Posted on 08/31/2009 2:51:23 PM PDT by Jerrybob
I agree. I wish I could say that it was hooey but I am afraid he is right. The only good thing in the article was it at least gave us time to change course in 2010??
Chilling is right, this was not an article to just skim over.
This has been posted and reposted many times over the last 10-12 months. I can’t remember if I’ve seen it attributed to David Kaiser before. Usually it’s just some initials and a link to some internet forum.
Good read though.
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Winter setting in
[Note to new readers: if you have found this blog after receiving an email that begins, "Something of historic proportions is happening--falsely attributed to me--please read the post below this one first. Thank you.] [a note from the real David Kaiser]
That President Obama now faces the greatest challenges of any President since FDR or Lincoln is becoming generally acknowledged. Within another year, I predict, it will have become clear that he actually has more to deal with than either of them did--at least with respect to the range of problems he must try to solve. Although Lincoln had to fight put down a huge domestic rebellion, he did not at the same time face an economic crisis or a foreign war...
One of the many threads.
From last November.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2131797/posts
I'm fairly sure that Obama and his thugs will have the elections rigged in time to turn back any and all opposition. They are tying the nooses now for our necks.
Remember, obama's too big to fail.
However, Hitler continued to rise in popularity after he was elected, not go into free-fall like Obama. There was no anti-nazi movement like the Tea Party’s, and the German citizens were easily disarmed shortly after the election. We still have ours and there would be bigtime hell to pay if they tried to take them away.
We can stop this nonesense. Whether we do or not remains to be seen.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to (have their citizens suffer and) repeat it."
George Santayana
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Life in the Blogosphere
During the past seven days this blog has had about 1100 hits, which may be a record. I do hope some of my new patrons will return, but the reason for the outburst of interest is quite ironic: the fraudulent attribution to myself of a piece of right-wing hysteria which continues to circulate around the net. Snopes.com, a site which specializes in exposing fraud, published this almost immediately when I called it to their attention, and during the past ten days 168 hits on historyunfolding.com have come from there. They have traced it to an anonymous comment on a right wing blog last November. It has been misattributed to a couple of other people since then. In addition, another David Kaiser--a scientist at a well-known university--is receiving an average of about one piece of fan mail a day from around the world, praising his perspicacity. (His university publishes his email address on its web site; mine does not.) We have been in touch, and he has a form letter which he uses to reply, making it clear that 1) he isn't the David Kaiser they are looking for and 2) that the David Kaiser they are looking for didn't write it, either. I have queried at least half a dozen of his and my "fans" asking them who sent the article to them, in an effort to start tracing the fraud back to its source, but that seems to be a fruitless endeavor--only a couple have replied and in both cases the trail immediately went cold.
I suppose it's another indication of the world that we are living in that, after a remarkably steady readership of about 800 readers a week for the last few years, the hits could have increased by about 40% thanks to my association with right-wing paranoia. (The full text is available, among many other places, here. This has not actually disturbed me very much. Perhaps because I have taken so much heat for things I actually did say, especially over the last year, I am merely amused by the interest in something that I did not say. But this piece of anti-Obama lunacy--so similar to much of what circulated in the 1930s about FDR, and probably to things written about Lincoln as well--has resonated among a measurable segment of the population, it seems, in a way that the kind of commentary that appears here every week does not. I should not be surprised. Crisis eras bring crazies out of the woodwork. So far we, unlike the French in the 1790s or the Germans in the 1930s, have been able to avoid having them in charge--may it continue to be so. Now, back to work.
BTTT
It appears that the real David Kaiser’s views are diametrically opposed to those in the piece falsely attributed to him...so who really wrote that piece?
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Regardless of who the author is -- the essay is factual and IS one of the most chilling things I've read in a long time.
We need to spread articles like this far and wide to reach as many people as possible.
Our own “LS” is also a top-notch historian, writer, and thinker. He is co-author of “A Patriot's History of the United States,” which I recommend highly to anyone who wants a thorough, detailed analysis of US History that is not tainted with revisionism and anti-American bias.
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As far as we know, this piece began as a comment posted to Pat Dollard's blog in November 2008 by an author identified only as "TPS."
From here at Snopes
Oh really...
Thanks for the head’s up on this.
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*It appears that the real David Kaiser’s views are diametrically opposed to those in the piece falsely attributed to him...so who really wrote that piece?*
Whoever wrote the piece was sloppy. S/he claims to be a professor but thinks Hitler was elected to an office, which he wasn’t, ever.
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