 posted on 03/09/2009 1:41:31 PM PDT by Rob the Ugly Dude
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To: who_would_fardels_bear
If GWB was the precursor to all this we will find out soon enough.

1. Dept of Edu. Yep

2. Health Medicare-D. Yep

3. Iraq....maybe not..That was a resource war and Iran is now surrounded. If BHO unzips it all, then a big waste.

4.Financial regs. He did speak out against the loose regs. The dem congress, I think mainly blew it. Banking Queen Barney and company.

GWB could have been the begining...if so the Republican Party is wholly corrupt and it along with the US government needs to go.

12 posted on 03/09/2009 1:44:32 PM PDT by blasater1960 ( Dt 30, Ps 111, The Torah is perfect, attainable, now and forever)
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To: ChicagahAl

“It is chilling, when you consider how efficiently his history has been sanitized.”

The money and power that would take boggles the mind and should send chills up everyone’s spine.


13 posted on 03/09/2009 1:45:23 PM PDT by combat_boots (Leave America poor, hungry, sick and defenseless. Wasn't that the plan? How's that Hopenchange now?)
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To: combat_boots
Interesting...I have never really been a conspiracy person but watching how BHO got elected....with a manipulated oil market and the crashing of the real estate-credit market....just weeks before the election....It makes a person pay more attention to the NWO claims...

Seeing how BHO is governing only confirms it.

14 posted on 03/09/2009 2:02:59 PM PDT by blasater1960 ( Dt 30, Ps 111, The Torah is perfect, attainable, now and forever)
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To: Rob the Ugly Dude

Bold words! The writer is going to be top of the enemies’ list.

Isn’t it peculiar how he ends the article with these sentences?

“It’s clear that President Obama wants the best for our country. That makes it all the more puzzling that he would legislate like a Manchurian Candidate.”


15 posted on 03/09/2009 2:04:24 PM PDT by Bluebird Singing
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To: ChicagahAl
I can't believe I have lived to see the day in America where someone could run for, let alone be elected and sworn in as, president even though he refused to prove his place and date of birth. And then to compound the disbelief, refuse to provide any of the information that would be required of someone applying for a decent job or security clearance.

Something’s not right and I wonder if we'll ever know the true story.

16 posted on 03/09/2009 2:06:11 PM PDT by jwparkerjr (God Bless America!)
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To: ChicagahAl

I wonder what the Saudi version of KGB is. They’re the sanitizers, I’ll bet, working under cover of the “money talks” protocol.


17 posted on 03/09/2009 2:11:57 PM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: Veto!
"the Saudi version of KGB"

I suspect that there are collaborations between the Russians, the Saudi's, some Illuminati-type organization, and who-knows-who-else.

There are certainly more than a few "Evil Ones" out there, who would love to do this to America.

The collaboration between the European Left and the Muslims has been going on for some time. I don't think the Saudi's could do this all by themselves. They are wealthy and evil, but I don't think they are that smart.

If you watch the interview at the link I posted, you will see that the KGB has been behind much of the decline of the US for decades. This seems to me to be their next logical step.

The KGB may have changed their name, but I'm sure they haven't changed their ways.

18 posted on 03/09/2009 2:19:13 PM PDT by ChicagahAl (Don't blame me. I voted for Sarah.)
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To: Sybeck1
I know a tinfoilmoment.......

Not at all!

In 2004, if someone had told you that 2009 would be like this, you would have handed them tinfoil.

19 posted on 03/09/2009 2:29:40 PM PDT by fanfan (God, Bless America, please.)
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To: blasater1960

bookmark for later


20 posted on 03/09/2009 3:53:49 PM PDT by GiovannaNicoletta
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