Posted on 05/29/2003 12:22:42 PM PDT by doing my share
While I find those images on the Internet of a blunt little mustache digitally-scribbled onto President Bush's upper lip feeble and unhelpful,
Ah! qualifying yourself as a "moderate" liberal I see!
still, there are parts of Bush's character and behavior that strikingly resemble at least one major biographer's interpretation of Hitler.
Yes, yes, yes, all dark-haired white males who like blondes, chocolate, puppies, and big toys are strikingly similar to Hitler.
Ian Kershaw's two-volume life of Hitler puts great emphasis on his being a driving high-stakes gambler - with innate, animal-cunning about human psychology, few gifts of statesmanship or strategy,
Hitler had FEW gifts of statesmanship and strategy? He rallied an impoverished nation into a world power in less than a decade, he was beloved for it, and he came THIS close to conquering the modern world while being out-numbered 20-1. Mr Kershaw is plainly an idiot.
and little systematic learning - attributing most of his success and all of his failure to his compulsive quality.
I think Mr Kershaw is conveniently those particular traits of the German people that lent themselves to making a world power. Efficiency, quality engineering, rigid concrete-sequential thinking, belief in subservience to a greater power, etc. Mexico will never be in danger of being a world military power, because it is not in their culture.
When, for example, Bush waged his ferocious post-election pursuit of legitimacy through threats and court actions,
Threats? Ferocious? I saw Al Gore's team repeatedly begging for, and getting, recounts (NONE of which he won, while drawing the country ever-deeper into a Constitutional crisis).
finally securing appointment to office by America's Supreme Court, it resembled the way Hitler, never actually elected,
Moron. Hitler was elected to office. He just wasn't elected Chancellor.
Several observers have commented that Bush's recent stunt of flying to the deck of an aircraft carrier in order to make a televised speech might well have been copied directly from Hitler's flight to the gigantic Nuremberg rally, his plane dramatically circling in descent towards a million people gathered in barbarian tribute, his purpose being to make a filmed speech.
Name ONE world leader who has not put on such a display. ONE.
Whether Bush's crowd consciously followed the script set down by Hitler nearly seventy years ago matters less than that the thinking is so similar, with the manipulation of dramatic, militaristic props for propaganda being identical.
So all world leaders who think that PR stunts and getting the populace to rally around them is a good idea are now Hitlerian? Are you honest enough to admit that Hillary loves to hears the crowds cheer her on? Are you calling her Hitlerian, too?
Bush never goes anywhere where his stage crew has not first assembled giant flags as background. He always wears a sizeable American-flag pin on his lapel. This kind of totemic, obsessive use of flags was absolutely characteristic of Hitler.
Would you rather he wore Chinese pins, like Clinton?
Hitler was a troubled, difficult person, but there is no evidence of any genuine insanity or psychosis
NO EVIDENCE? May I ask if you are one of those who thinks the Holocaust never happened?
There is a close parallel here with Bush. Except when friends of his powerful father made attractive, low-risk, undemanding opportunities available to him, young Bush was a failure. He demonstrated no business acumen, no academic application, and he did a lot of aimless drifting, much like Hitler's time in Vienna before the First World War. There are totally unexplained periods in Bush's early adult life, an extraordinary thing for an American national public figure.
To be frank, this is far more like Clinton. He has never owned a business, let alone a large business like a pro team, he did quite a bit of drifting around draft time, and has numerous unexplained periods of life, mainly because of his own aversions to things like truth and historical accuracy (like seeing MLK speak, not inhaling, supporting racial issues, etc). Bush's youth is rather clearly delineated. His problems with alcohol (which you Leftist used as an under-handed pre-eletion day sneak attack) are not hidden from the public, unlike Hillary's thesis and Bill's medical records.
The rest of your diatribe is just as weak and pointless as the above, but I hate for Liberals to make the effort of posting here without getting a rational discussion of exactly why you are so far off-base. Have a nice day!
You know, everytime some Democratic Party opinion leader compares Bush to Hitler, it alienates a lot of people. And it has been happening more often because they are so desperate out there.
The Dems, of course, are too stupid to realize that, so convinced are they of the righteousness of their cause. It's like everyone in the liberal wing of the party took Mark Morford pills or something.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
I also remember him being portrayed as old and senile.
I guess what spurred my question was a comment that a Freeper made not too long ago. He said that "Democrats would have protested the liberation of Auschwitz if a Republican was in power". I thought that comment was insightful.
Must be tough, being a hyper-liberal like this writer. To have nothing to offer, to have no new ideas, to be irrelevant. And, to be aware of your irrelevance, as well.
He went through very similar slander. The dumb cowboy/actor, Reagonomics would bust the national budget, Social Security, Medicare...every little slip was held up for laughter ad nauseam and he was described as being warmongering imperialist. In short, all the same stuff except for the election thing. That's basically the only difference. Oh, and the left tried to float the rumor that the assassination attempt by John Hinckley Jr. was staged by the stupid, actor/cowboy cum evil, imperialist genius in order to gain public sympathy.
Here's to the Great Man, President Ronald Reagan, and the apparent successor to his legacy, President George W. Bush!
I love it when that happens.
What's taking so long? This Zotworthy thread has been up of nearly an hour.
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