[Rinnwald]

Let me be very blunt. Neither Robespierre, Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin or Hitler, started out by pledging to kill a great many people. That came later. They started out, just as Obama, embracing class-warfare, appealing to envy & covetousness, and blaming specific, identifiable groups for societal problems, in a campaign to obtain the power to intervene in the normal workings of a particular society--in the quest of excessive power..

Exactly. That's why it's too far to call Obama a Hitler or a Stalin. The correct term would be to call Obama a wannabee Hitler or Stalin.

[Ohioan]

I was not suggesting that Obama is a comparable figure—in the historic sense—to a Stalin or Hitler. He obviously does not have an equivalent mental capacity. But his tactics—the base appeal to mob psychology, via the basest of human emotions;—and his collectivist, heavily Marxist influenced agenda & values, is certainly relevant. Moreover, I really believe that he is deliberately trying to copy Hitler's crowd manipulation techniques: Example, adjourning the Convention that nominated him to make his acceptance speech in a huge stadium, where the sense of being part of a huge mass movement would be maximized. (This is not mere coincidence.)

Example, where did Obama go immediately after his 2008 election victory? He rushed over to Berlin to address a huge crowd in a public area. Why Berlin, why the huge gathering? Was this not an effort to measure his drawing power against another famous crowd manipulator? Again, why Berlin, of all major cities on earth for a candidate who like the model, was fond of having an idolatrous crowd chant in unison at his direction--over & over again in the campaign.

William Flax