I fully expected that if Obama gained strength in the primaries, there’d be an increasing amount of ugliness directed at his race, and that some of his kin are Muslim (both of which I covered in earlier posts).

I didn’t expect that “Obama is a Nazi” would become a recurring theme on the right-wing fringe.

We have John Ray, Australian right-winger: “In fact, with his constant inspirational calls for national unity, Obama is eerily reminiscent of the Fascists.”

Bryan Suits, Seattle radio host, on Oprah Winfrey’s bringing Obama onto her show but not other candidates: “Is it mutually exclusive that a black woman can be a also a Nazi? I don’t think so. I frankly think she is a Nazi. … I think it makes her a racist though…. the fact that she’s excluding other candidates first of all– as someone with a talk show I’ll tell you yeah it’s her right but it means something, it is revealing something, it’s revealing that you are close minded.”

Or Fox news radio host Tom Sullivan, who compared Obama’s speeches to “when I was younger and I used to watch those deals with Hitler, how he would excite the crowd and they’d come to their feet and scream and yell.” Sullivan then played a “side-by-side comparison” of a Hitler speech and an Obama speech. Sullivan mimicked the crowd during both speeches, yelling, “Yay! Yay!” (this and other examples courtesy of Orcinus .

It’s going to be an interesting election year, but not necessarily in a good way.

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