I did not listen to or follow the 2008 campaign to any but a minimal extent. It's way too hard on my nervous system to be exposed to falsehoods day in and day out. But I have been unable not to hear some of the stuff going on at this point. People keep talking about one America. Having searched on this, I find it has been an Obama theme since 2004 at least. In one speech he says:

"With the challenges and crises we face right now, we cannot afford to divide this country by race or class or region; by who we are or what policies we support. There are no real or fake parts of this country. We are not separated by the pro-America and anti-America parts of this nation - we all love this country, no matter where we live or where we come from."

How close can he come to the Nazi slogan? One people, one empire, one leader. Awfully, awfully close.

Can we not divide ourselves by "policies we support?" He doesn't want that? What kind of totalitarian sloganeering is that? We are nothing, no longer persons capable of independent thought and criticism if we believe that Hitlerian line.

Are we all supposed to think alike because we all love America? I'm sorry, folks, but these ideas are the biggest bunch of junk I have come across in awhile.

To hear the media adulation and very explicit endorsement of Obama and these particular ideas is very troubling.

With the challenges we face, it is exactly divisions that we need. We need to challenge bad ideas with good ideas. We need to confront evils. We do not need conformity to the wishes of ein Führer. We exactly need to challenge such ideas as Obama is expressing. You do not have my support, Mr. President, not until you get your head together, stop talking smack, and start making some sense.