Congressman Apologizes for Hitler Comparison in Radio Remarks

The Associated Press ^ | Jul 17, 2005 | Anon AP Stringer

[miss marmelstein]

When are New Jersians (myself included) going to start electing officials who have brains? The poorly articulated remarks of this guy are not to be believed.

[topher]

LoBiondo + Atlantic City + Gambling = corruption

Well, he is a Northeast Republican. Olympia Snow, Arlen Specter, and Susan Collins fit this mode.

Maybe no surprise except that the Republican party should probably disown some of these RINOs.

[Northern Yankee]

Gee... Why is Hitler the worst evil out there?

Certainly Stalin ranks just as bad.

[mainepatsfan]

Don't forget Mao.

[DoughtyOne]

Let's just say that the terrorists have introduced a way to intentionally indescriminantly mass murder random innocent individuals.

Both Hitler and these miscreants were/are examples of the worst of humanity.

Hitler actually focused on select groups to exterminate. The terrorists will kill anyone. They don't care who it is, as long as it's as manny as they can. Anyone happening by, even if it's their leader by accident, they all deserve to die. It's a (very flawed) means to and end, instilling terror.

[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on or off this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

[topher]

Well, he is a Northeast Republican. Olympia Snow, Arlen Specter, and Susan Collins fit this mode.

Well, I have foot-in-mouth disease with my post. After a closer look at his voting, is a strong Republican in way I would want a Republican to vote.

His Italian name probably means he has more a Catholic tradition than anything to the gambling industry.

And Atlantic City is his home because of the Atlantic County area is his home because of the Ocean, apparently not Atlantic City.

[ncountylee]

Dean would point out that he wasn't tried convicted.

[zeebee]

Many people believe nothing can compare...

[Northern Yankee]

Don't forget Mao.

Exactly right!

But oddly to the left, these people are to be emulated.

Strange...

[Surtur]

quote "Hitler, in his philosophy, was, you know, he hated Jews, he was murdering Jews, and there were some people he liked. But he never went to the level that these people are going to," LoBiondo said. A caller objected to the statement only a few minutes later. /quote Odds are the caller was jewish or a zionist non-jew and objected to the part of the statement that said, "But he never went to the level that these people are going to." The idea that Hitler was the worst evil in human history bcause of his hatred of the jews is a sacrosant proposition that must never be questioned. Was Hitler evil, absolutely, but was he the worst evil in humanities history? Probably not. It is unfortunate, but human history is full of evil men and women (Ghengis Khan, Attilla, even Alexander commited attrocities in large scale). Hitler, it can be argued was not even the worst evil of the 20th century. He had quite formidable compatriots for that honor in Hirohito, Stalin, Mao, and to a lesser extent (only in the volume of people who died, not in his evil), Pol Pot.

[Surtur]

quote Hitler actually focused on select groups to exterminate. /quote

Actually, Hitler was a pretty indiscriminate exterminator. History focuses on the jews, but he also wanted to eliminate gypsies, catholics, communists, and basically everyone who was not genetically Aryan, whatever that may be.

[adam_az]

The Nazis were allies with the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Hitler greatly admired Islam, and there were Bosnian Muslim SS Stormtroopers. Two full strength divisions, I recall.

[Abcdefg]

Quite often Republicans are just "the lesser of two evils". Less socialist than Democrats, less hostile to individual freedom, less likely to sell out the country for a buck.
For conservatives who believe the Constitution defines the powers delegated to government, Republicans are the only game in town.
There are a lot more good Republicans than there are good Democrats in politics.

[adam_az]

"Actually, Hitler was a pretty indiscriminate exterminator. History focuses on the jews, but he also wanted to eliminate gypsies, catholics, communists, and basically everyone who was not genetically Aryan, whatever that may be."


He wasn't even a very good racist.

He exterminated many Russians and Poles, who are blond haired/blue eyed in greater numbers than Germans.

He allied with Japan, who was not even close, but invaded Denmark, where here are many "aryan" types.

Maybe Germans are Catholic, and he didn't get rid of the Catholic church in Germany. He also allied with Catholic Italy, only a small part of which is blond haired.

He was, however, a quite conventional leftist.

HITLER WAS A SOCIALIST
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1143131/posts

[adam_az]

"Actually, Hitler was a pretty indiscriminate exterminator. History focuses on the jews"

HITLER focused on the Jews, but not exclusively.

He tried to exterminate the Jews in a way that he did not any other group he targetted. The "final solution" was not the final solution for communists, poles, or catholics - it was the final solution for what he called the "Jewish problem." Which was that we existed at all.

[Pharmboy]

I believe that part of the reason that what Hitler did is seen as particularly heinous is that it was better documented than the Mao and Stalin horrors.

For example, do we have film and/or stills of millions of Kulaks dying from famine in the Ukraine by Stalin's hand? Or similar documentation for the millions of Chinese women and children killed by Mao?

The Rwanda atrocity was better documented and is therefore harder to ignore/discount.

[Tall_Texan]

Stupid Party Alert.

Watch him catch ten times the hell Dickless Durbin got because he has an "R" next to his name.

[NormsRevenge]

Let me guess, he's a moderate R.. eh?

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Some people still like Stalin and Mao.