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<blockquote class="Quote"><div><strong class="bc-author">mannybolone</strong> said:</div><div><blockquote class="Quote"><div><strong class="bc-author">BobDesperado</strong> said:</div><div>Some leftist somewhere said Bush was Hitler once, so that's totally the same as Sarah Palin saying Obama is a socialist who's "hellbent on destroying America"!  </div></blockquote>
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	Hold up: it wasn't "some random leftist" comparing Bush with Hitler. Bush became the biggest political bogeyman in at least a generation (most of it deserved, in my opinion, given his record). <br />
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	For the record, I think calling Obama a socialist is fucking ridiculous. But at the level of national discourse, I think it's completely fair to say that the left excoriated Bush in hyperbolic ways that are similar to how Obama's been treated by those on the right bent on making him seem like an extremist.<br />
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	I'm not saying 2011 and 2004 are "the same". But it's not idiocy to point out the parallels.</div></blockquote>
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	It's idiocy to claim equivalency, unless you can point to a Democratic contender for the presidency saying Bush was a Hitler wanna-be who was hellbent on destroying America.<br />
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	The point is that it isn't just bloggers and so on on the right who are saying these things.  It's elected officials and major Republican party figures.  The notion that there is equivalency is just a complete joke.<br />
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	Hell, it even resulted in Republicans like Joe Wilson and Samuel Alito being unable to control themselves while Obama was addressing Congress.  "You lie!"  "That's not true!"  <br />
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	If you've got 10,000 pounds of elephant shit on one side of a scale and 10 pounds of donkey shit on the other, it's not gonna balance.  But the false equivalency crowd are telling us it does.

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