Please enjoy all of this week’s winners (and share, share, share!!!!!) Winning Council Submissions First place with 2 1/3 points! – The Provocateur – My Grandfather, the 14th Amendment, and the AIG Bonuses Second place with 1 2/3 points -……

The Council has spoken. The winning entry was My Grandfather, the 14th Amendment, and the AIG Bonuses by The Provocateur, which put last week’s new in a historical and personal context. Runners up were, Bookworm Room’s Out of the Mouths of Babes a di…

An elderly man suffers a massive heart attack. The family drives wildly to get him to the emergency room. After what seems like an eternity, the ER doctor appears, wearing his scrubs and a long face. Sadly, he says, “I’m afraid he is brain-dead. But his heart is still beating.”

“Oh, Dear God,” cries his wife, her hands clasped against her cheeks with shock. “We’ve never had a Democrat in the family before!”

did they.

I remember back in 2001 when many people, commenters at Neo-Neocon and the blogger herself, gave the benefit of the doubt to the Democrats. They tried reason, debate, argument, and the presentation of evidence, all on the assumption that they were trying to find solutions and if you gave them a reasonable argument, they may come over to your side. Oh sure, we all expected our positions to be hardline and unchangeable, at least on the fundamentals, but that was a minority position. There was still hope that, even if the others didn’t agree with you, they would agree with the facts.

But Danny, they didn’t accept the facts, now did ya. They didn’t agree because their reality was not our reality. And this fundamental incompatibility took people a long time to accept. Many people attributed it to one source, liberalism, biased media coverage, lack of good arguments, Democrat partisanship, but they never saw to the core. They never saw the plans of the domestic insurgency right here in America.

Until now.

The post and comments reinforce much of what Book’s son has picked-up upon.
http://neoneocon.com/2009/03/21/who-is-susceptible-to-obamalove-and-why/

Here is another example.

BERLIN

SPEECH OF MAY 1, 1935

. . . A WRITER has summed up the impressions made on him by this time in a book which he entitled ‘The Decline of the West.’ Is it then really to be the end of our history and of our peoples? No! we cannot believe it. This age must be called, not the decline of the West, but the resurrection of the peoples of this West of ours! Only that which was old, decayed and evil perishes; and let it die! But new life will spring up. Faith can be found, if the will is there. Our leadership has the will, and faith is with the people….

So we have come together on this day to prove symbolically that we are more than a collection of individuals striving one against another, that none of us is too proud, none of us too high, none is too rich, and none too poor, to stand together before the face of the Lord and of the world in this indissoluble, sworn community. And this united nation, we have need of it. When was a leadership at any time faced with a heavier task than our German leadership? Consider, my comrades, what our Germany is, and compare it with other countries. What have we? One hundred and thirty-seven people to the square kilometer; no colonies; no raw materials; no foreign exchange, no capital, no longer any foreign credits; only heavy burdens, sacrifices, taxation, and low wages. What have we, compared with the wealth of other States, the wealth of other countries, the wealth of other peoples, with the possibilities of living that they possess? What have we? One thing only; we have our people. Either it is everything or it is nothing. On it alone can we count. On it alone can we build. Everything that we have created up to the present we owe solely to its goodness of heart, its capacity, its loyalty, its decency, its industry, its sense of order. And if I weigh all this in the balance, it seems to me to be more than all that the rest of the world can offer us. So this, I believe, can be our message to the other peoples on this first of May: ‘You need have no fear that we want anything of you. We are proud enough to confess that we ourselves own that treasure, which you certainly could not give us – our people.’ I could, as leader, think of no more glorious, no prouder task in this world than to serve this people. One might give me continents, but I would rather be the poorest citizen among this people. And with this people we must and shall succeed in achieving also the tasks that are still to come.

I was inspired. Perhaps this is something Rush and I share in common. We both have a certain ear for propaganda and persuasion, perhaps because we both have an interest in studying the arts of propaganda and becoming proficient in them, though for different reasons. I can feel inspired, even as I know Hitler for what he was. This is the divide between having a positive reaction to propaganda while knowing it is false and having a positive reaction to propaganda while believing it is true. (the latter is, of course, the Obamanation).

Here is a vid example of the dramatic gestures I am referring to. Unless you know the content of the speech, it would seem very “megalomaniacal”, but that’s not the secret to Hitler’s rise