Before you start throwing the word "Fascisim" around, I suggest you at least look up what it means, and how that definition affects EVERYTHING, not the least of which will be how all of us live should even a fraction of his agenda go through. As the old saying goes, there will be no point in closing the barn door once the horse is out.
Like it or not,
Obama IS a fascist, and he's already proven it with his handling of the banks and the auto industries and now he's after insurance and health care. Privately owned, but government-controlled. Don't take my word for it - find it out for yourself.
As for your statement that: "You've got to have someone to hate in Fascism, it seems," you're quite right. Examine the ethnocentric church Obama attended for 20 years:
From Newsmax.com, 1/7/08: “We are a congregation which is unashamedly black and unapologetically Christian,” says the Trinity United Church of Christ’s website in Chicago. “We are an African people and remain true to our native land, the mother continent, the cradle of civilization.”
That’s just the beginning. The church has a “non-negotiable commitment to Africa,” according to its website, and its pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. subscribes to what is called the Black Value System.
While the Black Value System includes such items as commitment to God, education, and self-discipline, it refers to “our racist competitive society” and includes the disavowal of the pursuit of “middle-classness” and a pledge of allegiance to “all black leadership who espouse and embrace the Black Value System.” It defines “middle-classness” as a way for American society to “snare” blacks rather than “killing them off directly” or “placing them in concentration camps,” just as the country structures “an economic environment that induces captive youth to fill the jails and prisons.”
In sermons and interviews, Dr. Wright has equated Zionism with racism and Israel with South Africa under its previous policy of apartheid. On the Sunday after 9/11, Wright said the attacks were a consequence of violent American policies. Four years later, Wright suggested that the attacks were retribution for AmericaÂ’s racism.
“In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01,” Wright wrote in a church-affiliated magazine. “White America and the western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just ‘disappeared’ as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns.”
In one of his sermons, Wright said, “Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run!...We [in the U.S.] believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God.”
As for Israel, “The Israelis have illegally occupied Palestinian territories for over 40 years now,” Wright has said. “Divestment has now hit the table again as a strategy to wake the business community and wake up Americans concerning the injustice and the racism under which the Palestinians have lived because of Zionism.”
Obama says he found religion and Jesus Christ through Wright, whom he met in the mid-1980s. He has been attending WrightÂ’s church regularly since 1988.
As for the "flooding of corporate media," like it or not, it's freedom of speech. If you don't like what you're hearing, turn it off. You seem to be operating under the notion that someone's rights are being stepped on because you don't like or believe what's being said. The veracity or lack thereof is not your problem. You have the choice to turn it off. Likewise, if they do not like or believe what you might say, given equal time on the same type of forum, their choice would be the same - they could simply turn you off. I would think someone as intelligent as you clearly are would understand that nothing is more important than maintaining the constitutional right to freedom of speech, regardless of whether what is being said is pleasing or viewed as honest by anyone with an opposing viewpoint?