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Norman Podhoretz sees Nazi Germany every time he wants to start a new war.
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  • What-ever

    It's just a little sad that everyone gets all upset about nouns. for what it's worth, so many people here don't even think about the hate speech that pours out of their own faces. Would using someone more obscure than Hitler impress you? William Sherman? Tamurlane? Some Aztec Emperor? Whichever Pope declared that all the Hugenots must be killed? You're the 'meme' people, so pick another one.

  • @Nulla Sallus

    The left leaning canard of smearing anything it doesn't like as 'neocon' or 'zionist'? No it's not. It's just shorthand.

    Dude, you can't pretend that there isn't a HUGE difference between the Republican "conservatism" of today and that of yesteryear. The neocons are the ones who made up the "neocon" label, because it was fuggin plain as day that they weren't conservatives. Think "New Coke".

    oh, and the "zionist" junk easily cuts across party lines, if you can't think of any republicans who talk like that, you don't know many people.

  • Nice try

    Mister Hitler was no conservative railing against the state for his Liberty -- and he sure weren't no liberal (egads!) -- but he was, in fact, from his Beer Hall days on, a full-fledged, self-styled "PROGRESSIVE".

    "Oh no, not me -- I ain't no bigot -- I'm a -- (ta-dah !!) -- Progressive !! ... "

    -- Cow Head Soup

    I think you are confusing populists with progressives but nice try. You just don't know the difference.

  • Random House Dictionary?

    Please.

  • while the advisors are clearly nuts...

    ...what does that say about those that take the advice, guiliani and bush and joementum?

  • Cow Head Soup is Michael Savage -

    (Michael Weiner), or one of his fans.

    Savage on the "progressive movement": "the brownshirts of today ... the same rabble that brought Hitler to power"

    http://mediamatters.org/items/200706140008

  • Screw that

    The left leaning canard of smearing anything it doesn't like as 'neocon' or 'zionist'? No it's not. It's just shorthand.

    I "smear" anything to the right of Eisenhower as an "asswipe".

  • Is this thread EPU now?

    Sure seems like it. I suppose with Hitler squealing from N-Pod as the subject it was inevitable.

  • shooter and his tired message

    This 2004 campaign message reminds me what is right about what we fight for and why shooter must be the dumbest human ever born.

    Ran for congress and lost.

    Produced a Hollywood slasher B movie.

    Bought an oil company, but couldn't find any oil in Texas; company went bankrupt shortly after I sold all his stock.

    Bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took land using taxpayer money.

    Changed pollution laws for power and oil companies and made Texas the most polluted state in the Union.

    Replaced Los Angeles with Houston as the most smog-ridden city in America.

    Cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas government to the tune of billions in borrowed money.

    Set the record for most executions by any Governor in American history.

    Became President of the United States of America after losing the popular vote by over 500,000 votes, with the help of my father's appointments to the Supreme Court.

    Spent the surplus and bankrupted the treasury.

    Shattered the record for biggest annual deficit in history.

    Set the economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12-month period.

    Set the all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market.

    The first president in decades to execute a federal prisoner.

    The first president in US history to enter office with a criminal record.

    The first year in office I set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in US history.

    After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, presided over the worst security failure in US history.

    Set the record for more campaign fundraising trips than any other president in US history.

    In first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their jobs.

    Cut unemployment benefits for more out-of-work Americans than any president in US history.

    Signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any president in US history.

    Presided over the biggest energy crises in US history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.

    Presided over the highest gasoline prices in US history and refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have.

    Cut healthcare benefits for war veterans.

    Dissolved more international treaties than any president in US history.

    Members of his cabinet are the richest of any administration in US history. (The 'poorest' multimillionaire, Condoleeza Rice has a Chevron oil tanker named after her).

    The first president in US history to order a US attack and military occupation of a sovereign nation, and I did so against the will of the United Nations and the world community.

    Created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States.

    Set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any president in US history.

    The first president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the human rights commission.

    The first president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the elections monitoring board.

    Removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight of any presidential administration in US history.

    Rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant.

    Withdrew from the World Court of Law.

    Refused to allow inspectors access to US prisoners of war and by default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions.

    The first president in US history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 US elections).

    The all-time US (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations.

    Biggest lifetime campaign contributor, who is also one of his best friends, presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation).

    With a policy of "disengagement," created the most hostile Israeli-Palestine relations in at least 30 years.

    The first US president in history to have a majority of the people of Europe (71%) view Presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and stability.

    The first US president in history to have the people of South Korea more threatened by the US than their immediate neighbor, North Korea.

    Failed to fulfill his pledge to get Osama Bin Laden "dead or alive."

    Failed to capture the anthrax killer who tried to murder the leaders of our country at the United States Capitol building. After 18 months, still has no leads and zero suspects.

    In the 18 months following the 9/11 attacks, I successfully prevented any public investigation into the biggest security failure in the history of the United States.

    Removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any other president in US history.

    Entered office with the strongest economy in US history and in less than two years turned every single economic category heading straight down.

    has at least one conviction for drunk driving in Maine (Texas driving record has been erased and is not available).

    Was AWOL from National Guard and deserted the military during a time of war.

    Refused to take a drug test or even answer any questions about drug use.

    All records of his tenure as Governor of Texas have been spirited away to his father's library, sealed in secrecy and are unavailable for public view.

    All records of any SEC investigations into my insider trading or bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.

    All minutes of meetings for any public corporation I served on the board are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.

    Any records or minutes from meetings I (or VP) attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public review.

    So shooter comes here and peddles his tripe while his president and his party whittle away at the Constitution, its laws, its economy, its precious resources both human and physical, damaging the quality of life we all enjoyed in the past while preaching to us arrogantly that they were right all along.

    Heh