what about me

i would bet i am on their list and i didnt do noffin

lol

The canary has crossed the border. The party is at 7-11.

Lawmaker sorry about Obama slam

Julia Malone
ajc.com
Wednesday, Nov 12, 2008

U.S. Rep. Paul Broun of Georgia backed away Tuesday from comparing the policies of President-elect Barack Obama to those of Hitler or a Marxist dictator.

After stirring a controversy that was grabbing national attention, the Republican lawmaker from Athens apologized for making such references.

“I regret putting it that way,” Broun told WGAC radio in Augusta. “I apologize to anyone who has taken offense at that.”

Broun acknowledged that he called Obama a Marxist at a Rotary Club meeting in Augusta last week. In an Associated Press interview Monday night, he went further, charging that an Obama campaign proposal for a civilian national security reserve corps would be like the security forces of Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union.

The Obama transition office has declined comment on Broun’s remarks, but a spokesman told the AP that the idea of a civilian corps was similar to one proposed by the Bush administration to recruit civilians for defense-related work such as rebuilding war-torn Iraq.

“The point I tried to make is that he is extremely liberal, he has promoted a lot of socialistic ideas, and it just makes me concerned,” Broun said Tuesday.

His comments to the Associated Press, however, drew criticism from Georgia Democrats and both of the state’s Republican senators Tuesday.

“I don’t agree with the statement,” said U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson, who called the president-elect Monday and left a message of congratulations.

U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss echoed that view. “I commend President-elect Obama on his historic election,” said the senator, who faces a run-off on Dec. 2 with Democratic challenger Jim Martin.

Chambliss said of Broun’s Hitler remarks, “I do not agree with him, and I do not believe that type of political rhetoric is appropriate.”

Martin was measured in his critique, calling Broun’s remarks “extremely unfortunate” and adding, “We ought not to engage in that kind of rhetoric.”

State Democratic Party spokesman Martin Matheny accused Broun of “playing to the extremes” at a time “when Americans are coming together to celebrate history and renew America’s promise.”

“Broun’s neo-McCarthyism has no place in today’s political environment,” Matheny said.

U.S. Rep. Sanford Bishop, an Albany Democrat, said Broun’s disappointment at the Republican losses had “apparently taken his reasoning capacity hostage.” Bishop said the references to Hitler and Marxism were “the most outlandish, out of touch, and unrealistic characterization of President-elect Obama’s views that I have ever heard.”

However, Broun found defenders, including some Georgians who were queried by e-mail by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

“Rep. Broun is not out of line in soliciting follow-up answers to some of Obama’s campaign rhetoric,” wrote Brian Ludvigsen, 25, of Atlanta. “Many of his constituents may have a problem with the notion of creating a new ‘national security force.’ “

County Republican chairman James Box of Clarke County, which is in Broun’s district, also defended his congressman’s earlier comments.

“President-elect Obama has a background —- and some of his statements he’s made —- that lead many of us to believe that he has very socialist orientations,” Box, 77, said, adding that the national press has not examined the incoming president vigorously enough.

“I wouldn’t say he’s going to be a Hitler, but what Paul Broun says is that he has a potential for being a Hitler.”

Asked for his own view, Box said, “I don’t know. You never know with a politician.”

Another Georgian, Clinton Bastin, 81, of Avondale Estates, offered a different view: “I remember Hitler’s rise to power and his hatred and persecution of Jews,” he wrote in an e-mail. “President-elect Obama is no Hitler or Marxist. He has arrived at a wonderful time and will be a great president.”

So much for free speech. Interesting how peer pressure can be much more effective than even passing laws against something.

So, many things wrong here.........

not only the potential to be hitler

but also the potential to be Washington

it is not what is said

but how you say it

i hope he goes in the direction of Washington myself

but only time will tell