Posted on 02/12/2009 3:38:19 PM PST by fivecatsandadog
I must confess I was not impressed by Sen. Barack Obama from the first time I saw him. At first I was excited to see a black candidate. He looked youthful, spoke well, appeared to be confident – a wholesome presidential package. It is so instinctive for most people to want to see blacks succeed. It is as if all humanity is carrying a collective guilt for what the ancestors of blacks endured. However, despite my initial interest in him, I was put off soon, not just because of his shallowness but also because there was an air of haughtiness in his demeanor that was unsettling. His posture and his body language were louder than his empty words.
It is surreal to see the level of hysteria in his admirers. This phenomenon is unprecedented in American politics. Women scream and swoon during his speeches. They yell and shout to Obama, “I love you.” Never did George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt. Martin Luther King Jr. or Ronald Reagan arouse so much raw emotion. Despite their achievements, none of them was raised to the rank of Messiah. The Illinois senator has no history of service to the country. He has done nothing outstanding except giving promises of change and hyping his audience with hope. It’s only his words, not his achievements that is causing this much uproar. When cheering for someone turns into adulation, something is wrong. Excessive adulation is indicative of a personality cult. The cult of personality is often created when the general population is discontent. A charismatic leader can seize the opportunity ......
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He’s starting to remind me of Roman Emperor Commodus.
“Yes We Can”= a call for class warfare.
Those mindless drones you see at his rallies have joined the cause.
What will happen in two years when Barry says he decided to go back to his roots and worship islam? Then we’ll see some fun.
He actually reminds me of a commode.
Perfect!
“Hand in hand with this we must frankly recognize the overbalance of population in our industrial centers and, by engaging on a national scale in a redistribution, endeavor to provide a better use of the land for those best fitted for the land. The task can be helped by definite efforts to raise the values of agricultural products and with this the power to purchase the output of our cities. It can be helped by preventing realistically the tragedy of the growing loss through foreclosure of our small homes and our farms. It can be helped by insistence that the Federal, State, and local governments act forthwith on the demand that their cost be drastically reduced. It can be helped by the unifying of relief activities which today are often scattered, uneconomical, and unequal. It can be helped by national planning for and supervision of all forms of transportation and of communications and other utilities which have a definitely public character. There are many ways in which it can be helped, but it can never be helped merely by talking about it. We must act and act quickly.”
The failures of history are repeating itself. We are doomed.
He's studied fascist leaders for sure. The one thing that I can say for obama, he's a good poser.
More likely “The Making of a Mogabe”.
In the office where I work, everyone was gathered in the conference room watching the inauguration ceremony that morning. The cameras were on Obama as he walked through the corridor toward the platform, and some of my co-workers (and O-bots) said “he looks nervous”, and I thought NOPE! I didn’t dare say it out loud but I thought he looked defiant and snobbish. That nose in the air look of his. Criminy. I hate to think it, but we could be watching the beginnings of our country coming undone. With the economy taking a dump, the timing is “perfect” for someone like him to take over. Scary stuff, I think.
I’m disgusted to see that there are so many idiots in this country who are dumb enough to worship this fraud. All this worship makes you think he has a past full of great achievements but Berry has none. The worship of such an egotistical empty suit can only mean his congregation is made up of degenerate liberals.
A little about Commodus
http://www.roman-empire.net/highpoint/commodus.html
If Commodus merely had not lived up to the gruelingly high standards of his father, the world would have most likely forgiven him. But rather than just failing to be a brilliant emperor, Commodus was in fact a terrible one. Cruelty, vanity, power and fear formed into a terrifyingly dangerous mix of bloodlust, suspicion and megalomania. Commodus should be remembered as a monster, a tyrant who renamed months in his own honour, and who slaughtered his way through the circuses in ludicrous displays of ‘manliness’.
Despite his initial promises to the army to continue Marcus Aurelius’ attempts of expanding the empire into the territories conquered from the Quadi and Marcomanni, Commodus soon after surrendered all his father had achieved in his wars.
Indeed, Commodus’ thoughts that to annex these new territories might have been beyond the capabilities of Rome, could well have been correct. And had emperor Hadrian not relinquished some of the gains of his predecessor Trajan ? But Commodus was no Hadrian and the army knew it. Commodus’ retreat from those so direly contested territories was understood as an utter betrayal of everything the beloved Marcus Aurelius had stood for.
“...those best fitted for the land...”
A great tragedy of agriculture is the fact that people become slaves to the land. So often, a man with all kinds of talents OTHER than farming, and no love for farming, is forced to spend his life on a farm simply because his entire family history and fortune is tied up in the land.
I’m all for agribusiness. Let those who love to farm do so. If a man’s son hates farming, he can do something else. If the son’s son wants to farm, let him do so.
ping
Criminals usually face justice at some point.
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