This is exactly the reason I hate Democrats (edit: you can view it off my servers if the other ones are slow) so much. You don't see Republicans stooping so low as to make Hitler == Bush comparisons.

For those of you too lazy to click the link, MoveOn.org, a site heavily associated with the Democratic party, is sponsoring a contest for TV ads; they seem to be favoring the "Bash Bush" ads the most. This specific commerical compares Bush to Hitler ... go view it.

Democrats need to grow the f' up. Of course, I guess it serves them well if the purpose of this ad is to alienate swing voters. Like hell I'll be associated with a political party that makes childish analogies. Oh well. You shoot yourself in your foot.

This is also a vast injustice to those who suffered under the Holocaust. I doubt that the history of the genocide of the Jews is hardly something that should be used as a political tool.

I wrote a nice long tirade, but someone else is much better at saying what I want to say.

Jack Rosen, president of the American Jewish Congress, writes in Monday's WALL STREET JOURNAL: "MoveOn.org informed potential ad makers that 'we're not going to post anything that would be inappropriate for television.' Two of the ads posted on the group's Web site compared Adolf Hitler to George W. Bush. One ad morphed an image of Hitler into President Bush and says that, '1945's war crimes' are '2003's foreign policy.'"

Rosen says MoveOn.org is "using the memory of that genocide as a political prop. Their comparison diminishes the reality of what happened, and their actions cheapen the memory of a horrific crime. It also does a terrible disservice to this country at a perilous time, when we need to examine the dangers we face with clarity and purpose."

Leadership is "about confronting threats to freedom everywhere. President Bush has shown that leadership in Iraq, and our troops have liberated a people who were oppressed by another murderous dictator. MoveOn.org compares this liberation to the Holocaust. It deploys a picture of Hitler to vilify President Bush. Comparing the commander-in-chief of a democratic nation to the murderous tyrant Hitler is not only historically specious, it is morally outrageous. Comparing an American president, any American president, to Hitler is an outrage.

The MoveOn.org ad was inexcusable. Political figures such as Al Gore, who have associated themselves with MoveOn.org, have a special responsibility to condemn these ads; donors to the group such as George Soros have the same responsibility. They owe it not just to the memory of the millions who died in the Holocaust. They owe it also as a simple matter of decency."
Posted by roy on January 5, 2004 at 10:43 AM in Ramblings | 1 Comments

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Comment posted on January 5th, 2004 at 11:10 PM
Democrats tend to lean more on the gutteral emotional and Republicans the pratical information. Neither is a flawed approach. The appeal is tendered between the factions of human society rather nicely. As social engineering goes however the world will move away from factual debate and instead call factual things old and emotional things new. Everyone likes new things.

In the end, the one that makes the best points across the board will succeed in gathering the attention of the broadest audience.