[nathanbedford]

Many of Germany's prewar industrialists were appalled by Hitler's philistinism but they recognized his charisma and calculated they could control him while cashing in.

Many of our contemporary multimillionaires and even billionaires recognized Obama's charisma as potentially the first African-American president and believed they could crony up to him…

[2001convSVT]

Yes, but it looks like Steve Wynn is having second thoughts, LOL.

[MasterGunner01]

“Many of Germany's prewar industrialists were appalled by Hitler's philistinism but they recognized his charisma and calculated they could control him while cashing in.
Many of our contemporary multimillionaires and even billionaires recognized Obama’s charisma as potentially the first African-American president and believed they could crony up to him…”

And, in both cases, these “brilliant” industrialists and capitalists were absolutely, positively, unmistakably wrong, wrong, wrong. In the final analysis, these fools all danced to Der Fuhrer’s and Obamination’s will — or else.