Hitler / Obama Comparisons: Is Barack Obama Like Adolf Hitler or The Nazis?

The Humble Libertarian ^ | Thursday, August 27, 2009 | Wesley E. Messamore

[Yosemitest]

Hitler / Obama Comparisons: Is Barack Obama Like Adolf Hitler or The Nazis?


Thursday, August 27, 2009, by W. E. Messamore



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Is Barack Obama like the Nazis or Adolf Hitler?
Does even asking the question make you a right-wing nut or a partisan hack?
Is it distasteful to mention Hitler or the Nazis to make a point?
Let's take a sober look at the answers to these questions below:



Godwin's Law

Adolf Hitler seems to appear frequently in political debates.
Reference to Hitler or Nazism is so commonplace that in 1990, U.S. attorney and author Mike Godwin coined an adage that has become well known on Internet discussion forums as Godwin's Law:
"As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1."

Why does that seem to be the case?
Because in a fierce political disagreement, there is at least one area of common ground that almost everyone will share:
that Adolf Hitler was evil, unequivocally and without argument.
Even self-professing moral relativists are hard pressed to maintain otherwise. Adolf Hitler was evil.

When two sides seem to disagree about everything else, that area of common ground can (if emotions don't flare as they often do) actually form a bridge of understanding and communication.
People grasp for "the Hitler card" because they know their opponent will agree with the major premise that Hitler was evil.
Then it's on to the minor premise, which takes the form of "...and x is just like what we agree made Hitler evil."

"Therefore x is also evil," the debater concludes.


Argumentum ad Hitlerum

The first thing to remember as we approach this issue is that
it is a logical fallacy to assert
that if Adolf Hitler did or believed x, then x must automatically be bad.
It is an association fallacy referred to as "argumentum ad Hitlerum" in parody of the formal titles of other logical fallacies such as "argumentum ad hominem."

Just because Hitler was opposed to smoking tobacco, it does not follow
that someone is evil or morally equivalent to Hitler if they abstain from tobacco use.
Adolf Hitler did all kinds of things that other people do who are not morally equivalent to him.
Hitler painted flowers. So did Georgia O'Keeffe.
That does not make Georgia O'Keeffe a genocidal maniac by association.

But it is possible, logically sound, and perfectly fair in some cases to draw a deeper kind of comparison to Hitler.
We can assert of someone (if we have the facts to substantiate our claim, of course) that they are morally or politically equivalent-
or at least similar- to Hitler because their actions spring from the same ideology and/or tend to produce the same results.

In the case of U.S. President Barack Obama, we must determine whether comparisons of his policies to those of Adolf Hitler are the first kind of accusation (and therefore a fallacy)
or the second kind of accusation; and if they are the second kind, then we must determine whether the the comparison is supported by the facts,
or if it is a false comparison.


Obama/Hitler Comparisons

Conservatives can intuit (and some can explicitly understand and articulate) that Barack Obama's political program is similar in remarkable and chilling ways to that of Adolf Hitler's.
Their argument does not commit the "argumentum ad Hitlerum" fallacy because
their assertion is that President Obama's policies and worldview share the very characteristics by which we reckon Hitler as evil, not other irrelevant characteristics.

The actions of the Nazi regime, which are almost universally regarded as vile, were rooted in the ideologies and political programs of socialism, eugenics, and imperialism.
Obama's ideology, associations, and governance of the United States thus far betray a fervent and unambiguous commitment to socialist nationalization
and government direction of America's major industries, a eugenicist program of strict population control,
and a continued policy of aggressive American imperialism and global dominance through force.

One Miami columnist disagreed with this assessment, and criticized what he considers a flippant attitude, which makes light of the Holocaust.
He writes:



"I thought it would be good to make you sick,
i.e., to spend a few minutes reminding some and teaching others what you invoke when you invoke the Nazi regime.

For the record, then:

It was Nazis who shoved sand down a boy's throat until he died,
who tossed candies to Jewish children as they sank to their deaths in a sand pit,
who threw babies from a hospital window and competed to see how many of those 'little Jews' could be caught on a bayonet,
who injected a cement-like fluid into women's uteruses to see what would happen,
who stomped a pregnant woman to death,
who once snatched a woman's baby from her arms and, in the words of a witness, 'tore him as one would tear a rag.'"



America's Holocaust

So President Obama does not deserve a comparison to the Nazis because the Nazis perpetrated a genocide?
Pardon me, sir- isn't Mr. Obama perpetuating a genocide!?
He has been accurately described as "the most extreme pro-abortion candidate ever to seek the office of President of the United States.
He is the most extreme pro-abortion member of the United States Senate.
Indeed, he is the most extreme pro-abortion legislator ever to serve in either house of the United States Congress."

While there is not enough space in this essay to treat of abortion, let me explain briefly that I believe unequivocally,
on the basis of uncontroversial scientific facts and a sound anthropological ontology,
that a unique, whole, and individual human being is created at conception.
For an exhaustive explanation and defense of this belief, let me refer you to my essay entitled: "The Abortion Debate: A Reasoned, Scientific, Pro-Life Argument."

The relentless propaganda to the contrary, dehumanizing and miscategorizing human fetuses, is reminiscent of and similar to the Nazi campaign of dehumanization
to justify their brutal treatment of helpless minorities like the Jews.
The experimentation carried out on stem cells extracted by destroying human embryos, is chillingly like the medical experimentation carried out by Nazi scientists on their victims.


Eugenics and the Obama Administration

Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Regime were also obsessed with eugenics.
They actively worked towards assuming power over Germany's and eventually, the entire world's reproductive rights,
with the goal of allowing only the most desirable human beings to reproduce.
Obama's appointment of John Holdren as his Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (or more informally, "Science Czar") betrays his administration's eugenicist agenda.

As an anonymous Internet sleuth uncovered after John Holdren's appointment (HT: to Michelle Malkin):


"In a book Holdren co-authored in 1977, the man now firmly in control of science policy in this country wrote that:

Women could be forced to abort their pregnancies, whether they wanted to or not;
The population at large could be sterilized by infertility drugs intentionally put into the nation's drinking water or in food;
Single mothers and teen mothers should have their babies seized from them against their will and given away to other couples to raise;
People who 'contribute to social deterioration' (i.e. undesirables) 'can be required by law to exercise reproductive responsibility'
-- in other words, be compelled to have abortions or be sterilized.
A transnational 'Planetary Regime' should assume control of the global economy and also dictate the most intimate details of Americans' lives --
using an armed international police force."

You read all of that correctly.
If you don't believe me, do the research for yourself.
Go out there and find it, but do not write this off and ignore it.
I know that what you just read seems too horrible to be true, but it is the truth.
John Holdren is our nation's "Science Czar" and he did write these terrible things in his 1977 book, Ecoscience.
How can a U.S. President possibly appoint such a person to an office in the White House
if he feels about that person's views what any normal and not morally-deranged person would feel?

Socialism and The Obama Administration

In popular conception, "left-wing" politics taken to the extreme produces Stalin, while "right-wing" politics taken to the extreme produces Hitler.
What a stupid contrivance!
Why should two mass-murdering autocrats end up on opposite ends of a political spectrum?
The general American public seems oblivious to the fact that the word "Nazi" is an abbreviation for the "National Socialist German Workers Party."
(In German, the word "national" is pronounced nawt-zi-uh-nal.)

Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party were socialist.
The horrors inherent in socialism have made themselves all too apparent at this point on the timeline,
after a century of warfare and bloodshed unrivaled in human history- the handiwork of socialist ideology and its adherents.
His socialism is part of what made Adolf Hitler so evil.
There can be no argument that President Obama is likewise, a socialist.

President Obama's unprecedented assumption of powers to himself and his office is remarkably and frighteningly similar to Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany.
Obama has already suspended habeas corpus by claiming the right of indefinite detainment of potential terrorists without charges.
This occurred very shortly after his Department of Homeland Security issued two reports labeling
supporters of Ron Paul,
certain amendments of the Constitution,
devolution of Federal power to the states,
or Pro-Life beliefs
as potential terrorists.


Conclusion

This is just one of a lengthy list of examples of such abuses- all straight out of the pages of history and Adolf Hitler's playbook.
In just a few months as President, Obama has been prolific in his assault on liberty and assumption of boundless executive power.
You might even call it a "blitzkrieg."
There is simply not enough room to catalog these abuses and yet bring this essay to a timely close (it may be too late for that already!).
If you have been paying attention, you know exactly the kind of things to which I refer.

In closing, here is a recap of the questions at the beginning of this essay with their respective answers in light of the information above:
Is Barack Obama like the Nazis or Adolf Hitler?
Strikingly so.
Does even asking the question make you a right-wing nut or a partisan hack?
Absolutely not.
The evidence is incontrovertible.
Is it distasteful to mention Hitler or the Nazis to make a point?
Sometimes, but certainly not in this case.

[Yosemitest]

Well said, Mr Wesley E. Messamore.

Let us remember ...

"You Americans are so gullible.
No, you won’t accept Communism outright.
But we will keep feeding you small doses of socialism
until you finally wake up and realize you already have communism.
We won’t have to fight you;
we’ll so weaken your economy
that you will fall like over ripe fruit into our hands. "


Nikita Kruschev, Former Soviet Premier

There's NO "ENIGMA" ... to Barack Hussein Obama II.

The DemocratsNational Socialists, and FASCIST Obama are DOING IT ON PURPOSE!!!!

We were warned.

June 25, 2009
Obama, the African Colonial
By L.E. Ikenga


Had Americans been able to stop obsessing over the color of Barack Obama's skin and instead paid more attention to his cultural identity, maybe he would not be in the White House today. The key to understanding him lies with his identification with his father, and his adoption of a cultural and political mindset rooted in postcolonial Africa.

Like many educated intellectuals in postcolonial Africa, Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. was enraged at the transformation of his native land by its colonial conqueror. But instead of embracing the traditional values of his own tribal cultural past, he embraced an imported Western ideology, Marxism. I call such frustrated and angry modern Africans who embrace various foreign "isms", instead of looking homeward for repair of societies that are broken, African Colonials. They are Africans who serve foreign ideas.

The tropes of America's racial history as a way of understanding all things black are useless in understanding the man who got his dreams from his father, a Kenyan exemplar of the African Colonial. Before I continue, I need to say this: I am a first generation born West African-American woman whose parents emigrated to the U.S. in the 1970's from the country now called Nigeria. I travel to Nigeria frequently. I see myself as both a proud American and as a proud Igbo (the tribe that we come from -- also sometimes spelled Ibo). Politically, I have always been conservative (though it took this past election for me to commit to this once and for all!); my conservative values come from my Igbo heritage and my place of birth. Of course, none of this qualifies me to say what I am about to -- but at the same time it does.

My friends, despite what CNN and the rest are telling you, Barack Obama is nothing more than an old school African Colonial who is on his way to turning this country into one of the developing nations that you learn about on the National Geographic Channel. Many conservative (East, West, South, North) African-Americans like myself -- those of us who know our history -- have seen this movie before. Here are two main reasons why many Americans allowed Obama to slip through the cracks despite all of his glaring inconsistencies:

First, Obama has been living on American soil for most of his adult life. Therefore, he has been able to masquerade as one who understands and believes in American democratic ideals. But he does not. Barack Obama is intrinsically undemocratic and as his presidency plays out, this will become more obvious. Second, and most importantly, too many Americans know very little about Africa. The one-size-fits-all understanding that many Americans (both black and white) continue to have of Africa might end up bringing dire consequences for this country.

Contrary to the way it continues to be portrayed in mainstream Western culture, Africa is not a continent that can be solely defined by AIDS, ethnic rivalries, poverty and safaris. Africa, like any other continent, has an immense history defined by much diversity and complexity. Africa's long-standing relationship with Europe speaks especially to some of these complexities -- particularly the relationship that has existed between the two continents over the past two centuries. Europe's complete colonization of Africa during the nineteenth century, also known as the Scramble for Africa, produced many unfortunate consequences, the African colonial being one of them.

The African colonial (AC) is a person who by means of their birth or lineage has a direct connection with Africa. However, unlike Africans like me, their worldviews have been largely shaped not by the indigenous beliefs of a specific African tribe but by the ideals of the European imperialism that overwhelmed and dominated Africa during the colonial period. AC's have no real regard for their specific African traditions or histories. AC's use aspects of their African culture as one would use pieces of costume jewelry: things of little or no value that can be thoughtlessly discarded when they become a negative distraction, or used on a whim to decorate oneself in order to seem exotic. (Hint: Obama's Muslim heritage).

On the other hand, AC's strive to be the best at the culture that they inherited from Europe. Throughout the West, they are tops in their professions as lawyers, doctors, engineers, Ivy League professors and business moguls; this is all well and good. It's when they decide to engage us as politicians that things become messy and convoluted.

The African colonial politician (ACP) feigns repulsion towards the hegemonic paradigms of Western civilization. But at the same time, he is completely enamored of the trappings of its aristocracy or elite culture. The ACP blames and caricatures whitey to no end for all that has gone wrong in the world. He convinces the masses that various forms of African socialism are the best way for redressing the problems that European colonialism motivated in Africa. However, as opposed to really being a hard-core African Leftist who actually believes in something, the ACP uses socialist themes as a way to disguise his true ambitions: a complete power grab whereby the "will of the people" becomes completely irrelevant.

Barack Obama is all of the above. The only difference is that he is here playing (colonial) African politics as usual.

In his 1995 memoir, Dreams From My Father -- an eloquent piece of political propaganda -- Obama styles himself as a misunderstood intellectual who is deeply affected by the sufferings of black people, especially in America and Africa. In the book, Obama clearly sees himself as an African, not as a black American. And to prove this, he goes on a quest to understand his Kenyan roots. He is extremely thoughtful of his deceased father's legacy; this provides the main clue for understanding Barack Obama.

Barack Obama Sr. was an African colonial to the core; in his case, the apple did not fall far from the tree. All of the telltale signs of Obama's African colonialist attitudes are on full display in the book -- from his feigned antipathy towards Europeans to his view of African tribal associations as distracting elements that get in the way of "progress". (On p. 308 of Dreams From My Father, Obama says that African tribes should be viewed as an "ancient loyalties".)

Like imperialists of Old World Europe, the ACP sees their constituents not as free thinking individuals who best know how to go about achieving and creating their own means for success. Instead, the ACP sees his constituents as a flock of ignorant sheep that need to be led -- oftentimes to their own slaughter.

Like the European imperialist who spawned him, the ACP is a destroyer of all forms of democracy.

Here are a few examples of what the British did in order to create (in 1914) what is now called Nigeria and what Obama is doing to you:

1.Convince the people that "clinging" to any aspect of their cultural (tribal) identity or history is bad and regresses the process of "unity". British Imperialists deeply feared people who were loyal to anything other than the state. "Tribalism" made the imperialists have to work harder to get people to just fall in line. Imperialists pitted tribes against each other in order to create chaos that they then blamed on ethnic rivalry. Today many "educated" Nigerians, having believed that their traditions were irrelevant, remain completely ignorant of their ancestry and the history of their own tribes.

2.Confiscate the wealth and resources of the area that you govern by any means necessary in order to redistribute wealth. The British used this tactic to present themselves as empathetic and benevolent leaders who wanted everyone to have a "fair shake". Imperialists are not interested in equality for all. They are interested in controlling all.

3.Convince the masses that your upper-crust university education naturally puts you on an intellectual plane from which to understand everything even when you understand nothing. Imperialists were able to convince the people that their elite university educations allowed them to understand what Africa needed. Many of today's Nigerians-having followed that lead-hold all sorts of degrees and certificates-but what good are they if you can't find a job?

4.Lie to the people and tell them that progress is being made even though things are clearly becoming worse. One thing that the British forgot to mention to their Nigerian constituents was that one day, the resources that were being used to engineer "progress" (which the British had confiscated from the Africans to begin with!) would eventually run out. After WWII, Western Europe could no longer afford to hold on to their African colonies. So all of the counterfeit countries that the Europeans created were then left high-and-dry to fend for themselves. This was the main reason behind the African independence movements of the1950 and 60's. What will a post-Obama America look like?

5.Use every available media outlet to perpetuate the belief that you and your followers are the enlightened ones-and that those who refuse to support you are just barbaric, uncivilized, ignorant curmudgeons. This speaks for itself.

America, don't be fooled. The Igbos were once made up of a confederacy of clans that ascribed to various forms of democratic government. They took their eyes off the ball and before they knew it, the British were upon them. Also, understand this: the African colonial who is given too much political power can only become one thing: a despot.

[mojito]

Hitler was 100 times the “community organizer” that Prince Barry ever was. Speaking strictly on competence alone, there is no comparison.

[God luvs America]

much more so than say George W Bush, who was compared to hitler by the left on almost a daily basis, yet there was little uproar over it...

[maddog55]

Agree on the competence part but BO is getting America to the end game at a much faster pace the Hitler did Germany.

[ExTexasRedhead]

How many will Zero’s Death Panels eliminate based on Big Bro’s criteria?

[Baynative]

In the 1930's Germany was in a severe economic depression. The entire country was dealing with extreme poverty. When A.H. began promising a new generation of pride and a cultural shift where commodities would become plentiful and affordable for all, people listened and went along hoping for something, anything, better.

Giving people hope with no specifics allowed him to transform the entire country in a very short time. Along with that transformation came government control of business, banking, the media and the education system.

Is there a chance of history repeating itself here?

[cripplecreek]

Increasingly like Hitler in my opinion but it should be noted that Hitler wasn’t alone and a lot of people who hated him were fooled into helping to give him power.

[pallis]

Obama has Hitler’s dictator instincts, not because he is a leader, but because he is too pig ignorant to lead intelligently. Isn’t that what the Hitlers of the world are all about, people who bypass the principles of choice, freedom, individualism and the value of life in favor of forced idealism?

[maddog55]

Is there a chance of history repeating itself here?

Similarities are right so I think we’re about 80% there already..

[org.whodat]

Had 1000 times more back bone as well, Hitler was a private in the German army, WWI other than that, they are a lot alike. Obummer thinks he is a field general as well.. LOL

[Riodacat]

"Is Barack Obama like the Nazis or Adolf Hitler?"
Does even asking the question make you a right-wing nut or a partisan hack?

No, it only makes you appear to be an idiot..

[muawiyah]

Still, it is remarkably easy to compare and contrast the two.

First off they both hate(d) Jews.

Neither ever had a real job.

Both thought the way to get things done was to just order people around.

Both sought after and received cult-like devotion from followers.

[Nervous Tick]

Is Obama like Hitler? Nah.

Hitler wrote his *own* book, whereas Barky’s was ghostwritten by Bill Ayers.

Also, Hitler was *successful* at obtaining the Olympics for his country.

:-)

[DuncanWaring]

Hitler didn’t need a teleprompter.

[The_Reader_David]

The author having raised the comparability of abortion and the Holocaust, it seems an opportune time to point out that not only do the Democrats advocate killing unborn children out of hand as the Nazis advocated killing Jews out of hand, the Democrats are also engaged in a massive program to expropriate the wealth of unborn children, even as the Nazis expropriated the wealth of Jews: uncontrolled deficit spending.

[MHGinTN]

Hitler was much more intelligent than barry bassturd, evil, very evil, but much smarter. Barry isn’t even up to being as evil as Hitler. Such a fail in flesh barry is.

[Yosemitest]

Did Hitler have as many people helping him as Barack Obama?

Anybody recall a press release telling the masses about federal intelligence notes sent warning police about this cabal?

[Yosemitest]

Expropriating the wealth of unborn ....

Now that's even more than Hitler would have even thought of.

[NativeNewYorker]

Having read Mein Kampf, I would argue that the WWI veteran gave a lot more thought to this actions than did the Harvard Law Review editor.

[cripplecreek]

Hitler would have been an utter failure if it weren't for a lot of people smarter than him helping.

I challenge anyone to watch this documentary and tell me it isn't terrifying in its familiarity.

Third Reich - The Rise 1/6

Most notable is how many people who hated him but were duped into helping him.