It's Nazi Time again in American politics. Several of America's most noted right-wing pundits are once again fixated on swastikas and skinny mustaches as they seek to explain why Americans should trust their judgment with regard to how to fix our problems. Their goal? To slime anyone who doesn't think the policies pursued by a centrist Democrat such as Barack Obama--or even a committed (albeit pragmatic) liberal like, say, Nancy Pelosi--are somehow indistinguishable from those pursued by the Third Reich.
Hard to believe? Let's take a closer look.
Newt Gingrich appears to be running for president in 2012 as the candidate who is not quite as crazy as Sarah Palin. But apparently Gingrich spied all those "Obama = Hitler" signs at Tea Party rallies and health care town halls and is now worried that too much of the crazy vote is slipping through his fingers. How else to explain why a man who once taught college-level history writing--in a book, no less, not a blog post--can claim that contemporary Democrats, including particularly the Obama administration, are a "secular-socialist machine" that "represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union."
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Wait a minute-......we're supposed to follow a bloviator who essentially gets paid for their opinions and for the most part don't have to back up anything they say/print etc. with any facts, nor are they in any position to formulate government policy?
That's news to me.
Who is for more government in our lives? Left or Right? Your statement is ridiculous.
Who is for more freedom in our lives? Left or Right? Your statement is ridiculous.
I got news for you. 85% of the people who read a comment like yours see the utterly ridiculous assumptions on your part.
I retired from the union. I am a living testament to the fact that unions are good Look at the wages of GM/Ford/Chrysler and compare them to the Japanese! They are almost 2x higher! As progressives/democrats we should be proud of what we have accomplished - I still keep my Kerry/Edwards bumper sticker on my Subaru.
I see the ravishes of capitalism on my daily tour of my neighborhood on my electric golf cart. Employees of Google do not comply with garage door opening tolerances, nor are they picking up pet waste using the recommended approaches - because they work too hard. We need to unionize and make Google green.
Also, John F. Kerry wants to shut down those Nazi talking airwaves. That's great, because we all know that the likes of John Kerry would make better news than Beck! Let's take them over! Just as a reminder Kerry replaced all of his lights with fluorescents, in all eight of his homes!
Government knows best for you and me!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law