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Kakan — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 12:44:37 -0000

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Lethologica — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:32:05 -0000

Sorry, wrong. White supremacist groups aren't necessarily Nazi groups. They're groups that sympathize with some of Hitler's goals. A big-government liberal may sympathize with Hitler's aim to provide universal healthcare (somebody quoted it above) while being horrified by his plan to exterminate the Jewry, and a white supremacist group may identify with the plan to exterminate Jews while not giving a d*** about the other political goals Hitler had. Neither of those groups are fascist (well...I suppose it depends on what else the big-government liberal identifies with from Hitler's program, since extermination of a minority group is not a necessary component of fascism...)

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James Guglielmino — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:11:02 -0000

What you are really saying is that every tool can be a weapon and every weapon can be a tool. I really do find it unsavory in a way that progressive income tax requires that I pay over 30% and some pay nothing but I find it more, no, far FAR more unsavory that flat income taxes result in a tiny increase in the very, very wealthy, a dimunition in the numbers of middle class and an ever increasing increase in those in poverty, a perfect formula for making us a feudal society. What I am getting at, in an indirect way, is that while the full name of the Nazi party is what you say it is, suggesting that Obama OR FDR are similar in any real way to Nazis is like saying that a shovel is like an Atomic bomb. Really, this is nonsense and it is hard to believe that anyone here really believes it.

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eh nonymous — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:43:26 -0000

Google results: 36,800 hits for "bushitler"; "135,000" hits for "hitlery." Not to make it partisan, I think we can all agree that in either case, it's lazy. And so is Muir's cartoon.

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Douglas Watts — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:01:10 -0000

Ed, the Michelle Obama spiel is basically "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." I admit though, that the syntax and tone of it is a bit weird. I think Michelle Obama has to either zip it or get much better at public speaking.

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Phil Weingart — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:25:11 -0000

...and here's where you were all made, folks:

Please.

This is like saying "Isaac Newton was the first to codify calculus, therefor Isaac Newton created the relationship between the slope of the line and the area under the line."

No, Media Matters didn't create the creepy feeling of the Obama campaign. Yes, they benefit from pointing it out. If you actually believe any of us here give a rat's whisker what Media Matters thinks, you need to stop taking whatever it is you're taking.

As to what sort of "debate" we have in mind, if you find it perfectly reasonable that grown adults are listening to a nice-looking man saying "change" and "hope" and "together, " and responding, teary-eyed, "this isn't running for President, this is going to change the world," then frankly, I'm not interested in debating you. But whether you like it or not, I'm going to find out what the guy is made of.

It's not just that people are following, it's that THERE IS NO MESSAGE. I've written about this elsewhere. Obama does not have a unique message. His message is wholehearted progressivism, with "let's work together" pasted on. His approach to unifying is unrealistic. The message is succeeding at this moment because we've all just faced 8 very unsettling years, during which time the common denominator of every jolt we've received is "things are not as stable as they appear on the surface." This is a petrie dish for demagoguery, and sure enough, now there's a demagogue growing on the agur.

This is PRECISELY what happened to Germany in the early 1930s. That doesn't make Obama Hitler, unless he's mad. But it does mean we're at a point where we can fall for just about anything, and the fact that he's charismatic says exactly NOTHING about what it is we're falling for.

You want to swallow what's in the dish? Go for it. But I'm going to find out what's there first, and I'm going to broadcast what I find.

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viking01 — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:59:16 -0000

Goodness jharp that response was beyond weak.

A couple of distant relatives in the German resistance got knocked off by "procedure" being conveniently executed by Hitler's hanging judge. It was all in accordance with legal "remedy" of a sort. jharp implies any ruling is a remedy therefore it must be okay. Too late to tell them I suppose.

The Kelo decision is what "pitched" the Constitution. Eminent domain was applied to purely political seizure of property for redistribution for private development not for public works such as bridges etc. as is its purpose. If the danger in that eludes poor jharp then he's beyond help.

It's little different than Slick and Hill seizing the Sierra Club tree house right in the middle of jharp's "Save the Squirrels" lecture then knocking it down to develop Whitewater and Castle Grande. Sorry there jharp maybe you shouldn't have blindly trusted "procedure."

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BurfordHolly — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:28:47 -0000

If Nazis aren't Fascists, why does "Liberal Fascism" have a smiley Hitler on the cover?

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nightjar — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:19:45 -0000

What Obama was proposing in the video has been around for decades for certain professions, i.e. doctors and teachers where they get help for school and promise to work in needed locations for a year or two. Ever watch Northern LIghts". If Obama expands that program it's hardly news and would be a good thing. And BTW Barrack clearly says we will ASK you for community service.

Your statement about middle class being squeezed from such a program is more non-sense. The middle class has taken a beating Bush policies for 7 years now and they know it, which is a big reason they dislike him.

Obviously you don't know much about the concientious objector program that was begun in WW 2 and is in place today. There were no gulag like forced labor camps as more than half were given non-combat jobs in the military and the rest helped with the war effort in other ways. They were (are) religious people ie Quakers, Mormons, Jehovah Witnesses etc...
Conscientious Objectors During World War II

And your mixing college financial aid with traditional welfare programs. Show me where Obama's plan calls for more "welfare" and less jobs. What a silly statement.

The "twisted version" is one with out of context quotes attempting
to portray as some authoritarian (fascistic) figure proposing forced labor.

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jharp — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:14:37 -0000

"Congressionally declared enemies"

First time I have heard this term. Please enlighten me.

Does this include American citizens?

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jharp — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:11:32 -0000

"Judicial oversight is what gave us Kelo vs. City of New London and up-ended private property rights."

I agree the republican majority of the Supreme Court made a poor decision. So let's just pitch the constitution then. Is that what you're saying?

And there is a procedure in place to remedy such decisions.

The rest of your post is nonsense.

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pl — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:54:21 -0000

I'm sorry I gave you a hit. I reached this page by accident. Could you make sure your advertisers know that?

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Guest — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:45:38 -0000

For seven years, we have heard the Left compare George Bush to Adolf Hitler. I find the sudden outrage over Chris Muir's deliberate poking of this impulse more than just a little hypocritical.

What the Left does is the Left's business, and since the Left is completely bereft of class we should not be using them as any kind of standard. To compare a candidate's wife to Goebbels is beyond the pale.

I've pointed out Muir's lack of class before. The strip is worthless and the site would be better off without it.

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TrollFeeder — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:16:18 -0000

The Executive branch has always had the power to monitor the communications of our Congressionally declared enemies without judicial oversight.

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TrollFeeder — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:04:14 -0000

To repeat my comment buried high above, a better choice might have been a British Labour Party pol speaking about the Control of Engagements Order.

Except that no one would have understood the reference.

Folks understand the meaning of the brownshirt.

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HongKongFluie von AH_C — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:01:59 -0000

Not to mention using doctors to extract precious metals from victims and to tan the skins and not the suntan variety

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HongKongFluie von AH_C — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:57:40 -0000

Mis-spouting Biblical passages is only digging yourself in deeper.

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HongKongFluie von AH_C — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:53:47 -0000

Desperate false pride is the hallmark of progressive donks. Just ask Michelle Obama about what she's proud of.

In digging a new pothole (pride), you managed to come full circle and fill the original.

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HongKongFluie von AH_C — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:45:12 -0000

I thot that as political cartoons go, it packed a tome in just a couple of panels. Touche & pot meets kettle

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TrollFeeder — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:41:51 -0000

I have no problem with the Nazi comparison, because more people are likely to get the inference.

However, I think that an even apt comparison would be to the British Labour Party pols who extended the Control of Engagements Order beyond the end of WW2.

I reckon that most people have no idea that the British government in the late 40's could tell its subjects where and what they would be working at. I also reckon that this power is near the top of the wish list of every leftist in existence.

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viking01 — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:26:01 -0000

Whoa there!
Judicial oversight is what gave us Kelo vs. City of New London and up-ended private property rights. How quickly Constitutional rights can be dissolved or weakened by the slam of a pernicious socialist gavel.

Take Mrs. Obambi's practically alluding that whatever is not voluntary shall be mandatory. Big sista accidentally leaks big brutha's big pictcha. That kind of spousal power trip 'tude could make Janet's famous Waco barbecue look like a day at the beach. Obambi dare not make Michelle sad lest his smile not glimmer so brightly while he's out tempting the dupes. Then there would have to be a co-presidential trade to patch things up. Much like Bubba traded Hillarycare and Travel Office to the keeper of his 'nads so he could keep boinking the employees. My how the Democrats change.

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SDN — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:23:52 -0000

No, I've been right here on this planet. What color is the sky on planet Burford?

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TrollFeeder — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:23:36 -0000

Liberals are fascists. Nazis were fascists.

Similarly, pigs are animals; frogs are animals.

You are the one who writes that Liberals are Nazis. Do you also claim that pigs are frogs?

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TrollFeeder — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:55:21 -0000

Yeah. Obama and FDR just want( to make me and my children slaves to the state.

That's so much better.

The Dems are not helping take care of "Americans who have nothing." They are forcing me to do so on pain of imprisonment.

The left prior to WW2 proudly proclaimed that they were fascists. It is a testament to their (your) deeply superficial level of thought and morality that Germany's experiment caused them (you) only to abandon the name and not the ideas.

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jharp — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:44:00 -0000

njcommuter,

This is exactly why we have judicial oversight.

I very much hope you understand this. And also please understand judicial oversight is exactly what George Bush feels is no longer necessary.