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August 10, 2008

Michelle Obama In Nazi-speak

Topics: Political News and commentaries

For those who found the video in this caption contest interesting (which is near "captionless" since at the time of this writing only one reader participated), this piece by Jim Geraghty at NRO is along the same line of thought. I stumbled upon it this morning while working up a post on another topic. It's not news now, but nonetheless sounds to me a bit of a harbinger of an Obama presidency, should America be saddled with such a disaster: "Barack Will Never Allow You to Go Back to Your Lives as Usual."

Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.

As Geraghty asked, "Does anybody on the left side of the aisle find this rhetoric a little creepy? Isn't this describing an authoritarian presidency way beyond anything George W. Bush has done or proposed? Do the powers of the presidency really encompass everything Michelle says Obama wants and plans to do? Based on this rhetoric, isn't he actually running for messiah?

In an update to his piece, Geraghty quoted a great line from a reader: "That tingle going up Chris Matthews' leg is a shiver going down my spine." It indeed should send a shiver down the spine of every American.

So our take home question of the day girls and boys is how would you categorize Team Obama's agenda - facist or Marxist?

Posted by Richard at August 10, 2008 12:41 PM

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