What a nice thing that's happening in our country. The children are showing their admiration for our president. Maybe they are getting a little encouragement. Maybe.

That was then:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIyF3B1_0bk

This is now:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aqMTD5UFmU

We must be patient. The transformantion back then had been in progress for a while. Now, the fundamental transformation of America has just begun. Give it time.

 

I don't have a link to the article (it was from a couple of months ago), but it was a Holocaust survivor comparing what has been going on with our government over the last 6 or 7 years. He was saying he saw many parallels with the power grab by the 3rd Reich in Germany.

 

My Father was born in Berlin during WWII and is a history major (U,VA) and a retired Major, US Army, who has spent a lot of his time studying German war history. He makes that claim as well.

 

Just curious not to insult, how come your father never went past O4 ?

 

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I think government already controls too much as it is

 

The first part of the childrens song to Obama does sound like something you would march to.

 

I think this is the article ...

> Does anyone still remember the time when
> representatives and senators would
> return to their districts or states to explain to their
> constituents why they
> voted “yeah” or “nay” on a particular measure -
> especially one of this debacle
> was passed in the House today?
>
> I think that the notion of a “Republic” - a
> government that serves the
> “will of the people” will now become but a fading
> memory. An interesting
> anecdote to be shared on a dark night around a fire
> (electricity having become
> one of those quaint - but no longer affordable luxuries of
> the past) I want to
> share with you this quote:
>
> "Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so
> well explained or, on
> occasion, 'regretted,' that unless one understood
> what the whole thing was in
> principle, what all these 'little measures'...must
> some day lead to, one no more
> saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his
> field sees the corn
> growing.....Each act is worse than the last, but only a
> little worse. You wait
> for the next and the next. You have accepted things you
> would not have accepted
> five years ago, a year ago, things your father...could
> never have imagined."
>
>
> Some feeling expressed by a saddened
> Conservative?? Not at all. It is
> a quote from Milton Mayer’s “They Thought They
> Were Free” -
> Written in 1951 (published in 1955) - Mayer
> interviewed ordinary German
> citizens right after the war and talked with them about how
> and why "decent men"
> became *****. It is still available, by the way and
> here is a link to the
> University of Chicago Press where you’ll find a full
> length excerpt.
>
> http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.html
>
> END QUOTE
>
> The linked excerpt is short and well worth reading;
> some of the parallels
> with America in 2009 are chilling.

 

That erie sound in the background and those brainwashed kids mad me close out... really creepy... what is this country coming to?

 

wow i just watched the obama video, im sick to my stomach. We never did brainwashing crap like this in school when i went through, and im only 23.........

 

He was in the Army reserves. He tried to get back in for the Iraq war, too old. I don't really know all the exact details.