Obama, the New Hitler?

The White House called on citizens this past week to forward “fishy” emails to the White House, emails that contradicted Obama’s claims in the health care debate. On par with buzzing New York City with Air Force One, this mistake is born of the President’s inexperience but also offers proof once again how broken down the American Press is.

Liberals defend the White House saying that it needs the opportunity to rebut misinformation that is floating out there about health care reform. The President is upset that people are mischaracterizing his health care reform plan. First, the President has not put forth a health care reform plan; the House has passed a bill. Much of the “fishy” emails stems from people reading and quoting from this bill. Many provisions are in conflict with Obama’s stated goals but instead of criticizing the bill, he demands it be passed immediately. Still many are uneasy with the call for emails. Senator Cornyn stated, "I am not aware of any precedent for a President asking American citizens to report their fellow citizens to the White House for pure political speech that is deemed ‘fishy' or otherwise inimical to the White House's political interests…” Sen. Cornyn is not completely correct. Nixon ordered the FBI to attend anti-war rallies to collect data on what was said there and who said it. He was taken to court and the Supreme Court held this practice is unconstitutional. The government is forbidden to collect information about its citizens’ political speech. Furthermore, Obama need not sift through emails to discover the source of people’s “manufactured” outrage. The House bill is the source. But again, his inexperience shines through. He continues to point out that there is a fly in the room (i.e., medical inflation is too high, people without insurance overuse ERs, some go bankrupt over health issues) but has not explained to us why we need to whack the fly with a sledge hammer (i.e., dismantle the health care system) and does not explain what he will do with the damage when the sledge hammer, missing the fly, makes a hole in the wall (just look at Medicaid, Medicare, VA to see what can and will go wrong). But in the current debate there is only one pertinent question he needs to answer. If health care reform will be so wonderful, why do all proposal so far exclude him and his family, all of Congress and all government employees?

On a separate note, this call for “fishy” emails has demonstrated how broken the American press is. The institution known as the mainstream press, the constitutionally enshrined arbiter of our liberty has been virtually silent because of their blinding adoration for the President. Meanwhile, they have deluged the airwaves and wasted good ink criticizing Rush Limbaugh for comparing Democrats to Nazis while completing failing to mention that the Speaker of the House first claimed health care reform protesters were Nazis. Limbaugh is correct to point out that Nazi comes from a German word meaning National Socialist. The Nazis wanted free health care, guaranteed jobs, strong unions and a whole host of programs that are very similar to modern Democrat proposals. But they are most notorious for their evil atrocities in exterminating people they deemed unfit. However, they did not invent anti-Semitism; they simply exploited a prejudice that already existed. Fomenting this already ubiquitous hatred, they consolidated power. And then, when they had the upper hand, they terrorized everyone into submission. While no evil has yet surpassed the Nazi regime, how is it any better that Democrats, finding people full of envy for fellow citizens who have more, foment and exploit this envy to promote their policies and then cow political opponents with threats of political correctness and begin collecting IP addresses? Why does the press not object in harsh tones? The prewar German press was greatly enamored with Hitler and virulently anti-Semitic. Are the Rich simply the new Jews? Now I hate it when people quickly equate political opponents to Nazis but, since Pelosi started it, when are we going to question the policies of class warfare? Germany lay in ruins before questioning the destruction of Jewry. Health care reform is an assault on the Rich and on capitalism. What will be the condition of America before it realizes the immorality of destroying the Rich and the stupidity in attacking capitalism?

While Obama is no Hitler, with all due respect Ms. Pelosi, neither are the town-hall protesters who are just trying to save us from Obama’s inexperience. And those “fishy” emails wouldn’t be necessary if the malfeasant press would just do its job!