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I was married into an Austrian family for 20 years. I heard my share of revisionist history about WW 2 and the Holocaust. Everything from, "It wasn't as bad as they say", to, "Hitler was a hero, the Holocaust never happened, and the Jews run America". Needless to say, I'm divorced from that family now.
Similar revisionist history is already being spewed by the Rush Limbaugh crowd: everything that's gone wrong during the past decade is Bill Clinton's & Barack Obama's fault!
George Orwell couldn't write this BS. Guys like Limbaugh & Gallagher and witches on wheels like Ann Coulter and Laura Ingaham are actually blaming the mess we're in on Clinton & Obama!
Don't get me wrong; I'm all for loyal dissent. But polarizing distortions that have no basis in fact is irresponsible at best and perhaps even treason. Appealing to the morons may get the pitchforks and the torches marching toward the castle, but it doesn't do anything to build bridges or pave roads.
George W Bush is walking out the door handing a steaming bag of flaming horse manure to Obama. We all owe it to him and to ourselves to see if he was wise enough to bring a fire extinguisher.
