In January of this year MoveOn.org got into trouble because in a contest for making AntiBush commercials a contributor created an ad that compared Bush to Hitler. Article here: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,107426,00.html

Now if you go here: http://www.georgewbush.com/Default.aspx and click the WATCH button you can view a video that compares Kerry, Gore, Moore, Dean and Gephardt to Hitler.

Pot meet kettle...kettle meet pot.


Mark

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Skywalker...You know...that metaphor/phrase or what ever it is, is used waaay to much on this forum. I will agree though that neither candidate can be compared to hitler....I would compare Kerry to many people but as far as I know he has not been responsible for Genocide or starting any world wars.</font>

Not by me....lately anyway.

Mark

I will agree though that neither candidate can be compared to hitler

no, kerry could best be compared, if to any nazi, as an underling... i mean, he only supports the wholesale deaths of 43 million babies since roe v wade, but he didnt start it, and he certainly isnt the formost figure in it.

My point is...why is it not okay to compare Bush, but okay to compare any of the Democrats I listed?

promethius9594, I guess since I also support a woman's right to choose, I am akin to a Nazi as well?

Mark

:::coughs the phrase "emergency powers":::

I don't get it. It doesn't seem to be comparing them to Hitler at all. In fact, the footage of Hitler is used in juxtaposition with Bush.

Maybe the ad is saying that the 'wild eyed' ravings of the Democratic party just can't succeed in equating the action in Iraq(action anywhere for that matter) or President Bush, with Hitler as was tried earlier this year.

If there is a comparison between the Democrats and Hitler in the ad, what is it? ;)

I guess since I also support a woman's right to choose, I am akin to a Nazi as well?

no, you'd just be a citizen. (j/k, of course). 43 million babies though, man, thats ALOT of dead kids.

Ah yes, the endless comparisons of politician X to Hitler followed by the quick retraction to avoid political fallout. Doesn't it get tiresome? Really, there are only a few people in recent history that could ever be compared legitimately to Hitler. As for the rest of it, he was a human being in political office, so there will always be *some* way to compare him to other people in political office. It's too bad Bush's detractors (I admit I am at least partially one) can't come up with more original and useful ways to criticize him. Off-the-wall statements like that just make them look like lunatics with no grasp of proportion.

And I will not touch the abortion issue with a 39 1/2 foot pole.

Yeah, Aerich is right...why can't we just compare Bush to a bad president instead of the "worst person of all time besides satan." Why not call him an Andrew Jackson ripoff, or a stupid, impulsive version of Woodrow Wilson, or an imperialist like Teddy Roosevelt? Those comparisons are closer to being relevant.