Obama isn't Hitler or Stalin or the Anti-Christ
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Now they're just flat out saying he's Hitler. And Stalin. And the Anti-Christ. And other Really REALLY BAD things, you guys.
That means we can dispense with the blatant fiction that the Tea Party represents a legitimate political strand of the GOP anymore. Apparently what they really represent are arrested adolescents who express themselves as though they were still in junior high. With multiple exclamation marks, because they really really mean it!!!!!
On the main Tea Party web page this week the following web pages appeared: 'America's in Danger: Stand and Fight,' ran the headline. 'Prevent the Next Holocaust Right Here In America.'
The next Holocaust right here in America? Excuse me? Is this is the kind of operatic rhetoric they have to employ now to fire up the increasingly disinterested retirement communities that are the Tea Party's natural base? Because this is, it must be said, a new and completely objectionable level of barking mad.
'Now, all that we hold dear as Americans could be utterly annihilated,' screamed the Tea Party web page. 'Many say, 'Oh, that can’t happen here.' Do NOT be a fool!!!!'
Again with the apostrophes.
'Time is critical. It is running out! That is why we have decided to stand up and fight with all the power we have!'
Stand and fight? What does this mean exactly? Are the Tea Party about to fire on Gettysburg?
Perhaps we should ask Matt Drudge of the 90's web relic the Drudge Report. Obama's measured response to the challenge of the Newtown school massacre gave Drudge a very nasty case of the vapors which resulted in his decision to place pictures comparing the president to - you guessed it - Hitler and Stalin on his front page.
Are we seeing a trend? The Tea Party web page concludes that conservative politicians can no longer stop 'America’s Hitler,' so who does that leave? The South Park pensioners militia assembling in the town square?
What a difference having an African American president makes. Seriously!!!!!! See more: Irish Democrats , Irish in US Politics , Irish GOP , US president
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TomSwinford | Feb 21, 2013, 08:23 PM EST
falconflash, for the record I am hardly a liberal. I am and have always been a fiscal conservative. On social issues I am left of center but only by a hair. As for taxes, of the 34 OECD countries - most of those that count in our world - only three pay lower taxes than the U.S., as a percentage of GDP. In short, the U.S. is, by definition, a low tax country. As for corporate taxes, the infamous 35% rate that the GOP has decried ad nauseum is utterly meaningless as virtually no U.S. company pays that rate - in fact many U.S. companies, including some of our largest, pay no corporate taxes at all. The effective rate, the one that counts, is, on average, about 27% - also one of the lowest in the world. The Republican Party, in which I was a member for more than 20 years, was once considered the intelligent party; it is now the dunce party, mostly southern and rural, and white, angry and aging.
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falconflash | Feb 21, 2013, 04:32 PM EST
Tom, if you ask the average American what they think the Tea Party stands for they would probably say "lower taxes." Only a liberal like you could object to that simple, yet magnificent goal...these stories by your kind of how they are lunatics is just fear/loathing on your part, not theirs... the mid-term elections (2014) will be a confirmation or rejection of the Obama agenda....stay tuned.
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TomSwinford | Feb 21, 2013, 10:30 AM EST
Most political scientists on both sides of the political devide agree that Obama governs as a moderate in politic-speak, not a liberal, not a socialist, not a radical, not a communist. Thoughtful people, capable of critical analysis, would agree that we've got a moderate, pragmatic president. The GOP used to have liberal and moderate wings. The liberals are dead and gone and the few remaining moderates have been bullied and intimidated into silence - or have left in disgust or defeat. So, today we have a GOP that is composed of the right, the far right and the lunatic fringe, a party of largely angry, aging white guys, blindly marching with their beloved guns at the ready into irrelevance. A recent mailing to the tea-party faithful showed Karl Rove, maker of President Bush, as 'enemy of the people,' meaning the tea-party folks - and there was poor Karl dressed as Heinrich Himmler, SS chief and author of the Final Solution. It is instructive to see the GOP eat its young and its old. It is called self-destruction.
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Smyrnian | Feb 21, 2013, 05:57 AM EST
That headline us a real endorsement!
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irishpjk | Feb 20, 2013, 07:07 PM EST
wtf. Just remember all those guys were voted into power by the people that considered them good guys before the turned out to be bad guys. By the time their true colors were shown it was too late to reverse things, so my policy is to examine both sides then decide, I might make a bad decision but at least I look and listen to both sides.
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MegK311 | Feb 20, 2013, 05:17 PM EST
How about the woman who was a volunteer worker who admits she voted 6 times for Obama during the last election. She said she would do anything to keep Obama in office. I wonder how many times this was repeated accross the country by other Obama voters. Also Fox News backs up what they report and if you watched Fox News you would know that. Fox News reports the news that that the other news media don't report because it doesn't doesn't agree with their political views. Or it would make our President look bad and we can't have that happen.
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falconflash | Feb 20, 2013, 04:50 PM EST
America's Stalin? If he could be -- he would....Obama actually said he envied Communist China cause they didn't have to deal with a congress....so his game plan is to have a congress with both houses in Democrat control...and then he will roll the white middle class but good...he knows time is running out on his agenda which really was to bring in communism so he will settle for socialism. For now. He will consult the future Dems on how to go full Commie. He must be so disappointed that the Russian people have finally re-embraced Jesus as Christianity is the destroyer of communism............
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Eschetic | Feb 20, 2013, 03:49 PM EST
The biggest laugh of the day, albeit a sad one, is from the hate-monger below who cluelessly refers to the current, twice overwhelmingly elected and exceedingly MODERATE president as a "socialist usurper." Our poor correspondent is in serious need of a dictionary - the socialist charge was old in the 1960's and the very definition of a usurper would have to be the LAST president, who served two illegitimate terms based on a short count in Florida and rigged voting machines in Ohio - but perhaps self styled "conservatives" don't believe in provable history as opposed to "revealed truth" from the creative fiction writers at Fox "News."
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olovely | Feb 20, 2013, 02:31 PM EST
Cahir did not 'greatly exaggerate' MegK311 - he posted the link to the Tea Party post, written in their own words. They're nuts.
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MegK311 | Feb 20, 2013, 01:36 PM EST
Cahir, you greatly exaggerate the Tea Party because they disagree with all that you believe. People should pay attention to what Obama says and then watch what he does. He tells his adoring supporters what they want to hear. Then he does exactly what he wants to do which is very different from what he told us he was going to do. I don't think he remembers what he says from one day to the next. He is a great talker and I just wish he would shut up and stop flying around the country/world. He is on a continual campaign tour promoting himself. Stop listening to his pretty speeches and pay attention to what is happening behind closed doors.
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rhunter67 | Feb 20, 2013, 12:55 PM EST
First off, this country will not turn into some socialist paradise like so many people here think. Just because people are getting healthcare support, we're now the Soviet Union? I understand that the times have people disillusioned, but there is no reason to think that the country is in dire straights of becoming a Soviet-style state. Comparing Obama to Hitler, Stalin and the anti-Christ is deplorable. Nobody seems to remember that he didn't cause the economic situation, he didn't start the wars, but so many conservatives tend to forget the lies and manipulation of the Bush years. Will someone please to explain to me this "socialist stupor" I keep hearing about?
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Nicomax | Feb 20, 2013, 12:32 PM EST
I'm looking for my old web page that featured Cheney & Rumsfeld as the Rasputins to the Royal Family [the Bushes]. This cabal of neocons convinced the feckless Baby Bush that WMD were stock piled in the Iraqi sands, and only an all out war would save the white man from perdition, plus we will get their oil at a discount price. This was real stuff, not the made up crap Drudge is pushing, and certainly real enough for the families of the 4,550 dead, and 35,000 injured.
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pilib04 | Feb 20, 2013, 12:02 PM EST
Ohio's superintendent of schools had a similar picture of Obama on her Facebook page. She said she was sorry IF it offended anyone and removed it.
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PhlutiePhan | Feb 20, 2013, 11:15 AM EST
The problem with you reasoning is that "the horse that Mohammed rode" is not African-American. Both of his fathers were Islamic Africans and his mother, yes he really had a mother, was white. He is a radical socialist who will destroy the Republican Party and bring about Democratic one party rule. That is exactly what both Stalin and Hitler did on the road to national socialism and the destruction of capitalism. The Catholic bishops are well on board despite "lip synching" abortion criticism. The Church believes that the end result is that world Chardinian utopianism where Freud is king and Christ is dead.
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