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1 posted on 08/11/2009 4:01:23 PM PDT by SJackson
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Gerson and Buckley are correct. Other than in limited circumstances, with knowledgeable individuals. Which doesn't happen that often on the internet, far less in the voice media, politicians, enough said.

And Obama is so wrong on the issues, and people recognize that, why bother.

2 posted on 08/11/2009 4:04:04 PM PDT by SJackson (the number-one job facing the middle class...a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S. Jobs)
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The trouble here is the shoe, and the rhetoric, fits.


3 posted on 08/11/2009 4:05:53 PM PDT by skeeter
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Our problems aren’t worthy of Nazi metaphors

No, not yet anyway.

But a fascist government like ours might be.

4 posted on 08/11/2009 4:08:55 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (green is the new red.)
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One side:

Makes fun of the Special Olympics.
Gets mad at Sarah Palin for not aborting a downs syndrome child.
Kills unborn babies by the millions and burns them in ovens.
Pushes for “end of life” directives in a “Health Care” bill.
Pushes for abortion funding, with taxpayer dollars. Hires Ezekial Emanuel, brother of Rahm, a man who wants to get rid of the Hippocratic Oath and kill off the old and the disabled.
Hires Kathleen Sebelius, who was bankrolled, in politics, by Killer George Tiller.

This side ALSO tries to silence debate, and calls in thugs to beat up those who disagree with the statists.

The NAZI term is justified and it fits.

6 posted on 08/11/2009 4:10:50 PM PDT by Kansas58
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There are in fact actions the left is taking that is exactly like the course of the early NAZI movement.

Something for the mid-east ping.

http://www.tellthechildrenthetruth.com


7 posted on 08/11/2009 4:10:50 PM PDT by stockpirate (Barack Obama, the last black U.S. President!)
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The only retort that Socialists have to being CALLED socialists is to claim the “other side” to be “fascists” and “nazis”. Except Nazis too were National Socialists. And Fascism was of the Left.


10 posted on 08/11/2009 4:13:12 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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These lessons are relevant to politics. But they are trivialized when applied to Obama’s health insurance reform plan or the conduct of disorderly town-hall protesters. The burning of the Reichstag and Kristallnacht are not arguments against a single-payer health plan or against the Patriot Act.

Good article.

11 posted on 08/11/2009 4:13:28 PM PDT by x
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http://iowntheworld.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/obamas54strip11.jpg


12 posted on 08/11/2009 4:14:25 PM PDT by Bean Counter (No, I am Jim Thompson!!)
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Our problems aren’t worthy of Nazi metaphors

The Nazi's were not worthy of Nazi metaphors. Until they were. After they had laid their foundation.

You either learn from history or you repeat it.

13 posted on 08/11/2009 4:14:43 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (I miss the competent fiscal policy and flag waving patriotism of the Carter Administration)
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heard in the gas chamber: “I told you so”.


15 posted on 08/11/2009 4:16:40 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (...and never forget that!)
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We should wait until the shirts are brown. Purple doesn’t count.


16 posted on 08/11/2009 4:17:31 PM PDT by donna (Synonyms: Feminism, Marxism, Communism, Socialism, Fascism)
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WHO AM I?
I was born in one country, raised in another.. My father was born in another country. I was not his only child. He fathered several children with numerous women.

I became very close to my mother, as my father showed no interest in me. My mother died at an early age from cancer.

Later in life, questions arose over my real name.

My birth records were sketchy and no one was able to produce a legitimate, reliable birth certificate.

I grew up practicing one faith but converted to Christianity, as it was widely accepted in my country, but I practiced non-traditional beliefs & didn’t follow christianity, except in the public eye under scrutiny.

I worked and lived among lower-class people as a young adult, disguising myself as someone who really cared about them.

That was before I decided it was time to get serious about my life and I embarked on a new career.

I wrote a book about my strugges growing up. It was clear to those who read my memoirs that I had difficulties accepting that my father abandoned me as a child.

I became active in local politics in my 30’s then with help behind the scenes, I literally burst onto the scene as a candidate for national office in my 40s. They said I had a golden tongue and could talk anyone into anything. That reinforced my conceit.

I had a virtually non-existent resume, little work history and no experience in leading a single organization. Yet I was a powerful speaker and citizens were drawn to me as though I were a magnet and they were small roofing tacks.

I drew incredibly large crowds during my public appearances. This bolstered my ego. At first, my political campaign focused on my country’s foreign policy. I was very critical of my country in the last war and seized every opportunity to bash my country.

But what launched my rise to national prominence were my views on the country’s economy. I pretended to have a really good plan on how we could do better and every poor person would be fed & housed for free.

I knew which group was responsible for getting us into this mess. It was the free market, banks & corporations. I decided to start making citizens hate them and if they were envious of others who did well, the plan was clinched tight.

I called mine “A People’s Campaign” and that sounded good to all people.

I was the surprise candidate because I emerged from outside the traditional path of politics & was able to gain widespread popular support.

I knew that, if I merely offered the people ‘hope’ , together we could change our country and the world.

So, I started to make my speeches sound like they were on behalf of the downtrodden, poor, ignorant to include “persecuted minorities” like the Jews. My true views were not widely known & I needed to keep them unknown, until after I became my nation’s leader.

I had to carefully guard reality, as anybody could have easily found out what I really believed, if they had simply read my writings and examined these people I associated with.

I’m glad they didn’t. Then I became the most powerful man in the world. And the world learned the truth.

Who am I? .........

ADOLPH HITLER!
Who did you think I was talking about?

(could be coincidence...)


17 posted on 08/11/2009 4:23:34 PM PDT by rlmorel ("The Road to Serfdom" by F.A.Hayek - Read it...today.)
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Rush Limbaugh talked of “similarities between the Democrat Party of today and the Nazi Party in Germany.”

I heard that segment. He missed one- Nazis are, above all else, Statists. Government is the solution to all of our ills, and the more government the better.

The most radical extreme -personally- of my political paradigm as a Conservative, would be the utter absence of government. Freedom is, after all, freedom from what? Tyranny. Which is what? Overbearing government.

Anarchy is impractical, of course. The founding documents specify a very limited -but necessary- Federal government. Federal government however, has become a colossus, far in excess of it's original intent.

I wouldn't call it tyranny just yet. Today, it far exceeds what the Colonists rebelled over, but I wouldn't call it a tyranny in any contemporary sense.

It thinks that it has the best of intentions, of course. Tyranny seldom doesn't. It's just necessary to do whatever it takes to get people to get with the program, right? It's not there yet. But it's trying.

20 posted on 08/11/2009 4:28:07 PM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., compared America under Obama to Germany in the 1930s.

Which 1930s Germany? 1933 version or 1939 version? The point is, once you have gotten to full Nazi, it's vastly harder, if not impossible, to claw your way back to a representative Republic. And the Dems are showing signs of trying to increase their power over the private secort and to criminalize differences of opinions. The point is, now is the time to stop the power grabs, not in eight more years. And the only way to stop them is to get the body public to wake up to what the Dems are attempting.

22 posted on 08/11/2009 4:31:52 PM PDT by dirtboy
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Perhaps the parallels with NAZI ideals aren’t fully realized quite yet.
But given the National Socialist agenda the Left is huckstering, and some of the more shocking proposals in HR 3200, they’re not terribly far off.
Remember NAZI Germany had euthanasia for the
‘undersirable’. They required all corperations to have party members on their boards. Nationalized energy. I could go on, but you get the point. The democrats may not parallel Nazi-ism perfectly, but there sure is a lot correlation.


23 posted on 08/11/2009 4:36:46 PM PDT by NoelH
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Well, I guess he would not like this very much. HITLER RANTS ABOUT OBAMA HEALTHCARE AND RIGHT WINGERS - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2309654/posts


25 posted on 08/11/2009 4:40:39 PM PDT by doug from upland (10 million views of .HILLARY! UNCENSORED - put some ice on it, witch)
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Yeah, but it wasn’t worthy of an editorial until conservatives started calling liberals nazis. I didn’t see this kind of editorial during the days of “Chimpy Bushitler.”


30 posted on 08/11/2009 4:55:02 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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So leave the Nazis out of it, it’s not the proper analog anyway.

They’re fascists.

-—Petronski sends...


31 posted on 08/11/2009 4:55:32 PM PDT by cyborg (The Cyborg Show brought you by the Apple iPhone)
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Nazi, fascist, marxist, communist, islamo-fascist, liberal, Democrat, ...

Collectivist crap, by any other name, still smells like collectivist crap.

And more often than not, once they have total control people start getting killed in large numbers.

32 posted on 08/11/2009 4:56:02 PM PDT by meadsjn
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If the jackboot fits....


36 posted on 08/11/2009 5:01:24 PM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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