The Presidential Pledge, the YouTube video produced by an admirer of Leni Riefenstahl, is creepy. I pledge that I will remain an individual, and not a mindless cog. I pledge to look after myself, but not after you--and if you look after me I pledge to give you the finger. When Cameron Diaz, Ashton Kutcher, and Puff Daddy tell me to do something, I pledge to do the opposite. I pledge to not follow leaders and to watch the parking meters. As the Boston Herald's Michael Graham notes, "Seriously--if a dozen college conservatives had lined up on TV to pledge their service to George W. Bush, wouldn't there be an HBO documentary on 'America's BusHitler Youth' by the end of the week?" Good Germans make bad Americans.

Goebbels: "To be a socialist, is to submit the I to the though; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole."

Hitler, on "idealism": "By this we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men."

When we see these morons - not the intellectual sort - pledge servitude to the president and all mankind(!), "because together we can, together we are, and together we will be," we hear Goebbels's socialism, Hitler's ideal, and the collectivist theory that led to totalitarianism in practice.

Good Germans make bad Americans. Right on the money.

I had seen this but didn't even realize just how bad it got. I did not make it to the explicit pledging allegiance (let alone servitude) to Obama.

Seriously, this country is effed up.

I actually pledge to do the exact opposite of every single thing in this video. I'm going to start by flushing the toilet multiple times in each and every instance where I need to relieve myself (1, 2 OR 3...) and will conclude by giving the finger to everyone in the bathroom upon exit.

I will provide further updates to my plan as they become available.

I think another important take home message from Graham's article is: shouldn't these be things we do anyways? why is it that only under new leadership that people decide they want to be a better person and make a pledge? Celebrities are ridiculous.

I didn't think it was that bad (just stupid)... until the last ten seconds. The collective pledge to support the leader is chilling.

Why should this surprise anybody?

It's the cult of Obamunism. You can't stop it; you can't question it; all opposition is futile and will be silenced and squelched. Expectations are that we should all just blindly and blissfully follow the One and his minions who are smarter and more aware than us unwashed.

You're a Conservative talk radio host and you disagree? The era of intellectual fascism is afoot. Not only is the One firing a shot across the bow of free speech, but he is trying to shoot the messengers who are daring to tell the Emperor that he has no clothes. Especially with regard to this massive bogus bail out/stimulus boondoggle that will destroy our economy and likely set our way of life back years.

But, on a much more serious note - Demi Moore is a killer cougar. I'll take the pledge with her anytime!

C'mon, guys.

"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs."

What could possibly go wrong?

Geesh!!

The religious overtones are really troubling to me: saying that we should opt for paper over plastic so that we can be on this planet forever. (Get a sense of proportion. Besides, who wants to be here forever?) And the collective chant-adaptation of the traditional "Glory Be" into the Obama "We Will Be" at the very end is like material for a California 1970s chastity cult or something.

Thank the Lord that Speaker Pelosi has a plan that will help the economy! For a mere $300 million dollar chunk of the bogus "Bail out / Stimulus" package, by the loose standards of S.F. way left logic, the money will go toward birth control that will result in fewer people thus less of a financial and social burden to take care of them.

That San Fran Nan is always thinking.

Wait, wait, wait. Are we supposed to be using paper or plastic? I switched when the freaks told me that we wouldn't have any trees any longer. Are there going to be trees or not if I use paper bags? I really like using paper, it hides the bottle of ripple or my 40 fairly well. Plastic, not so much.

Even the image of Obama seems in the style of socialist realist posters of Stalin and Lenin. It's creepy, and it should be answered with ridicule. It's ridiculous.

He just gave his first network news interview as a U.S. President to an Arab news network.

Who knew!!! ;-)~.......... Stay tuned.

I have question. Is there any incentive for anybody to defend our country by putting themselves in harms way anymore?

We have a petty dictator now running the country who seems to hold other countries' interests above us, a supposed opposition party who is content to go along to get along and an ever more corrupt and greedy government who are willing to ruin the economy of the United States and sell our livelihood out to the highest bidders.

So, remind me, what are Americans dying abroad to protect?

Is it life imitating art or art imitating life when the video reminds me of the themes of Ayn Rand's novel Anthem, which was a dire warning of the dangers of collectivism?

"We are one in all and all in one. There are no men but only the great WE, One, indivisible and forever."

::shudder::

ASDF,

Americans have been dying abroad for the past five years because of George Bush, not Obama. Once your cult icon, President Bush, leaves office you then believe there's nothing worth dying for? This really illustrates how deep your Bush cultism goes: dying for Bush is worthwhile, but dying for Obama isn't.

What were Americans dying to protect during the Bush Administration?

You're very observant.