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As we head into the 2008 presidential election, what should America learn from 1939 Germany?

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"He intentionally broadened his appeal because it was necessary...His chief assets were his speech making ability and a keen sense of what the people wanted to hear...amid the economic pressures...the...democratic government was beginning to unravel...The crisis...brought disunity to the political parties.. Instead of forging an alliance to enact desperately need legislation, they broke up into squabbling, uncompromising groups...

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The...people were tired of the political haggling...They were tired of misery, tired of suffering, tired of weakness. These were desperate times and they were willing to listen to anyone, even...

Update 3:

JV -- very, very thoughtful answer. However, even Satan is in the market to sell empty hope to the vulnerable.

Update 4:

Obama is a dangerous combination of neuveaux-riche cultural elitism, fashionable politicking, and a Foucaultian panoptic fascism.

Update 5:

Greg -- bad choice of words. My intent is obvious. FYI- from The American Heritage® Dictionary, 4th ed. "disingenuous: 1. Not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating. 2. Pretending to be unaware or unsophisticated; faux-naïf.

Update 6:

Just for the record, Bruno -- major leap putting words in my mouth. Obama is the *last* person I would want taking care of the servicemen and women.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Look at Obama- he is a cult of personality type. he is a Marxists, everything he is doing, hit rewind, Hitler was doing the same thing- talking but not saying anything

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Yes, McCain is promoting war and a fantasy land ending. We have to rise above the institutional war mongering of the Republican elite and the continuous flow of "this war will be over on two weeks" all the way to the pixie dust speeches of a very silly old McCain.

    You are right in that Obama speaks to the people of America and will do his utmost to bring our troops home and take care of the vets that need subsequent care.

    Obama '08

  • 1 decade ago

    Don't vote for Obama. Look at all the hate filled people he surrounds himself with, including known terrorists.

  • 1 decade ago

    I think its good to know history because as history buffs know, "those who forget history are doomed to repeat it". I appreciate your skeptic viewpoint and there is some reason for concerns because you can yell " change, change" but tell us change us to what? And how will you change things?

    I hope that Obama will be a change for the better not for the worst! Because if its worst than these times that Bush brought us then we are heading for a depression not a recession!

    We have reasons too be pessimistic. Not because Obama is another Hitler but someone with great vision. More like Lincoln and Kennedy types. And there are evil elements in this country who think they have a right to kill anyone who has a better vision for America. Those "hope killers" always come from the conservative sector of government. Radical right wingers who destroy hope by killing hope and destroying all of our American Dream for a better tomorrow.

    So I don't think Obama has the forceful Charisma of a Hitler but the hope of a Kennedy. And if they do to him what they did to Kennedy all bets are off. I think this time it will result in civil war. Middle and Lower class verses the upper class. That is why Bush who is a privledge pawn of the upper class has passed laws to make anyone who revolts like the the early revolutionary war factions of 1776 would be declared a terrorist and quickly put in prison.

    Yes that is to say under the laws that they passed the elite class is looking to nip in the bud the revolutionaries by declaring them terrorist before they can act on behalf of the commom man or woman of this great country of ours. Yes its true. There is a movement in this country for the eliite class to put a wider gap between the haves and haves nots! Wake up before its too late!!!! God Bless and watch over Barack Obama and all those who intend to bring us Hope because hope is a gift from God not from the devil who is anti hope!

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  • Erika
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    5 years ago

    no could desire to pay too lots interest genuine now. The nonsense has been happening too long and is incomprehensible with all the "wannabes" in there. The debates are a shaggy dog tale, the questions are sophomoric, the solutions are sound bites. The run for president won't get into equipment till all those idiotic, egotistical and non-available applicants drop out and go the heck homestead. not one of the severe applicants are going to talk their time table this early interior the campaign with all the nitwits working. genuine now this is basically an factor tutor. sure, there are 2 applicants who i think could make dazzling leaders....yet, returned, this is too early to choose. i will wait till the sphere is narrowed all the way down to those that stand of undertaking and hear what they could desire to declare approximately genuine subject concerns.... Who? nicely, basically enable me say, it is going to be a protracted time in the previous a Republican will sit down interior the Oval workplace. George Bush is the straw that broke the camels returned. The worst and maximum corrupt administrations of the previous 25 years have all been Republicans; Nixon, Reagan and the present fool. The Republicans have decrease their own throats. in the previous you bounce, word that i'm quite an self reliant voter. I owe no loyalty to any social gathering and have voted for the two events in my sixty seven years at one time or yet another. Frankly, all of us who takes workplace is going to have a tricky activity cleansing up Bush's mess...it is going to take a protracted time....and extra than a number of alternative annoying paintings by utilising the hot administration and by utilising we, the individuals. We sat on our butts and enable that madman wreck our usa.... we are able to pay the cost for it for generations.

  • 1 decade ago

    We have learned that Obama is starting out like Hitler did with threatening America if he isn't elected and he's trying to take our rights away from us such as out guns.

  • 1 decade ago

    Charisma goes a long way. Get elected by saying what the people want to hear. Lots of talk of change. Disarm the populous. Dumb them down, and Viola....

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Have the election FIRST, then put the winner into power.

    Germany got this a bit the wrong way round in 1933, allowing Hitler to rig the vote. America may have made the same mistake in 2000.

    Source(s): Everyone who's comparing Obama to Hitler for his empty rhetoric; compare and contrast: "My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success. They imagined me going to the best schools in the land, even though they weren't rich, because in a generous America you don't have to be rich to achieve your potential." "Providence shows no mercy to weak nations, but recognizes the right of existence-only of sound and strong nations. This Jewish bolshevist annihilation of nations and its western European and American procurers can be met only in one way: by using every ounce of strength with the extreme fanaticism and stubborn steadfastness that merciful God gives to men in hard times for the defense of their own lives."
  • 1 decade ago

    Don't support communists or dictators like Brrack Obama who seems to be more like a Vladamir Lenin or Karl Marx.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Learn that there is no comparison at all.

    Move forward and quit looking back.

    McCain 2008

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