--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > While I agree that the main story is about a > person so troubled that they would make up > a story about being assaulted and claim it > was done by a black man, what it has to do > with the campaign is that the disturbed young > woman *did this to harm Barack Obama*. That's > not just garden-variety insanity, that's > *politically motivated* insanity. > > Y'know...sorta like someone claiming falsely > that death threats had been made against them > on an Internet group, for the purposes of > demonizing someone who disagrees with them > politically.
Actually, I wouldn't blame the Obama campaign for Barry's making death threats against raunchydog and me because he disagrees with us any more than I'd blame the McCain campaign for this very sick woman's pathetic attempt to get attention. This election campaign has brought out the crazies across the political spectrum, and it isn't likely to end after the election, unfortunately. It doesn't really have much to do with politics, I suspect, but rather with the social stress that began with Clinton's impeachment and has only intensified during the Bush administration. It has pushed those who had been barely hanging on right over the edge (even, or perhaps especially, those who have fled the country in an attempt to keep from falling apart).
