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"I'm Not a Quitter": Obama and the Banality of Evil
University of Cincinnati - Nation, Family, State: Women's Political Writings ^ | 1966 | Hannah Arendt: Chapter 11, The Origins of Totalitarianism

Posted on 01/30/2010 3:41:19 PM PST by qwertyz

Page 349:

"The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. The assumption of infallibility, moreover, is based not so much on superior intelligence as on the correct interpretation of the essentially reliable forces in history or nature, forces which neither defeat nor ruin can prove wrong because they are bound to assert themselves in the long run. Mass leaders in power have one concern which overrules all utilitarian considerations: to make their predictions come true."


TOPICS: Moral Issues; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: infallibility; obama; quitter
So when Obama says "I'm not a quitter," Arendt would caution us to ponder deeply whether that's a virtue or vice.
1 posted on 01/30/2010 3:41:19 PM PST by qwertyz
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To: qwertyz

Bring it on Zero. America is stronger than you, you cowardly twerp.


2 posted on 01/30/2010 3:42:41 PM PST by Northern Yankee (Where Liberty dwells, there is my Country. - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: qwertyz

In what context did Obama say this? My guess: He was asked, “have you stopped hating America?”


3 posted on 01/30/2010 3:46:25 PM PST by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: qwertyz

“I’m Not a Quitter”

Well.. we can always hope..


4 posted on 01/30/2010 3:51:17 PM PST by maddog55 (OBAMA, Why stupid people shouldn't vote.)
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To: Northern Yankee

“America is stronger than you’’. Damn right it is! I’ve been saying it’s high time this Marxist punk was run out of office. No man is above the law or above the Constitution, not Richard Nixon and certainly not this two-bit Mussolini. I’m fed up with this arrogant m’fer and his imperious “I won’’ attitude! F hi!. We don’t have dictators in America and THIS PUTZ HAS TO GO! NOW!!.


5 posted on 01/30/2010 4:00:24 PM PST by John-Irish ("Shame of him who thinks of it''.)
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To: Pollster1
Near the end of the State of the Union:

"We have finished a difficult year. We don't quit. I don't quit. Let's seize this moment to start anew, to carry the dream forward and to strengthen our union once more."

I believe he also tested the theme at Lorain County Community College in Ohio on Jan. 22.

6 posted on 01/30/2010 4:25:01 PM PST by qwertyz
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To: qwertyz

“So when Obama says “I’m not a quitter,” Arendt would caution us to ponder deeply whether that’s a virtue or vice.”

I think he’s betraying the fact he’s thinking about quitting. This guy is driving with white knuckles.


7 posted on 01/30/2010 4:26:57 PM PST by CalvaryJohn (What is keeping that damned asteroid?)
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To: Northern Yankee

The Kenyan Usurper is America’s Allende — a leftist thug emboldened and empowered by a vast leftist infrastructure in the form of unionists, Marxist academics and artists and “intellectuals” devoted to the cause of “social justice.”

We need to work hard to elect REAL conservatives or we could be headed down a dark path. If we fail at the ballot box, then,it will get ugly.

Before this is all over, we may need an American version of Pinochet — a patriot willing to do what is necessary to dismantle all parts of the treasonous superstructure and take the country down the road of free-market economics.

OF COURSE, I am not ready to advocate that YET. I hope things never, never get that far. But if that’s where the traitors take us, then we should not be afraid to act.


8 posted on 01/30/2010 7:09:35 PM PST by USALiberty
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To: qwertyz

Not much of a starter either.


9 posted on 01/31/2010 8:04:20 AM PST by onedoug
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