Godwin’s Law: “As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1”
There is a tradition in many newsgroups and other Internet discussion forums that once such a comparison is made, the thread is finished and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically “lost” whatever debate was in progress.
Obama’s Law: “As Obama’s presidency grows longer, the probability that the mainstream media will compare him to Jesus or God approaches 1”.
Assuming the same tradition applies, Newsweek just lost the debate:
EVAN THOMAS: Well, we were the good guys in 1984, it felt that way. It hasn’t felt that way in recent years. So Obama’s had, really, a different task We’re seen too often as the bad guys. And he – he has a very different job from – Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is ‘we are above that now.’ We’re not just parochial, we’re not just chauvinistic, we’re not just provincial. We stand for something – I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world, he’s sort of God. He’s-
MATTHEWS: Yeah.
THOMAS: He’s going to bring all different sides together.
[emphasis added]
/*vomit*/
God – the real One – help us
A ray of sunshine, from the Good Book…
Acts 12:21-23
21. And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them.
22. And the people gave a shout, saying, it is the voice of a god, and not of a man.
23. And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
There can be only One , the Quickening has begun.
Everyone who thinks Obama is god will be in deep doo doo when they meet the real god. Real god doesn’t have any mercy on the stupid puny liberal commie pinko hippie scum bags non believers.
“Gangway! Gangway for De Lawd God Jehovah!”
“Is ya been baptized?” (Chorus) Certainly, Laaaaawd!
“Is ya been baptized?” Certainly, Laaaaawd!
“Is ya been baptized?” Certainly, Lawd! Certainly Lawd! Certainly, certainly, certainly, Laaaaawd!
“Is ya been redeemed?” Certainly, Laaaaawd!
“Is ya been redeemed?” Certainly, Laaaaawd!
“Is ya been redeemed?” Certainly, Lawd! Certainly Lawd! Certainly, certainly, certainly, Laaaaawd!
“Does ya bow mighty low?” Certainly, Laaaaawd!
“Does ya bow mighty low?” Certainly, Laaaaawd!
“Does ya bow mighty low? Certainly, Lawd! Certainly Lawd! Certainly, certainly, certainly, Laaaaawd!
“Let the fish fry proceed!”
“Ten cent cee-gar, Lawd?”
From 1936’s “The Green Pastures”, funniest flick of all time. Bring it to a liberal’s house on movie night – and watch their head explode!
Obama’s Law: “bring all different sides together” = silence all opposition
# 1, ditto.
this classless disgrace is heralded by the so called journalist bottom feeding crapfest they refer to as the media. The only thing that classless disgrace in the whitehouse will bring together is iran, north korea, and nuclear weapons. how offensive is it to compare that classless disgrace to human , much less a diety. Like #1 said *vomit*.
I would ask Chris “Tingly” Matthews and Evan “The Apostle” Thomas ,
“Who the hell elected Obama to be ‘standing above the country, above – above the world,… sort of God’?” , but the obvious answer is: just about everyone who voted for the guy.
The Lord thy Obama will smite thee all for thy blasphemies against the One!
Seriously, though, I thought the whole War of Indepence was about getting away from a “divine” leader.
Jimmy’s Law:
As Obama’s voice remains on the radio longer and longer, or his face on the TV screen, the probability of that appliance failing goes to 1.
Wow. I always wondered how anybody would accept the Antichrist. I think we now know how it’ll happen.
Some think BHO is God, BHO thinks he is at the very least King of the Jews. He treats freedom as he does wealth, taking from those with it to distribute among his chosen. It’s like that old punchline: Oh, that’s just God, He only thinks He’s BHO.
I don’t know what troubles me more, Obama believing that he is the one true Messiah returned to Earth or the multitudesin the Media telling the masses that Obama is the one true Messiah returned to Earth.
Were we not warned that a false prophet would lead us onto Satan’s path?
This can not end well.
Seems like he forgot he was on television…or just didn’t care. I’m guessing in private these wankers all discuss his being “God” very matter-of-factly in conversation.
You see my kind of loyalty was loyalty to one’s country, not to its institutions, or its office holders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death. To be loyal to rags, to shout for rags, to worship rags, to die for rags–this is loyalty to unreason, it is pure animal; it belongs to monarchy, was invented by monarchy; let monarchy keep it.
– A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
For all his faults, Mark Twain was one of the great American thinkers.
Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust, who does not turn to the proud, to those who go astray after false gods!
Psalm 40:4
“For my eyes are upon all their ways; they are not hid from me, nor is their iniquity concealed from my eyes. And first I will doubly recompense their iniquity and their sin, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations. … Can man make for himself gods? Such are no gods!”
Jeremiah 16:17-18, 20
Certainly, certainly, certainly, certainly laaawd!
“Parochial, Provincial, Chauvenistic”??? Where did the talking head get the word chauvenistic? My response to parochial & provincial is “Whats wrong with that”? Or can I only be “enlightened if I identify primarily as a citizen of the world? What a crock of psuedo-intellectual bull shite. I can only hope that Barry is dumb enough to believe his own hype.
Mean while back at the ranch…….
O-bah-muh! Now that’s power! >>Tell me about it, I just hear that name and I shudder.>> O-bah-muhh!>> Ooooh! Do it again! >>O-bah-muhh! >>Ooooh!>>O-bah-muhh!O-bah-muhh!O-bah-muhh!>>Ooooh! It tingles me!>>>>Conversation off-camera between Evan Thomas, and Chris Matthews heard by the fly on the wall.
I suppose they don’t think they’re breaking The 1st Commandment since they’ve declared O-bah-muhh to BE God. Might want to stand back from these people to avoid the Lightningstrikes, 10 Plagues of Egypt, Fire and Brimstone that is sure to come.
Holy crap, I’m not into this religious stuff too much, but I am running from that man if I ever find myself around him. This is exactly right on, though. They believe that there must be a “god” to do their work for them, to unite the people and smite all those who oppose their views. They have the closest thing to their “god” as they will ever get. Let’s pull a 180 and make their heads explode: call them out on the whole “separation of church and state” thing!
What’s left of my crunch berries have formed a likeness of Obama in the milk. I don’t know whether to throw it in the garbage disposal or call MSNBC. I do think I need an alka seltzer.
When people object to the mention of Nazi Germany, it usually means “Someone mentioned Hitler, and they’re defending Israel, or defending the US’s War on Terror, and I can’t refute their argument, so I’m gonna make it against the rules toe mention Nazi Germany.” Meh.
I always found that rule to be a little weird.
I mean, suppose the topic at issue was “should we round up a minority group, put them into camps, gas them and feed their corpses into ovens?”
So the first person who points out Hitler loses that debate?
Or take this example, the topic at issue is whether a world leader who has said he wants to see isreal wiped off the map, should be allowed to acquire nukes.
Again, seems the rule is wrong.
Of course, the hitler comparison is over used. but sometimes it is apt. its a sad reality, but there it is.
Btw, i have to say that if you shut down this thread, you are just like hitler.
Btw, since the liberals all said bush = hitler, doesn’t that mean that the first person to cite bush loses the debate?
My God created the Universe, became a man, died for my sins and rose again from the dead. When Obama can perform any one of these, I shall be impressed…
I still think he’s really funny looking…with those AWAC ears and alien blue lips.
My best guess? He’s not God…he’s just an alien sent here to de-stabilize our institutions, cripple our military, and sow FUD (fear, uncertainty, & doubt) amongst us wee humans in preparation for the big alien invasion.
I’ll bet he really has green tentacles with suckers all over him; the hottie pics of him in a bathing suit were clearly photo-shopped with with an advanced version of Microsoft (another alien diversionary force).
@24: Supposedly the law was originally formulated so that Hitler comparisons would only be used when appropriate, not to completely ban them. Of course, people tend to forget that when you compare abortion to the Holocaust, or to compare Saddam, a crazy dictator with torture chambers who thinks the country bordering his belongs to him, to Hitler. Different people have different ideas of when Hitler comparisons are appropriate, so the law doesn’t do much good.
I think this one should be called the Matthews Law, by the way.
The Bible says that many will come and say they are the Christ and have risen, do not believe them for Christ will come as he left on the clouds.
All those who believe Mr. Obama is God, the Savior, the Messiah need to read the bible.
In Revelations it tells us the Anti-Christ will claim to be God and bring about peace, he will be a great orator, and deceive many even the elect.
Be prepared for the Great lie is upon us now, Hope and Change, Yes there will be Hope that Christ saves us, and the Change is the mark that all will be forced to receive.
So according to Evan Thomas an American President doesn’t need to be all about America? Well Evan, what country is Obama in charge of? Did the world elect him? The crap that passes for journalism these days is one reason that I do not own a television.
Well crap! Just bring out the Guillotines, I’ll go peacefully. After a life time of praying to God by his names mention in the Bible I just can’t can’t call Him BHO. When I’m gone resist chipping and if the American Anti-Christ suggest this neat Identification tattoo on the hand or the forehead… well I’ll be waiting for the rest of you guys with the REAL God.
Ex. 20: 3
3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
I don’t know, that sounds pretty specific to me. But then again I am a conservative woman and common sense is my milieu (: the physical or social setting in which something occurs or develops-for the trolls in the audience).
Then they came near and said before the king, concerning the interdict, “O king! Did you not sign an interdict, that any man who makes petition to any god or man within thirty days except to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions?” The king answered, “The thing stands fast, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be revoked.”
Daniel 6:12
(fast forward … )
And the king commanded, and those men who had accused Daniel were brought and cast into the den of lions – they, their children, and their wives; and before they reached the bottom of the den the lions overpowered them and broke all their bones in pieces.
Daniel 6:24
(A lot can happen in 12 verses.)
As far as Godwin’s Law, it’s actually just an observation that as a discussion progresses, arguments develop, and as they become more heated, the insults tend to become progressively stronger until someone pulls out the verbal Doomsday Weapon of a comparison to the epitome of human evil in the 20th century.
With Obama, the MSM had to one-up each other on passing out the superlative compliments. Biden anteed with “clean and articulate”, Matthews escalated with “thrilled leg”, and Newsweek finally dropped the “G” bomb.