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Copyright by John T. Reed

In my article on Obama’s victory, I noted that there were a number of disquieting similarities between Obama and Hitler.

I have since seen additional similarities.

Hitler’s party won the most seats in the German government in two early 1930s elections. He was legally appointed Chancellor of Germany as a result of partliamentary coalition political agreements. The problem was he had no intention of ever submitting himself to the voters again—at least in an election with a viable opponent.

With each passing day, and Obama has only been in office two weeks as I write this, he comes out with yet another statement that indicates he intends for the Republican Party to not be a viable opponent come 2012.

• Item: use of “emergencies” to acquire more power. Obama’s Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said, “A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.” Others have observed that the so-called “stimulus” package contains many provisions that have nothing to do with stimulating the economy. Rather, they are ancient Democrat dreams of greater government control. One waters down the extremely successful welfare reform law signed by President Clinton. Another increases federal government control over doctors’ decisions.

These have been slipped into the “emergency” bill like date rape drugs into a woman’s drink. The 1,071-page bill did not come off the press for Congressmen and Senators to read until midnight on 2/12/09. The vote on it took place on 2/13/09—so soon that no Cengressman or Senator had a chance to read it before voting on the biggest spending bill in U.S. history. The American people, like the date-rape victims, will only figure out what was done to them after the fact. Since Obama’s date rape was successful this time, expect to see additional date rape drug-like power-increasing provisions in future “emergency” bills.

The pork portion of the bill is also a Hitler-like use of an emergency to get more power over the economy. Hitler was elected fair and square, but then there was a fire of unknown origin at the Reichstag (national legislature). Hitler used the fire, which most believe the Nazis started, as a ruse to declare an emergency and grab more power. If Obama had done what the majority of the American people believed should have been done—mostly tax cuts—it would reduce his power. But Obama believes like Emanuel that this crisis is an opportunity to increase power. Increasing power is what he is about, not fixing the economy.

• Item: the Fairness Doctrine or “enforced media accountability” as one liberal talk show host now calls it, which is mainly intended to cut the radio air time of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and the like in half and use that air time to broadcast free of charge Democrat rebuttals to the audiences of Limbaugh, et al. Technically, Obama says he opposes the Fairness Doctrine, but the Democrat leaders are in favor of it. Obama can let them be the bad guys and still make it the law of the land. As Rush correctly points out, “enforced media accountability” requires the repeal of the First Amendment clauses relating to free speech and a free press. They have “enforced media accountability” in dictatorships all over the world. Here, we have the ability to change the channel.

• Item: Obama has repeatedly singled out Limbaugh and Hannity in speeches and directed Republicans to stop listening to them.

• Item: Obama took the Bureau of the Census away from the Commerce Department for the first time and gave it to his Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. Emanuel is the hyperpartisan former Chicago Congressman who was in charge of increasing the number of Democrats in Congress in the 2006 and 2008 election. If Gregg had any integrity, which it turned out he did, he would, and did, refuse to be the Commerce Secretary and demand his Senate seat back. There will be a census taken in 2010. It will determine how many people live in each state and thereby determine how many congressmen and electoral votes each state gets. Democrats want their safe states, like California, to get more electoral votes. They also want each Congressional district to be as small as possible geographically so they can gerrymander Republican voters into districts where they can never win. And Democrats want states that have voted Republican in recent elections to lose population and therefore congressmen and electoral votes. The actual count is done by temporary employees hired by the Bureau of the Census. Unlike elections, there are no poll watchers to make sure the count is accurate. Democrats typically argue that homeless and immigrants are undercounted. By claiming there are lots of homeless, they can shrink the size of inner city districts and thereby use some of the guaranteed Democrat votes there to provide majorities in adjacent districts that have enough Republicans to make them competitive. By gerrymandering no-longer-needed Democrat neighborhoods into the districts with about half Republicans, they can turn the Republicans in those districts into a minority and thereby make those districts safe for Democrats. Increasing the number of people in Democrat districts also increases the amount of federal money that goes to those districts in programs where the money is allocated by population, and decreases the amount that goes to Republican districts. I expect Emanuel will hire ACORN to take the census in areas with many blacks and Latinos—given the excellent work they did, from the perspective of Democrats, registering voters in places like Ohio. [I say this with only slight tongue in cheek.] Here is a quote from the Wikipedia writeup on ACORN:

During 2007 and 2008, ACORN gathered over 1.3 million voter registration forms in 21 states; this number included 450,000 first-time voters. The remainder included address changes and approximately 400,000 forms that were rejected for various reasons, including duplications, incomplete forms, and fraudulent registrations. ACORN-submitted registrations in San Diego County, California had a rejection rate of 17 percent for all errors, compared to less than five percent for voter drives by other organizations, according to county officials.

• Item: Obama will grant citizenship to all illegal aliens and invite all their relatives to join them in the U.S. as citizens as well. Democrats have already said that Republicans who oppose the extension of citizenship to relatives are hypocritical with regard to “family values.” This will massively increase the number of Democrat voters and turn the Republicans into a permanent minority nationwide. It has already happened in California, my home state.

• Item: the “Stimulus” package is mainly pork (infrastructure which is government-owned property) and government jobs that Democrats can use to buy votes rather than stimulating businesses (tax cuts) to expand and hire more people

• Item: Obama is seeking legislation to let union organizers intimidate workers into voting for unions by eliminating secret ballots in union elections. Unions are overwhelmingly not only Democrat voters but also Democrat election workers.

I appreciate informed, well-thought-out constructive criticism and suggestions. If there are any errors or omissions in my facts or logic, please tell me about them. If you are correct, I will fix the item in question. If you wish, I will give you credit. Where appropriate, I will apologize for the error. To date, I have been surprised at how few such corrections I have had to make.