This is not the first time

[solarbird]

John L. Perry's column advocating a military coup d'etat against Mr. Obama is not the first call in the last two years from a GOP enthusiast for a military takeover in the US. If Thomas Sewell's rhapsodising over the necessity of military takeover at National Review isn't good enough for you, maybe you'd enjoy recalling Philip Atkinson at Family Security Matters calling for Mr. Bush to lead a military takeover of the US government.

Dan Savage thinks "they're trying to get [Mr. Obama] killed." It's becoming more difficult to disagree.

eta: Newsmax yanked the article. However, Talking Points Memo still has the full text online. I also have placed a webarchive record, in zip format, here, in case you want the original full article in its full glory. (I expected it would get yanked.)

Comments

[kvogel.livejournal.com]

Wow, such badcrazy. Perversely, any number of the "crimes" Obama has been accused of would more accurately be leveled against Bush and Co.
And the rest aren't crimes at all, but simply ideological affronts.
So much of this seems to boil down to the Right being REALLY Bad Losers, combined with the ugly truth of electing someone who is both Not White and Not of the Ruling Elite. I suspect the intensity of the Hate is more a matter of Who he is than what he has done.

[kathrynt.livejournal.com]

Oh Obama is TOTALLY of the ruling elite. Don't kid yourself. I love the man and voted for him, but the dude's not Cynthia McKinney.

[redneckgaijin.livejournal.com]

Which is a good thing, seeing as McKinney is a flaming anti-Semite and conspiracy theorist, last I looked.

[mojave-wolf.livejournal.com]

Perversely, any number of the "crimes" Obama has been accused of would more accurately be leveled against Bush and Co.

I thought the exact same when I read this.

And they are awful losers; sometime in the 80's they got the idea they were entitled to a permanent Republican presidency; I remember in 92 on the night of the election a furious Bob Dole going "It's not over yet."

And then there was the 2000 Republican coup . . .

It's really insane; both Obama and Clinton before him bent over backwards to piss off their own supporters and appease these dipshits, and both get calls for their ouster by any means necessary. At least they haven't formally impeached Obama or accused him of murder or running a cocaine ring yet . . .

[lisa-marli.livejournal.com]

Yep. Obama IS NOT A REPUG. That is so obviously a crime against THEIR America. Not mine. May be they should go to some Real Republic like Iran and learn how a true Theocracy is done. Not that they would last long there, but still they need to learn.
Where is the FBI when you need them?

[tinlail.livejournal.com]

Wow, complaining about crazy against the president, what a example of motes and eyes.

[solarbird]

Have I not been hard enough on Chief Executive Obama for your tastes, or are you just calling me crazy here? If the latter, why do you read the lunatic?

[flashfire.livejournal.com]

I guess.

Obama's not everything he was advertised as and in some cases is not that different from Bush, but the right has just completely lost their shit since the election. It's almost stunning how batshit crazy they've been as a whole.

[mojave-wolf.livejournal.com]

Well, hey, you're criticizing policy, which happens to be mostly the same policy you were criticizing under a previous presidency. The people you are pointing to the crazy of are calling for a military coup against a president who is pretty similar in policy to the last president, who they liked and wish was back in office.

Don't you see the equivalency here?!?

[flashfire.livejournal.com]

That's mostly what it's been out of the right since Obama was elected: crazy and an inability to accept losing. Now their hope is for Obama to fail so badly that they'll be able to just slip back into power when they have nothing to offer aside from that.

In other words, they want America to fail just so they can regain power and they're so gung-ho about it that they'll try to prevent Obama and any Democrat they can from having anything work.

[flashfire.livejournal.com]

Perry says "describing what may be afoot is not to advocate it" but he's clearly putting a list of supposed reasons together and hoping it happens.

Seems to me some people have a problem with Obama because he's a Democrat doing some of the things Bush did before. Most people expected Obama to just turn away from and reverse everything Bush had been doing but why would he when it gives him the power to do some of this? Now all of a sudden it's stuff the military should look at removing him for and they were fine with it when Bush was the one doing it?

[mojave-wolf.livejournal.com]

I thought you were exaggerating a little until I read these articles.

My own weird conspiracy brain wonders -- while some of these nuts are clearly sincere, is a lot of it orchestrated to make the left feel compelled to defend him and ignore what he's actually doing even while he runs a purely corporatist admnistration? And then if things continue to go sour, they can always put in someone openly right wing who will do more of the same but can honestly say they were constantly knocking Obama next time around.

[kvogel.livejournal.com]

Another of the ironies of the Right's complaints is just that. Obama's recovery efforts has done pretty much what a Republican administration would have done, different names for different rationals, but the same corperate welfare. But, of course, since He's doing it, it must be evilbad.