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this video compares not so much people but ideologies. However people come to power is not the point. It is how they use the power they have gained. Both men pomised utopias and one has failed. Utopias cannot be done no matter how you distribute the wealth.

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[DataRelater]

Yes and No.

I agree we can't get all gooey-eyed over everything Obama says or promises.

But this analogy falls flat.

Castro used/uses violence, murder and imprisonment to gain power, silence political enemies, and enforce impractical socialist programs.

Until that starts happening in the USA, this is not a credible analogy.

Whether it may happen someday is a matter for a separate video...which I'd honestly love to see.

*That* deserves exploration.

[johnorigen]

You said: "Castro used/uses violence, murder and imprisonment to gain power, silence political enemies, and enforce impractical socialist programs".

I would say manipulation comes in more forms than violent.

[nikonhaka]

Excellent video. Too bad more people didn't wake up to this before the election. There were many people saying the same thing, sadly Kool-Aid drinkers outnumber the Kool under fire thinkers. Welcome to America...tell me where are we go to be able to go in our rafts?

[johnorigen]

.."where are we go to be able to go in our rafts?"

You will have to use your American no-how and do it on your own without government assistant.

[angeilbabe10200]

uh I am really honny today! Anybody is bored too and want to msg meh

[barneyquicksilver]

Just because we disagree with the current President doesn't mean we are prejudice. I don't care what color he his, his policies are destroying the country!!

[OpenComments]

@DataRelater

The problem with anti-psychiatry is that the aim of many groups is to get you off medication, without much concern for the consequences. People with mental problems are given medicine for a reason. A life on psychiatric medication can be frustrating, because it will dull you down to some extent, and it will take away a bit of whom you are. Living without can be infinitely much worse.

[me2goodfoyou]

oh yea this totally makes sense since a president definitely has that much power here in the US....WTF?!!

[Humes53]

Bush was the worst prez ever and left America on it's financial deathbed. Obama doing a great job resurrecting America! Your stupid republican right wingers also helped get rid of JFK. Where was daddy Bush on 11/22/63? George tells us he can't remember. Check out his involvement on YouTube.

[Humes53]

Hey moon are you a lunatic? Yeah maybe Obama trying to help out the middle class and poor is wrong. Just give any extra money around to the rich like Bush and Reagan did. The rich deserve it. They should have gold bathroom fixtures like Rush Limbaugh has, and four not three Rolls Royces. The hell with the working man and the poor. Obama should adopt the GOP philosophy and give everything to the wealthy and the military.

[Humes53]

Bush killed over 4000 of our service men and women for absolutely NO reason. Saddam was no threat. Cheyney ripped us off too with his Halliburton Company. That administration told the Amerrican people over 90 lies. John Dean said Bush was more scurrilous than that other crook Richard Nixon!

[Humes53]

moonchi , look at the economy now comparewd to when that moron GWB (Guy Without Brains) left.  300,000 new jobs were just created in April, largest figure in over four years. I got 8 grand from Obama for buyiong a house, got diddly squat from Bush unless you count two wars and huge deficits. Bush was a total ZOMBIE. Obama wins again in 2012.

[moonchi1dt]

@Humes53 You are such a short sighted idiot. Obama buys your loyalty with trinkets. Wake up! You probably don't earn much so you don't pay much in income taxes, so it doesn't matter to you how much they are. You probably have your kids on Medicaid or a state supported children's health care programs so you are good there and why shouldn't you suck everything you can from the government? You don't pay for it. The thing is most Americans don't think they just follow a crowd like a bunch of sheep.

[moonchi1dt]

@johnorigen For God sakes learn to spell.

[Humes53]

to Rush Limbaugh or some other rich person had McCain been in. Every benefit the working man he has thanks to a democratic president. Bush, the worst president ever, including that other republican dummy, Herbert Hoover!