Bush, Clinton, Bush and Obama have all been terrible for this country. All of them had or have socialistic/communistic tendencies. The fact that some people want Hillary Clinton to run for president in 2016 is a clear indicator of just how stupid and dumbed down the masses have become. The majority of Americans want to be controlled and they are too dumb to even be aware of it. Go ahead and debate all you want about FOX news and CNN and which one that you think is telling the truth. You are only adding to the stupidity and are keeping both sides (Democrat and Republican) happy by being divided. It's your division that continues to make you easier to control. Both Democrat and Republican parties are dead. There is only one party running this country (and for that matter the entire world) and that party is the party of the elite class. You are nothing to them. They look at all of you as if you are ants just waiting to be stomped on! The left is bad and the right is bad. If you are left- you are left of the constitution. If you are right- you are right of the constitution. Neither party was envisioned by our founders and George Washington himself despised the notion of a two party system because he knew that it would divide the country. And if you are one of those morons who believe that the constitution is outdated then I have no sympathy for your stupid, brainwashed ass!
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hardly visionary.
History is replete with such examples.
Right down to "It Can't Happen Here" (1935?).
And be careful; there is a difference between actual connections and wrongly perceived ones (or what you want to see). If you think the 1983 miniseries was envisioning Obama, that's a little cuckoo never mind other administrations

Need a laxitive?

DELETE your lying, stupid comment, user blktoptryl, or you will
be identified, found, tortured, and killed.
Is that what you really want? Hmm.
And, no, that will not make you a martyr for your traitorous cause.
Your head will be placed atop a spike as a warning to others.
~I can sing better than Taylor Hicks!

Another idiot heard from.

How has it been socialism?
Unless George W Bush and Reagan were socialists I mean, just google "Obama Bush third term" or "Obama is Bush 2.0" and read the opinions of people who aren't going to agree with your claims. (Try going to some political forums as well, if you really want to discuss details with others)

After reading these comments and seeing how some have fallen for the propaganda put out by the current corrupt administration and its lap dogs at CNN, NBC, ABC,CBS, MSNBC, News Week, New York Times, etc etc etc, I really believe that it is too late for this country.
The slide to solicialism and then to tyrany is unstoppable.
"Mr.President, would you read the Constitution if it were on your teleprompter?"

"I was stunned when I noticed how the dialogs in V is relevant and applicable to the current adminstration 25 years later."
Yes, BOTH the Democratic and Republican ones.

obama, more than anyone
You Have a Hard Lip, Herbert..
Better Living Thru Chemistry

jriddle73, great response. Couldn't have said better.

If the fascist mobs you're referring to are tea party attendees then that's ridiculous. The man who organized the one in Indiana, where I live, is a regular business owner. He's now running against Evan Bayh. I don't believe in silencing a news organization, if that's what the Bush administration was doing, but I do think that there is more than one side to every story. I investigate things. I don't just listen to the news, on any channel, to get my facts. I don't believe in total government control either & that is what V centers on. The loss of freedom & the fight against the loss of freedom.
Go shake down the 7-11 for a day old wiener. Melvin- As Good as it Gets

Sadly, someone is using the new V series to make a commentary on the Obama administration. I really don't appreciate that element of the new series so far.

Whose idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have an "S" in it?

This is probably the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. I love too how conservatives cannot admit that Bush was exactly how they explain Obama is. You can criticize Obama as much as you want, but at least show us you have a brain and start off by saying something like "I know Bush trampled over our civil rights and freedoms and outright lied to us for the past 8 years, but Obama" Do that and you'll at least give yourself some credibility. Otherwise you just come off as naive or maybe you just got back from Diana's conversion chamber.

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I thought the Americans were more afraid of
Communism
than
fascism.
I realized that they are the same in terms of
Totalitarianism.
What is the difference between fascism, communism, & totalitarianism?
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091231185730AAfqY1w
Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.

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Yeah, Fox News is not a news organization, but MSNBC, NY Times etc are all news organizations, Melissa Harris Perry is not racist, CNN's Carol Costello is an unbiased 'journalist', blah blah blah.
The guy hired by this administration called stupid all who voted for BO - http://www.vox.com/2014/11/13/7211279/obamacare-jon-gruber-controversy
and also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm1KOBMg1Y8

But Fox is not a news organization. They successfully sued in court that they were an entertainment organization, and not real news.

A simple google of "FOX lies" can bring up a lot of results try it some time. FOX has a history of spin that's on par with anyone else in the "liberal media", even if FOX leans more "conservative". They all spin; any outlet that tries to overtly say they don't isn't going to be telling you the truth either, but they will hope you will blindly swallow it.
And what's your definition of "socialism", since that is a completely different style of government than "fascism"

You have a pretty short memory. Check the records. And you might want to do some digging on anything you hear from Fox. They can get it right, but they're just as bad as MSNBC, just the other direction. News media as entertainment.

President Bush never, to my knowledge, blasted a news organization the way Obama has blasted Fox.
Fox a news organizationLOL now that's a good one! FOX is just right-wing mouth piece.

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Now THAT is the sort of informed response that is rare on the internet. Even my responses, meant just to bring up opposing points of view for the same reason others posted their views in the first place, don't include that level of detail. But my goal is thinking of perspectives, regardless of what my true beliefs are.
And don't forget "free speech zones".
A lot of the Obama people certainly choose not to remember anything from last decade but who said Obama eliminated such zones; I don't keep up with politics to that level of detail

Hmmmmm.President Bush never, to my knowledge, blasted a news organization the way Obama has blasted Fox.
Fox "News" openly helps organize fascist mobs against the Obama administration, and is temporarily denied the opportunity to interview an Obama official. When, OTOH, the New York Times spilled the beans on Bush's criminal wiretapping scheme, the administration not only "blasted" the Times (even though the paper had done Bush the inexcusable favor of sitting on the story for a year in order to ensure Bush's reelection)it threatened to actually prosecute the newspaper. Calls for such a move were quite loud in the pro-Bush press. The administration asserted, in writing, that it could suspend the 1st Amendment and other fundamental constitutional protections at will, and these weren't theoretical legal opinionsthey were adopted as official policy. For
years
, you couldn't say anything critical about the Bush administration without having 10,000 pro-Bush slugs descend upn you and accuse you of being pro-terrorist (I was on the sustained receiving end of more of that than I care to remember, and all I did was write some blog posts). The administrations' apologists were like the inbred pro-Visitor mobs of V, attacking and persecuting scientists because they'd been portrayed as enemies. For that matter, the Bush administration also waged its own war on science for the whole of its reign.
The Visitors kidnapped huge numbers of people, tortured some of them, put many of them in cold storage for dinner later. Bush, though he had no dinner plans for his victims, employed the same methods. The administration ignored the law and the constitution at will, asserting, among so many other things, the power to kidnap, torture, ship to foreign soil to be tortured (like a mother-ship), or "detain" anyone it arbitrarily designated an enemy. Bush claimed the power to prosecute those so designated in secret trials with secret evidence and predetermined outcomes, to kill them in secret, and to just leave them in a deep, dark hole forever, no access to courts, lawyers, anything.
When it comes to resources, the Visitors were after our water and our meat, while Bush was after the oil. Everything the Visitors told the humans about their plans and intentions was completely false, a tapestry of lies designed to herd public opinion behind them long enough to put their real plans into effectexactly what happened with Bush.
I could go on at some length, but I think the point is more than made, and as disappointing as Obama has been, no similar parallels with the Visitors and his administration even remotely exist.