Change the World?

Fact check, people. Hitler's vicious hate-baiting and fear-mongering rants bear no comparison to Obama's unifying, inspiring & uplifting words.

http://www.hitler.org/speeches/

http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/hisownwords

The ability to motivate crowds is morally equal to the ability to maintain a blog. It isn't the tool that matters, it's the content of the message. Obama's words and demeanor are nearly the polar opposite of Hitler's.

But McCain's nasty, fear-based "campaign" resembles Hitler's tactics too closely for my tastes.

First, let me thank R for referencing Fact Check. I looked up Hitler's speaches and read several of them. We read with different eyes. I read the speeches when he was trying to gain power, as Obama is now. Fact Check says everyone agrees he was a gifted speaker (and young) as Obama is now. His first speach reported on followed an attack on him and about sixty (in his audience I suppose) by a few hundred Jewish Communists. He congratulated his followers for fighting them off. There is no question he did not like Jews - I hadn't realized it started that soon, but if Communists, primarily Jewish, were attacking him, I would not expect love and roses. His speach at Munich was in no way a hate speach and his Nov 23, 1926, was an attempt to "reach across the aisle?" and resolve disagreements. I don't see that his continuing attacks on bankers was much different than current political attacks on "Wall Street." He also had a ready audience, England and France were basically raping Germany at the time and Russia was conquering everything in sight. I wasn't interested in reading speaches after he gained power, there is nothing to compare it with from Obama or his comrads. Perhaps we shall do that in the future. He is talking about a civilian defense corps (ACORN), ignoring the fact that we have things, some horrably incompetent and some excellent called National Guards. Anyway, thanks again for writing, I had never read any of Hitler's speaches before. There is no question but that he could change his colors according to the audience, not unlike some of our current politicians. Bill D.