On an artistic level, I think this is the best one of the lot. Bonus points for racism: notice the hair does not quite lie down.
Anyone with access to the internet knows that the similarities between Barack Obama and Adolf Hitler are numerous and eerie. Both were heads of state. Both were closely involved with their nations’ auto industries. Both were talented orators, and both presided over the systematic extermination of six million Jews. When you get right down to it, our sitting President and Adolf Hilter are pretty much the same person, except Obama hasn’t suspended democratic elections, implemented a policy of cultural nationalism, embarked on a massive expansion of the armed forces, created a class system based on ethnicity, assumed control of the national media, staged an attack on the legislative branch, implemented a eugenics policy or invaded a sovereign nation.
He is black, though. If you hate Barack Obama’s politics and you’re also a racist, the election of our first black President is doubly galling. You know what else is galling? The fact that Adolf Hitler—generally agreed to be the worst human being of the modern era—was a racist, too. That was, like, his thing. Which makes it hard, when you’re vigorously arguing that black people have an extra muscle in their calf that makes them especially good at pro basketball, not to think of yourself as maybe kind of an asshole.
Enter the Barack Obama/Adolf Hitler comparison, which—according to the Anti-Defamation League—is increasingly popular not just with the lunatic fringe but also with the lunatic mainstream. Rush Limbaugh, for example, recently pointed out that “Adolf Hitler, like Obama, also ruled by dictate.” Former thankless-eighties Saturday Night Live cast member Victoria Jackson, who somehow did not cease to exist after UHF, laid out the case systematically for Andrew Breitbart. And, of course, there’s the National Republican Congressional Committee, which briefly Twittered*
a link to a video connecting Hitler, Nancy Pelosi and Obama’s health care proposals.
All of these comparisons have one thing in common: they ignore the defining elements of the Nazi regime, fascism and racism. Those just happen to be the two aspects of Nazism that are ideologically closest to the Republican Party. Both are a far cry from anything in the GOP platform today, but let’s not forget that fascism is an ultra right-wing system of government, and racism—well, how many black Republicans do you know? Just as the Soviet Union will always embarrass the radical left, Nazi Germany stands as history’s greatest indictment of ultra-conservatism. The beauty of the Hitler/Obama comparison, from a Republican standpoint, is that it elides this connection. By relentlessly connecting Barack Obama with Hitler, the right gets to associate Nazism with socialized medicine, charismatic leadership and big government, instead of corporatism and fantasies of empire.
And if you’re a racist, the Obama/Hitler comparison gives you an opportunity to giddily violate a lot of social taboos. You can hold up a huge swastika and shout “Heil Hitler!” in public. You can trot out the old David Duke claim that the real victims of racism in contemporary America are white people. You can even wear a Nazi uniform on the cover of your book. Best of all, you can enjoy the transgressive thrill of images emphasizing that Barack Obama is Not White. Like the Joker picture that puts Obama in whiteface with enormous red lips, Photoshopped images of the nation’s first black President as history’s most famous white supremacist make a caricature of his blackness.
In the tradition of Ronald Reagan’s fictional welfare queens and Willie Horton, the Obama/Hitler comparison is race-baiting masquerading as politics. The absurdity of the argument—that a liberal Democrat is analogous to a right-wing dictator—underscores its subconscious agenda. That it has emerged from the right at the nadir of their power, when for the first time in history the President is not white, should come as little surprise. For all Michael Steele’s talk of a new Republican Party and “urban/suburban hip-hop settings,” the GOP is a white man’s party, and has been since Little Rock, 1957. It’s an ugly truth of contemporary politics, and one that conservatives will do anything to ignore. When Glenn Beck says that Obama is like Hitler, he’s saying that race was the least part of Nazism. He’s saying that a black man in Washington, DC has nothing in common with a Jew in Heidelberg. In so doing, he cheapens the memory of six million Jews, 400 thousand American servicemen, and countless victims of white supremacism. But hey, at least it makes for a funny poster.
So, what your saying is that Blacks like the new taxes, new debt and more government control? It’s not racism if the president is dismantling the country piece by piece and you are against it. The real comparison to Hitler should be, Hitler wanted socialized health care, Hitler controlled education and like Obama Hitler was a Libra. Get over the Racism card. Blacks are at the Tea party rallies, and you don’t have to be only white to care about your country. What would be racism is if I said, “leave it up to a black guy to screw up the first chance to become the first black president”. But I won’t.
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F*CK YOU
how ever did this is a straight up dumbass!!!!!
fuck obama. fuck black people
KKK BITCH!
OK, came to tease another right wing extremist, but, here you’ve beat me to the punch with cool, calm logic and historical fact. It pretty much does look to be a tremendous case of white backlash, and here’s hoping it quits.
I noticed you didn’t take the turn into the dark side of Reagan arming, supplying, and training bin laden..or Bush junior softening the attack on bin laden to pursue an attack on a worthless nation of sand, and so I will pass on that, too.
This blog sucks because it’s just stupidly wrong.
HAIL HITLER!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAIL!HAIL!HAIL!
Seriously, Hitler! Get inside! Cover up your car or something!
fuck yu hilter yu fucking suck yur a fuckin bitch and it was eather kill yur self or get killed well yu was going to fucking die ether way ohh fuck hilter ohh fuck hilter yu and im gay do yu have a fucking problom with it bicth
OH HELL NO BARACK OBAMA AINT NOTHINQQ LIKE HITLER U DUMB RETARDED BXXTCH OHHH I HOPE WHOEVER MADE THIS GOES RIGHT TO HELL LIKE HITLER!!!!!!!!!!! U SCUMMY BXXTCHES
ALL U FATASSESS HATINQQ ON BARACK GO SUCK COCKS IN HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YALL GET ON MY NERVES HOW ABOUT SOMEONE LOCK YALL ASSES IN A FREEZE WITH A SLIM JIM AND LET YALL FIGHT OVER IT TO THE DEATH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
U FAT HOES!!!!!!!!!! THATS WHY HITLER LOOK LIKE DUFENSHMIRTZ
Fuck that bitch call mom on this blog… if you color folk so much stop getting a fucking tan you pal ass bitch you wish u was black an color, that why you pay hundreds each year to get a color you ghostly looking bitch
Juz cuz u don’t Obama doesn’t mean ur a racist that could be just an honest unracist opinion like if a black guy punches me and I don’t like him does that make me a racist?
…. “When you get right down to it, our sitting President and Adolf Hilter are pretty much the same person, except Obama hasn’t suspended democratic elections, implemented a policy of cultural nationalism, embarked on a massive expansion of the armed forces, created a class system based on ethnicity, assumed control of the national media, staged an attack on the legislative branch, implemented a eugenics policy or invaded a sovereign nation.”
—so what makes Obama like Hitler.. if your going to speak of something so controversial back it up…. as far Obama being Hitler no… but America is turning into a fascist country.. Obama is only the face of power.. the secret society is makin up these outrageous rules…. we have all 14 characteristics of fascist country now all we can do is wait and see how many years its going to take to implement laws that will not allow us to carry fire arms… Im patiently waiting because when that day comes I pray to GOD Im not here
YEAH FUCK OFF MATE YOUR AN IDIOT. OBAMA IS AWESOME!!!!!!
Okay, so in terms of total number of pageviews, this is by far the most popular post I have ever written for this blog—probably because people keep typing “obama hitler” into Google. In light of Briana’s comment, I feel that I should make what I thought was pretty clear irony a little more clear. Ready? Here goes:
You’re right, Briana; because he didn’t do all of those things I listed, and also because he is a democratically elected leader with limited power who is not trying to systematically wipe out the Jews, Obama is not like Hitler. That’s why I listed all those things. My point is that A) Obama is not like Hitler, B) Hitler was, among other things, a total racist, and C) it seems like more than a coincidence that people are comparing the first black president to Hitler all the time. My theory is that people who are racists and don’t like Obama because he is black feel better when they compare him to Hitler, because it allows them to pretend that the main quality of the worst person in modern history wasn’t that he was a racist, too.
To recap: Obama is not similar to Hitler. I like Obama, maybe not completely but definitely more than I like Hitler. I think comparing Obama to Hitler is stupid at best, and probably racist. I also think that the following people are stupid:
1) People who have commented on this post to say how much Hitler rules
2) People who have commented on this post to say that I shouldn’t say Obama is like Hitler—see above
3) People who think Obama is not like Hitler but is deliberately trying to run this country into the ground
4) Briana