Curses! The plot is out!

[james_davis_nicoll]

(CNN) -- An elected county judge in Texas is warning that the nation could descend into civil war if President Barack Obama is re-elected, and is calling for a trained, well-equipped force to battle the United Nations troops he says Obama would bring in.

It's funny but while I can easily think of a Second Civil War novel that used a thinly disguised Hillary Clinton, I have yet to be send one featuring Obama in an analogous role.

In this classic SF novel



The Texans are motivated mainly by being Texan; their political police come across nearly as warm and lovable as the Stasi.

(This was one of the books that made me notice how often American Vice Presidents are presented as a villains, even administrations otherwise presented sympathetically; the Texans kidnapped the President with the aid of the VP, who has an eye on the top post for himself)

Comments

[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

Joseph Goebbels Biden [*], the world's most evile man. That's why he likes TRAINS so much.

[*] There are only 61 hits on Google for the phrase. I think even the black helicopter people who are suddenly against CHAINS -- temporarily, I'm sure -- knows that won't fly.

[anzhalyumitethe.livejournal.com]

Tom Clancy ought to be excited. There's a chance for a President Ryan. .1% chance, but a chance.

[michael a. davis (from livejournal.com)]

We could have gotten that a few years earlier if the Ryan marriage had been more sexually compatible, one way or another.

[(Anonymous)]

I have no idea what either the TRAINS or CHAINS references mean.

But that might just be the effects of a stroke or something. I've missed the anti-spam challenge six (seven,eight,nine,ten, eleven [is this getting obsessive?]. twelve) times now, while I usually get it the first time.

William Hyde

[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

Biden is a very big backer of Amtrak -- the train station in Wilmington is named after him, and he used to commute regularly to DC from his home in Delaware. As all goodthinkers know, however, trains are doubleplusungood unless Ayn Rand writes about them.

Recently, the goodthink machine has shrieked at Biden for using the word "chains" to describe goodthink policies to an black audience.

[(Anonymous)]

Ah, thanks. My opinion of Biden rises, as I like trains myself for trips of a few hundred miles (for comfort and the fact that I've never had to wait three days for the next available train!).

Now that I think about it, I do recall the "chains" teapot tempest.

William Hye