Billboard linking Obama, Hitler draws complaints

Associated Press / Yahoo News ^ | July 13, 2010 | Luke Meredith

[no dems]

DES MOINES, Iowa – A billboard created by an Iowa tea party group that compares President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin is drawing sharp criticism — even from fellow tea party activists who have condemned it as offensive and a waste of money. The North Iowa Tea Party began displaying the billboard in downtown Mason City last week. The sign shows large photographs of Obama, Nazi leader Hitler and communist leader Lenin beneath the labels "Democrat Socialism," "National Socialism," and "Marxist Socialism." Beneath the photos is the phrase, "Radical leaders prey on the fearful & naive." The co-founder of the roughly 200-person group said the billboard was intended to send an anti-socialist message. But Bob Johnson admitted Tuesday that the message may have gotten lost amid the images of fascist and communist leaders.

[no dems]

Comments? Anyone?

[Grunthor]

Pictures morphing Bush into Hitler were perfectly acceptable to the same people.

[MaryFromMichigan]

...even from fellow tea party activists who have condemned it as offensive and a waste of money.

Say what?
It's accurate.

[antonico]

Maybe a setup by The Left to generate sympathy & a sense of victimhood for Zero??

[MrB]

Notice they’re not offended by the guy on the other side of 0bama - Stalin.

The reason they are so upset about Hitler comparisons (besides the fact that the truth always infuriates them)

is that the accusation of fascism, naziism, and Hitler comparisons are what THEY use to shut off having to defend their positions on issues.

Same with the race issue. If you want to infuriate them today, point out the 0bama admin’s racism, Holder’s DOJ racism, NAACP’s racism, etc.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Total leftist spin.

The billboard is awesome, and overdue.

More please.

[CalvaryJohn]

I love it. If someone can’t look past the pictures to consider the ideas, then it’s not my problem. He did that billboard exactly right.

[STONEWALLS]

...other Tea Party groups should not speak publically against this....even if they disagree...remember Reagan’s 11th Commandment...”Never speak ill of another Republican”...same applies to Tea Partiers.

[getitright]

The message got lost in the imagery?

I’d say the message got lost in the cowardice.

The billboard is accurate. In a rational world, the dialogue would be of opponents challenging the accuracy and proponents proving the validity of the comparison.

But alas, when does a lib/conserv discussion ever take this tack anymore?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Maybe overreaching just a tad.
A more accurate billboard would put Barky between Black Liberationists Rev. Wright and his neighborhood Communist buddy, Bill Ayres.

[Carley]

Still waiting to hear complaints about the signs, posters, and assaults on President Bush-hitler.

crickets........

[PLD]

What is not true about the bill board?everything this idiot does reminds me of the two friends he is pictured with here..Time for us to take back America folks!!

[Inwoodian]

What’s the problem? It’s not like he had a little girl with a flower in her hand followed by a nuclear explosion.

[Da Coyote]

What problem? All three pics depict men of little intelligence who used charisma and lies to screw up entire nations.

However, we did know where two of those folks were born.

[skeptoid]

from Yahoo

[Eye of Unk]

The truth can be a strong diuretic to those that live on a diet of lies.

Much better to show a strong message such as this than being corralled into a corner and forced to use much stronger actions.

This is the message from America about what we think our leadership has become, first off they are incompetent, mis-guided and solely out for profit of their own formed alliances.

This is nothing but raping and pillage of the modern day society. In wars lost in histories past the men were killed and the women raped by the invading armies so as to dilute the genetics to a more pacified culture.

Just look at a what if scenario of a future 30 years from now under dictator Obama.

[ilovesarah2012]

LOL - good point.

[listenhillary]

Bushhitler ring any bells?

[Niteranger68]

Billboard linking Obama, Hitler draws complaints comparisons

[MissEdie]

Well if it waddles like a duck, quacks like a duck, and swims in ponds like a duck, it must be a duck. I’m guessing the old adage “sometimes the truth hurts” applies to those who oppose this billboard.

[listenhillary]

http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&gbv=2&tbs=isch:1&sa=1&q=bush+hitler&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

About 1,140,000 results (0.05 seconds)

[skeptoid]

He also does a very good Mussolini!

[Fedupwithit]

I love the fact that they have my state motto on the billboard...

LIVE FREE OR DIE, BABY!!!

[ecomcon]

Should have used the original language posters version. But I love it. It’s true.

[C210N]

What this regime is doing can be boiled down to one sentence:

Maneuver American society into collapse in such a way that they are minimally to blame, so that they can increase their power even more.

It probably helps them if they are in power at the time of collapse - the musical chair game, as they are already in their seat.

[chipper dave]

If I was a Hitler or Lenin devotee I would be pissed off too! ;-)

[ILS21R]

Only Obama could make Hitler and Lenin look sane.

[Gay State Conservative]

It's absolutely stupid for us to draw comparisons between Hussein and Hitler.The most fitting comparisons involving Hussein and a modern mass-murdering psychopath are ones that include Stalin and/or Mao.

[agere_contra]

Superb billboard.

[luvtheconstitution]

You are 100% correct.

[listenhillary]

That would take the wind out of their sails wouldn’t it?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Let the past be prologue.

[agere_contra]

If I was a Hitler or Lenin devotee I would be pissed off too!

LOL, post of the day.

[Nervous Tick]

>> Comments? Anyone?

I like it. The message is 100% true. That nasty piece of work Obama would be every bit as ruthless a tyrant as Hitler and Stalin, were he given the chance. Oppose him by utterly every (legal) means possible!

[cameraeye]

Socialism is socialism no matter how you title it. Finally people will start questioning his motives, we hope?

[MrB]

Here’s another one -

“OK, let’s say he’s not a fascist or Marxist - what would he be doing differently if he were?”

[noah]

How about Chavez & Castro?

[domeika]

My only complaint is that there wasn’t room for Mao up there.

[Nervous Tick]

>> However, we did know where two of those folks were born.

Yeah, and unlike Obama, the one on the left actually wrote his own book, and was actually successful at securing the Olympics for his country!

[PLD]

We have already questioned his motives..as well as educated intelligent blacks..Now lets see if the rest do it..No matter if he set fire to the whole country the others would still see No wrong in what he did..

[secret garden]

Duuuuude.

[pnh102]

Free speech is beautiful.

[PLD]

Good motto..and I did not notice that..Thanks for bringing it up..

[pnh102]

Notice they’re not offended by the guy on the other side of 0bama - Stalin.

Probably because most people on the left have no problem with Stalin's approach to collectivizing the Soviet economy, especially with him killing more people than Hitler.

[Do Be]

If I remember correctly, Obozo pushed hard for the law saying that any baby that survived an abortion had to be left alone to stave to death. In what way is he different from Hitler?

[Teacher317]

Good point. Mao would’ve been just as informative, and accurate, and would’ve given the Leftist MSM less of an opportunity to whine and/or invoke Godwin’s Law (the one who plays the “Hitler card” loses any argument).

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

“However, we did know where two of those folks were born.”

We know where all three were born, and none of them here. Just call them the A-K-R trio (Austria, Kenya, Russia).

[Check6]

Could someone please give me a working URL or email address for the Northern Iowa Tea Party? I want to send them money, but see that a contact point seems to be missing from the article (surprise, surprise, surprise)!

[servantboy777]

I think this is just plain ded-gum funny.

Go America, Go Americans!

[lacrew]

Lots of lefty indignation about the Hitler comparison...but they seem ok with the Lenin comparison.