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

[pperiwinkle.livejournal.com]

It's the pornography. Vice presidents are presidents of vice, and so they haft to look at lots of pornography, and so they either become serial killers or evil presidential kidnap enablers.

[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.

[scifantasy.livejournal.com]

It gets slightly worse. Tom Head, the loon at issue, isn't a judicial officer...he's an executive officer. "County Judge" is a term for the chief executive officer of a county in certain states, including Texas. Not unlike being a mayor of a city, but instead of a city, it's a county.

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I don't comment on this sort of stuff on my blog, because I'd probably have to create a tag like your "MPR"; something like "Cue banjos".

-- Steve's seeing increased support for his "watery beer causes insanity" theory.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

They tried that once. It didn't stick.

[andrew barton (from livejournal.com)]

I'm surprised this isn't the tack they took for the Red Dawn remake.

[timgueguen.livejournal.com]

It does without saying that a lot of the comments to the linked article are what you'd expect.

[nojay.livejournal.com]

Is that the book with Texas Governor Panoblanco?

[(Anonymous)]

I suppose stories about black rapist muslim presidents planning to destroy the nation from within are still a bit strong meat save maybe for those who self-publish and Marvin Kaye.

Bruce

[jeffr23.livejournal.com]

It's probably the lack of lead-time. I mean, Madam President Clinton was a plausible scenario for a good 16 years, whereas by the time anyone thought Obama could win, he practically already had.

[jeffr23.livejournal.com]

Also, "Tom Clancy"[1]'s latest couple has a semi-Obamoid president in office. (The character started out as a thinly disguised Ted Kennedy analog, but his current purpose is to proxy Obama's drone-based anti-terrorism policies)

[1]: If the general rule for collaborations where two names occur on the cover with neither one sporting an apostrophe is that the ratio of the amount of writing done is the inverse of the ratio of the font size of the names, Clancy probably wrote the entire title. And possibly the political rants mentioned above.

[vass]

Fred Clark on Slacktivist is talking about this and how it ties in with the whole Left Behind-inspired fear of the UN.

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

Vice-presidents don't have enough to do.

Idle hands are tools of the devil, or something like that.

[maruad.livejournal.com]

So is advocating a private army to fight the legitimate government also advocating treason? I am certain the judge doesn't think that but I am not so certain that isn't what he is advocating. He probably thought Bush the Younger wasn't bad for a socialist president.

[andrew barton (from livejournal.com)]

Now that I think about it, perhaps it's for the best that the US didn't turn over its nuclear arsenal to the UN back in the '40s. Not that, as far as I understand things, such a concept was ever on the table. If these people freak out about what they say now, imagine what they'd be doing if its words were backed by NUCLEAR WEAPONS!

[eyelessgame.livejournal.com]

I refuse to google my suspicion... but I'm willing to bet a lot that said stories exist, if nothing else as fanfic on websites like Stormfront.

[andrew barton (from livejournal.com)]

When it comes to villainous Vice Presidents, you can't improve on Richard Hawk from Metal Wolf Chaos.

Hell, you can't improve on Metal Wolf Chaos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Genl242_ZU8