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Obama Heeds Dictator Handbook with School Speech
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research ^ | Tuesday, September 8, 2009 | Kevin A. Hassett

Posted on 09/08/2009 9:42:22 AM PDT by jacknhoo

President Barack Obama cannot possibly intend to resemble an aspiring dictator. Somehow, he keeps doing so.

Now he's going ahead with plans to address America's schoolchildren, having dropped the part about encouraging those children to then "write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president."

This administration's run is rapidly transforming into an episode of "The Twilight Zone." How could Obama be so foolish?

He and his advisers must be oblivious to the connections between the American far left and fascism. They must be immune to the revulsion that so many ordinary citizens feel when they see government acting as it has this past year.

The irony is that Obama could achieve his objectives if he worries a little more about the genuine fears of his opponents. If you want to be successful in a democracy, don't dismiss your opponents as kooks; study them.

(Excerpt) Read more at aei.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: authoritarian; marxism; socialism; totalitarian
BO's opposition will grow without bounds.
1 posted on 09/08/2009 9:42:23 AM PDT by jacknhoo
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To: jacknhoo
"President Barack Obama cannot possibly intend to resemble an aspiring dictator"

I suppose technically that is correct.

He doesn't "intend to resemble an aspiring dictator"

He intends to BE a dictator.

2 posted on 09/08/2009 9:53:43 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 230 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: jacknhoo

Personally, I don’t care that he dismisses us. He won’t be doing that in 2012.


3 posted on 09/08/2009 9:55:02 AM PDT by Sarah 2012
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To: jacknhoo
He and his advisers must be oblivious to the connections between the American far left and fascism. They must be immune to the revulsion that so many ordinary citizens feel when they see government acting as it has this past year.

You under-estimate this man's narscisism. This is the man that saw nothing wrong with asking citizens to spy on other citizens, and turn anyone who said 'the wrong thing' into flag@whitehouse.gov.

This is the same man who oversaw the email addresses he gathered from flag@whitehouse.gov being sold to 3rd partys for propaganda. This is the man who saw nothing wrong with manipulating the NEA into making artwork to support his agenda, or using teachers to coerce students into supporting his doctines. This is the same man, who hand-picked terrorists as his role models, and has appointed 30+ Czars (on the taxpayer's backs) to positions that answer only to him, at an undisclosed salary level, without being vetted or challenged by any other party. This is the man who is now attempting to dissolve the US Constitution, and is actively funnelling tax dollars to fund Socialist projects (ACORN, Storm, SEIU and others).

Why would demanding to brain wash our children be a surprise? There is no level that this man will not go; he need never stoop, as that implies that there is a standard of behavior he will not abide.

4 posted on 09/08/2009 9:58:06 AM PDT by Hodar (Who needs laws .... when this "feels" so right?)
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To: Sarah 2012

Right, WE will be DISMISSING HIM!


5 posted on 09/08/2009 9:58:34 AM PDT by LegalEagle61 (If you are going to burn our flag, please make sure you are wearing it when you do!)
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To: Sarah 2012
Personally, I don’t care that he dismisses us. He won’t be doing that in 2012.

Are you certain there will be a real election in 2012?

6 posted on 09/08/2009 10:03:43 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 230 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: jacknhoo

Jonah Goldberg is right, Woodrow Wilson was the first fascist in this country. He signed the bill creating the Federal Reserve, he had his cronies illegally and unconstitutional declare the 16th and 17th Amendments ratified, he had the 18th Amendment ratified, all to help centralize power to the federal government. FDR and LBJ took us further down the road to socialism and now the zero wants us to roll over and accept a socialist government as a fact of life.


7 posted on 09/08/2009 10:09:09 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Capitalism is the unequal distribution of wealth. Socialism is the equal distribution of misery.)
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8 posted on 09/08/2009 10:11:00 AM PDT by potlatch
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To: null and void

Call me a pessimist, but I look for him to get re-elected thanks to ACORN, the same way he got elected this past time. There’s no way, I don’t care how bad a candidate McCain was, that I’ll ever believe that 0 carried Virginia and North Carolina.


9 posted on 09/08/2009 10:12:48 AM PDT by murron (Proud Marine Mom)
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To: potlatch

..another great animation job there.


10 posted on 09/08/2009 10:14:03 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (It's not an Obama "Administration"....it's a "Regime")
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To: ErnBatavia

I love Calvin’s expression...what a great cartoon. Deeply missed in today’s funny section of the paper.


11 posted on 09/08/2009 10:39:00 AM PDT by Lou L
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To: jacknhoo

bttt


12 posted on 09/08/2009 10:43:53 AM PDT by kalee (01/20/13 The end of an error.... Obama even worse than Carter.)
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To: ErnBatavia

[..another great animation job there.]

Thanks so much Ern!


13 posted on 09/08/2009 10:54:31 AM PDT by potlatch
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To: null and void

Are you certain there will be a real election in 2012?


LOL,

There may be one but I think the ballots are in and counted already.


14 posted on 09/08/2009 11:28:28 AM PDT by Joan Kerrey
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To: null and void

There will be or they will have to deal with the consequences.


15 posted on 09/08/2009 12:21:30 PM PDT by Sarah 2012
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To: Sarah 2012

They will.


16 posted on 09/08/2009 12:33:44 PM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 230 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: null and void
Let's not forget the existance of "The Pocket Obama". A little blue book in the tradition of Mao, containing the thoughts and sayings of 0bama, including daily devotionals.

Think I'm kidding?


17 posted on 09/08/2009 12:36:48 PM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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