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[TracyCoxx]

Originally Posted by smc

In an electoral environment where people have claimed a legitimate place in the political arena while carrying signs of Obama made to look like Adolph Hitler, and even comparing him to Hitler, this kind of thing ... even in jest ... is absolutely disgusting and without merit.

Personally, as someone who counts 64 members of his family lost to the Nazis in death camps, I find this to be reprehensible.

I ask you, Tracy Coxx, do you repudiate all of your ideological cothinkers on so many issues who have made such comparisons?

Uhhh, I take it you've completely missed this meme? This in no way compares Obama to hitler. There's a bunch of these videos on youtube with the same scene where Hitler's going ballistic about something. On Youtube people change the subtitles to all kinds of funny things, like this one where he doesn't like the ending to harry potter:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rytV6i6bSnA

There's another one where he finds out his car has a parking boot put on it, or that Santa isn't real or that someone blew up his death star. This is yet another one that someone made with the revelation (recent revelation if you haven't read Obama's book) that he's eaten dog before. Did you miss that too? Dog recipes are flying all over the internet now (golden fried retriever, etc) and of course the hitler meme is not immune to it either.

[smc]

Originally Posted by TracyCoxx

Uhhh, I take it you've completely missed this meme? This in no way compares Obama to hitler. There's a bunch of these videos on youtube with the same scene where Hitler's going ballistic about something. On Youtube people change the subtitles to all kinds of funny things, like this one where he doesn't like the ending to harry potter:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rytV6i6bSnA

There's another one where he finds out his car has a parking boot put on it, or that Santa isn't real or that someone blew up his death star. This is yet another one that someone made with the revelation (recent revelation if you haven't read Obama's book) that he's eaten dog before. Did you miss that too? Dog recipes are flying all over the internet now (golden fried retriever, etc) and of course the hitler meme is not immune to it either.

I missed none of it. There's nothing funny about Hitler. How about answering the question I posed.

[TracyCoxx]

Originally Posted by smc

I missed none of it. There's nothing funny about Hitler. How about answering the question I posed.

The joke obviously wasn't meant for you then.

[smc]

Originally Posted by TracyCoxx

The joke obviously wasn't meant for you then.

Answer my question.

Anyone else think Hitler is funny? How about in the context of Tracy Coxx's other political posts about Obama and Obama's positions, and given the Tuse of Hitler images at public Tea Party events. Or how about the recent statement by a Catholic bishop likening Obama to Hitler and Stalin?

[ila]

Originally Posted by smc

...Anyone else think Hitler is funny? How about in the context of Tracy Coxx's other political posts about Obama and Obama's positions, and given the Tuse of Hitler images at public Tea Party events. Or how about the recent statement by a Catholic bishop likening Obama to Hitler and Stalin?

I don't think Hitler is funny, but I do think the posted video is funny. I've seen the same video with Hitler going to Sturgis on a Honda and another when Hitler found out that Toronto had been eliminated from the playoffs. I found all of them funny as they are just spoofs. I'm pretty sure the creators of these video clips did not intend to compare Hitler or his actions to anyone else. I'm equally sure that the videos were created to give others a laugh.

smc, I'm sorry for what happened to your family. It was a crime against humanity, but I don't see the video as attenuating the circumstances of what happened to your family and to the Jewish people. Nor do I see the video as making light of Hitler's and his regime's criminal acts.

[smc]

Originally Posted by ila

I don't think Hitler is funny, but I do think the posted video is funny. I've seen the same video with Hitler going to Sturgis on a Honda and another when Hitler found out that Toronto had been eliminated from the playoffs. I found all of them funny as they are just spoofs. I'm pretty sure the creators of these video clips did not intend to compare Hitler or his actions to anyone else. I'm equally sure that the videos were created to give others a laugh.

smc, I'm sorry for what happened to your family. It was a crime against humanity, but I don't see the video as attenuating the circumstances of what happened to your family and to the Jewish people. Nor do I see the video as making light of Hitler's and his regime's criminal acts.

Then it belongs in a "humor" thread, and not in a political discussion thread. Given the provocative nature of certain posts throughout this site in political threads, one reasonably can wonder whether it was posted exclusively for its humor.