1/7/13: Obama dictator?

Some claim that Obama is a dictator in the rising and will become the likes of Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin. I disagree with this prediction.  Below I have posted the list of things that are most important in making a dictator, and compare them to Obama to support my disagreement.

Poor economic crisis/conditions of terrible times

Control of the media

Develop a cult of personality

Use the schools

Laws to give you more power

Eliminate other political parties

Isolated/Eliminated potential rivals

Censored free speech

Promised change/better times

Powerful/Motivating speaker

Developed a scapegoat

Perused territorial expansion

Used nationalism

Gained power legally

Used religion

Military background

Hard childhood

Educated but not successful 

America is not in economic crisis. Unemployment is rising and the slight difficulties we are encountering are not nearly as bad as those from which dictators rose from.

Obama does not control the media. Go to fox news channel for proof.

Obama does not have a cult of personality. He does claim to be superior or greater then anyone else.

Obama does not use the schools. Our textbooks are not rewritten to teach us how great Obama and democrats are.

Obama has not passed any laws to give him more power in the government.

Obama has not eliminated other political parties or isolated/eliminated potential rivals. The Republican party is alive and well and Obama is not sacking anyone too close to his power (i.e. Joe Biden)

Obama has not censored free speech. I can say anything negative about Obama that I want.

Obama HAS promised change, even integrated it into his slogan. Wait- what president hasn't promised better times?

Obama is a powerful speaker, but he is no Adolf Hitler. He does not get as into his speeches as Hitler or Mussolini did.

Obama has not developed a scapegoat. Except perhaps the GOP. However his scapegoat is not a religious, ethnic, or racial group as it was for the dictators.

Obama is not pursuing nor has he ever pursued territorial gains. 

Obama does use nationalism a little bit. So did John F Kennedy, considered to be one of the greatest American presidents. ("Ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you can do for your country.")

Obama is not gaining power legally or attempting to.

Obama clearly states that he respects all religions and does not use a certain one to gain power.

Obama does not have a military background.

Obama DID struggle as a child, this is the one main aspect he shares with the dictators.

Whether Obama struggled in middle school/high school is unknown. We know he became successful as he became senator and now president.