{"id":784,"date":"2009-03-30T07:17:08","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T12:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/?p=784"},"modified":"2009-05-02T07:58:08","modified_gmt":"2009-05-02T12:58:08","slug":"gm-president-obama-fascism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/gm-president-obama-fascism\/","title":{"rendered":"GM, President Obama &#038; Fascism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Ledeen wrote an interesting article &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/michaelledeen\/2009\/02\/12\/we-are-all-illiterates-now\/\" target=\"_blank\">We are all Fascists Now<\/a>&#8221; when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/183663\" target=\"_blank\">Newsweek declared We Are All Socialists Now&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The next 2 parts of a great video series lay out <strong>what is happening <em>right now!<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<object width=\"445\" height=\"364\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/23JIFy8Vm6Q&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/23JIFy8Vm6Q&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;border=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"445\" height=\"364\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/I16M-qH3SbU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/I16M-qH3SbU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"445\" height=\"364\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0309\/20625.html\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama demanded that GM&#8217;s CEO, Rick Wagoner resign<\/a> how is it a free-market now?<\/p>\n<p>Can political favor be purchased for market gains and means?<\/p>\n<p>Is the President of the United States now the de-facto Chairman of the Board of GM?<\/p>\n<p>Hand-waving and political gamesmanship won&#8217;t do, because it is part of the process.<\/p>\n<p>Fascism &#8211; we&#8217;re already there.<\/p>\n<p>BTW &#8211; Obama&#8217;s fascist popularity is not centered around nationalistic war, but cultural war. I&#8217;m certain similarities to other fascist leaders will easily be found if one is willing to look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Ledeen wrote an interesting article &#8220;We are all Fascists Now&#8221; when Newsweek declared We Are All Socialists Now&#8221; The next 2 parts of a great video series lay out what is happening right now! Since President Obama demanded that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/gm-president-obama-fascism\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[223,222,224,28],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-fascism","tag-gm","tag-jbs","tag-obama"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038,"href":"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions\/1038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}