Here's a reality check to liberals who think their characterizations of the President have impact. They do if you have evidence of the case you make, but not if you just rant. Study history, read REAL news, and it will all come together in time. I do Blog on about those in power, true, but I also want the facts to speak, not rant and offer as the only solution to vote Democrat. Here's and example of how such rant is treated.
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This author, John Leo, has been on my list for years and has received all
of the Bush-Nazi revelations. Here he satirizes the comparison without once
ever addressing a single aspect of it. It's not an insult, it's a historical
fact. This may still be his email address
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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http://www.townhall.com/columnists/johnleo/jl20031215.shtml
The extreme sport of insult
John Leo (archive)
December 15, 2003
The hard left decided long ago that George W. Bush is Hitler. In maddened
corners of the Internet and at swastika-choked antiwar marches, Bush is
shown with a Nazi uniform or a Hitler mustache. But does everyone on the far
left believe this? Not at all. Some think that Dick Cheney is the real
Hitler (he commands America's "storm-trooper legions," said former
right-wing crackpot and current left-wing crackpot Lyndon LaRouche). Others
think Don Rumsfeld is Hitler (both men favored mountaintop retreats, the
Action Coalition of Taos points out). These comparisons are still being
argued. Air Force veteran Douglas Herman, writing an op-ed piece in Florida,
says Rumsfeld is more like Goering, since both men were fighter pilots,
while LaRouche decided that Cheney isn't just Hitler -- he's Lady Macbeth as
well.
Many on the left believe that either Ari Fleischer or Karl Rove is Nazi
propagandist Joseph Goebbels. Or maybe Richard Perle is related to Goebbels.
The September issue of Vanity Fair suggested that Perle could be Goebbels's
twin (side by side photos, headlined "Separated at birth?").
Another vexing question about Rove: Is he Goebbels or Josef Mengele?
Goebbels is the top choice among antiwar commentators, but a writer to the
MetaFilter site said: "Karl Rove made up stories about John McCain, just as
Josef Mengele conducted medical experiments on children in Auschwitz."
One Internet site referred to Tom Ridge as Heinrich Himmler; another calls
him head of "Homeland Security, the new Gestapo." Colin Powell is Nazi
Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, according to a posting on the
Democratic Underground site. And Frank Rich of the New York Times managed to
work a famous Nazi filmmaker into the mix. He wrote that the recent Showtime
docudrama, DC 9/11: Time of Crisis, was so pro-Bush that it is "best viewed
as a fitting memorial to Leni Riefenstahl."
The common charge that Bush is Mussolini is controversial -- many leftists
insist that the Mussolini role is reserved for Tony Blair, the junior
partner of Bush's Hitler. Cartoonist Aaron McGruder said on TV that
Condoleezza Rice is a murderer but failed to give her any Nazi
designation -- a big mistake by prevailing standards. On the same show,
NAACP Chairman Julian Bond said, "I generally agree with [McGruder] 100
percent," but he too failed to offer a good Nazi comparison.
Paul Wolfowitz is a challenge to lefty analysts, some of whom think his
intellectual background is fascist (Jeffrey Steinberg in Executive
Intelligence Review), while others believe he has Bolshevik roots (he is
Trotsky's ghost, according to Canadian journalist Jeet Heer).
Anyone who calls the Bush people fascists will get no argument from
Princeton Prof. Sheldon Wolin, who says, "We are facing forms of domination
that exceed the old vocabulary." So if you feel like calling somebody a
fascist, go right ahead. Historian Eric Foner of Columbia compared Bush to
the Japanese warlords of World War II who launched a pre-emptive war at
Pearl Harbor. Since other name-callers on the left are so Nazi-minded, this
qualifies as a fresh idea.
By last fall, most of the outstanding villains of history had been pressed
into service as forerunners of George Bush. Napoleon is a heavy favorite.
"The only difference between George W. Bush and Napoleon Bonaparte is 10
inches," Debby Morse wrote in the San Francisco Examiner. She compared John
Ashcroft to Napoleon's ruthless police chief Joseph Fouché. History Prof.
David Applebaum of Rowan University compared Bush to Robespierre as well as
to Napoleon. And many have speculated on whether Laura Bush seems like
Josephine. Radical journalist Alexander Cockburn wasn't sure about Bush as
Napoleon, "though surely Josephine's heart beats beneath Laura's delicious
bosom."
Bush is Dr. Frankenstein, according to the cartoon "Bushenstein" featured on
the Democratic National Committee Web site. Anti-Bush columnist Paul Krugman
apparently disagrees. The cover on the British edition of his current book
of columns shows Bush as Frankenstein's monster, not as Frankenstein
himself. The frontier for Bush insults keeps shifting. One day the president
is Attila the Hun, the next day he is Ted Bundy. A posting on The Unknown
(an apparently unhinged news site) said that Bush is a charming lunatic,
just like Hitler, Ted Bundy, Mussolini, and Hannibal Lecter. One lefty said
Bush is Caligula, while another insists he is the new Nero ("Nero burned
Rome, Hitler burned the Reichstag, Bush burned the World Trade Center"). Don
't you love the way these people argue?
©2003 Universal Press Syndicate
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