Broun's back on Obama - Stands by remarks

Athens Banner Herald ^ | 11/11/08 | Blake Aued

[Renegade]

The populace better start “carrying’, permit or not !

[Emperor Palpatine]

They hate each other because they're so much alike. The same reason Pittsburgh hates Cleveland and vice-versa...

[RU88]

“Comparisons to Hitler are despicable because they trivialize the Holocaust, whether they come from the left about President Bush or from the right about Obama, said Athens-Clarke Mayor Heidi Davison, a Jewish Democrat. “I don't like people who flippantly use either ‘Hitler’ or ‘Nazi’ to describe the actions of other people, at all, ever,” Davison said.”

To say that this statement is disingenious at best is a mile long stretch. Heidi acted like a deaf mute for the last eight years and now when her boy gets called out for who he is she throws a hissy fit. Get over it Heidi. Last time I looked we still have a First Amendment.

[grimalkin]

"Broun's neo-McCarthyism has no place in today's political environment," said Martin Matheny, a spokesman for the Democratic Party of Georgia

McCarthy was correct.

[Cindy]

http://www.hallindsey.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=307

HAL LINDSEY.com
“Obama Youth”
November 2008

COMMENTARY SNIPPET: “Georgia Rep. Paul Broun formally apologized to his constituents for comments he made concerning Barack Obama’s proposed civilian security force. Broun compared it to those of a Marxist dictator.
I read through Broun’s comments carefully. Broun related the historical facts concerning the use of internal security services by both the Nazis and the Soviets pretty accurately.

Where he got into hot water was when mentioned Hitler and Obama in the same sentence: “That’s exactly what Hitler did in Nazi Germany and it’s exactly what the Soviet Union did,” Broun said. “When he’s proposing to have a national security force that’s answering to him, that is as strong as the U.S. military, he’s showing me signs of being Marxist.”

Broun was immediately denounced as a “far right nut job” by the ever-tolerant left with editorials calling for everything from his impeachment to his commitment to a mental hospital. (Sounds like he inadvertently discovered another similarity to the political climate of past dictatorships.)

I went back and read what Obama said last July: “We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.

Maybe Broun is a far right nut job and all that, but the fact is, both Hitler and Stalin organized para-military security forces loyal only to them – and immediately denounced any who dared criticize the plan. I don’t know what Obama has in mind in the U.S., but a para-military civilian force as powerful, as strong and as well-funded as a nation’s military is what they used, too.
When Obama mentioned it on the campaign trail, I thought maybe it was some kind of “red meat” being tossed to a far-left liberal audience to grab a few votes, not a formal policy. Then I read WorldNetDaily’s report regarding Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel’s interview outlining the vision.
(Obama’s website says his civilian force will “require” middle school students to participate. Whether Broun is nuts or not, Hitler also required middle school students to join his student army, known as the Hitler Youth.)”