Why do we not listen?

How often do you hear of cases where people who do HORRIBLE things actually tell others (written or verbal) EXACTLY what they are going to do and then they are surprised when they ACTUALLY DO IT?   The answer is: all to many times.

Psychologists say that it's the mark of a psycho-path or an ego-maniac.  They either internally want to be stopped and so they send out letters and such to hopefully get the help they need.  Or they get some sort of sick rush of endorphins knowing that you won't "get it" and have somehow pulled one over on you.

Case in point is Hitler's book "Mein Kampf"  (My Dream)  where he spells out exactly how he plans to take over the world and kill all of the Jews.  Most cast this off as ramblings of a strange person and did not take Hitler for what he claimed to be doing.  Except for some people, like Winston Churchhill who did take him seriously and take the necessary steps to get his country to stand up against him, many did not.  It was all right there.  All you had to do was read them damn book and you knew what was going to happen.

Have we learned our lesson yet?

I don't think so..

Today the Obama administration has come out with there election slogan:  Forward!

Now for most of us this is just a word.   In fact, it's not that different from MSNBC's slogan of "Lean Forward" so maybe Obama is just taking some direction from his fan-club.

But for those who know the history of communism, FORWARD is a common phrase.

Poster upon poster in Russia showed Stalin and Lenin with a variety of phrases below them

(go to the following link to see them all for yourself)
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/forward-for-communism-is-obamas-new-forward-slogan-really-a-coincidence/

Phases like:
Under Lenin's Banner: Forward to Victory!
Forward to Victory for Communism!
Mao's Great Leap Forward!
Forward to Communism!

Not that Obama cannot use the word "forward" and use it in a different way, but combined with the fact that his mother, grandfather, grandmother, mentors (Frank Marshall Davis) and friends (Bill Ayers) were all self-avowed communists) this must give you pause. 

Our problem is that we often don't take people on their own words.