Friday, May 29, 2009

Pravda post on Obama: America as Weimar Republic?

A post on english.pravda.ru titled American capitalism gone with a whimper began with

It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.

and included

The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America's short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar [sic] Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.

IPBiz notes that the first president of the Weimar Republic was one Friedrich Ebert. [wikipedia: When the Constituent Assembly met in Weimar in February, 1919, Ebert was chosen to be the first president of the German Republic.]

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