Dave’s point is that all leaders who try to motivate their country for war use the same justifications. This has been happening for centuries, even eons. You could find similar quotes from Greek and Roman leaders, African strongmen, Latin American caudillos. The point is that those is power tend to abuse that power in order to promote their interest. Until the common man is willing and able to stand up (and unfortunately they are the ones who are paying the price of their life for the interests of the elite) to the power-brokers, this will not change. And the common man cannot stand up unless he gets the correct information, not the propaganda that is fed him by the official party/government line. Until we question everything that someone in power says, we will continually be dragged into bad/aggressive/pre-emptive wars in order to justify power grabs and shifts.

His one redeeming act could have been immigration reform, but he’s lost so much “political capital” that he can’t even get his own party to support his salvation.

Some bad Presidents are bad because they don’t do anything good, others because they make colossal mistakes. Bush is the convergence of both problems in a perfect storm. He will be remembered as THE worst president in history.

His vast stores of political capital that were touted, and outright bragged about, earlier in the administration are long gone. This was to be used to reformed social security (failed), reform immigration (failed), etc. One thing that did succeed was an increase in the minimum wage by $2. That’s great for the working poor, but middle class will continue to be squeezed while the elite pay minute percentatges in taxes.

My last point, is that I also don’t think that Bush is sadistic, etc, etc, etc (all of the things listed in my previous post). I think he is in over his head. The problem is the result wil be the same whether he is unintentionally or inentionally bad.

The bottom line is, he’s either unintentionally bad (incompetent) or intentionally bad (evil)–I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt and just say he’s not that smart. Either way, he doesn’t belong where he is and he hasn’t done any good for the country–I’m still waiting for a list from ANYONE of 5-10 things Bush has done right.

Though I don’t draw the same comparisons of Jr to Hitler as Dave, I do see how his administration has greatly polarized America. We have watched basic freedoms taken away due to war-time national security only to have politicians try to make them permanent.

The political parties have all radicalized. There is no room for reason anymore. The GOP and the Dems can’t seem to find common ground on much of anything. The art of compromise that used to be evident in the halls of Congress has all but disapeared.

The American people’s political involvement has become so lassez faire that few even show up to exercise their basic right to vote. This only further empowers the radicals from both poles. In order to be involved with politics at the grass roots level one must adopt radical ideologies. This isolates the rational majority and leaves power with the radical minority. Luckily our radical minority is divided among itself in many ways, but the parallels to the above references are hauntingly familiar. I think that is precisely the point Dave is trying to make.

I’m sure there are many quotes from Adolf Hitler that we could pull out of context and make him sound like a brilliant and good world leader. But putting them in context with surrounding content as well as actions, you see a totally different story.

I’m sorry, but this is just completely ridiculous and totally radical. You are always criticizing the likes of Hannity and Limbaugh, but you are pulling the exact same crap. And that’s literally all it is… is complete crap.

I’ll stop now.

Please, please, please explain yourself… and tell me I’m mis-reading this post.