Bullypulpit
Senior Member
<center><h2><a href=http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/3/2004/942>Gott mit uns: On Bush and Hitlers rhetoric</a></h2></center>
<blockquote>September 1, 2004
President Bush told Texas evangelist James Robinson that I feel like God wants me to run for President. I cant explain it, but I sense my country is going to need me. Something is going to happen . . . I know it wont be easy on me or my family, but God wants me to do it.
With 49.3% of New York City residents in a recent Zogby poll believing that some people in our government knew of the 911 attack in advance and allowed it to happen, the President as right-wing evangelical prophet is under siege in his Madison Square Garden bunker. Convention watchers should take careful note of the theocratic nationalist rhetoric at the Republican convention this week.
When was the last time a Western nation had a leader so obsessed with God and claiming God was on our side?
If you answered Adolph Hitler and Nazi Germany, youre correct. Nothing can be more misleading than to categorize Hitler as a barbaric pagan or Godless totalitarian, like Stalin.</blockquote>
While Dubbyuh's rhetoric is comparable to that of Hitler, he is not...quite. He lacks the charisma of a Hitler, but he plays on the same fears that Hitler did, and invokes the same nationalistic/religious shiboleths.
An elderly gentleman I cared for at a dialysis clinic was a member of the Luftwaffe during WWII. His family stood in opposition to Hitler, until his father was killed during the "Night of the Long-knives". He considered the fall of the World Trade Center to be America's burning of the Reichstag. And pointed out that the Congress reacted in the same manner that the German Parliament did...by granting the Administration sweeping and unprecedented powers to fight the "war on terror". In fact, Congress gave Dubbyuh broader and more sweeping power than Germany's legislature gave Hitler. This patient I cared for fears a return to the bad old days, as should we all.
Dubbyuh's no Hitler, but he is a dictator wannabe
<blockquote>September 1, 2004
President Bush told Texas evangelist James Robinson that I feel like God wants me to run for President. I cant explain it, but I sense my country is going to need me. Something is going to happen . . . I know it wont be easy on me or my family, but God wants me to do it.
With 49.3% of New York City residents in a recent Zogby poll believing that some people in our government knew of the 911 attack in advance and allowed it to happen, the President as right-wing evangelical prophet is under siege in his Madison Square Garden bunker. Convention watchers should take careful note of the theocratic nationalist rhetoric at the Republican convention this week.
When was the last time a Western nation had a leader so obsessed with God and claiming God was on our side?
If you answered Adolph Hitler and Nazi Germany, youre correct. Nothing can be more misleading than to categorize Hitler as a barbaric pagan or Godless totalitarian, like Stalin.</blockquote>
While Dubbyuh's rhetoric is comparable to that of Hitler, he is not...quite. He lacks the charisma of a Hitler, but he plays on the same fears that Hitler did, and invokes the same nationalistic/religious shiboleths.
An elderly gentleman I cared for at a dialysis clinic was a member of the Luftwaffe during WWII. His family stood in opposition to Hitler, until his father was killed during the "Night of the Long-knives". He considered the fall of the World Trade Center to be America's burning of the Reichstag. And pointed out that the Congress reacted in the same manner that the German Parliament did...by granting the Administration sweeping and unprecedented powers to fight the "war on terror". In fact, Congress gave Dubbyuh broader and more sweeping power than Germany's legislature gave Hitler. This patient I cared for fears a return to the bad old days, as should we all.
Dubbyuh's no Hitler, but he is a dictator wannabe