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yeah, that is really scary.

Shorter GOP attack strategy: Dammed if you do, dammed if you don’t.

It’s so wonderful watching these guys frantically search for some mud, any mud, to throw at Obama.

Here’s a tip for liberals: If your candidate is going to stage enormous rallies in front of tens of thousands of chanting Germans (with monuments to Prussian military might in the background) in the middle of his Presidential campaign, it isn’t the GOP’s fault if the footage comes out looking a little like Hitler at Nuremberg.

Here’s a tip for conservatives:  If your candidate were even remotely charismatic enough to pull the same thing off, think about whether you’d point out the same batshit analogy.

Yeah, didn’t think so.

A few thoughts from this Joooo:

(1) among the hard-core Yekkie (German Jew) crowd, comparisons to Hitler are not necessarily a negative, oddly enough.  As a kid, I knew from my synagogue a nice elderly Jewish woman originally from Berlin.  Her take on Hitler was “well, he was exactly the kind of leader that Germany needed at the time.  It was a shame he was so racist and anti-Semitic”.  Hitler, without the anti-Semitic baggage, would sell amongst a certain generation—although they are probably all dead by now.

(2) note that Noam Scheiber’s grandfather was particularly concerned about Jesse Jackson’s speech.  This isn’t quite racism—many of us Jews who’s family in the old world lived in Russia are still aware of the totalitarian regime that was Czarist Russia and how it “worked”:  to keep the peasants from revolting, get them drunk and angry at the Jews and then they can take out their anger by killing Jews rather than going after the Czarist government.  A lot of the Jewish fear about “Black Power”, particularly amongst our grand-parents’ generation, can be readily understood by remembering that they heard from their parents about how the Czarist officials would make sure the Cossacks would stir themselves up into rages against the Jews resulting in pogroms.  They see African-Americans as the American version of the Russian peasant cast and are thus fearful about “pogroms” in the form of race riots in which “innocent” Jews would be targeted because we are mostly whites.

(3) the fear that many Jews have that Obama would be insufficiently inclined toward “Jewish” (defined by “what I am told are Jewish interests by people who claim to be ‘pro-Israeli’” and not by any actual Jewish or even Israeli interest) interests is ironic given that, in Chicago, evidently Obama was seen as a political creation and tool of Jewish interests.

(4) right now I think a combination of fear and indeed, pace my comment #2 above, frank racism would result in, if the election were held today, McCain winning amongst the alter-kocker crowd of my fellow tribesman.  But I wonder if, at some point (especially if McCain tries too hard with the “regular Joe as opposed to the cultural elitist Democrat” schtick the GOP likes to use to bring in the rubes), they will start seeing McCain along the lines of “McCain is just another fussy old person—I wouldn’t want my neighbor Morty to be president, so why should I vote for McCain” whilst Obama will be seen as “such a nice young man ... he makes a nice appearance, stands up straight ... nu? maybe I will vote for him ... I can’t hold it against him that he’s a shvartze and that his father give him the middle name of Hussein”.

Right wingers have Godwinned the campaign.  And it’s not even August.

“All we need is radio ga-ga, radio goo-goo” ::double clap::

Luckily, the vast majority of American Jews don’t buy the steady stream of crap coming out of McCain HQ.  You’d think that Jews were a rock-solid right wing bloc based on the coverage.  Instead, he pulls about 30% on a good day.  Jews are reliably Democratic, and overwhelmingly pro-Obama. 

If we did control the media, we surely wouldn’t make ourselves look so bad.

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The next time a Republican gives a speech in front of a cheering audience of white Southerners, I’ll be sure to remind everyone that it means they approve of the Confederacy.

“To be fair to Ross Douthat, I too get nervous whenever I see large groups of white people chanting things.  Like at Queen concerts, or megachurches.”

“To be fair to Ross Douthat, I too get nervous whenever I see large groups of black people chanting things.  Like at _____ concerts, or churches.”

Hmmmm…

I just searched for “John McCain rally” at YouTube and found this one from two days before Super Tuesday. The only non-white face I spotted belonged to a photographer. But despite the whiteness, I wasn’t reminded of Hitler rallies at all. Why? The crowd just wasn’t that into him. (Though there were a lot of grinning elderly white folks blocking out the college students.)

Can someone find footage of a Hitler rally in which he didn’t whip the crowd into a quasi-Obamamania frenzy? I bet it would look like a McCain rally, only with a lot more people.

Any discussion of Hitler and Queen would be lacking without mentioning the Laibach cover of Queen’s “One Vision”, which up until the last line is very much like a nazi speech.

I too get nervous whenever I see large groups of white people chanting things.

You need to get out of Ann Arbor on Saturdays this fall, then. 

Why be fair to ross?  Fair has never troubled senor asshat…errr…douthat much.

monuments to Prussian military might

Uh, also iconic angel statue (see beginning of Wings of Desire) and background for the Love Parade and the Christopher Street Day parade. Sorry Ross, some of us have moved on.

To be fair to Alexander Baiunov, I too have difficulty understanding the difference between a joke made by a member of a historically dominant majority about a historically oppressed minority, and vice versa.

Oh wait - no I don’t.

Is that man out of his mind?His train of thought is basically:Chanting,enthusiastic Germans=ZOMG!!1!NAZIS! So,am I automatically a Nazi by virtue of my being German (as well as,alas,blond and blue-eyed) or can I avoid my nazification by refraining from chanting and enthusiasm,which I could possibly manage until the next Depeche Mode concert.Oh,and that “symbol of Prussian military might”,by the way,is made from recycled cannons.Swords.Plowshares.Pacifist.Statement.