Posted on 09/14/2009 11:33:41 PM PDT by neverdem
-- George S. Patton, War as I Knew It
A noble sentiment and a sentiment which was uttered by George S. Patton but the quotation belongs to Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson. The quotation has often been erroneously attributed to Gen. Patton because he said something similar.
George C. Scott also said it but the history of the quotation remains as I have described it.
The author may be too caught up in comparing Obozo to men who had lived in a time that could never have envisioned something like affirimative action. Obozo did not need many of the attributes that were neccessary to the Hitlers and Stalins etc to advance themselves. As for ‘military experience’ Obozo IS the commander in chief of the military forces of the United States of America....
I’m one of those who thinks Obama is extremely dangerous. He’s a sociopath looking for an identity, and, as Sarah Palin observed during the campaign, he seems to regard being president as his personal voyage of self-discovery. He’s a narcissist and everyone around him is useful only to the extent that they reinforce his image of himself. And while I think he’s a lame-brain, he’s obviously very effective at getting some people to accept his image of himself. The press, for example, can’t get enough of him; there’s even a small photo of him at the top left of my local paper every day.
Is he smart? No. Did he come up with his own ideas, the way Hitler did? No. Is he courageous? No. But he has plenty of ideological juice from people like Axelrod, Ayers and Wright, and while he’s not courageous, he’s ruthless, something he has demonstrated several times in Chicago politics.
What happens in the future will depend on what we do now. I was very heartened by 9/12 and I think there may still be time to make him back off. But once he gets the medical bill and cap and trade, either one or both, he will have unprecedented power over every individual life in this country and over the economic life and social conditions of our entire society. I think it’s foolish to say that just because there are differences between Obama and, say, Hitler or Lenin, Obama can’t be a dictator.
They will always be different because they will always be tailored to their society (because they are always demagogues who manage to convince that society to put them into their positions), and I think Obama has every potential to be a dictator if a few other things fall into place. We have to stop those things from happening.
The author also misses the point that obama is the front man for Soros, who has nothing but warm cozy feelings for the USA. Ignorance is bliss.
If the author looks more closely, he’ll see that Obama and Democratic Liberal already have plans to A: tax the internet to death. And B: to control it utterly. All it takes is one ‘crisis’, and Obama can seize control of all media. The NYCity raids yesterday should be a wake up call that Jihadists are planning strikes here. One car bomb and we can kiss freedom of speech and assembly good-bye. How’s that for Fascism redux. Obama despises the Constitution and he and his cabal are working feverishly, night and day, to subvert the republic. He won’t be happy until we’re a third world has-been.
I need a little more than demeanor to let me sleep easy.
“professional agitators (Lenin, Trotsky, and Mussolini)”
This is what a community organizer is (ACORN-Obama). So is this person stating the obvious?
I have taken comfort in Psalm 49
Now J.R. is done!
The man is a socialist, which has a long track record of death, destruction and tyranny behind it. He's going down an evil path even if he is not the brutal thug who's at the end of it.
a cyborg sent back in time by Skywatch to keep an eye on Gov. Arnold (Okay, I admit it - I made that one up).
About as close to reality as J.R. gets.
It is true, in this country we can’t shoot our neighbors
just because they have the potential to be bad persons,
but that doesn’t mean we can’t keep our eye on them
until they prove otherwise,
and we must be prepared to defend
our selves if our fears should be realized.
Another point - his cult of personality. Every major despot created and nurtured his own cult, and we see something very similar (and disturbing) in Obama.
Is Obama another Hitler? While it's fun to call him that, in reality, the answer is no - while Hitler sought the power of the military to advance his agenda, Obama is a typical modern leftist who loaths the military. His power lies with his army of willing followers. He is a self-absorbed, delusional socialist with numerous, powerful interests standing ready to advance his cause.
His health care program would be an unparalleled economic disaster, and his environmental policies will bankrupt entire industries and throw millions of people out of work. He'a already nationalized a major automobile manufacturer and saddled the nation with trillions in debt. His foreign policy could best be described as subservient and weak, a dangerous position to be in in a post 9/11 world.
Whatever ‘comparisons’ you'd like to make about Obama and past tyrants are irrelevant. He needs to be stopped on those points alone.
“His power lies with his army of willing followers. He is a self-absorbed, delusional socialist with numerous, powerful interests standing ready to advance his cause.”
You’re exactly right. His power does lie in his “army” of followers, and that’s where king obuma falls flat on his fascist face. He needs an “army” to implement his illegal dictates. All dictators do. I’ver been waiting months for that “army” to show up. A few fat and smelly ACORN thugs wandered into a tea party I attended last April, and they needed an “army” of police to escort them out.
King obuma called out his “army” last winter to go door-to-door and demand that people sign fealty pledges to him.
Nobody showed up.
So I anxiously await obuma’s “army” in my neighborhood so I can carry out the unwelcome mat. If anyone sights this “army” engaged in hostility, let me know. Fat union slobs bused in by the DNC or college bed-wetters typing threats from mommy’s basement don’t count.
Don’t agrree that it was a good article. The difference between Zero and the other dictators is that we live in a purported democracy and he has to take it a bit slower.
Where's the willing Congress on his signature issues, i.e. cap & tax and healthcare reform? They were supposed to be his means of tackling the recession.
"King obuma called out his “army” last winter to go door-to-door and demand that people sign fealty pledges to him.
"Nobody showed up.
"So I anxiously await obuma’s “army” in my neighborhood so I can carry out the unwelcome mat. If anyone sights this “army” engaged in hostility, let me know. Fat union slobs bused in by the DNC or college bed-wetters typing threats from mommy’s basement don’t count."
His Organizing for America went AWOL. He needed union thugs for townhall events.
"The truth is this: the impulse that governs Obama is the same one that causes weedy, bespectacled college sophomores to play at being fierce revos. How scary is that?"
That wasn't his point. He was decrying the overwrought fears and fever swamps on the right, e.g. they'll never be a fair election again because ACORN is doing the Census.
I guess you don't follow the swine flu and bird flu threads.
I have no idea what a 'fierce revo' is. Perhaps my ignorance of that helped draw my attention away from his point.
fierce revolutionary
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