Reply #68: Amusing to watch people become that which they have contempt for?...

[LooseWilly]

You mean like the Obama-faithful becoming as fanatical as the Bush-faithful once were?

Birthers and Grandmotherers are, I would agree, somewhat similar in that they so distrust the opposition that they see conspiracy wherever there is the possibility to see it. It's human nature... and, as you pretty well established in your OP, Democrats really are "No better or worse than" Republicans... in their basic human dignity and value as human beings (as, obviously, measured in their willingness to accept/reject birther/grandparenter arguments about "the enemy")

I think you're on to something cali... I think all people suck, Democrat and Republican alike... and I suspect that it is that realization that people suck which has propelled Obama to make such startling compromises with the Republicans... because, I believe, Obama has come to the realization that people all suck, as you so ably demonstrate with your OP, but corporations, while they may be "citizens" or "individuals", will never be 'people'... and so they can never suck as much as people... and, I firmly believe, that is why Obama has decided to move toward more and more "Right" positions.

He wants to protect people from "people" who suck... birthers and the like, by turning over the mechanisms of protection to corporations who, I believe Obama has concluded, don't suck like people do.

Those of us who are also opposed to "people" need to fall in line and support Obama, so he can fight the "startlingly similar" 'people' from each side of the political divide with the only army available to fight both... the corporate armies.