Monday, January 21, 2013

Inauguration festivities

Meh. Not interested.

But the beginning of Obama's second term did inspire me to look up the speeches of other heavy-handed government types. I thought this one by Lenin was interesting (it is on the subject of the "middle peasants", and includes the comical assertion that the Communist Party's mission was only to give "advice" and "suggestions" to the peasants).



Here's the left's favorite hirsute dictator telling some typical whoppers.



And for sheer theatricality, it's tough to beat this guy.

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10 comments:

  1. Spiny NormanJanuary 21, 2013 at 1:23 PM

    It goes without saying that the middle peasant cannot immediately accept socialism, because he clings firmly to what he is accustomed to...

    The "middle peasants" were bitter clingers, eh?

    Well, we all know what happened to the "middle peasants": in the 1920s, the kulaks aka "rich peasants" were ruthlessly eliminated, in the 1930s, it was the "middle peasants" turn. Our wonderful "hope'n'change" Progessives have no real issue with Lenin's and Stalin's methods (and certainly not with the results!), just the lack of subtlety.

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  2. JeffSJanuary 21, 2013 at 1:36 PM

    History is supposed to repeat itself. At least, from those who don't learn from history.

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  3. rinardmanJanuary 21, 2013 at 2:17 PM

    Dang, I thought for sure Lenin would start singing his song "Imagine", at the end of that video.

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  4. AnonymousJanuary 21, 2013 at 3:50 PM

    Deborah said... Isn't it interesting that they didn't mention God either?

    It is no wonder that Obama and Progressives feel "empowered" to take liberties with the Constitution, when God is left out of The Pledge of Allegiance.

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  5. RebeccaHJanuary 21, 2013 at 6:52 PM

    Those guys were clowns who used brute force to get their way. We're facing a far more dangerous enemy: the smooth-talking, media-savvy metrosexual.

    I was taught that the Devil comes with a sweet, handsome aspect and silver-tongued words to beguile the gullible. Well ... consider America so far beguiled to the max.

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  6. Robert of OttawaJanuary 21, 2013 at 11:01 PM

    Mere pikers, Paco. They all beat around the bush rather than go for the jugular, which is their real goal.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnpTWKKWQ1o

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  7. Robert of OttawaJanuary 21, 2013 at 11:17 PM


    Hard to find Mao Tse Tung speeches, maybe he never gave any.

    Here's Trotsky, who I admire simply for having been a ruthless suppressor of the white army in the civil war. How much due to him, I don't know. But, his BS is the usual carp in this speech.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBLnTNL5ZPQ

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  8. Robert of OttawaJanuary 21, 2013 at 11:26 PM

    Beware constitutional changes

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLqplbwD644



    Interestingly, I cannot find anything by Mao or Pol Pot, other great democrats who want justice for their people.

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  9. Spiny NormanJanuary 22, 2013 at 12:06 AM

    Well, Noam Chomsky did most of the talking for Pol Pot... and still does, for that matter.

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  10. richard mcenroeJanuary 22, 2013 at 2:54 PM

    Did you see the way he kept harping on "One nation, one people"...? "Ein Reich, Ein Volk..." he just can't quite bring himself to finish the sentence yet...

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