While Obama was giving a pretty good speech in Berlin, conservative bloggers felt a cold breeze blowing across American history, reminding them of History Channel documentaries with names like Hitler: The Rise of Evil. While some were merely riled-up-as-usual by any country that doesn’t speak English—like NextRight’s Patrick Ruffini, who’s aggrieved that an event in Germany was publicized using handbills printed in German—others plunged further into dread.
The leader of the huge blog Red State, writer Erick Erickson, can’t believe Obama didn’t pick up on the horrifying "military history" associated with the Victory Column, which the senator stood in front of, and which plenty of anti-Nazi Germans have spoken in front of, and which was built after the Prussians beat Denmark in an 1864 territorial war neither of us had heard of. Ejaculates Erickson: "He’ll say anything and do anything to get himself elected." Will the MSM force Obama to admit that, as president, he will do nothing to stop Duke Frederick III from annexing duchies?
(Meanwhile, the Washington Post’s Chris Cilizza, with a low estimate of the intelligence of the American public, wonders aloud if it will be somehow awful for Americans to see Obama cheered by our allies, the Germans.)
The Barack-as-a-Nazi idea has been big in the conservative world lately. At Free Republic and quite a few other sites, people who weren’t bothered by the creation of the Starship Troopers-esque Department of Homeland Security are sweating over rumors that Obama wants to start a sinister secret police force.
It all started with a piece at WorldNetDaily, quoting an Obama speech in which the senator called for "a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded." Though Obama went on to talk about public service instead of martial law, and the Campaign Silo is pretty sure he was just improvising a bad metaphor, this has kicked off a variety of nightmare scenarios in the Right world.
"So if I enlist, will I be grandfathered into the Black Muslim – Nation of Islam , even though I’m white?" asks one poster. Another, "seanrobins," suspects it will "resemble the Mugabe militia in design and practice," just like the goons who work for Zimbabwe’s dictator, with the Obama Corps coming to your house, taking your white person’s property and laughing.
The Obama campaign did not reply to an inquiry by the Silo about the issue.
[Second War of Schleswig (Wikipedia)]



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Idiots.
Projection, much?
Just point out the conservatives that their “leader” is the grandson of a Nazi sympathizer and holocaust enabler. Then, tell them to STFU.
These clowns have cheered the crowd who used the Nazi playbook more than liberally and now want to scream about Nazis? Makes me think that their collective IQ is about 3 below plant life.
John, Great post! It’s important to know what the real goons are thinking.
Why SD, you know it’s all us “Librul Fascists” that are the problem. If we hadn’t been causing all these problems, there’d be no need for any of these actions. We forced Hitler to do all his stuff. After all, he MEANT well. /s
I guess the lie that Barack is a muslim is losing traction…
Four years ago they called a war hero a traitor to get a draft dodger elected
From the US Holocaust Memorial Museum website:
Yeah, that “Barack-as-Nazi” meme makes a whole lot of sense . . .
Pass the duchies
They are grasping for straws. Any port in a storm. I’m going back to the kitchen for more popcorn.
best post of the day. tku.
Remind me sometime to tell you the story of my call from the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth, looking for dirt to throw on Rasmussen, the Green Beret who went overboard on Kerry’s boat. I was on the radio relaying between the boats and An Thoi that day.
McBush fans average 90 years of age- they love Nazi shit.
Tweety calling BHO a showboat………they are so FUKKIN jealous
they are ALLLLLLLLLLLLL SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO VERY JEALOUS!!!!!!!
I am shocked that you don’t know about Schleswig-Holstein. Weren’t you reading the papers in 1864?
our media is prolly the verrrrrrrrrrrrrry worst money can buy
that speech so totally rocked!!!! but alas…BHO is a BLACK MAN…so it doesnt really resonate…jealous mofos
Love to hear that story
okay,where did everybody go
Southern Dragon, Me too.
TWEETS sez…………this election has gotten very close
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahahahahahahaha
Tell the story, Southerndragon!
SD!!!!! babies all fixed and in their bed
i canna not watch cable snooze anymore,it is so PURILE!
is anybody here?
Gosh who would “fix” a baby
Hi John.
Good job. Difficult subject matter.
You’d think the wingers would have their hands full just trying to hang onto the “conservative” logo, against so much evidence to the contrary.
But no, they’re marching around in circles chanting in hopes Obama can successfully be tarred as a heathen muslim nazi.
I do believe Obama should be able to hit a 3-pointer at this this whoopsie without breaking a sweat.
A desperate, reich-wing repugnic mind is an ugly, disfunctional sight.
Although my parents are gone, and I miss them, I am thankful I do not have the task of trying to explain to them what has happened to the party of which they were once very proud. The repubnic have fallen, and they cannot seem to get up. Pitiful.
The smell of Right Wing fear in the morning, I love it.
They are getting really skeered now, I can’t wait for the winger e-mails to start flying.
HMM, a Muslim Nazi, how are they going to reconcile that combo?
Nevermind, I forgot how they can twist any unnatural combination of facts and innuendo to suit their needs at the drop of a hat.
Isn’t it hysterical these morons can’t see how Georgie & Dickie are the Hitler-reincarnates? Wow. Their brainwashing over the past eight years has been very successful.
UPDATE: Johnny McTeleprompter just woke up from an afternoon nap and was stunned to find out today is Thursday. He thought it was Monday when he woke up this morning.
hahahahahahaha
very furry ones
babies!
http://shaggydogfarms.com/
did Bob Herbert lose his mind?
I’m just glad you came home in one piece.
Can you believe we’re going through this mess after THAT mess, which we all thought surely would teach the mongers not to war no more. oh sigh.
I heard on the news today that the flame remained burning during Barack Obama’s speech. Love it! That means freedom & hope remained alive to the Germans with Barack Obama speaking on one of their very sacred sites. Had it been George Bush or Johnny McTeleprompter who gave a speech there today, the Germans would have put the flame out and then gone home.
Yes. He just now said on Hardball that at this stage of the presidential race, the Democrat should be 15 points ahead, and he doesn’t even believe the current polls. He thinks that Obama is lower than they show, and McCain in higher.
Oops. 34 was for Dragon also, mebbe for obvious reasons.
they are part of the neo nazi propaganda machine…………VERY highly paid…limpballs gets 50,000,000.00$ PER YEAR….all make in the millions
WTF?
Does this post amplify bizarre mutterings that are best left to fade & die in the ether? I think it does. And while I’m on the subject: I have at long last tired of KO’s incessant amplification of Billo. I’ve tuned him out.
A radical angry black elitist arrogant christian muslim nazi marxist deep cover agent planted by aliens.
Gloria Borgia =sour puss,sour grapes
707
We have to always keep in mind that Hardball is a “show”…”entertainment”…they want a constant feeling of conflict to keep the viewers’ adrenalin up one way or the other. They will say anything they can to stir the pot…it is a game to them and $ of course. What do they know..nothin’.
NO….. somebody changed Bob Herberts MedsRX….”g”
LMAO!
all i can say…is BHO lifted the bar again,for the ENGLISH speaking peoples…Churchill would be proud…..Booooooshies not so much
Herbert may believe that more whites SAY they will vote for Obama than will really pull the lever come election day. It’s a healthy sceptical attitude I’d say.
I think you have nailed it. No matter what democratic nominee might have come forward to be slimed, boated, waterboarded and generally slammed in the msm, you just can’t paint this black guy as hitler or mussolini or stalin or mao. Even the dolt can see they don’t look alike. If you confuse a dolt, you have lost them to your way of thinking. Get a dolt thinking and you have lost your edge if you need them ignorant. Get a dolt mad at you and it will actually vote because of something, instead of against.
What is particularly appropriate is that the authors have names that sound like these evil doers of yore, more than does Barry. We have a German name, possibly. It could be scandanavian but what would that matter, it sounds kraut and is therefore a socialist, union loving, 4 day work week fascist crazyarchy. Then we have an Italian name, and that is around the block from ol’ “Il Duce” himself. Why haven’t the comparisons been made to this and Mussolini? There is clearly unintentional bias and hilarity. I don’t understand why these two non american types aren’t railroaded home with freedom fries dangling from their orifi.
Do the thought criminals think of these things in advance, or are they running with the best memo from the party to create today’s headlines? It seems to compare well to the type of jokes the daily tv shows have to have ready when they do the monologue on short notice after a candidate eats foot.
mebbe,its possible
Obama up by 1.4% according to Nate at 538. That’s well inside the margin of error. This is VERY close.
I think he’s right. Well, not “gotten”. Always was. Prob’ly will be.
This is with the MSM editing what he says .
He keeps getting shriller by the day.
Oh, let them wonk in their mikes. Obama’s biggest problem, if it becomes one, might be making sure people actually take their own personal obligation/right to vote seriously, rather than figuring someone else will carry the load, and that all eligible people are allowed to vote.
OO ESS AAAYE has one of the most dismal records in the world for each member of the populace actually bothering to cast his/her own ballot, for purely nonsense reasons (forgot, busy, mad at politicians, etc.)
Isn’t that right? I wish to be wrong, but you’ll have to prove it to me.
Neberdaless, kinda worried folk who sense a glimmer of hope are more apt to vote. Seriously depressed folk who have given up on the system, and people who are too comfy and confident as is, are the ones that need a
cattle prodcarrot to get them to the poles.Then there are the deliberately(?) disenfranchised potential voters, who desperately need help to cut through red tape and g-a-r-b-a-g-e such as what occurred in OH in 2004. Eh?
I’m flyin’ blind here. Anyone wanna argue? Please prove me wrong. These are just Adie-isms: lots of gut-level experience, but without links or hard data. *hangs head in shame/frustration*
Well, some good might come of this. They might just begin to think a little more clearly about all the power that Darth Cheney has been so eager to invest the president with. And then to start thinking, maybe this unitary executive idea is not so good.
That would be good news.
Bob in HI
You tell ‘em. This trip has been great. I’m happy as a pig in shit. But the other side still has an effective smear machine. I thuink what too many of us are missing is that we focus on McCain being an old dope. Hey, tgey don’t like McCain either. But it’s all been about getting people to hate Obama. Could work. To some extent it already is.
It’s known as the “white lie” – whites telling pollsters that they’ll vote for a black and then end up voting for the white guy. Happened to Steele in MD when Cardin beat him by a significant margin, even though the polls showed it quite close.
I always wanna argue. Whadda we arguin’ about?
I’d love to hear it too.
Larry Sabato is decidedly more sanguine:
I’ll breathe easier on Nov. 5, no sooner.
It needs to appear that close in order for the voting machines to throw the election.
Danged if i can rememr. Have another round, and we’ll try to sort it out. heh
Fuck the conservatives!
“Hold letters have been sent to the Ohio Chamber of Commerce, asking them to hold documents relating to their activities to use corporate money to influence the Ohio Supreme Court elections. Another hold letter was sent to U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey asking that he advise the federal government to hold emails from Karl Rove.
Arnebeck said “We think [Rove] is an individual who has been at the center of both the use of corporate money to attack state Attorneys General and their elections and candidates for the Supreme Court and their elections in the states, and also in the manipulation of the election process.
“We expressed concern about the reports that Mr. Rove destroyed his emails and suggested that we want the duplicates that should exist [to be put] under the control of the Secret Service and be sure that those are retained, as well as those on the receiving end in the Justice Department and elsewhere, that those documents are retained for purposes of this litigation, in which we anticipate Mr. Rove will be identified as having engaged in a corrupt, ongoing pattern of corrupt activities specifically affecting the situation here in Ohio.”
Arnebeck said they are prepared “to go after the issues of election integrity in a very targeted way, as opposed to a casting of a fishing net. We’re able to do some ‘rifle shots.’”
Along those lines, Arnebeck plans to subpoena and depose GOP operative Michael (Mike) L. Connell, who as described by SourceWatch, is….”
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6189
Don’t think they won’t try this crap in November one way or another…
Mighta been about voter turnout. I don’t know and don’t think anyone does.
It’s waaay too early to get concerned about the blips and bumps in the polls.
HUSH! THIS INSTANT! Yer scarin’ me.
On 2nd thot, Throw that possibility out to all those l-a-z-y voters I wuz talkin’ about in #54.
!!!!A. HUGE. REASON. TO. VOTE.!!!!
Make the spread so overwhelming, the run-up to the election so colossal, that it cannot be stolen again during my lifetime.
If you care, even just a little, get involved – somehow – your choice.
purty pleeze?
I got a call one evening from a guy who identified himself as Steve (I forget his last name), saying he was a “Special Forces historian.” He had been in contact with my commanding officer, looking for any logs or info about radio transmissions between the boats, An Thoi and the Coast Guard cutter in the area. My CO had referred him to me since I just happened to take a shift monitoring comms that day. The boats could hear An Thoi and us but An Thoi couldn’t hear them. So we relayed between the two. The Swift boat ops out of An Thoi were part of Operation Market Time, the coastal patrol part of the Mobile Riverine Force. They were also used by Phoenix teams going up into the area, using the river that divides VN and Cambodia. The boats were routinely being ambushed on the way back out and eventually almost led to a mutiny by the Swift crews. That’s another story. Steve made the mistake of assuming I was pro-Bush and proceeded to tell me that they (SBVT) were looking for any info that would throw suspicion on the overboard incident, specifically radio logs of comms between the boats and the cutter, which had a Medical Officer. We only had a corpsman. They wanted to show that the incident was a fabrication and that Rasmussen and Kerry were lying. I told him that the incident occurred as reported, that those logs had been destroyed years ago as part of the Navy’s routine records retention policies and then proceeded to read him the riot act. The ads had been out a while and had begun to be debunked so they were looking for anything to boost their crap. LCDR George Elliott was Commander, Coastal Division 11 and I knew him quite well. He even presented me with a Swift Officer-in-Charge pin, which I still have. I was extremely disappointed that he joined the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. I still think it was dishonourable for any of those guys to have associated themselves with that nest of cottonmouths. Bud Day, one of the original SBVT jerks who lives here in FL, is still a part of the slime machine known as America Watch, or whatever they call themselves today. Scumbag.
somebody playin with de toobz? My 62 refers LS 61 ;->
Glad to hear that.
Well at least NBC cleared up why Obama canceled his planned visit to injured troups in Germany. He was asked not to by the pentagon since he was on a campaign trip. Since the McCain camp already jumped to negative conclusions about this, I’m sure they will clear it up. Mark Halperin probably has already done an update on this. (yeah, right!)
I knew it, I knew it, I knew it…!!!! *G*
My #72 to Adie…heh, heh
thanks for telling this story SD
Thank you for sharing.
I am a flaming bleeding-heart Liberal.
My parents were avowed conservatives, back when it meant just what it said.
They were very loving, very socially conscious, very generous to charities, very frugal and environmentally conscious in their habits, and … they would not recognize what is called “conservative” today.
Thanks, By the way Bud Day was McCains divorce attorney when he dumped his first wife according to an article I saw last week (LA TImes) That was in Ft. Walton Beach
They’ve been ignoring their own candidate(s)since the primaries. They’re angry that all the old bullshit isn’t as effective as it used to be. These are the same people still railing against the 60’s for heaven’s sake. The world is passing them by and they still don’t get it.
New Neiwert
Wow!!! I hadn’t heard that…verrrry interrresting..
Southern Dragon – your story would be a great diary when Oxbow comes online.
Why doesn’t that surprise me? He was on the radio here last week. Son of a bitch wouldn’t know the truth if it put a foot up his ass.
Lawsy I hope the toobz overseers and sorters of all things important to the nation as we know it are perfectly clear on what is transpiring at all times, in every which a way. *waves*
Problem is, a lot of those ops are still highly classified. The public has only gotten a hint of what that particular operation was all about.
Thanks Southern Dragon for the effort that must have taken to get it all written down, both in time and in angst at the memory.
Would you believe it’s not true that German almost became the official language of the U.S.?
Actually he has done some good work for military. Led a class action against DOD when they tried to renege on benefits etc. for retirees
oh, wow. well then, i’ll not ask for more. thanks for telling off that twit.
I believe their emotional intelligence is 3 with an intractable case of strong projection.
The Wingnuts don’t think it’s a real speach unless there are thousands of police in riot gear holding back the protesting DFH.