When Obama came for the the executives making $250,000
I remained silent;
I did not earn $250,000.
When Obama came for the babies,
I remained silent;
I was not a baby…anymore.
When Obama came for conservative talk show hosts,
I did not speak out;
I didn’t have a talk show.
When Obama came for the plumber,
I remained silent;
I was not a public figure.
When Obama came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.
October 29, 2008 at 4:41 am
Not cool.
October 29, 2008 at 6:03 am
This, for once, is really crossing the line.
-Alex in Pittsburgh
October 29, 2008 at 10:33 am
I think its funny! Thanks Matthew.
–Laura
October 29, 2008 at 10:47 am
Agree with Laura on this one! And why, pray tell, is this “crossing the line”? The redistributionist is going after folks making $250K plus (and probably minus), he has promised to pass FOCA on his first day in office, his supporters (and staff, I’m sure) were busy digging up the dirt on Joe the plumber, and the Democrat party has been making quite a bit of noise about the so-called “fairness doctrine” as of late. So what’s wrong with pointing that out…IMO all these facts are rather ominous.
October 29, 2008 at 11:26 am
By the way, the threshold for “rich” according to the Obama ticket is nowdown to $150,000. I wonder what it will be next Wednesday?
October 29, 2008 at 11:45 am
No, this is not crossing any line, though whatever Truth and Sensitivity Committees will grow like fungi under an Obama regime will say so. The parallels between these days and and the latter days of 1933 are not hyperbole.
— Mack
October 29, 2008 at 11:45 am
No, this is not crossing any line, though whatever Truth and Sensitivity Committees will grow like fungi under an Obama regime will say so. The parallels between these days and and the latter days of 1933 are not hyperbole.
— Mack
October 29, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Thank you for the post that focuses on what we already know about Senator Obama. His background should give us all the chills especially with the vast engines of the media and academia so deeply in his pockets. Obama has spent years creating that messianic image so endemic to all tyrants…and he has the apparatus to impose much damage, if not outright violence, upon those who who oppose him.
There’s a lot more Mount Doom than Mount Rushmore about the guy!
October 29, 2008 at 12:40 pm
deusdonat,
are you pretending that a holocaust is not going on right now? Just let us know.
It seems to me the metaphor is dead on.
October 29, 2008 at 1:18 pm
No, this is not over the top. Look at what we can’t see on Sen. Obama:
1. Occidental College records — Not released
2. Columbia College records — Not released
3. Columbia Thesis paper — not available, locked down by faculty
4. Harvard College records — Not released, locked down by faculty
5. Selective Service Registration — Not released
6. Medical records — Not released
7. Illinois State Senate schedule — “not available”
8. Law practice client list — Not released
9. Certified Copy of original Birth certificate – – Not released
10. Embossed, signed paper Certification of Live Birth — Not released
11. Harvard Law Review articles published — None
12. University of Chicago scholarly articles — None
13. Record of baptism– Not released or “not available”
14. Illinois State Senate records–“not available”
And yet “Joe the Plumber’s” records were invaded, legally or not.
What happens if we cross his line?
October 29, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Haus frau,
nice research. You’re thorough.
October 29, 2008 at 1:52 pm
A little quote from Barry Goldwater that is very appropriate with regards to BO:
“Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed.”
And yes, I believe that BO is in it for the power.
October 29, 2008 at 2:01 pm
I don’t think this is crossing the line although Obama is being compared to Hitler. For some reason noone is concerned that Hitler is being demonized by a comparison of him with Obama. For good reason too; He wasn’t a very good person. While I don’t think that a frivolous libel of person is justified it is ok to make comparisons and judgements. This is not a case of “they’re all bums in the same mold”. There is a stark difference between Obama and Mcain. He’s fervently pro-abortion, socialist, disengenuous, and, dare I say it, racist. Even Nader is accusing him of employing white guilt. There is a time when we have to get past the point of a false propriety and call it as it is, even if it sounds mean.
October 29, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Okay, don’t think I like the guy either. He’s a shady character, and I don’t like his policy stances much more than anyone else here.
But really? I mean, besides that the Hitler analogy is beaten to death no matter how you use it, it seems, at the very least, horribly premature.
I’ve always been a naive person, but I don’t think that Obama out to destroy this country, or that he possibly could. He might do some significant damage, but it seems like an overreaction to compare this to the Holocaust.
(I realize that there is a holocaust of the unborn in progress right now. Don’t misunderstand me on that. But it is something different when you venture into genocide.)
-Alex in Pittsburgh
October 29, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Alex,
How is it different?
Sometimes I’m worried that many of us who are pro-life and acknowledge that abortion is murder are still unwilling to grant the fetus the same rights and dignity as a grown person.
October 29, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Alex in Pitt – the people who taught Obama his ideology are on record as saying that America would need re-education camps for those who were unable to be “reformed” from capitalism to socialism.
Now, the odds are admittedly long that the Weathermen would have been able to pull that off… but all these failed would-be overthrowers of democracy went into academia for a reason – since they did not succeed through force, they went for the minds of the young, to cultivate a larger base of willing followers. It isn’t necessary for them to all be “true believers” who would knowingly and intentionally do grave harm, the way they did. All they need are enough people to think that the ideas are “sound” but “haven’t really be tried.” They’ll vote for “hope and change!” and get more than they bargained for – and be shocked, shocked that such things are proposed.
Obama won’t get nearly as far as his buddies Ayres, Alinsky, Wright, et als would like to see, but he plans to try. He’ll do harm if he gets into the White House, both domestically and abroad. The liberty of the people and representative democracy are not fixed in stone. It’s unlikey that we’ll have Soviet-style Marxism in four years, but it isn’t impossible that an Obama presidency would be the first step to achieving that end in twenty or so years. There are already a significant minority of Americans who believe that the State has the obligation to tell you how to eat, how to think, what to drive, where to live and work, and how you can spend what little money they let you keep – all in the interests of “fairness” of course.
Liberty is fragile. I have little interest in electing someone who cares so little for it, and who could not even take the oath of office (“to uphold and defend the Constitituion of the United States”) without lying out of both sides of his mouth.
October 29, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Steve, don’t you realize that it’s just a holocaust of very small people. That’s not the same thing as grownups.
They can’t speak. They don’t even vote. And like I said, they’re really really small.
They’re so small the murder of 40 million of them can’t really be called a genocide.
October 29, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Anthony, to echo Alex’ statement, this analogy of the rise of the Nazi regime which sought to anihilate an entire race of people (several actually) with Obamas campaign is in fact across the line. I am NOT an Obama supporter. But neither do I consider him a Nazi or “like Hitler”. I think that people who use such analogies are just running out of rational arguments and simply grasping at emotional response. Saying Obama is “like Hitler” and equating his campaign with the rise of the Nazi regime will do nothing but damage the opinion of conservatives, as moderates will see us as ideologues who are prone to hyperbole rather than facts.
You ask if there is a “holocaust” going on right now. If you mean genocide, then there are several. The issue of abortion in the US is not genocide, as there is no one group aiming to anihilate another group (i.e. not all unborn are being targetted). It IS indescriminate murder/killing on a massive scale and a grave evil.
Once again, calling or inferring Barack is a Nazi is so counterproductive here that you will have no one else to blame but yourselves if he wins.
October 29, 2008 at 4:16 pm
This is a little hyperbolic. I think we’re much more likely to end up looking like Canada than Nazi Germany under Obama. And that should be enough reason to scare anyone. Heard about those provincial “Human Rights Commissions” up there?
October 29, 2008 at 4:30 pm
I’m pretty sure this post didn’t intend to say that an Obama presidency will be identical to the Nazi regime.
Instead of nitpicking it, we should realize a salient and sobering point being made: Like all tyrants, Obama has demonstrated a willingness to do whatever it takes to eliminate the opposition. Joe the Plumber, conservatives in the media, abortion survivor Giana Jessen, the wealthy.
His strategy is not to persuade or to find common ground, or to unite, or any of the ways public discourse is conducted in a democracy. It’s to eliminate.