February 18, 2009 7:58 AM
Obama/swastika sign at anti-stimulus rally
Photo from a post by Michael Ditto at ProgressNow Colorado from a video by Jen Caltrider.
During the anti-stimulus rally at the State Capitol, a guy stood beside conservative columnist and Fox News contributor Michelle Malkin with an "Obama" sign in which the 'O' was filled with a swastika.
Julie Hutchinson reports:
After syndicated columnist and TV commentator Michelle Malkin spoke at Tuesday's rally, she was besieged by people asking her to autograph protest signs and pose for photos.A man wearing a green fatigue jacket and sunglasses held up his camera to snap a shot of himself with Malkin. He was holding a sign with the name Obama in large, black block letters.
And inside the letter O was a prominent, black swastika.
A photo posted on several political Web sites, including ProgressNow Colorado, a liberal activist group, shows a photo of Malkin posing with the man carrying the swastika sign. Malkin could not be reached for comment late Tuesday on whether she saw the swastika sign.
Malkin's personal blog shows seven photos taken at the Denver rally, but the sign with the swastika cannot be seen in any of them. Malkin's Web site includes nine minutes of video taken at the rally, but the sign is not visible in the video.
Senate Minority Leader Josh Penry said he arrived at the rally 15 minutes late and didn't see the swastika sign.
"If someone had that sign, it was totally inappropriate and unacceptable," the Grand Junction Republican said. "There's one in every crowd. Remember the people hissing and booing at President Bush at the inauguration."
February 18, 2009
8:24 AM
Shaggy writes:
How dare anyone ridicule the messiah.
Only Bush can be non stop bashed.
Wished I would have known they were going to have a pig roast yesterday at the porkulus signing, I would have ran down there for lunch.
I heard someone even brought a potbellied pig that stole the show.
Too funny.
February 18, 2009
8:29 AM
gr8fuldude writes:
I am no fan of Malkin, but I will give her the benefit of the doubt on this one. If you look at the picture, the swastika sign is being held out of her line of view. Not to say that she was totally ignorant of it, but that it is possible. Given too that she was taking pics with multiple parties, it was likely pretty chaotic and crowded. Not certain that she can or should be held accountable for what she was not holding or actively endorsing.
February 18, 2009
8:34 AM
bob writes:
See I told you long ago.
Republicans are the party of goose stepping
skinheads. Warmonging racist nazis. swastikas everywhere.
February 18, 2009
8:55 AM
SASQUATCH writes:
OBAMA TALLKS..
OBAMA SIGNS...
STOCKS CRUMBLE...
OBAMA TALKS AGAIN...
STOCKS CRUMBLE AGAIN...
OBAMA TALKS...
AMERICAN IS ANOTHER $TRILLION POORER...
Every time this Empty-Suit opens his mouth, stocks plunge, bonds plunge, housing plunges, mutual funds plunge, ETFs plunge. Is there a pattern here? Is this the Hope and Change that you voted for?
Had enough? Don't blame me, I didn't vote for him!
February 18, 2009
8:58 AM
benn writes:
I'm not mad at Malkin (even though she sucks in general), but that dude with the sign is a class-A asshole... was it Shaggy?
February 18, 2009
9:15 AM
Shaggy writes:
If it were me Benny, I would have held up a hammer and a cycle, the sign of Socialism and it would have been BIG enough so Barry could see it.
Me bets he would have saluted it as the good commie he is.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/Hammer_and_sickle.png
February 18, 2009
9:22 AM
LCDR Mandingo, Vietnam vet & Field-Negro writes:
I believe the guy thought Nazis like GBW, Blair, Olmert, and Sharon would be in attendance. Thye've vaporized, exterminated, and BBQ'ed more than 500K Arabs (COLOREDS), just for GOP grins, oil pilfering, and Judeo-Christian (gutter religions and barbarians)crusade. I want to HANG all 4 of them. AWOL-MIA: Too bad, BHO, NAACP, NUL, National Assn. of Black Journalist, and Congressional Black Caucus-CBC-comcial blacks in congress, all lack the requisite stones and ovaries to prosecute and execute these Nazis.
February 18, 2009
9:34 AM
JMH writes:
Glad to see you didn't miss Peter Boyles this morning shaggy like a good NeoCon stooge... don't forget to leave the house without your "marching orders"... LOL
Can you guys ever create a thought or do you just listen to AM "hate" radio and just parrot everything you hear? WOW...
As for the Swatsitka or the Hammer and SICKLE (a "cycle" is a bike shaggy) being held up... well that just goes to show the level of intellect when it comes to the NeoCon cult!
Personally I loved all the spelling errors seen on alot of the protesters signs... Too funny... the sad thing is they probably worked all day on those signs...
Also glad to see Caldera was able to re-use his "pig" props from his last losing cause... Caldera may be the biggest loser ever? Has this guy ever been on the winning side of any issue? Please keep rolling this clown out NeoCons... seems to lead to instant defeat for whatever cause he supports... haha...
February 18, 2009
10:09 AM
Shaggy writes:
OMG the spelling Nazis are out today.
Do you also salute that flag/symbol?
February 18, 2009
10:09 AM
MtnAmanda writes:
This would appear to me as little more than a tempest in a teapot.
So our swastika-sporting friend chooses to liken Obama to a Nazi. I don't understand it (and would also hearken back to the hammer and sickle, myself), but if that's how he feels, well, alright. He's free to feel that way. From the shot, it would also appear that Malkin is unaware of the sign this gentleman is holding.
I suppose this is precisely what we have a First Amendment for, am I wrong?
February 18, 2009
10:11 AM
SASQUATCH writes:
ACHTUNG, ACHTUNG!!
THE MORTGAGE NAZI--0BAMA--TO EXTRACT $275 BILLION FROM HONEST TAXPAYERS!
You paid by the rules, paid when you had to and met all your obligations, and maybe even rented. Now, THE MORTGAGE NAZI--Obama--will give you and your children an opportunity to pick up the tab for the slackers, cheats, frauds and serial welfare junkies.
THE MORTGAGE NAZI is unilaterally transfering the burden of their excessive spending, their excessive debt and their excessive leverage onto your shoulders.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a5xBdiMqKaqY&refer=home
February 18, 2009
10:12 AM
MtnAmanda writes:
This would appear to me as little more than a tempest in a teapot.
So our swastika-sporting friend chooses to liken Obama to a Nazi. I don't understand it (and would also hearken back to the hammer and sickle, myself), but if that's how he feels, well, alright. He's free to feel that way. From the shot, it would also appear that Malkin is unaware of the sign this gentleman is holding.
I suppose this is precisely what we have a First Amendment for, am I wrong?
February 18, 2009
10:18 AM
so writes:
Yeah, we've got the first amendment for Nazis. But not when the Dixie Chicks say something. Then it's "Shut up and sing."
February 18, 2009
10:23 AM
gr8fuldude writes:
Sas talks about: "pick up the tab for the slackers, cheats, frauds and serial welfare junkies".
So which are you?
February 18, 2009
10:29 AM
quikshot writes:
The Neo-cons GOP'ers lost, and losers don't win. Losers who whine are losers indeed and Loser's weeper's and finders keepers. And so on.
February 18, 2009
10:30 AM
quikshot writes:
The Neo-cons GOP'ers lost, and losers don't win.
February 18, 2009
10:39 AM
Kevin J Jones writes:
Stop the presses! Some idiot has a sign calling Obama a Nazi! Let's manufacture a dumb controversy to distract from our failing country!
February 18, 2009
10:40 AM
SASQUATCH writes:
ACHTUNG...ACHTUNG!
If you are upside-down with your mortgage--or gettinging there--just walk away and force THE MORTGAGE NAZI--obama--to come-up with more and more money--some of that for YOU!
He's now planning $75 billion, or $8,500 for each of those 9 million upside-down families right down the mahoola!
Remember, THE MORTGAGE NAZI always rewards the losers...and he always punishes the achievers. And its all clsaa and race-based!
February 18, 2009
10:42 AM
KW writes:
gr8 - Well said and I agree. But not 100%. While I'm not a big fan of Michelle as a news commentator, I'd much rather be looking at her deliver the news over someone like Olbermann (or pretty much ANY male journalist!).
February 18, 2009
11:00 AM
SASQUATCH writes:
ACHTUNG, ACHTUNG: THE MORTGAGE NAZI SPEAKS:
THE MORTGAGE NAZI is going to take $75 billion from the original TARP and save the homes of about 9 million people (victims) who made very bad choices in taking out a mortgage they couldn't afford. Or are losing their homes because they lost their jobs.
Will everyone who has lost their job now have the government guarantee their loans?
THE MORTGAGE NAZI'S scheme will provide for the refinancing of home loans for "millions of families in traditional mortgages who are underwater or close to it.''
It will modify loans for those victims whao are "stuck'' in sub-prime mortgages that they can't afford because of soaring interest rates or "personal misfortune.'' And with federal subsidies, it will enable banks to lower interest rates for many.
The scheme will bailouts nine million families (aka "victims") in restructuring or refinancing their mortgages to avert foreclosure, the White House says.
The scheme "will not help speculators who took risky bets on a rising market and bought homes not to live in but to sell, THE MORTGAGE BAZI plans to say. "It will not help dishonest lenders who acted irresponsibility, distorting the facts and dismissing the fine print at the expense of buyers who didn't know better. And it will not reward folks who bought homes they knew from the beginning they would never be able to afford. In short, this scheme will not save every home. ''
The scheme will enable Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the institutions that guarantee home loans for millions, to refinance mortgages valued at more than 80 percent of the homes' values. The Treasury plans to provide up to $200 billion in capital to ensure that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac can stabilize markets and hold loan rates down.
First, it is unrealistic to believe that the government will not bail out those "who bought homes they knew from the beginning they would never be able to afford." How on are they going to determine that? How are they going to separate the idiots from the fraudsters?
As for the rest, I'll believe it when I see it. How surprised would you be if ACORN got a little of this cash? More "neighborhood stabilization?"
Meanwhile, the rest of us are being punished and footing the bill and the under-achieving slackers and deadbeats are being rewarded. The horror is that its all race and class based.
February 18, 2009
11:13 AM
Anonymous writes:
yawn........
February 18, 2009
11:27 AM
me2 writes:
Wouldn't have lunch with MM, but I think she got pranked on this one.
February 18, 2009
11:27 AM
me2 writes:
Wouldn't have lunch with MM, but I think she got pranked on this one.
February 18, 2009
11:36 AM
PajamaPulitzer writes:
Hey Wolf. Why is this even a story? Had you printed a story every time Bush was called a Nazi the RMN would have run out of ink.
February 18, 2009
11:36 AM
Michael F Crowe writes:
Bush was appointed, not elected.
February 18, 2009
11:41 AM
Oh Wise One writes:
LOL at the liberals who are offended by this little sign. BFD. Especially you Mark Wolf, good luck in you next career at 7-11.
All those years of bashing Dubya and the untold thousands of times dumb liberals compared him to a Nazi or Hitler and one sign sends the nutz into a feeding frenzy.
Goodbye Mark.
February 18, 2009
12:15 PM
Mark Wolf writes:
Oh Wise One,
Thanks for the career guidance but I think I prefer Circle K. Most of them have car washes. But if I wind up at 7-Eleven, your first Slurpee is on me.
February 18, 2009
12:19 PM
SASQUATCH writes:
ACHTUNG...ACHTUNG UPSIDE-DOWN FAMILIES, SLACKERS AND MORTGAGE DEADBEATS--AND YOU TOO WHITEY:
$275,000,000,000/9,000,000 DEADBEATS=$30,500 PER DEADBEAT
Don't worry all you slackers and deadbeats, Obama will get you victims even more via his planned Stimulus II.
So whitey and all you honkies out there, when do you grow some nads and start calling this what it really is:
R-E-P-A-R-A-T-I-O-N-S!
February 18, 2009
12:52 PM
Anonymous writes:
sas, take your meds and go to sleep. You are raving lunatic.
February 18, 2009
1:02 PM
Ben-Former Democrat writes:
Reparations indeed. Stupid white Obama voters.
February 18, 2009
1:33 PM
Truth writes:
Speaking of Slurpees, isn't that what got Palin the GOP nomination?
And Anon is right, Sas you really are an idiot. Please quit the booze this early in the day.
February 18, 2009
2:58 PM
KW writes:
Mark - You gotta think bigger than that. How about one of the snack bars at Coor's Field?
February 18, 2009
3:14 PM
Chris writes:
It's refreshing to see liberals forget how free speech was the rationale for the bile they spewed at Bush.
And the going-out-of-business RMN can thank its editors (and you Mr. Wolf) for showing your bias.
February 18, 2009
3:19 PM
Anonymous writes:
More class and respect for our president shown by the supposedly moral high grounders on the right. Boy you guys are patriotic and good christians,lol. These people are pathetic, Michelle M. is a complete lunatic in line with ann coulter, and john c. is a complete partisian idiot
February 18, 2009
3:27 PM
freemarketworks writes:
It appears Michelle Malkin was the victim of a leftwing-flash-and-dash. Why would the media post this obviuosly sneaky picture and make no attempt to ask the guy about his sign?
February 18, 2009
3:55 PM
JMH writes:
Ya... it's all a big consperacy Freemarketswork?
And those copters that fly over your house are watching you!
February 18, 2009
4:02 PM
Shaggy writes:
"Why would the media post this obviuosly sneaky picture and make no attempt to ask the guy about his sign?'
Why bother with facts when they can run with a lie and attack a conservative?
Nothing new from the hatefilled left.
This guy is obviously a plant by the left who was out to get Michelle.
However, I do see why they hate her, she makes a hell of a loon mince pie day after day.
February 18, 2009
5:35 PM
Marcy writes:
So much for the fairness doctrine.
Liberals don't know what hypocrisy is even when it bites them on their dead arses.
February 18, 2009
6:24 PM
Tbone writes:
Is it just me, or is the stupid out in full force today?
February 18, 2009
8:27 PM
KW writes:
Oh oh oh, that was a witty one there meat slab, you are so original and insightful.
February 18, 2009
11:15 PM
freemarketworks writes:
Jr. Marxist Helper (JMH) Writes: Ya... it's all a big consperacy Freemarketswork?
No one saw this guy, or seems to even know who he is... Is it you JMH? No proof, yet; however, I bet this guy is on Tim Gill's payroll.
In anycase, this is getting a ton of press, without any questions being asked. I would say that this is typically the way that the leftwing gains popular support...
February 19, 2009
2:20 AM
Brody Jefferson writes:
Shaggy, Sasquatch, et. al.,
You clowns sure know how to turn a smile upside down. There is nothing analogous between a swasticka and hissing, and you are all smart enough to know it. Stop hiding behind your own rhetoric long enough to use your God-given brains. Partisan idiocracy is a sure sign of feeblemindedness to the nth degree.
Now, you didn't vote for Obama, ok. You didn't vote to turn America around, ok. Use your brilliant analytical skills and sharp tongues to explain what brilliant plan America is missing out on since we are not 'blessed' by the McCain-Palin ticket sitting in the White House? How easy it is to cast stones from afar. Well, come on. Why don't you publish your plan? How would you have done it differently? You see that's the Right-Red-Neocon-horse-hockey way out of all of this. Deny the problems you created with your brain-dead policies of 8 years, and when good people try to undo the damage, prattle on and on but offer nothing of substance. YOU DESTROYED THIS COUNTRY SHAGGY AND SASQUATCH. YOU DID IT. It's time somebody in these forums stand up to you and demand you be held accountable for your malfeasance. Thank God we are lucky enough to not have you sitting there in power to fix the problems because we all know how that would go.
It's time for you two in particular and your faithful in general to put up or shut up.
February 19, 2009
7:21 AM
Gunny Bob writes:
So for 8 years the liberals called Bush a Nazi. You heard the sound bites and saw the signs they held aloft.
Now the tables are turned and Obama is the target, and the liberals go berserk with rage that someone dared to insult their god.
Classic.
February 19, 2009
8:24 AM
Ari Armstrong writes:
Interestingly, Michael Huttner's own web page features several comments likening to Bush to Hitler and calling Republicans and conservatives fascists:
http://tinyurl.com/bcqyqx
Apparently, what's good for the right-wing goose is irrelevant to the left-wing gander.
February 19, 2009
9:49 AM
Shaggy writes:
Brody,
Here is just a couple of the decisions I would make just to entertain you for my amusement.
For one thing, I would not sign a porkulus bill and call it a stimulus bill when in actuality it is LARGELY nothing but a spending bill for Democratic pet projects.
I would not run around scaring the people just to get support for the Porkulus, that hurts the economy even more. When a President puts the fear of global collapse in the people they are going to clam up tighter and tighter at a time when we need them to go out and spend.
I would not still be in campaign mode flying around in a jet that costs the tax payers $50,000(?) an hour or more to promote the porkulus especially when Congress just got done scolding the Auto heads for doing the same.
I would not have forced this bill to get passed as quickly as possible labeling it as an imminent emergency or a global catastrophe will take place, than take the weekend off to play basketball then fly some more to Denver so he can have a Political back drop to sign it thus wasting more tax dollars in this time of "emergency crisis".
I would call for the heads of the Mortgage companies for running them into the ground instead of rewarding them with a spot in his cabinet.
I would not be a partisain hack like Barry and I would call for the resignations of Dodd, Paulson, Bernekey and the rest of the Democrats who blocked tougher regulations on F&F.
I would stand up to Pelosi, Reid and the others who control him and not let them run all over me.
I would be honest with the people from the start and not right out lye to them like Barry has done from the beginning just to get elected. Too bad so many idiots bought into it or just didn't care.
Bottom line is I wouldn't reward any business or person for failure, now the flood gates are open and it won't be able to be plugged.
The taxpayers will be stuck from now on paying for nationalized HC, welfare ect...because now that they will get a taste of the socialist handout, we will never be able to take it away.
Most important, I would have given the Senators time to read the damn Porkulus and tell Princess Pelosi to put her plans to fly to Rome off that we have much more important issues here at home and I would have kept my promise to allow the people to view it before they voted on it and before he signed it.
The Porkulus was deteriorating very fast in the public view the more we learned about it.
That is why it was held under a cloud of darkness and 11th hour injections and needed to be passed very quickly before the people started to voice their disapproval to their reps.
February 19, 2009
9:52 AM
carter writes:
OMG the spelling Nazis are out today.
Man, you wingnuts are really obsessed with Nazis. Must be some inbred gene type disorder.
And using "cycle" instead of "sickle" isn't a "spelling" error, you incredibly stupid person. That would be when you lunatics spell "morons" as "morans" (yes, "morans" is spelled wrong, fyi).
Is it any wonder that drug addict Limbaugh finds it so easy to dupe you drooling simpletons?
February 19, 2009
9:57 AM
JW writes:
"So for 8 years the liberals called Bush a Nazi. You heard the sound bites and saw the signs they held aloft.
Now the tables are turned and Obama is the target, and the liberals go berserk with rage that someone dared to insult their god.
Classic."
I really dont care about this any more than I care when some ignorant dolt calls Obama a commie. Hes done nothing to resemble either fascism or communism. Only an ignorant idiot would call him these things. So have at it.
That said, the Nazi reference regarding Bush fits a bit better. The Nazi's tortured you know. They also spied on their own population. They didnt have due process either. Their propoganda started with enemies outside the "Homeland" then started in on enemies "Within The Homeland". Bush followed this model exactly.
Thats not saying Bush is equal to Hitler. Its just saying some of the things Bush did parallel the things Hitler did.
Obama hasnt had time to start doing this kind of stuff. Whether or not he will is up for debate.
February 19, 2009
10:07 AM
carter writes:
Thats not saying Bush is equal to Hitler. Its just saying some of the things Bush did parallel the things Hitler did.
Not only "parallel", but let's not forget Preston Bush:
>>How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar
February 19, 2009
10:16 AM
Anonymous writes:
"so writes:
"Yeah, we've got the first amendment for Nazis. But not when the Dixie Chicks say something. Then it's 'Shut up and sing.'"
Well, my little emotionally-retarded, marginal sub-human, let me educate you regarding the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." Can you get your little overtaxed brain around that? You see, the subject of the amendment is CONGRESS, not private citizens.
So enumerate for the the actions by Congress against the Dixie Whores. Enlighten us all. However, you can't. The Dixie Ho's felt a public backlash from their fellow citizens for their despicable attacks on a sitting president from foreign soil during time of war. The Dixie Sows had a right to say what they wanted, and the American people had the right to ostracize them, burn their CDs and petition to have them yanked off the radio and off tv.
But of course, little Leftist twits such as yourself want to throw anyone who slams Bonobo-Hammed, The Magic Plastic Muslim Kenyan Messiah, in the clink.
And, JW (JuvenileWhiner? JerkWater? JadedWeenie?), you need to read more. Hitler and the Nazis were SOCIALIST LEFTISTS, but I'm sorry you can't think independently of the Democrap talking point faxes...
Osama bin Urkel is NOT a Nazi, he's a Marxist, and the sickle and hammer would have been a more approriate sigil. I would not have sported that sign, but with all of the crap you sleazy anti-American Leftist scum said of President Bush, I will simply roll my eyes at your indignant petulance and retort:
TURNABOUT IS FAIR PLAY, OSAMA bin URKEL WORSHIPPERS.
February 19, 2009
10:26 AM
JW writes:
"And, JW (JuvenileWhiner? JerkWater? JadedWeenie?), you need to read more. Hitler and the Nazis were SOCIALIST LEFTISTS, but I'm sorry you can't think independently of the Democrap talking point faxes..."
Yea whatever ignorant boy. We were talking about ACTIONS. I dont give a crap what PARTY they were from. THEY DID SIMILAR THINGS.
Example: Both used torture.
Get it, jackass? You can call yourself whatever the hell you want. Republican, Democrat, Socialist, blah blah blah. If you torture people, you are similar to Hitler.
Deal with it.
February 19, 2009
10:28 AM
JW writes:
BTW,
"Nazis were SOCIALIST LEFTISTS"
There is NO EXCUSE for this kind of ingorance. NONE.
February 19, 2009
10:42 AM
carter writes:
..he's a Marxist..
And that lunatic McCain still couldn't beat him? A frigging Marxist?
ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So by your own words and logic, Marxism is now the preferred political system of the majority of the American voting public, since they overwhelmingly put that "marxist" in the White House, and put his "marxist" party in control of the House and Senate. Cool!
Or maybe they just reject a party of chickenhawks, incompetence, greed and hate. I'll go with that, but you stick with your "Marxism". LOL!!
Thanks for the laugh.
February 19, 2009
11:06 AM
clayton bigsby writes:
Anonymous writes- the dixie whores/sows etc. Man I think you've got a thing for the fat one. You don't believe in freedom of speach unless it agrees with your infantile opinion. Obama has been in office for one month! Your BOY W, and his pals are responsible for this financal mess. How's your Halliburton stock holding up.
The election is over and Obama has won. I'll hug your elephant and you can kiss my ass.
February 19, 2009
12:38 PM
BTW writes:
Gunny Bob sez:
"So for 8 years the liberals called Bush a Nazi. You heard the sound bites and saw the signs they held aloft.
Now the tables are turned and Obama is the target, and the liberals go berserk with rage that someone dared to insult their god.
Classic."
So what are you saying Gunny - they did it first so now it's OK? How childish.
When "the liberals called Bush a Nazi", the conservatives went berserk as well, but now that "the tables are turned", folks like you take exception not with the swastika, but with the lefts reaction.
How hypocritical and yes, classic indeed.
February 19, 2009
10:33 PM
Freda Borden writes:
The sign is pointing out that Obama's tactics are akin to the tactics of the Nazi party. The reporter knew this, I find it interesting that instead of acknowledging this, the reporter implied something evil behind the display of the swastika.
These types of gimmicks should be very familiar to Democrats who used them for the last 8 years. When Democrats display offensive symbols to make a point it's deemed free speech. When those protesting democrats display offensive symbols to make their point, it's hate speech.
Incredible arrogance and audacity, Reporter. But just about what we expect from the modern press, left wing bias.
February 20, 2009
7:49 AM
joe writes:
Gunny- You show all the intellectual and emotional maturity of an 8 year old. You and your followers shouldn't be trusted with anything more lethal than toy guns.
February 20, 2009
8:02 AM
JW writes:
"The sign is pointing out that Obama's tactics are akin to the tactics of the Nazi party. "
You seem pretty sure of that. I assume you can back it up with more than BS.
HOW are Obama's tactics akin to the tactics of the Nazi party? What does Obama DO that is the same as what the Nazis DID?
The answer is not TORTURE, unless you replace "Obama" with "GWB".
February 20, 2009
8:40 AM
Wechasa writes:
One old proverb tells us that, "Ignorance is bliss". If that be so, then it's notable how many absolutely and truly blissful people can be found posting here.
But, that's just the good old empty-ditto-head-conservative Republican principle: "The less one knows about anything - up through and including nothing at all - the more of an "expert" one is on everything".
Thank you, blissful experts all - especially those posting on the subjects of "Nazism" and/or "Marxism/socialist/socialism" - for one of the best belly-laughs I've had in a long time.
February 20, 2009
10:59 AM
Max Planck, Aurora writes:
I'd expect nothing less from an event that was hosted by Caldera, promoted by Wadhams and attended by Tom "1 Term Morphs to 5" Tancredo.
What a sad state the GOP has succumbed to.
February 20, 2009
1:49 PM
DIE RMN YOU POS!!! writes:
I hope the doors at the RMN close for good next month. The dickheads on this post are about as anti-American as you get. If Obama fails our country fails you dipshits.
February 20, 2009
5:43 PM
anti-idiot writes:
Shaggy-
You did a great job of talking around the issue by telling us you wouldn't do what you think Obama is doing, but I digress. I don't know if the bill will work or not, but at least Obama is putting his presidency on the line. The GOPers in Congress are just denouncing it and nothing more. No risk on their part. BTW- I guarandamntee you that there is GOP spnosored pork in it as well. The MO of the GOP lately- the more we rail against something, the more guilty we are of doing the same (see Haggard, Foley, Craig). Hope you're happy your tax money went to Alaska for the Bridge that Secessionist Sarah said no thanks to (and yet refunded the nation's tax dollars to Alaskans).
I was wondering- why is it that it was probably OK with you to spend trillions of dollars on rebuilding the infrastructure in Iraq but not doing the same in the US. Do you hate America?
February 20, 2009
11:29 PM
momma y writes:
Obama was unwise to come to Denver to sign this mess. Now he has forever linked himself not only to the outrageous lies and exorbitant spending but to the tokenism of subsidized green technology.
Wow a whole 3 to 5 percent of the energy needs of the museum are supplied by the solar units that cost five times as much as that percentage would cost. On top of that, the lifespan of the solar panels is maxed out at 30 years and can be as short as 10.
Finally, Obama sealed his own fate by rushing this one through and then waiting three days to sign it. Whether or not there is a lot of bad spending in this, there will be perceptions of fraud. That is what would doom him in the end even if he did nothing else. And he is still throwing money on the ground to buy the votes he already got. Of course it is your money so why should he be careful?
A word about perceptions and a lesson learned the hard way by some of the most successful business managers in the country. Coke.
When, in the early 80's, Coca Cola introduced NEW Coke, it had been tested, evaluated and re-tested for two years. The experiment was ordered by managers eager to enlarge their share of the market.
In the late 70's and early 80's, those same managers had sold off portions of other businesses only to have the portion they kept become more valuable than the whole had been. It was only natural they would try the NEW Coke rollout.
Many people were excited to see a new Coke product introduced until the introduction came to the lines about ending production of "old" Coke. The public went nuts.
Groups were organized to boycott all Coke products with the exception of original Coke products. Those products flew off of the shelves and a healthy gray market sprang up. Coke got a lot of PR and lost market share at the same time.
The taste tests had been spot on that more people chose the new formula over to old. Hindsight explained this failure as two fold.
First, they held the tasting in malls. While there were a set of parameters to include older people, most of the testing was done by younger people, teens in particular. Since the unscientific part of the test was just a "pick one" test without demographics, no one caught on to the idea that only teens and young adults favored it.
Second, they underestimated the power of a spontaneous backlash. Coke never expected people to get mad. They figured that they would buy the product when the old stuff was gone. Only two months after the initial roll out, they announced "Classic" Coke. The entire upper level marketing staff was fired. A lot of upper management ended up fired and Coke spent ten years regaining the lost market share. They are still behind where they were before New Coke.
Moral for Obama: Never underestimate the value of passion in the populace. Reason and logic have no part in this passion. If you use it for gain, beware its ability to destroy you completely on any suspicion you have failed their perceptions.
I expect the general anger at Obama's plans to grow. Not from any action or inaction he actually takes part in, but the mob that elevated him has a short temper, a voracious appetite and no loyalty.
February 21, 2009
2:00 AM
freemarketworks writes:
Back to the real issue - this is a leftist set-up... The clown holding the swastika - Obama sign is clealy a leftist plant by Tim Gill and company!!! This is a complete outrage and will hopefully be outed as such...
February 22, 2009
12:16 AM
Papa Because writes:
Momma Y's words of wisdom:
"Moral for Obama: Never underestimate the value of passion in the populace. Reason and logic have no part in this passion. If you use it for gain, beware its ability to destroy you completely on any suspicion you have failed their perceptions."
An interesting warning. Too bad you didn't share your wise insight with the GOP over the last few years, sounds a lot like what happened to them in the past two election cycles.
Also, your "New Coke" example was interesting, but fails to look at the entire history of "Coke". They had been continually losing market share to "Pepsi" since I don't know, maybe the 1920's. I think it started when you got twice the Pepsi for the price, an appeal to a younger audience. If I remember one of my marketing lectures from B-school correctly, its been so long ago. The on-going erosion of market share was a lot more about what Pepsi did right than what Coke did wrong.
Only history will accurately judge the actions of our government in response to our present financial crisis. I do remember that FDR was a much better antidote for the depression than Hoover.
February 22, 2009
10:07 AM
Solar Satellite writes:
So what? Some partisan idiot who knows nothing about history made an obviously inapt comparison on a sign. By pretending that this is news, Wolf just provides an opportunity to other wingnuts without signs to parade their ignorant cant here.
February 23, 2009
7:45 AM
ditto writes:
I have as much respect for Barack H. Obama as the left had for George W. Bush.
February 23, 2009
9:40 AM
Jerry Webster writes:
Our future number one selling bumper sticker..
" O ne
B ig
A ss
M istake
A merica "
We will see alot of these but not on Un American Cars...
Buy AMERICAN & GET A FRIEND OFF OF WELFARE !!!
RETSJAW