Illinois bishop under fire for comparing Obama to Hitler, Stalin

A number of Notre Dame University faculty members are calling on an Illinois bishop who compared President Obama’s policies to those of Stalin and Hitler to renounce his comments or step down from the university’s Board of Fellows.

In a letter sent Friday to University President Rev. John I. Jenkins and Board of Trustees chairman Richard C. Notebaert and published in full at the Peoria Journal Star Sunday night, the faculty members argue that Bishop Daniel Jenky demonstrated an “ ignorance of history, insensitivity to victims of genocide, and absence of judgment” with his comments during an April 14 homily.

“We accept that Bishop Jenky’s comments are protected by the First Amendment, but we find it profoundly offensive that a member of our beloved university’s highest authority, the Board of Fellows, should compare the President’s actions with those whose genocidal policies murdered tens of millions of people, including the specific targeting of Catholics, Jews, and other minorities for their faith,” they wrote.

The faculty members added that if Jenky does not renounce his comments he should resign from the 12-member Board of Fellows, which Notre Dame describes as “successors and associates in office of the original founders of the University.” Jenkins, Notebaert and Jenky are all members of the Board.

During the April 14th homily in question, Jenky said that Obama is “following a similar path” as Hitler and Stalin, specifically in regards to the White House’s HHS contraception mandate.

I was not suggesting that Obama is a comparable figure—in the historic sense—to a Stalin or Hitler. He obviously does not have an equivalent mental capacity. But his tactics—the base appeal to mob psychology, via the basest of human emotions;—and his collectivist, heavily Marxist influenced agenda & values, is certainly relevant. Moreover, I really believe that he is deliberately trying to copy Hitler's crowd manipulation techniques: Example, adjourning the Convention that nominated him to make his acceptance speech in a huge stadium, where the sense of being part of a huge mass movement would be maximized. (This is not mere coincidence.)

Example, where did Obama go immediately after his 2008 election victory? He rushed over to Berlin to address a huge crowd in a public area. Why Berlin, why the huge gathering? Was this not an effort to measure his drawing power against another famous crowd manipulator? Again, why Berlin, of all major cities on earth for a candidate who like the model, was fond of having an idolatrous crowd chant in unison at his direction--over & over again in the campaign.

William Flax

I guess the truth hurts.One person he failed to mention was Kim il sung the former dictator of North Korea.

If anything Obama would like to turn our country into what North Korea has become.Poor and Green.

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