Oratory Will Get You Everywhere

Hugh Hewitt dryly observed yesterday, that:

If speeches were jobs, we’d have full employment in the United States of America.

Which got me to remembering some of our Dear Leader’s speeches. Specifically, remember this one?

We must penetrate to the inner causes of the collapse with the resolution that these inner causes shall be removed. I believe that immediately we must begin at the point where in the last resort a beginning must today be made – we must begin with the nation itself. A new authority must be set up, and this authority must be independent of momentary currents of contemporary opinion, especially of those currents which flow from a narrow and limited economic egoism. There must be constituted a leadership of the state which represents a real authority, an authority independent of any one stratum of society. A leadership must arise in which every citizen can have confidence, assured that its sole aim is the happiness, the welfare, of the people, a leadership which can with justice say of itself that it is on every side completely independent.

Here’s the funny thing about that particular point of view…

This is the guy who actually said it.

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