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Well, that certainly makes more sense.Because she's a nazi.What?
I'm not sure if your 'what?' is supposed to be humor, or if you really missed what I wrote.Yes, the protesters with the Nazi symbols are saying that the healthcare bill is similar to something Hitler would've done. And she (Pelosi) finds that intimidating. The rest of my post was trying to make a joke of the whole issue, since it is silly.
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I honestly think the Nazi comparison detracts from any credibility the health-plan opponents might have.
My dad (a Rockefeller Republican who voted for Clinton and Gore but not Kerry and who voted for Obama but would not have if Romney had been the GOP pick) and I were having dinner the other night. We were talking politics (which we dont when my mom is around because she is a Huffington Post liberal who cannot be reasoned with) and having a discussion like this.We basically agreed that the GOP is making some really important points about the economy and the rising costs of Democrat plans but it is getting drowned out by all the complete insanity also coming from the GOP. 58% of republicans believe Obama was NOT born in the United States! 58%!!! WTF! How am I supposed to take them seriously as a party with that statistic floating out there like a giant, powerful fart smelling up everything else they do. (My dad countered that the truly moderate Democrats are luckily doing the GOP's work for them.)It's sad because Obama is making the classic domestic mistakes of 1992-1994 Clinton (OVERREACHING) and when that happened the GOP took over Congress and reined him in (and not surprisingly 1994-2000 was a good time. USA works best with a smart, capable Democrat president and a GOP congress imo.) But I dont think the GOP is capitalizing enough on it because they are insane (or too busy cheating on their wives). I mean yes they have rallied support against the Healthcare bill.....but it is an awful bill. Not a huge challenge. They have succeeded in making Obama and the Dems more unpopular but they have managed to not improve their own popularity in doing so. Every time someone calls Obama a Nazi, Socialist, etc. it is so counter-productive. (that would be a good nickname for Rush....Mr. Counter-Productive.) I know from experience. I called Bush every name in the book (and his performance validates much of it) but it just made people on the other side tune me out. If GOP leaders keep on going this route, people will tune them out too. If they just keep pointing at what the Congressional Budget Office has to say about the cost of these plans in a rational manner, maybe they have a chance of making meaningful strides in 2010.At this point, I feel confident the GOP will keep shooting from the hip and hitting their own feet just as often as they hit the Democrats.
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My dad (a Rockefeller Republican who voted for Clinton and Gore but not Kerry and who voted for Obama but would not have if Romney had been the GOP pick) and I were having dinner the other night. We were talking politics (which we dont when my mom is around because she is a Huffington Post liberal who cannot be reasoned with) and having a discussion like this.We basically agreed that the GOP is making some really important points about the economy and the rising costs of Democrat plans but it is getting drowned out by all the complete insanity also coming from the GOP. 58% of republicans believe Obama was NOT born in the United States! 58%!!! WTF! How am I supposed to take them seriously as a party with that statistic floating out there like a giant, powerful fart smelling up everything else they do. (My dad countered that the truly moderate Democrats are luckily doing the GOP's work for them.)It's sad because Obama is making the classic domestic mistakes of 1992-1994 Clinton (OVERREACHING) and when that happened the GOP took over Congress and reined him in (and not surprisingly 1994-2000 was a good time. USA works best with a smart, capable Democrat president and a GOP congress imo.) But I dont think the GOP is capitalizing enough on it because they are insane (or too busy cheating on their wives). I mean yes they have rallied support against the Healthcare bill.....but it is an awful bill. Not a huge challenge. They have succeeded in making Obama and the Dems more unpopular but they have managed to not improve their own popularity in doing so. Every time someone calls Obama a Nazi, Socialist, etc. it is so counter-productive. (that would be a good nickname for Rush....Mr. Counter-Productive.) I know from experience. I called Bush every name in the book (and his performance validates much of it) but it just made people on the other side tune me out. If GOP leaders keep on going this route, people will tune them out too. If they just keep pointing at what the Congressional Budget Office has to say about the cost of these plans in a rational manner, maybe they have a chance of making meaningful strides in 2010.At this point, I feel confident the GOP will keep shooting from the hip and hitting their own feet just as often as they hit the Democrats.
Nice post. I think this is why Newt was success back in the Contract With America years... he refused to get sidetracked with all the stupidity and kept everyone on message. It doesn't seem like it should be that difficult, but I guess when you've got Michelle Bachmann on your side, tact is going to be an uphill battle.
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But is it the republican leadership making this connection or some people who may or may not be republicans?Rush was just rubbing in Pelosi's statement with hyperbole, which is a common way he uses to point out absurdity.I don't see the republican's embracing this notion that equating Obama/Pelosi as Nazis is the correct tactic, and last I checked, they don't control all people and their actions.More like a small minority is making headlines and the left is (right politically) making it a bigger deal to distact from the message that the minority is making.Similar to when the left accusd our soldiers of being jackbooted thugs and the right said they were unpatriotic for slamming the troops this way and the left tried to say that the right was claiming that anyone who doesn't support Bush is not a good american.An effective way to distance themselves from their actions while gaining favor with the press.

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But is it the republican leadership making this connection or some people who may or may not be republicans?Rush was just rubbing in Pelosi's statement with hyperbole, which is a common way he uses to point out absurdity.I don't see the republican's embracing this notion that equating Obama/Pelosi as Nazis is the correct tactic, and last I checked, they don't control all people and their actions.More like a small minority is making headlines and the left is (right politically) making it a bigger deal to distact from the message that the minority is making.Similar to when the left accusd our soldiers of being jackbooted thugs and the right said they were unpatriotic for slamming the troops this way and the left tried to say that the right was claiming that anyone who doesn't support Bush is not a good american.An effective way to distance themselves from their actions while gaining favor with the press.
I don't think the Nazi thing is a mainstream republican tactic. But it is still worth pushing back against. I am not offended by very many things, but I find that the whole thing totally trivializes what the Nazis actually did, and that's something worth protecting against. Nazi cannot be reduced to "group with bad health insurance policy".
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I don't think the Nazi thing is a mainstream republican tactic. But it is still worth pushing back against. I am not offended by very many things, but I find that the whole thing totally trivializes what the Nazis actually did, and that's something worth protecting against. Nazi cannot be reduced to "group with bad health insurance policy".
this. and i can't help thinking that people who transfer everything they fear or don't like to something the nazis did are really stupid. shows that they simply don't know what they're talking about.
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They were saying something like "Obama wants us to have a Nazi health care system"
Yeah, because their health care system is exactly why the Nazis have a bad reputation.
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Yeah, because their health care system is exactly why the Nazis have a bad reputation.
I heard that Hitler raised the copays for Jewish residents for three consecutive years!
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s-FTCOLLINS-large.jpgHere's one from a Bush protestbush_hitler.jpgFound Pelosi's Nazi symbol. One of these is a Nazi in Pelosi's eyes, the other is just a protester.
There is such a clear difference. If you need to read about it at length, I suggest going to dailykos or HuffingtonPost. But, in summary, it's not the same, because Bush really was like Hilter, whereas Obama/Pelosi is not. Also, dissent against Obama/Dems is mostly "hate" and "ignorance", where as protest against Bush/GOP is "reasoned" and "understandable frustration."
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Even though the comparison might seem to trivialise the horrors of the Nazis etc, I guess this word(well, actually either Hitler or Nazi) is coming into play more and more everyday as a pejorative. The usage will just grow into an everyday insult. And as the generations change, and Hitler is more a historical figure rather than part of people's living memory, it'll continue.Think Machiavellian, Trotskyite, Chamberlain, Napoleon, etc. A satirical byword...

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Even though the comparison might seem to trivialise the horrors of the Nazis etc, I guess this word(well, actually either Hitler or Nazi) is coming into play more and more everyday as a pejorative. The usage will just grow into an everyday insult. And as the generations change, and Hitler is more a historical figure rather than part of people's living memory, it'll continue.Think Machiavellian, Trotskyite, Chamberlain, Napoleon, etc. A satirical byword...
yeah, I'm pretty sure it's going to still upset jews, at least in my life time. None of the others on your list was really into genocide.
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The Nazi's were socialists they used national healthcare to get rid of Jews and basically do what they wanted. They took over car companies and tried to make sure that everyone gets cars also. They were all about being green also. Sound like anyone we know about today? Hitler was thought to be more facist and there were some fascist elements in the Nazis but they were National Socialists. That's how they got their name. But there's a difference between our freedom in America and the way the Germans were in the 1920s. The Germans were not a big deal to have some kind of dictator or leader. Americans don't like socialism. Never have and they won't accept it in the end.

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The Nazi's were socialists they used national healthcare to get rid of Jews and basically do what they wanted. They took over car companies and tried to make sure that everyone gets cars also. They were all about being green also. Sound like anyone we know about today? Hitler was thought to be more facist and there were some fascist elements in the Nazis but they were National Socialists. That's how they got their name.
I am pretty sure that when you rank "things the Nazis did to get rid of the Jews".......nationalizing healthcare would not be in the top 5.Please stop littering this forum with garbage.
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I am pretty sure that when you rank "things the Nazis did to get rid of the Jews".......nationalizing healthcare would not be in the top 5.Please stop littering this forum with garbage.
They used nationalized healthcare to get rid of Jewish doctors then through the healthcare plan, then they went after Jews with it. The experiments they did gassing Jews were done by doctors.
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They used nationalized healthcare to get rid of Jewish doctors then through the healthcare plan, then they went after Jews with it. The experiments they did gassing Jews were done by doctors.
well there was the whole shooting and baking of them too, but that healthcare, WHAT A GIP!
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I'm not going to say Obama wants to get rid of people through healthcare. Obama is not evil and crazy. He just doesn't realize what is in his own bill or he's lying about what is in his bill.

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