This is the most secretive and deceitful administration in history.
Bush/Cheney published their plans of what they were going to do in 1997.
It's not their fault if the American public couldn't be bothered to read them or were too dumb to understand the terrible consequences of their proposed actions and voted for it.
Obama ran on a message of change in 2008 when his specific agenda has always been to continue exactly the same policies of the previous regime and extend them.
But to be much smarter with the PR.
Bush had a 34% approval rating when he left office.
Heck there are no anti war protests, no civil liberties marches, no protests about stealing $2tn a year from the 99% and handing it out to rich elites.
At least there were some complaints about Bush.
Barack Obama has been very successful in what he set out to do.
(Maybe the censors on Huffington Post were asleep when I wrote this comment in the middle of the night. It got published. Maybe it will get removed later.)
Comment number 2 (being censored on Huffington Post)
Americans don't want to have to try and think.
They don't want to think about the merits or otherwise of specific policies or proposals or agendas.
The vast majority of Americans much prefer to join in with the game the Oligarchs have set up for them.
Partisan politics and cheap shots over trivialities and social policy when the core policies of the leaders of both parties are exactly the same.
The core policies are :-
Continue to steal $2tn a year from the 99% and hand it out to rich elites.
Make the rich elites above the Rule of Law so that they can get away with pretty much any white collar crime they choose to commit, without penalty.
Take away the civil liberties of the 99% and expand the Police State, through perpetual war.
The execs of Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan couldn't care less about abortion or Gay Rights as long as they continue to get a large chunk of the $2tn being stolen each year from the 99%.
My comments were in response to this article :-
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/21/strategy-seeks-to-ensure-_n_2730248.html
I made several other comments as well :-
There would be screaming outrage from the left if a Republican President had tried to do even half of the things that Obama has gotten away with.
That is why Ben Bernanke specifically endorsed Obama by announcing QE3 prior to the election and NOT after it.
The Neocons behind the scenes and the Corporatists much prefer to have Obama in the WH.
He can get much more done for them.
He is much better at boiling frogs.
You wrote: Ordinary Americans of today have much in common with ordinary Germans in the 1930's.
26 minutes agomyconoclast
There was a similar cult of personality around the socialist candidate in Germany during that time.
20 minutes agoDont-treadonme
“How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think”
A quote from a dictator around that same time.
A quote from a dictator around that same time.
21 minutes agoTristman
"The great masses of people will more easily fall victim to a big lie, than to a small one."
A.Hitler
A.Hitler
Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.
Hermann Goering
That he who would reform the Institutions of a free State, must retain at least the semblance of old Ways.
Whoever takes upon him to reform the government of a city, must, if his measures are to be well received and carried out with general approval, preserve at least the semblance of existing methods, so as not to appear to the people to have made any change in the old order of things; although, in truth, the new ordinances differ altogether from those which they replace. For when this is attended to, the mass of mankind accept what seems as what is; nay, are often touched more nearly by appearances than by realities.
Niccolo Macchiavelli
Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. "And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. "How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar." -- Julius Caesar
The tactics in use today are as old as the hills. (This comment censored by Huffington Post.)
Why do so many Dems still support and offer excuses for Obama's Neocon Fascist agenda? (This comment censored by Huffington Post.)
http://ian56.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/why-do-so-many-dems-continue-to-support.html
John Brennan is an out and out Neocon.
He should never have been part of Obama's administration - let alone his senior security advisor or nominated for CIA director with his own fleet of drones.
Brennan is counter productive to American interests.
Except to the interests of the big banks and the execs of the arms companies.
If the Chinese could pick someone as CIA Director to work for their interests - they would pick Brennan.
The Chinese have risen greatly in relative power over the last 15 years.
In this they have been GREATLY assisted by the American government.
The American government continues to act in the interests of the Chinese Communist Party and not in the interests of the American people.
America has suffered a great decline in relative power since 2001 and a great loss of wealth for 99% of it's people.
It was obvious that the Neocon and Corporate agenda in place since that time would lead to a decline in America's power and the wealth of the vast majority of Americans - I said so at the time.
If John Brennan gets to be CIA Director it will not only continue America's current strategic path of a decline in relative power and loss of wealth - it will make things even worse.
Yep.
Obama is much smarter at lying than Bush or Cheney ever were.
That is what makes him so dangerous.
If the above were not enough he has set about WRECKING the US economy - just like Bush/Cheney did.
http://ian56.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/how-government-and-federal-reserve-are.html
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