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NYTimes: Obama's Economic Ideas Great... Just Like Hitler's Were?
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2009/04/03/nytimes-obamas-economic-ideas-great-just-hitlers-were ^

Posted on 04/03/2009 6:21:19 AM PDT by chessplayer

For The New York Times economic scene section for March 31, David Leonhardt came across with one of the most amazing admissions about Obama that I've ever seen in the Times. Namely that Barack Obama is just like Hitler. Now, many of you may be solemnly shaking your head in agreement, but in so doing you would be missing why the Times was comparing Obama to Hitler. You see, Leonhardt didn't mean it as an insult. He was saying that it was a good thing that Barack was being like Hitler at least in an economic sense.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: adolfhitler; davidleonhardt; hitler; morrisberger; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; obama; warnertoddhuston; wth
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1 posted on 04/03/2009 6:21:19 AM PDT by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer
Here Leonhardt is taking the trains-on-time track with his Hitler angle by saying that, despite that whole Holocaust and World War II business, Hitler's policies were good for Germany.

"Well, other than that, did you enjoy the theater Mrs. Lincoln?"

2 posted on 04/03/2009 6:23:47 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (American Revolution II -- overdue)
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To: chessplayer

And we conservatives are the ones they call Nazis?


3 posted on 04/03/2009 6:25:18 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople
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To: chessplayer

Now we know why the New York Times is going out of business.


4 posted on 04/03/2009 6:25:50 AM PDT by Sprite518
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To: chessplayer

So Obama’s like Hitler in a good way?
But Bush was like Hitler in a bad way?

Riiiight...


5 posted on 04/03/2009 6:28:35 AM PDT by JenB987
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To: ClearCase_guy

I have been saying the moves he is making in our economy are more like fascism than socialism


6 posted on 04/03/2009 6:30:20 AM PDT by silverleaf (Freedom's just another word for "nothing left to lose")
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To: JenB987

Where the heck is our Churchill??????????


7 posted on 04/03/2009 6:31:03 AM PDT by wombtotomb
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To: MuttTheHoople

Don’t you know that Obama and liberals can do no wrong and conservatives, Republicans, etc. can do no right.


8 posted on 04/03/2009 6:31:24 AM PDT by LottieDah (If only those who speak so eloquently on the rights of animals would do so on behalf the unborn)
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To: chessplayer
I won't be concerned about what the propagandists call Bama like until they start comparing him to the compassionate George Bush.
9 posted on 04/03/2009 6:31:39 AM PDT by Just mythoughts (Bama and Company are reenacting the Pharaoh as told by Moses in Genesis!!!!!)
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To: silverleaf

I agree with you.


10 posted on 04/03/2009 6:34:09 AM PDT by painter (No wonder democrats don't mind taxes.THEY DON'T PAY THEM !)
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To: wombtotomb

Obama gave him back to Britain, remember?

:)

There is no nobility amongst thieves. Men, leaders, like Churchill no longer exist, I fear.


11 posted on 04/03/2009 6:34:09 AM PDT by JenB987
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To: chessplayer; ClearCase_guy; MuttTheHoople; Sprite518; JenB987; silverleaf; wombtotomb; LottieDah; ..

Can someone quote just the relevant paragraph? Many of us won’t register with the enemy.


12 posted on 04/03/2009 6:34:34 AM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: silverleaf
I agree. I see fascism as a variant of socialism, so I have been using both terms to describe Obama. But really, fascism is the better, more accurate word. And there are many foolish people who think socialism is actually a good thing -- so calling Obama a socialist does not register as an insult with those people.

If we can get a lot of people recognizing Obama as a fascist, then we get the Left in the position of having to explain why fascism is a good thing after all. THAT's gonna be a challenge.

13 posted on 04/03/2009 6:35:04 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (American Revolution II -- overdue)
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To: chessplayer

He sighed that he didn’t have anyone like armaments minister Speer to put in charge of General Motors.


14 posted on 04/03/2009 6:38:38 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The death cult wants death, the Israelis want peace. I, for one, see only one solution.)
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To: chessplayer

Obama told his nation that he would make them proud again.
Hitler did the same.

Obama blamed all the problems on the other people.
Hitler did too.

Obama told the people that he would use government to cure their problems
Hitler did too.

Obama has told people that the government will provide for them.
Hitler did too.

Obama has used a logo that appears everywhere.
Hitler had one too.

Hitler rounded up all his political enemies using his military.
Obama uses lawyers and congress

Hitler nationalized businesses
tick tock tick tock

Hitler’s religion was one of self, and hatred of others.
Jeremiah Wright

People love Obama and believe that he is the answer to their problems, which is history repeating itself.

But Hitler didn’t need a teleprompter.


15 posted on 04/03/2009 6:40:33 AM PDT by Loud Mime (Things were better when cigarette companies could advertise and Lawyers could not.)
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To: sam_paine

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/business/economy/01leonhardt.html?_r=3&ref=business


16 posted on 04/03/2009 6:42:04 AM PDT by Just mythoughts (Bama and Company are reenacting the Pharaoh as told by Moses in Genesis!!!!!)
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To: wombtotomb

“Where the heck is our Churchill??????????”

Zero returned him to England (tongue in cheek)


17 posted on 04/03/2009 6:45:30 AM PDT by LottieDah (If only those who speak so eloquently on the rights of animals would do so on behalf the unborn)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
He's got his very own Goebbels however:

goebbels


rahm


18 posted on 04/03/2009 6:45:54 AM PDT by silverleaf (Freedom's just another word for "nothing left to lose")
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To: ClearCase_guy

Leonhardt doesn’t know s*** about history. People with a shallow understanding of history fall for the myth of the “super-efficient” Nazi regime. In truth, the Nazis conquered Europe only because their army had a very efficient way of fighting, and was fortunate to face far less ably led opponents one at a time. Once faced with an enormous coalition, they were crushed.

Economically, Nazi Germany was a total disaster. In fact, the only real description that fits the German economy for most of Hitler’s rule is “chaotic.” Just as Hitler’s regime was. It was NOT a sustainable economic model and needed a war to keep it from collapsing. It was not until Speer promoted economic decision making at the factory and enterprise level that Germany began making substantial increases in military production. That was 1944 and by then the war was already lost.

Fascism, as state control of nominally private enterprise in the name of “efficiency” is anything but that. In fact, it is always chaotic and unproductive.

And Leonhardt does have one thing right; 0bama’s economic policies do mirror Hilter’s.


19 posted on 04/03/2009 6:54:46 AM PDT by henkster (0bamanomics: "I'll loan you all the money you need to get out of debt.")
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To: ClearCase_guy

ROFL. These people are utter dolts.


20 posted on 04/03/2009 7:03:52 AM PDT by Paved Paradise
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