The "logic" behind calling Obama a nazi.

[D23MIURG23]

When you see black people (or other minorities for that matter) advancing themselves in society, the people on the right have an explanation. They call this "reverse racism" because clearly any relative advancement of minority class standing must involve a secret government conspiracy to instate quotas and keep the white man down.

Well by that logic anyone who makes it to the highest office as a minority must be the highest manifestation of "reverse racism": a "reverse Nazi".

In short: all the reverse racism in our country has led to a reverse nazi takeover, in which the ultimate in horror has occurred. Someone is now in charge who isn't white.

OMFG!!!! GIV3 mr My COUNTRY BAKK!!

:eyes:

[DFW]

1. These are the same people who taught Glenn Beck how to spell "Oligarh"

[Joanne98]

2. I think they're trying to drive a wedge between Jewish voters and Democrats.

Not that calling Obama a Nazi is working but I think they are trying to scare a few Jewish seniors into voting Republican. Anyway I keep noticing the RW targeting the Jewish community. I can't see any other reason they'd do that.

[Happyhippychick]

5. It really has the opposite effect. Elderly Jews especially don't appreciate Hitler comparisons.

The Jewish vote for Obama was the second highest minority vote he received (AA vote was first).

[Joanne98]

11. I know but that isn't stopping them from trying. Sometimes it looks like

they are just throwing spaghetti against the wall to see what sticks.

[Happyhippychick]

13. Yes, they are definitely trying. Fear mongering of the elderly is a favorite pastime of the 'pubes.

[Hansel]

15. Bingo. They are in utter desperation mode. nt

[orpupilofnature57]

3. Wasn't Rushhhh the first person to call the President a Nazi ? Anyway

thats what I'm telling people.

[goclark]

4. I predict that all this stuff will backfire big time

I am a Senior and it seems stupid to refer to Obama as a Nazi even to me.

Think of all the young voters that don't even have a feeling about what those times were like -- it's just Ancient History to them.

[D23MIURG23]

16. I'd like to think so. Its a bit dismaying to me how many people are acting totally bats--t.

[iceman66]

6. There is no logic whatsoever.

such comparisons, by design, only appeal to the most feeble minded and impressionable members of society.

Nazi = bad guy; Obama = bad guy; therefore Obama = Nazi.

It really doesn't go deeper than that!

[BillDU]

7. Nazi

Tit for Tat
People called Bush a Nazi.
Now it's the big get even.
However what are the facts?
Who blitzed Iraq?
Who supported Israel and then created a vicious media undercurrent of anti Jewish rhetoric? (blame the victim)
Who created an enormous anti-gay sentiment?
Who made sure the Catholics felt the heat with pedophile crackdowns in response to their not supporting war?
Concentration camps would have been too obvious.

[D23MIURG23]

10. It isn't real logic.

But I do think that it is meant to tap into racist resentment.

[abq e streeter]

8. I think it's inoculation against the same being said about them

many of these people, both the leaders ( especially the talk-show/media crowd; Coulter, Beck, Savage, Boortz, Limbaugh etc) and the followers, are not that far from being neo-nazis ( or flat-out ARE), and by using this term themselves against Obama and the Democrats, they blunt the effect or even the possibility, of being called out for who and what they are themselves.

[kestrel91316]

9. It's a finely tuned form of projection. Whatever name the RW calls somebody,

you know that's what they know themselves to be.

[cloudbase]

12. Trudeau nailed it today.

[Jennicut]

14. LMAO. That is brilliant.

[rasputin1952]

17. The closest we've ever come to a dictatorship was under bush...

the man usurped the Constitution.

To call President Obama a nazi is ludicrous to the point of insanity. Since the wingnuts can't do anything except try to instill fear into people, nazi is what they've chosen as the evil d'jour. They are running out of evildoers, Communists, al-Qaeda, terrorists are all used up, time to dust of "nazi"...:eyes:

Even true conservatives, those who believe in fiscal responsibility and the like, are sick of this kind of thing, and are leaving their party to go Independent. Out here in Nebraska, so many R's are disgusted by what their party has become, they are in deep stuff. Donations are down from individuals, and people are questioning the R's we have in congress. I question Nelson all the time, asking him how he can side w/loons, it appears he sees the handwriting on the wall...slowly, he's coming around.

[Third Doctor]

18. Yeah

It depends on who is giving the orders. Bush was a righteous patriot in the right's eys while Obama, not being of a certain ethnicity or political party is a dictator. The fact that Bush shredded the US constituion and the repubs didn't blink never comes up.

[bigwillq]

19. There is no logic to it.

Obama is not a nazi.

It's sad that some think that. Not really sure what we can do about it. People will think what they want to think.

[applegrove]

20. I think it is just noise to keep the discussion off the merits of a public option.

Plus it excercises the dogs of the GOP...those mean, nasty people who cannot get enough of being angry.