[Rhodes22-list] Nikita Khrushchev

[Bill Effros]

Brad,

Tell the farmers not to worry.

This is a fake cult of personality, driven by the largest "buy the vote" 
campaign in history.

Say what you want about Mao, he was actually an important leader who 
took on the establishment and wrested control.  He earned the "cult of 
personality".

Barack Obama bought his "cult of personality."  It won't last long.

Already he is showing great leadership in his handling of the economic 
crisis during the interregnum. His leadership involved resigning from 
the Senate when his vote was needed.  I think it was the same as his 
decision to give up his law license--if he's not a Senator they can't 
investigate him for the same ethics violations that brought down Senator 
Ted Stevens.

Bill Effros



Brad Haslett wrote:
> Hank,
>
> It's been fun to visit China every year for the last decade and
> witness the change from year to year. They've figured out that life is
> better for everyone when folks fend for themselves and have been
> taking incremental steps in the opposite direction from us.  I watched
> this last Presidential closely with a handful of former "farmers" (a
> skillset they learned courtesy of the Cultural Revolution) and to a
> person, they find leaders with a the cult of personality scary. Far
> left idealism doesn't sound so great to those with actual experience.
>
> Brad
>
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 7:33 AM, Hank <hnw555 at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Here's a quote from Nikita Khrushchev that Brad, Herb and Ed will enjoy.
>>
>> Hank
>> "We cannot expect the Americans to jump from capitalism to Communism, but we
>> can assist their elected leaders in giving Americans small doses of
>> socialism until they suddenly awake to find they have Communism."
>>
>> - Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev, 1959
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