Then or now: What the hell's the difference?

"It wasn't intellectuals who gave me the courage to undertake this gigantic task, but -- I can reveal this -- I found the courage because I encountered two classes -- country people and German workers. Perhaps some of you here are unable to forgive me...because I eradicated the Marxist Party. But, my friends: I also eradicated all the other parties."

—Adolph Hitler, Victory speech for the National Socialist Party, circa 1933.



"We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America."

—Barack Hussein Obama, Speech Oct. 31, 2008, at the University of Missouri, predicting his election as president.