Hitler and Obama

[thiosk]

everyone who isn't drinking the kool-aid knows that obama is using his urban gardening projects to cover his secret concentration camp construction projects.

Sure its all fun and games now, but these stimulus projects are all concentration camps. or at least roads to concentration camps. or toilets in concentration camps.

Speak out now against Barack Ohitler, stop him from dragging your american brothers away to taxpayer funded camps. for when they come for you, who will be left to speak out?
the hope zombies sure won't.

 

[Psypherus]

Obama=Hitler? What retard came up with that comparison?

bill O'Rielly, Rush Limbaugh and those crazy people at the townhall debates.

It was meant to be a rhetorical question but only cause I didn't think I'd get an answer. Thank you, now I know who to label "retarded"

 

[LongAndShort]

This is entertaining. I do recall Hitler instituting some free national health care program. I think it was called the T4 program. Of course it did involve removing anybody considered unhealthy, such as the mentally challenged. Is Obama planning anything like that? No? well than I guess he's pretty different from Hitler.

 

[Woem]

Who says this? I have never seen some one compare anyone to Hitler, let alone Obama.

For instance LaRouche [http://larouchepac.com/health] is an organization that actively campaigns against "Obama's Nazi Healthcare Reform". Their protest signs made our evening news, which I why I started looking up information about this and to my dismay I found more than I cared for.

 

[Brett Alex]

http://obamaisliterallyhitler.tumblr.com/

I have not laughed that hard for awhile.

 

[NeutralDrow]

Representative Barney Frank (who is Jewish, mind you) was asked in a town hall meeting why he was supporting the clearly Nazi policies of Barak Obama. He responded, and I quote, "What planet are you from?"

He immediately became my favorite politician of all time.

 

[CanadianWolverine]

Hmm, lets see, someone who got the US in a bunch of wars, spied on his own people, lied to them on fundamental issues to do the other dastardly shit, broke international agreements, and loved to demonize something to scare his people...

Versus

So far: Trying National Healthcare Reform which means tackling Big Insurance, while still maintaining some of the above either because he doesn't know what to do with it or he secretly supports it

Bush/Cheney and Co I can see some of the comparison in bringing up Godwin's Law, but Obama and Co just kinda come across like the cleaning crew coming to a motel room after a coke snorting rock band had stayed there and decided to start the demo portion of redecorate and renovate: "What the fuck does management expect us to do with this toxic wasteland?" they say while they shift piles of medical waste, garbage, and debri around.

Surely, besides the above, others must see the irony in also comparing a black man to Hitler, I suppose next on the docket must be a Israeli PM. =P

 

[clzark]

k the nazi's name was meant to attract everyones attention: national (conservative) socialist (liberal)party. If any of those protesters actually cared to look past the name (because the conservative key word is a bit harder to pick up) and look at the political beliefs, they would see that the nazis were clearly conservatives. that's why I always get a kick out of people that call obama a socialist nazi. they're basically calling him completely neutral.

 

[Instant K4rma]

Republicans bitter about not getting another old white man in office. Thats just what we need. No change in this economic shithole and another old republican who supports the war thats destroying our nations economy. Its just bitter Republicans trying to muck up his reputation.

 

[Woem]

Representative Barney Frank (who is Jewish, mind you) was asked in a town hall meeting why he was supporting the clearly Nazi policies of Barak Obama. He responded, and I quote, "What planet are you from?"

He immediately became my favorite politician of all time.

OK that's so sad it almost made me cry. Almost. But I like this Barney Frank guy: "In 1987, he became the second openly gay member of the House of Representatives, and has become one of the most prominent LGBT politicians in the United States".

[HEADING=3]"What planet are you from?"[/HEADING]

​

 

[inflamessoilwork]

Republicans bitter about not getting another old white man in office. Thats just what we need. No change in this economic shithole and another old republican who supports the war thats destroying our nations economy. Its just bitter Republicans trying to muck up his reputation.

Well put

 

[skcseth]

I've never heard this comparison made before. Maybe because they are/were great orators?

 

[jak1165]

First off, Hitler was not a Socialist. Second there is no meaningful comparison to be made. Don't heed anyone who tells you otherwise.

Yeah, he was. The term Nazi is derived from the German for National Socialist Party.

American and European terms for Liberal/Conservative don't mean the same thing.

 

[captainwalrus]

The original comparison was drawn from how well both leaders used their charisma to gain national power. Both Hitler and Obama were practically nobodies who burst onto their national stages based primarily on their attractive personalities - their ability to command crowds and use persuasive/emotive oratory.

A genuine parallel can be drawn between Hitler's rise to power and Obama's election, particularly if you analyze both leaders' respective party. Both Hitler and Obama, prior to becoming heads of state, transcended their political party (Hitler in 1933(?) and Obama in 2008). By "transcended", I mean that both leaders essentially "became" their respective political parties. Hitler's personality cult successfully turned the Nazi party into the Hitler party (metaphorically speaking). The policies of the Nazi party were dictated solely by the whims of Hitler. And if Hitler were to be incapacitated or killed, then the Nazi Party would literally have been shattered.

Likewise, the 2008 election was not really an election between Obama and McCain. If you were voting, you were voting either for Obama or against Obama. Pundits were either coming up with reasons to vote for Obama or reasons not to vote for him. The media coverage of McCain was abysmal. During that electoral season, the nation's attention was turned toward Obama almost exclusively. For that short period of time, Obama was the Democratic Party, and carried its fate with him.

Of course, after Hitler and Obama gained power, they took radically different paths. Hitler relied on authoritarian repression, propaganda, and his strong personality cult to maintain hegemony. Obama never had that kind of personality cult; he relied on his natural political skills. He can't overcome the inherent institutional divides in the American system of government with simple charisma (constitutional limits, inter/intra-party rivalries, etc.). Also, it's important to note that Obama is a much more polarizing figure than Hitler was in 1933. Hitler had a strong national backing that Obama doesn't currently have.

 

[Woem]

The original comparison was drawn from how well both leaders used their charisma to gain national power. Both Hitler and Obama were practically nobodies who burst onto their national stages based primarily on their attractive personalities - their ability to command crowds and use persuasive/emotive oratory.

A genuine parallel can be drawn between Hitler's rise to power and Obama's election, particularly if you analyze both leaders' respective party. Both Hitler and Obama, prior to becoming heads of state, transcended their political party (Hitler in 1933(?) and Obama in 2008). Hitler's personality cult successfully turned the Nazi party into the Hitler party (metaphorically speaking). The policies of the Nazi party were dictated by the whims of Hitler. And if Hitler were to be incapacitated or killed, then the Nazi Party would literally have been shattered.

Likewise, the 2008 election was not really an election between Obama and McCain. If you were voting, you were voting either for Obama or against Obama. Pundits were either coming up with reasons to vote for Obama or reasons not to vote for him. The media coverage of McCain was abysmal. During that electoral season, the nation's attention was turned toward Obama almost exclusively. For that short period of time, Obama was the Democratic Party.

Of course, after Hitler and Obama gained power, they took radically different paths. Hitler relied on authoritarian repression, propaganda, and his strong personality cult to maintain hegemony. Obama never had that kind of personality cult; he relied on his natural political skills. He can't overcome the inherent institutional divides in the American system of government with simple charisma (constitutional limits, inter/intra-party rivalries, etc.). Also, it's important to note that Obama is a much more polarizing figure than Hitler was in 1933. Hitler had a strong national backing that Obama doesn't currently have.

Hitler didn't become Chancellor in 1933 because he was charismatic but because people feared him. The conservative Franz von Papen assured that the aggressive Hitler could better be controlled within the legal boundaries of Chancellor but even weeks after his assignment he changed the law to put aside his political competitors. He needed to do this because even with all the propaganda and political plays his party (NSDAP) wasn't able to gain a majority of votes: they landed at 43%.

So Hitler or his party never gained political power by the vote of the people, and definitely not because he was charismatic, but by political corruption and backstabbing. Much unlike Obama.

 

[DefilingDude]

Obama is Hitler is getting old

 

[Low Key]

The only time I see Obama=Hitler is when I come on the internet. I think people with too much time on their hand are making way too big of deal out of the whole thing.

 

[bluepilot]

It is just a few people stirring hate mongering comments on the internet.

Any link between Hitler and Obama is tentative at best. For example, `they both have the same size shoes` wow, my eyes have been opened.

I think that if you try hard enough, you can find something in common with any two things.

 

[Woem]

The only time I see Obama=Hitler is when I come on the internet. I think people with too much time on their hand are making way too big of deal out of the whole thing.

I came in contact with it on the evening news, when people were protesting against the healthcare reform and they had these protest signs comparing Obama with Hitler. But perhaps us Europeans are making too big of a deal of this.