[Daveinyork]

These flippant comparisons of contemporary politicians, in particular, and of America, in general, to fascism/Nazism, cheapen the debate, and minimize the horror of an ideology that caused the death of an estimated 50 million people, including my great grandfather and about 40 other relatives whom I never had the opportunity to meet, because they were murdered before I was born.

[squarebarb]

That is just terrible about your relatives and your great-grandfather.

Ellison must be utterly uneducated to say something like that.

The only education he has is leftist talkiing points. He is rewarded, petted and applauded for repeating them.

[SJackson]

These flippant comparisons of contemporary politicians, in particular, and of America, in general, to fascism/Nazism, cheapen the debate, and minimize the horror of an ideology that caused the death of an estimated 50 million people...

Yes, that's point that should be made loudly every time the comparison is made. If Bush's actions post 9/11 equate with Hitler's post 1933, then Hitler wasn't such a bad guy after all.

[listenhillary]

Used to be that a statement like this would generate outrage from representatives and possibly they would demand that Ellison be officially censured or forced to apologize.

Now they are much like wild children that have never known any discipline. They are finding it harder and harder to get attention with outrageous statements, as the boundaries of outrageousness has been pushed so high.