Posted on 01/18/2009 6:44:00 AM PST by chessplayer
CNN’s Saturday filled with following Barack Obama’s train trip to the Inauguration was also filled with Obama praise. At one juncture, CNN couldn’t help but metaphorically merge Barack Obama with the exhilarating news of the US Airways pilot who landed his plane in the Hudson River without losing a single passenger.
A few minutes after 2 pm Eastern time, anchorman Wolf Blitzer recalled "Soledad [O’Brien] and I were talking about this earlier and she was saying metaphorically in some ways, the pilot of that airplane is very much like Barack Obama -- that he got the plane down safely, but everybody else had to join together to get out of the plane and pull together to get through that adversity. I thought that was an interesting metaphor.
FUBO!
The main stream media will see that it does not happen.
I won't be watching any of their tripe.
There have been twice as many men elected president in this still new century as there have been pilots successfully ditching a large passenger aircraft. If you extend the timeline back you find that Captain “Sully” is an even rarer man. Sully had one chance to get it right with the alternative being total disaster. A failed landing could not have been spun by fawning media as the upcoming failures of Obamunism will be.
We've now got OCD syndrome.
Obama Comparison Derangement Syndrome.
Please may this media whore give us a break!
Soledad has purchased a whole shipment of Obama kneepads.
The passengers pulled together as guided by a well-designed evacuation process. The Obamunists will be making it up as they go along.
“An obama picture will be required for each house, every state will be obama state, every city and town will be obama city or town. Every county will be obama county. There will be a period of at least four hours set aside each day for the worship of obama.”
“Stalin’s Terror
Summary
The most famous aspect of Stalin’s Russia was the Terror. This grew from his paranoia and his desire to be absolute autocrat, and was enforced via the NKVD and public ‘show trials’. It developed into a centrally-enforced ‘cult of Stalin-worship’, and a terrifying system of labour camps - ‘the gulag’.
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Reasons for the Terror
(Why Unnecessary Purges?)
1. Whole Country
Stalin believed that Russia had to be united – with him as leader – if it was to be strong.
2. Urgency
Stalin believed Russia had 10 years to catch up with the western world before Germany invaded.
3. Paranoia
Stalin became increasingly paranoid (seeing plots everywhere) and power-mad (he demanded continuous praise and applause). In 1935, his wife killed herself.
The Apparatus of Terror
(Stalin Takes Total Control)
1. Secret Police
The CHEKA became the OGPU (1922), then the NKVD (1934).
2. The First Purges, 1930–33
Including anybody who opposed industrialisation, and the kulaks who opposed collectivisation.
3. The Great Purges, 1934–39
Political Opponents
1934: Kirov, a rival to Stalin, was murdered. Although he probably ordered the assassination, Stalin used it as a chance to arrest thousands of his opponents.
1934–1939, Stalin’s political opponents were put on ‘Show trials’, where they pleaded guilty to impossible charges of treason (e.g. Zinoviev and Kamenev 1936/ Bukharin, Tomsky & Rykov 1938).
The Army
In 1937, the Commander-in-Chief of the Red Army and 7 leading generals were shot. In 1938–39, all the admirals and half the Army’s officers were executed or imprisoned.
The Church
Religious leaders imprisoned; churches closed down.
Ethnic groups
Stalin enforced ‘Russification’ of all the Soviet Union.
Ordinary people
Were denounced/ arrested/ sent to the Gulag (the system of labour camps). 20 million Russians were sent to the camps, where perhaps half of them died. People lived in fear. ‘Apparatchiks’ (party members loyal to Stalin) got all the new flats, jobs, holidays etc.
4. Cult of Stalin
Censorship of anything that might reflect badly on Stalin
Propaganda everywhere - pictures, statues, continuous praise and applause
Places named after him
Mothers taught their children that Stalin was ‘the wisest man of the age’
History books and photographs were changed to make him the hero of the Revolution, and obliterate the names of purged people (e.g. Trotsky).”
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http://www.johndclare.net/Russ12.htm
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OOPS! Posted to the wrong thread. Sorry. (/sarc)
The media are CORRUPT.
Was to several stores yesterday, and they actually have Obama posters.
Along those lines, one of my many jobs is servicing collectible cards at Wal-Mart. What to my wondering eyes should appear as I opened the new product boxes on Friday, but the Inaugural Special Edition 2009 box of President OBAMA collector cards. I then had to be PC careful where I placed the price label. The normal spot would have covered his face. I chose to be respectful of the office.
The box did say President. So much for one President at a time.
You are right, even Bush was part of the plan. I have been reading Joel Rosenberg.
More like the Captain of the Titanic. Although as Obama crashes the country I doubt if he will make a smooth landing and we passengers will all survive.
“Same thing with Peggy Noonan this morning. She was still basking in the afterglow of her intimate dinner with THE ONE. She practically had the vapors.”
I bet she got all tingly being in the same room as Odumbo.
“And all they did was go on about African Americans, excuse me, was this election about race?”
Very much so.
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