From the same Der Spiegel article. Note the irony in Payne’s statement.
SPIEGEL: What do you think about the Germans today?
Payne: I am puzzled by intelligent people who stand by and allow their country to be taken over and run by extreme radical types. I’m still somewhat puzzled by that. And I am fully aware that it could happen and has almost happened in this country. You know, I lived through the McCarthy era in the 1950s, when it was getting dangerously close to that sort of thing.
Payne also says he admires Obama. He himself is a long time Dem.
From the same Der Spiegel article. Note the irony in Payne’s statement.
“SPIEGEL: What do you think about the Germans today?
Payne: I am puzzled by intelligent people who stand by and allow their country to be taken over and run by extreme radical types. I’m still somewhat puzzled by that. And I am fully aware that it could happen and has almost happened in this country. You know, I lived through the McCarthy era in the 1950s, when it was getting dangerously close to that sort of thing.”
Sorry. Forgot to put the excerpt in quotes.
Great. He was afraid of McCarthy exposing Commies in the government, but now cheers on his own grandnephew currently creating a new era of tyranny and economic oppression.
Yes, it’s bizarre. Obama’s grandfather seems to have been a strong leftist, maybe a Communist. I would guess that the whole family may have leaned that way.