Obama isn't Hitler or Stalin or the Anti-Christ

Posted on Wednesday, February 20, 2013 at 12:02 AM

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In the Harry Potter alternative universe that is the acknowledged home of the floundering Tea Party, they have finally stopped comparing President Obama to the rogues gallery of lesser known tyrants.

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?

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mairint | Feb 20, 2013, 11:11 AM EST

As usual Cahir is out to lunch. Now that USA has a president who is so pleased with himself for paying back the pro-aborts who campaigned for him, with 3,300 U.S. citizens exterminated each day - denied their choice for life - while families are losing their livlihood and their homes and homosexuals are ecstatic with their president who just adores them so much, you should be dancing with delight Cahir. Go on, make hay and ridicule with hatred any Republicans who bemoan that the president is not an honorable statesman but does whatever he can to wreck the American way of life in favour of Marxist Socialism.

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kelauggie1 | Feb 20, 2013, 11:04 AM EST

If you knew anything about history - and about the actions of the Big O - you might not be so quick to dismiss the comparisons to those tyrants. We are in dire straits, and are being led deeper by this socialist usurper. Open your eyes, and stop thinking that he is a great person. It is abundantly obvious that he has bad intentions for this formerly great country.

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jamieLM | Feb 20, 2013, 11:03 AM EST

@Cahir, Why do you care about the opinions of the Tea Party whom you despise and disagree with? I would think you would only care about the opinions of those you respect. Obama is not Hitler or Stalin or a saint. He is the POTUS for the next 4 yrs. Like all presidents, he has a personal and a political side which Americans can choose to like or dislike. Look at historical books, newspapers, and political cartoons. Americans have been critical, judgmental, and verbally abusive in regard to their elected officials since Pres. Washington was elected.

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wjb1tex | Feb 20, 2013, 10:38 AM EST

The Tea Party like most other organizations start out with ideals that many agree with. However eventually the extremes take over and it no longer represents the original intentions of the majority. This is true of so many organizations. The Sierra Club was once a wonderful group whose interests in nature is now just another political group. AARP once represented the interests of seniors. Now it is a money making company selling insurance. Organized Labor suffers from some of the same problems in my opinion.

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patrickesq | Feb 20, 2013, 10:28 AM EST

The Tea Party is very sick and I hope their Party is over. They are fanatical, if not diabolic, with no respect for our constitutional democracy and its duly elected leaders.

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FastEddy | Feb 20, 2013, 10:19 AM EST

You are right, more like Mussolini. Latest demo-fascist move: more presidential orders to grab guns while homeland "security" buys another 1.6 Billion bullets ... Here come the Brown Shirts.

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slainte9 | Feb 20, 2013, 10:06 AM EST

There's a main Tea Party web page? If you folks think the Tea Party is nuts, you should read all the comments by NY Times readers who think the deranged man who shot police and their children is a hero. That was a real stunner.

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CelticQueenUSA | Feb 20, 2013, 10:03 AM EST

I am sic to death of the hate, bigotry and racial slurs I have seen about this fine man who is doing his best to bring this nation together. The Tea Party is disgusting and I am disppointed in the GOP which I now call the Goofy Old Party@

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TheOldPerfessor | Feb 20, 2013, 09:08 AM EST

The inhabitants of the Hateosphere could also dredge up Caligula. He was a really, really bad guy. Also Oliver Cromwell. Let's show some imagination here!

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