He recognized all the ploys, the propaganda, the code words, the promises as the road to tyranny, because he had seen them all and lived through them all before.
Many of us see it, but we know there is a portion of the american electorate out there that doesn’t see it at all.
Hearing the vehemence in his voice greatly disturbed me.
Ping to you, ottbmare. You posted once about some woman of your acquaintance, also an immigrant from Eastern Europe and a new American citizen, supposedly an educated woman, who (inexplicably) has expressed a desire to vote for BO. Do I remember correctly?
Buckeye McFrog: I've met someone with similar background who knew the old Soviet Union all too well and didn't want to return to those ways.
Let me correct what I said about that Eastern European woman. Her English is perfectly awful and I find it hard to understand, but with time I’ve come to comprehend more. It was quite interesting!
The other night, I said, “Obama is a communist.”
She replied, “Yes, communist. Yes, Muslim. But not important, eh? He only one percent of problem. Men behind him, they do all. They very strong. They do—” (she swept her hand around to indicate the whole region, or everything) “all this, they do. Very bad, yes?”
She speaks fluent Russian. Hates the Russians and all their doings. Hates communism. She will not be voting for Obama in this, her first US election. She apparently believes, as many conservatives do, that Obama is an agent for larger interests.