I love Leonard Pitts~

It always amazes me how quickly someone will use "NazI" to define anything they disagree with.

Nazi is just one variation in the " I can shout longer and make you mad as a wet hen quicker than you can do same to me" game.

That type of "debate"  has ruined the country.

It always amazes me how quickly someone will use "NazI" to define anything they disagree with.

Whats even more amazing is that the "someone" you mention happen to be the Speaker of the House and the Senate Majority Leader.....Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid...Some say Harry might be looking for a job soon.

"...and now back to the program."

Keep on topic or beware. And be aware.

Ron - I don't support Pelosi or Reid.

I think the people who call Obama a Nazi and/or compare him to Hitler are just as idiotic as those who compared Bush to Hitler. 

Well, if there's a bright side it's that the ACTUAL Neo-Nazis in this country (of which there are many) must be getting really sick of having their name cheapened and associated with just regular folk.   

To quote Karl Quandt, "It's enough to make me ashamed to be a neo-Nazi." 

http://www.theonion.com/con...

PS--Leonard Pitts is wonderful.  : )

LOL~ Karl has it right!

*Someone* could have fun with that video about ominous music over at the Onion....but I fear some on this site would react like the listeners of the War of the Worlds radio broadcast.

Still would be fun...

Great article. All too often I hear terms like Nazi, fascist, socialist misused by people merely wanting to insult the person they're arguing with. 

There is a reason "Godwin's Law" was a term coined early on in the days of Usenet by techies. It's the same reason techie forums still call people on it today. There was a quick realization that people would try to make faulty comparisons to Hitler, hence the primary corollary to Godwin's Law which states such a person has lost the debate by making the faulty comparison. Too bad that the tendancy to call people on this has not spread much beyond the techies.

You're probably right, Sage.  Don't feed the bears.  ; )

Actually, I think the article is silly. Yeah, I agree peole throw around the word "Nazi" way too much, but the caller on the show was making the comparison to what Hitler did when he came to power and to what Obama is doing. No one is saying Obama is ripping up babies (not the outside the womb, anyway). They are seeing a correlation in tactics betwwn a young Nazi Party and a young Obama Party.

Again, I don't agree, but I think his example is way off.

When people quote six million, they are giving the Nazis a pass.  The Nazi butcher bill probably exceeds twenty million, and that's not counting their own soldiers and the great armies of men that were lost opposing them.  About sixty million people (give or take another ten million) died around the world during the war. 

So yeah, it really irks me when somebody call someone a Nazi or compares today's laws and practices to Nazi war crimes.  When you consider the world population was much less from 1932-1945, then you get a real scope for how significant the Nazis were.  Today's conflicts, policies and agendas have nothing on the Nazis.

Why don't we just call bad policies just that?  No need for hyperbole.

Remember, there was never supposed to be a public debate about health care.  Obama wanted  a bill on his desk before the August recess, remember that?  There was never supposed to be any public input.  Pelosi and Reid were supposed to take the bills written by the SEIU and Acorn, resolve the differences and have it on his desk by the August recess.  The Blue Dogs didn't like the smell of that and started dragging their feet.  Then it was time for the August recess, and the Democrats just figured the town hall meetings would be love fest of their constituents telling them what wonderful people they were.

The democrat leadership was so tone deaf, they had no idea how much the american people hated them for taking them for granted.  Then to top things off, the Dem leadership started calling the opposition "nazi's" and "brownshirts", rather than LISTENING to them.

"Remember, there was never supposed to be a public debate about health care."

How do you figure? It was discussed at length in the media, Obama even did a prime time broadcast. If you mean there was no plan for Americans to shout at each other then no, they didn't plan for that. There's not much point in having town hall meetings where people's main goal is to spread misinformation like death panels, death books, forced euthanasia, or just go to complain about the Democrats being in charge. It wasn't the Blue Dogs that slowed everything down, it's the for-profit insurance industry that is paying them off with huge campaign donations and massive lobbying efforts.

"You would think people would tread carefully, not because of the potential insult to a given politician (they are big boys and girls) but because to do otherwise profanes the profound and renders trivial that which ought to be held sacred by anyone who regards himself as a truly human being."

That sentence, with clarification,is the point.

I hope the visuals aide in understanding.

When one engages in using things like this in public debate it does nothing to advance the conversation.

It can demoralize one when such name-calling is slung. Makes one feel like a sane person among lunatics. I still like to think that reasonable minds will eventually prevail.

I suppose that the name "racist" can't been tossed around here too much.

Got white robes and a pointy hat dril? I did not think so ~ and you know my style. I try to refrain from name calling~ even after some oil field analogy that is not so flatering has been said to me. :-)

But then I never said all folks on my side behave~ nor do all folks on your side. "Side" being Americans one and all.

I'm sure there are a few members of the Klan on this website.  The local chapter would be stupid not to have a few eyes around this place..

Thank you, THANK YOU! for posting this!  I can not express how angry I was when some idiotic woman wrote some stupid "essay" and read it at the townhall in Lake Isabella; comparing this to Nazi Germany.  I mean, did ANYONE else pay attention in history class?  This is NOTHING like Nazi germany. Nothing. And  Neither is Obama Hitler.  Hitler was a great orator. (Sorry couldn't help myself.)  I can understand to a certain degree where they get these ideas.  They're just tiny steps.  Because hitler wasn't just hitler over night.  There was a gradual progression to his iconic self.  So I "get" where they're coming from.  But on the same note I think they're being ridiculous.  Even my mother has bought in to this propaganda and even had the gall to say to me that he was "reincarnated" hitler. I was like 'WHAT!? Where the hell did you get that?  Have you been watching fox news?"  She tried to clarify by saying that he was trying to push things through without letting anyone read it.  You mean... Like any other bill/law ever? Anyway... I think once we're being divided up in to camps or have to wear distinguishing symbols to classify who we are or when we go on global conquest will I even remotely begin to see the corralation.

Does anyone else remember that lovely bill called the "patriot act?"  Does anyone remember how QUICKLY that went through?  Cause I don't remember.  Were there townhalls then?

even hitlers rise took a decade....give it time leonard.....give it time

Well, it's pretty obvious you don't teach history learnem. You do know that hitler was to the right of conservatives don't you? Anyone that attempts to call Obama anything close to hitler is just ignorant or at the very least mentally unstable.

so far left...hes right?   what ?

defyinggravity~ I remember the Patriot Act,fast, furious and no town halls.