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Thread #120208   Message #2912160
Posted By: Bobert
22-May-10 - 05:41 PM
Thread Name: BS: KKK/Tea Party Day
Subject: RE: BS: KKK/Tea Party Day
There's a big difference here, Bill, that I think you'll see if you look at some basic facts...

Fact: I started a thread about the Tea Party in terms of how similar it is to the KKK

Fact: One of it's darlings from Kentucy who was backed by the Tea Party folks for the US Senate has publicly stated that it is the right of any business owner to refuse service to anyone that business owner doesn't like...

Fact: these were the arguments made by the Woolworth's of the US in the 1950s...

Summation: Yes, there are similarities between what those in the Tea Party believe and what those in the KKK exposed some 60 years ago

Now as for Obama being a Nazi:

Fact: George Bush started two wars, one definately a war of choice meaning that it wasn't necessary... From those wars upwards of a million people have been killed...

Fact: Hitler and the Nazi's also killed alot of people... Upwards of 8 million people

Fact: Obama has not started any wars...

Summation: Looking strictly at the murdering of people, George Bush can be compared to Hitler and the Nazis... Obama can't...

So, bottom line, unless there is something missing in my logic it was perfectly okay for me to equate the Tea Party to the KKK and illogical for bruce to equate Obama with Hitler or the Nazis...

Further more, there is one right winged TV guy, Glen Beck, who has been pushing his followers to do as bruce has done in trying to frame Obama as a Nazi...

Furhter summation: This isn't about tit-for-tat... It's about a concerted effort by the right wing to put moderates and progressives on the defense... Oldest trick in the book... It won't work... Obama is no more a Nazi than Ann Frank yet there is at least one Tea Praty Senate candidate who has publicly stated positions very similar to those of the KKK...

B~