“I’m not against Barack Obama,” said Willie J.R. Fleming, an organizer with the Coalition to Protect Public Housing and a former public housing resident. “What I am against is some of the people around him.”

1938: “If only Comrade Stalin knew that innocent people were being arrested and shot, he’d put a stop to it. Beria is surely doing this behind our Leader’s back.”

1942: “The Fuehrer must be receiving bad advice from Goebbels and Goering. If he only knew what was truly going on in the East, he’d end it in a minute.”

1967: “Disloyal elements within the Party must be misleading Chairman Mao. He’d surely stop this Cultural Revolution insanity if he only knew how much the peasants were suffering.”