Compare these quotes and leave your thoughts.

[KBlagburn]

Why is this man in the White House? The majority of Americans did not vote for him. Why is he there? And I tell you this morning that he's in the White House because God put him there for a time such as this:
Lt Gen William Boykin, speaking of G. W. Bush, New York Times, 17 October 2003

compared to:


God gave the savior to the German people. We have faith, deep and unshakeable faith, that he was sent to us by God to save Germany.
Hermann Goering, speaking of Hitler

[MsConduct]

1. The only difference between them is, that was then with hitler, and

this is NOW with bush.

[HawkerHurricane]

2. the real difference...

Goering was a ace fighter pilot and a war hero... Boykin was a nobody somebody made a general.

[kevsand]

9. ...plus, Goering was a better dresser. eom

[HawkerHurricane]

10. And Goering had 'the soldiers disease' from his wounds...

Morphine addiction.

[MsConduct]

12. How many zeroes does it take to add up to something? So many

leaders, so little brain power.

[blogbear]

3. This Guy Now Doesn't Even Even Measure Up To..

Der Fuhrer Or Il Duce..but perhaps Elle Douche?

[Enquiringkitty]

4. You know?...I almost feel sorry for the Repug for their blind faith

and following like sheep just like those regular German citizens did. They have no idea what is happening to them and won't until something happens and they need something Bush has cut or they suffer due to a bill or proposal they let Bush get passed. They won't realize until it becomes a personal issue....then they will want something done about it.

[pretzel4gore]

5. i think history lies.....

is it possible the hitler phenomenon was, just like bushinc, a 'hijacking' of a nation's propensity to law'n'order perverted by might is right?
4 million germans did, at great personal danger, vote against hitler in the '32 election, after all....the 'whiterosesociety' was based upon the anti nazis.....
historians wanted to throw out the bathwater (german extremism, cruelty and so on) while saving the baby (rightwingnut political criminality and social thuggery(???))
and it looks like they still want to....

[teryang]

6. The propensity is a feeling of inferiority and humiliation

...the appeal of a mass ideology prone to uncritical faith and leader worship is to give one a sense of importance, strength and involvement in history by the otherwise anonymous and impotent individual who belongs to the powerful and militant mass.

Hence the sentiment of the faithful is that they have been victimized by foreigners (principally Muslims), minorities, intellectuals (liberals, journalists and other college educated but weak individuals), and homosexuals (and other scapegoats, like trial lawyers and litigous people) making life more complicated and expensive with their corrupt and self indulgent concern for legal rights and remedies.

Don't they have soldierly qualities? Aren't they soldiers for Christ?

The attack on social security is also an attack on weakness by those who believe in social darwinism but don't want evolution taught in school.

The weekly fundamentalist worship is an exercise in the experience of power they otherwise never experience. This is now duplicated in the political arena as Church and politics are now one. The chief ideologues of the movement, people like Pat Robertson and John Hagee are closely tied to the party and covert and overt government agencies. Their stooges have been filling government agencies for 25 years. It started out as a version of white (male) power as government agencies were "overun" with minorities.

[pretzel4gore]

11. maybe power really corrupts(?)

the neocons/fundies etc build up their power using stealth, quickness scams, lies via hurried up media coverage and tried and tested psyche ops....maybe that's why, even when clinton was at top of his form, he came off as strangely powerless! Cuz every damn thing he did, the nazipoos got to drag it through the media mud. Remember Monica? whitewater? The same of course doesn't apply to bushinc....their power must feel unlimited, thus the awful corruption that's resulted is poisoning the future wells of their own children! In a way, it's so refreshing to know THIS WILL END BADLY for bush followers, but unfortunately we all caught up in the same mess....

[marcologico]

8. I think they know. The real repugs -- execs and top managers -- don't

give a fig for religion or nationalism or anything else, although Boykin might. It's all about greed and fooling the TV-narcotized masses into surrendering everything they own to line the pockets of the rich. Period.

[itzamirakul]

7. Short and sweet response to your request for comments on the quotes:

Bush and Hitler
Same Shit - Different Assholes...