Obama’s terrifying Nazi rallies
March 7th, 2008, 6:25 am · Post a Comment · posted by fsherman
As I’ve noted in earlier posts, one of the new conservative talking points seems to be how much Obama’s campaign rallies remind them of Nazi Germany—all that emotion, all that talk of unity, the way everyone’s worshipping this political messiah, isn’t that the way it was at Nuremberg?
I’ve also commented that if they were mindlessly rallying around Bush, no conservative would be objecting.
Glenn Greenwald at Salon captures exactly what I mean with a few choice quotes from the right wing:
The Powerline blog: “It must be very strange to be President Bush. A man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius, he can’t get anyone to notice. He is like a great painter or musician who is ahead of his time, and who unveils one masterpiece after another”
And again: “I had the opportunity this afternoon to be part of a relatively small group who heard President Bush talk, extemporaneously, for around forty minutes. It was an absolutely riveting experience. It was the best I’ve ever seen him. Not only that; it may have been the best I’ve ever seen any politician.”
Speechwriter David Frum: George Bush is “one of the most decisive, successful, and in the US at least, popular leaders of our time.”
Evangelical Charles Colson on Bush winning in 2000: “This was Providence . . . . Anybody looking at the 2000 election would have to say it was a miraculous deliverance, and I think people felt it again this year.” By allowing Bush to stay in office, God is “giving us a chance to repent and to restore some moral sanity to American life.”
Rudy Giuliani in 2004: “I say it — I say it again tonight — I say it again tonight: Thank God that George Bush is our President.”
Or look at the intense amount of media gush during the now-infamous “Mission Accomplished” speech—George Bush, the manly flyboy, the jet pilot, the war leader, the authentic American hero, the man who would win women’s votes just by how handsome and heroic he looked and the size of his package (no, I didn’t make that last bit up).
When the right wing starts warning how creepy they find the support for Obama, just remember the only thing they find creepy is that it’s support for a Democrat.
