Obama = Hitler? Naw. Tea Party's Moving On

This article should never have been allowed on aol it is in poor taste.

Is there anybody more to the left than robert & donna trussell.

Recruiterrick, excellent point. Although, if I may add my opinion, I don't think most conservatives are unaware of history. In fact, I think they are well aware of it and I have a few conservative friends who are history buffs. The problem is they distort what they know to fit their political agenda. For instance, it is true that technically Hitler was a socialist, and he acted under the socialist name. Upon knowing this, my conservative friends like to automatically say that Hitler was a socialist. The problem is that Hitler also invaded a lot of socialist countries, such as France, Switzerland, and Finland. If you also look a little deeper you will find that socialist in these countries denounced Hitler's theories and his "brand" of socialism. Although, I find it hard to call what Hitler did socialism at all. If you look at socialist theory, there is nothing about "one pure arian" race such as Hitler preached and used for his Nazi propaganda.

On another note, I find it hard to believe that Obama is like Hitler. How? Is it because Obama is half white and half african-american? I don't really think that Jives with Hitler's "master race/pure arian race" ideals. Just saying.

Klan membership a career killer? Sure didn't impact Sen. Byrd's decades in the Senate.

Oh my god, I'm holding my sides, that was so funny. Artists need to get another career.

It just goes to show how uneducated and unaware of history most conservatives are. To think the Nazi socialists were liberal is idiotic, they were as conservative as it gets, wiping out any liberal, tolerant agendas and killing those that held them. How many Americans learned in their classrooms that Prescott Bush Sr. was Hitlers financier in America in the 1930's, charged with growing the Nazi party in America and gaining funds from sympathizers here. To label Obama similar to Hitler is like calling a duck a bear.

As a conservative I have followed the Tea Party Movement very closely. I believe the vast majority of the folks in the movement have sincere concerns about the mammoth, destructive deficits and potential for much higher taxes. Contrary to what the Left is fond of saying, the vast majority of Tea Partiers are NOT racist simply because they disagree with the president's policies and programs. They are wary of the arrogance and growing power of the Federal Government's bureacracies. Like most of them I am worried about the ever increasing intrusion into business, industry, who is hired and who is fired, and growing hostility toward the Christian faith. It has been well said: "Government that is big enough and powerful enough to give you everything can easily become government that is big enough and powerful enough to take everything you have---including your freedom." Finally, the Tea Party Movement (like so many other organizations that started with the purpose of doing good) has attracted the fruitcake element. There are indeed some rabid racists in the movement. Do not paint the whole orgainization with the same brush. That is not fair, and it is wrong to do that.

I take offense at this cartoon depicting the Tea Party people as racists. I am not a racist and have never been a racist. I don't feel it is wrong for the Tea Party people to express their dissatisfaction with the way this government is being run. They, the left and Democrats, vilified President Bush but he was not a racist either. We have an element in this country that, because you don't agree with them or their ideology, call you a racist or some other derogatory name. As far as I know we have the right to peaceful dissent and we do that without racism. If you don't do as they say they will discredit you.

Another politically slanted 'cartoon' that does nothing, neither humors nor hints of serious insight. Oh, for the days of superb political cartooning.... re Indianapolis Star in the 1930's, 40's, 50's. THOSE were cartoons of substance.

Instead of belitteling the President and belitteling the Tea Party, can WE find out what the President is for and what the Tea Party is for and discuss the feasability/desirability of what they are for? Then when WE find out what everybody is for can WE figure out actual ways to make these things happen? Then after WE make these things happen, how long do WE make them happen before WE either decide that yes they are a good thing or no they didn't work out? And, by the way, who is WE (the electorate ???) And how does "WE" make these things happen if "WE" are not in power ??? Will the other side (THEY ?) politely step aside and let us try what we want ???