Who will be the next great dictator?

[metalman]

Re: Who will be the next great dictator?

Sarah PALIN

absolutely!

[tombat1913]

Re: Who will be the next great dictator?

Best candidate I can see at the moment is Obama.

He is in a position of great power, has a Congress supporting him, and has the seemingly unlimited power to issue Executive Orders.

He has the arrogance. "I won." "The time for discussion is over."

He has the worldview: leftism, socialism. The idea that government knows best, that "equality" is a higher value than freedom.

He has the adoring followers who practically worship him. A cult of personality. Just look at how many magazine covers he is on.

He is considered by some to be a good speaker, at least when reading a prepared speech.

Frankly I can't think of what else would be needed in a dictator. Now all he needs is a sufficiently desperate economic environment to justify suspending normal Constitutional protections. Isn't that what his hero, Lincoln, did during the Civil War? Can't he use FDR as a precendent for introducing all sorts of new intrusive Executive Orders? If FDR had the power to unilaterally, with a stroke of his pen, forbid citizens from owning gold - something the Constitution specifically designated as money - what could Obama not justify if he wanted to?

I think we've already got our own Hugo Chavez in power here.

Well we already know that he's willing to stand up and completely lie bold faced to the entire country, not sure that makes him dictator material but it certainly doesn't rule him out.

On the flip side 28 days into Obama's administration the truth comes to light thanks to a true statesman.

[Uno]

Re: Who will be the next great dictator?

Except that there IS massive evidence on how all modern religion evolved from common human roots going back to ancient cultures in egypt, india, china, ect...

It always amazing me how christians, muslim, jews, ... so easily bypass the massive amount of evidence that show how religion evolved in modern human society and the relationship between the religions.

Now you can claim to believe in "God" or some "Gods" but if you claim that the bible, koran, ect.. are the word of God, then you are an idiot.

[Uno]

Re: Who will be the next great dictator?

Correction:

If you believe the bible is the word of God, then you could be an Economist.