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2nd Fundamentalist Wrote: Jan 08, 2010 11:41 AM

I characterized Obama as Chamberlain-like during the 2008 campaign in a local newspaper. Most of the readers did not believe me. Unfortunately, we are headed for another major international war and, if Obama bans guns, even perhaps another civil war.

Another unfortunate circumstance is that he is so naive it is dangerous--regarding his stance on terrorism. The majority of Americans (who elected him) have put American lives at risk.

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Nineteen Thirty Something

A few days of vacation in the Rocky Mountains is a good time to catch up on one's reading. But if I was looking for escape from the issues on which I spend most of my time, I didn't find it in "Churchill," the brief but penetrating biography by Paul Johnson, among the world's greatest living historians. In particular, Johnson's account of the 1930s holds up an eerie mirror to the present.

Johnson notes that when Hitler and the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, most Europeans failed to recognize either the nature or the gravity of the...

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