Paul Broun Compares Barack Obama to Hitler

President-elect Obama made some comments that recently showed up on youtube about creating a civilian national security force that has drawn the ire of people who are wondering what the hell he is talking about. This is more than a neighborhood watch program as he states it should be as equally funded as the military.

Paul Broun, a congressman from Georgia had this to say about Barack Obama’s plan:

“It may sound a bit crazy and off base, but the thing is, he’s the one who proposed this national security force,” Rep. Paul Broun said of Obama in an interview Monday with The Associated Press. “I’m just trying to bring attention to the fact that we may — may not, I hope not — but we may have a problem with that type of philosophy of radical socialism or Marxism.”

And he didn’t stop there:

“That’s exactly what Hitler did in Nazi Germany and it’s exactly what the Soviet Union did,” Broun said. “When he’s proposing to have a national security force that’s answering to him, that is as strong as the U.S. military, he’s showing me signs of being Marxist.”

He then says that he is not actually comparing Barack Obama to Hitler, but warns that we had better watch our backs:

“We can’t be lulled into complacency,” Broun said. “You have to remember that Adolf Hitler was elected in a democratic Germany. I’m not comparing him to Adolf Hitler. What I’m saying is there is the potential.”

Yes you are comparing him to Hitler. I have called the soon to be president a Marxist, socialist, totalitarian, un-American, anti-semite, and many, many other names. But I would never compare him to Hitler. Stalin maybe, but not Hitler. How dare you campare a United States president to Hitler, you should be ashamed of yourself, uh wait a minute……

Just when I thought that I might be willing to defend Obama on this I remembered this:

And I started to ask myself why should I condemn Broun and defend Obama when this is the type of defamation that President Bush was subjected to? How many of the people who believe that Bush=Hitler are now outraged by the congressman’s remarks? I would guess that most of them are.

How many Bush haters who have called Bush the world’s leading terrorist will now have the audacity (of hope) to complain about this?

I will not defend Obama from this attack, but I also will not defend Broun either, however because of the treatment that Bush has recieved over the last eight years, neither will I condemn Broun.

If it was fair to compare Bush to Hitler than it must be okay to compare Obama to Hitler. Fair is fair.

I keep hearing on the television that it is time to get behind Barack Obama, that it is time to unite, yet these pictures above show how the current president was treated. There was no call for unity then, was there?

I am having trouble with the notion that we are supposed to unite behind this new president when the same people that tell us to unite are the ones who tried to divide us over the years. Why should I listen to the people who created such offensive pictures of the president now that their guy is in office?

The left had no thought of unification when they were in the minority, they spent eight years trying to destroy President Bush and the Republicans but now that they are in the majority we Republicans are just supposed to acquiesce to their every whim?

I am sorry but I am just having trouble trying to justify why I should get behind the same people who created such horrific images of President Bush.

I can’t bring myself to so it.