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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>>…</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Adrian Tymes<br></span> "spike" <<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net">spike66@att.net</a>> wrote:<br>><span style='color:#1F497D'>></span> It feels to me that the USA is treading the same path of Germany in the 1930s<span style='color:#1F497D'>…</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>But the Bush stepped down at the end of his second term.<o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>Oh, you meant Obama? We'll see at the end of 2016, but all indications are that he will too<span style='color:#1F497D'>…</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I don’t doubt he will vacate the office in 2016, that’s not the question. It is all the powers he has amassed for the executive branch that worry me. Remember the other major party has abused power as well: Nixon did this kind of thing 40 yrs ago.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>Also: Godwin's Law. Whatever you were trying to prove, you just failed. This is precisely the sort of situation that law covers.<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Indeed not sir. Godwin’s law is not applicable when one is making comparisons to actual political leaders. Where Godwin’s law applies is in the absurd expansion of Hitler parallels. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>If we are disallowed from comparing any nation’s top executive to Hitler, then we learned exactly nothing from the bitter lessons of that dictator’s rise to power.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>spike <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>