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Tuesday, February 10, 2015

"Who Am I?": A Right-Wing Email Designed To Create A "Shocking" Parallel

If American conservatives wish to be taken seriously, 
reason must rule opinion.

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"The Real Death Panels," Conservative Norm Ornstein

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"The Death Of Epistemolgy"


Dear John,

 Thanks for forwarding "Who Am I?" an unusually prurient exhibition of political pornography.  https://www.youtube.com/embed/rrjU-HBkmLE?feature=player_detailpage

It is always amusing to glimpse images the enemy ogles while masturbating.

Despite a few lame comments in the following "thread," the following Snopes discussion illuminates the purported "similarities" between Hitler and Obama. http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=44417

Not surprisingly none of the commentators in this Snopes thread note that Hitler was a cradle Catholic.

As you know, barring excommunication a person remains a Catholic til the day s/he dies.

 In any event Hitler never converted to another religion: throughout his adult life, he remained a "lapsed Catholic."

 Hitler's proper categorization - politically and religiously - would read: "Lapsed Catholic Fascist." 

Among the many bizarre assertions in your forwarded email, Hitler did not write a book about his father with whom he had a hostile relationship throughout his life. It is true that Mein Kampf devoted some space to der fuhrer's childhood but no one (in his right mind) alleges it was a book about his father.

Nor did Hitler's father abandon him - at least not in the customary sense. Papa Hitler lived at home until he died when Adolf was 13. 

Nor is there any question about Hitler's name, birth certificate or birthplace.

It is true that Hitler's father, Alois, did change his surname from Schicklgruber to Hitler - and did so with the indispensable help of his parish priest!?!

"As a rising young junior customs official, he used his birth name of Schicklgruber, but in mid-1876, 39 years old and well established in his career, he asked permission to use his stepfather's family name. He appeared before the parish priest in Döllersheim and asserted that his father was Johann Georg Hiedler, who had married his mother and now wished to legitimize him. Three relatives appeared with him as witnesses, one of whom was Johann Nepomuk, Hiedler's brother. The priest agreed to amend the birth certificate, the civil authorities automatically processed the church's decision and Alois Schicklgruber had a new name. The official change, registered at the government office in Mistelbach in 1877 transformed him into "Alois Hitler". It is not known who decided on the spelling of Hitler instead of Hiedler. Johann Georg's brother was sometimes known by the surname Hüttler.
Smith states that Alois Schicklgruber openly admitted having been born out of wedlock before and after the name change.[5] Alois may have been influenced to change his name for the sake of legal expediency."

 In sharp contrast to another brazen lie in your forwarded email, Hitler never "disguised his intent" flamboyantly visible in Mein Kampf, an unbridled polemic published when Adolf was 36, eight years before his ascent to power.

To clarify another deception, Hitler did care about the German people - and deeply.

Hitler did hate Jews, but in 1933 they only comprised 0.75% of the German population. (By way of comparison, American blacks comprise 12% of the U.S. population and latinos make up 16%.)

"According to the census of June 16, 1933, the Jewish population of Germany, including the Saar region (which at that time was still under the administration of the League of Nations), was approximately 505,000 people out of a total population of 67 million, or somewhat less than 0.75 percent." 
As for supporting persecuted minorities, Jews were the only minority in lily-white Germany and Hitler was their mortal enemy from adolescence onward.

As to hiding what he really believed, Obama wrote two very confessional books and was an unabashed liberal with an enduring desire for single payer healthcare, which, by my lights, is the reason par excellence why he is bashed as a "socialist." http://www.breitbart.com/blog/2013/10/29/flashback-obama-s-campaign-to-transition-to-single-payer-health-care-video/

True they, like Christ's original killers" may not "know what they do."



But that's what they do.

As for "the cause of America's problem's" -- particularly at the time Obama came to power -- it is a fact, plain as potatoes, to say: "It was the free market, banks & corporations (who were the cause of their problems" an assertion by the author of "Who Am I?" designed to impugn the sanity of anyone who thinks capitalist pigs are not job creators who shower American workers with trickle-down prosperity.

"Pope Francis Links"

Truth be told, Obama did not come from "outside the traditional path of politics" but was, from early on, an activist within the Democratic Party." He became a Democratic legislator in 1999 at age 38 when he was five  years younger than Marco Rubio is now. 

A great many American conservatives seem to think that Truth doesn't exist... or  doesn't matter; that they can convert lies into truth by getting their team to shout  with sufficient decibelage.

Oddly, Hitler was very clear about the political advantage of such behavior (however temporary it might prove to be) and promoted it as the cornerstone of his delusional (and deluding) political system.

"It gives us a very special, secret pleasure to see how unaware the people around us are of what is really happening to them... By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell - and hell heaven...The great masses of people will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one... All this was inspired by the principle - which is quite true in itself - that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.  Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler (The preceding passage is worth reading several times.)

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It has been some while since I was last motivated to repeat my observation that people who lie about Obama have such disregard for Truth that -- given God's self-description as "the Way, the Truth and the Life" -- these liars reveal their contempt for God's nature, squatting over his face and shitting in his mouth.

 By comparison "Piss Christ" was a minuscule triviality.

I consider the analogy of shitting in God's mouth as understatement, not hyperbole.

Save a soul.

Tell a friend.

Pax vobiscum

Alan

PS Obama is not a Hitler doppelganger. He's a Rockefeller Republican.

The American Conservative: "Obama Is A Republican"


What "grip" should we expect from a political party that believes "Anti-Christ Barack HUSSEIN Obama is a Kenyan-born Muslim socialist, anti-American, job-killing quisling, whose goal is to surrender the United States to a One World Government headed by Arab sheikhs," the same political party that believed The Iraq War was a good idea.

President Obama is a Rockefeller Republican with unusually close ties to Wall Street.

238 Presidential Historians Rank Obama Near The Top: Dubyah Near The Bottom

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