Posted on 02/23/2008 3:09:08 PM PST by blam
I think this is all phoney stuff made up to generate buzz. Bill Clinton was/is a great speaker. I remember feeling fear when I first heard him because he seemed so formidable. When I see/hear Obama I just laugh at this nobody pretending to be somebody. Looks matter and people have to imagine the person looking presidential sitting in the Oval Office. For the life of me I can’t imagine skinny little Obama sitting behind that big desk.
"there is something disturbing about the adulation with which the senator and Democratic presidential frontrunner is greeted as he campaigns for the White House - unnervingly akin to the hysteria of a cult"
The phenomenon is similar to when kids and young people were attracted to cults and gurus in the 1960s and '70s.
Don’t drink the orange drink...whatever you do!!! When is halebop coming around for another pass?
reminds me of the 1938 Nuremberg Rally.
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I’m sure some of his people are probably working on it. Hillary supporters and soon McCain supporters might be a bit cautious. I wouldn’t want to be on any lists this year. His campaign could be ripe for brown shirt type takeover.
I actually like what he is saying here. The implication is that we all have to get busy if we expect things to be different. This is fairly refreshing when you consider especially Jackson and Sharpton complaining about how their constituency has been victimized and needs government programs to solve their problems. Of course, that's my interpretation...maybe liberals will figure it just means that they have to vote to make sure the achievers pay up.
Yep complete wit anti-Semitic language from that time too.
Google “Is Barrack Obama the Messiah?” Follow the link. It’s the first picture.
Unholy crap! He really said that?
Yep, all we need now is virgins flinging themselves to their demise off of the balconies at Obama’s bidding.
Prophecy in puns?
Here’s one of those discussions of Stalin’s “Cult of Personality”: http://www.historyguide.org/europe/cult.html
LOL!
Did you notice that Obama frequently raises one of his hands in a guru like gesture? It’s an old magician’s trick, distract with one hand while you reach into the taxpayer’s pocket to steal their hard earned dollars.
To see into the looking glass on Obama?
The Progressive Party Platform, 1948
(snip)
(The Betrayal by the Old Parties)
They refuse social security protection to millions and allow only meager benefits to the rest. They block national health legislation even though millions of men, women, and children are without adequate medical care. They foster the concentration of private economic power. They replace progressive government officials, the supporters of Franklin Roosevelt, with spokesmen of Big Business. They pass tax legislation for the greedy, giving only insignificant reductions to the needy. These are the acts of the old parties-acts profaning the American dream of abundance. No glittering party platforms or election promises of the Democratic and Republican parties can hide their betrayal of the needs of the American people. Nor can they act otherwise. For both parties, as the record of the 80th Congress makes clear, are the champions of Big Business.
The Republican platform admits it.
The Democratic platform attempts to conceal it. But the very composition of the Democratic leadership exposes the demogogy of its platform. It is a party of machine politicians and Southern Bourbons who veto in Congress the liberal planks “won” in convention. Such platforms, conceived in hypocrisy and lack of principle, deserve nothing but contempt.
Principles of the Progressive Party
The Progressive Party is born in the deep conviction that the national wealth and natural resources of our country belong to the people who inhabit it and must be employed in their behalf; that freedom and opportunity must be secured equally to all; that the brotherhood of man can be achieved and scourge of war ended. The Progressive Party holds that basic to the organization of world peace is a return to the purposes of Franklin Roosevelt to seek areas of international agreement rather than disagreement. It was his conviction that within the framework of the United Nations different social and economic systems can and must live together. If peace is to be achieved capitalist United States and Communist Russia must establish good relations and work together. The Progressive Party holds that it is the first duty of just government to secure for all the people, regardless of race, creed, color, sex, national background, political belief, or station in life, the inalienable rights proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence and guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. The government must actively protect these rights against the encroachments of public and private agencies. The Progressive Party holds that a just government must use its powers to promote an abundant life for its people. This is the basic idea of Franklin Roosevelt’s Economic Bill of Rights. Heretofore every attempt to give effect to this principle has failed because Big Business dominates the key sectors of the economy. Antitrust laws and government regulation cannot break this domination. Therefore the people, through their democratically elected representatives, must take control of the main levers of the economic system. Public ownership of these levers will enable the people to plan the use of their productive resources so as to develop the limitless potential of modem technology and to create a true American Commonwealth free from poverty and insecurity. The Progressive Party believes that only through peaceful understanding can the world make progress toward reconstruction and higher standards of living; that peace is the essential condition for safe-guarding and extending our traditional freedoms; that only by preserving liberty and by planning an abundant life for all can we eliminate the sources of world conflict. Peace, freedom, and abundance - the goals of the Progressive Party - are indivisible. Only the Progressive Party can destroy the power of private monopoly and restore the government to the American people. For ours is a party uncorrupted by privilege, committed to no special interests, free from machine control, and open to all Americans of all races, colors, and creeds. The Progressive Party is a party of action. We seek through the democratic process and through day-by-day activity to lead the American people toward the fulfillment of these principles.
Communists and their close allies wrote most of the Progressive Party platform of 1948. These individuals were not a majority of the platform committee, but enough non-Communists agreed with some parts of the party line to allow the Communists to dominate the proceedings. Lee Pressman, who earlier in 1948 had been eased from his position in the CIO national office because of his Communist sympathies, directed the writing of the first or “New York” draft of the platform. University of Chicago’s Rexford G. Tugwell, chairman of the platform committee, quietly withdrew from party activity before the election as he came to realize that the Progressive movement was Communist-controlled.
Kirk H. Porter and Donald B. Johnson, compilers, National Party Platforms, 1840-1956 (Urbana, Ill., 1956) pp. 436-437.
http://www.democracyforwashington.com/civicspace-0.5/?q=progressiveplatform1948
Also see: http://www.democracyforwashington.com/
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One little commie went to market, One little commie stayed home,
One little commie had roast beef, One little commie had none;
and one little commie went wee wee wee all the way home.
This is getting very weird if you ask me...
Makes me almost root for Hillary!
In your father's time, it was also found in the middle of Europe.
reporter said he was joking
Better.
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