What is it with these GOP Congressmen from Georgia?
Godwin shoe on other foot. Other foot in mouth.
Last summer, Lynn
Westmoreland said the
following about Barack Obama:
“Just from what little I’ve seen of her and Mr. Obama,
Sen. Obama, they’re a member of an elitist-class individual that
thinks that they’re uppity.”
You don’t need a dog-whistle to hear racial tinging with the word
“uppity”. especially for someone who lives in Georgia. Westmoreland
was reelected,but the stupid comment lives on.
Yesterday, GOP Congressman Paul Broun triggered Godwin’s Law,
likening
Barack Obama to Adolph Hitler.
“It may sound a bit crazy and off base, but the thing
is, he’s the one who proposed this national security force,” Rep.
Paul Broun said of Obama in an interview Monday with The Associated
Press. “I’m just trying to bring attention to the fact that we may
- may not, I hope not - but we may have a problem with that type of
philosophy of radical socialism or Marxism.”Broun cited a July speech by Obama that has circulated on the
Internet in which the then-Democratic presidential candidate called
for a civilian force to take some of the national security burden
off the military.“That’s exactly what Hitler did in Nazi Germany and it’s exactly
what the Soviet Union did,” Broun said. “When he’s proposing to
have a national security force that’s answering to him, that is as
strong as the U.S. military, he’s showing me signs of being
Marxist.”
Ed Morrissey factchecks Broun here.
Here’s the video of what Obama said last July.
The controversial part of what Obama said is here:
We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to
achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to
have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful,
just as strong, just as well-funded.
Certainly Obama’s comments raise questions, especially about this
civilian national security force being just as powerful and strong
and well-funded as our military, but there is no valid reason to go
off half-baked, making grand and unfounded projections. Can our
party please recruit politicians who can refrain from making such
idiotic comments? I wonder if Erick Erickson lives in
either of those districts. As Captain Ed noted:
If we plan to offer a rational alternative to the
coming debacle of the next two years, then we’d better stick to
facts and eschew hyperbole. We need to oppose the reality of
the radical agenda proposed by Obama and the Democratic majorities
in Congress, not fantasies spun out of context-free snippets of
speeches. The more critics invoke Hitler and Stalin instead of
Jimmy Carter and Lyndon Johnson, the better the reality of Obama,
Reid, and Pelosi will seem in 2010.
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