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Tennessee state senator compares signing up for Obamacare to Nazi 'train rides for Jews'
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Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)they'd agree with Campfield.
Glorfindel
(9,719 posts)Even the ones who will benefit from Obamacare.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)... that the GOP talking point has returned to Benghazi.
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)They are very concerned about how their spotlighting Monica will affect Hillary.
verrry concerned..
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,438 posts)a concentration camp. I love how one is free to say any stupid thing that comes to mind and never having to think about it.
AleksS
(1,665 posts)Not just anyone. It's only IOKIYAR.
If a democrat said this, there'd be calls for resignation, and (likely) a resignation letter on someone's desk already.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)and of course they didn't treat their illness they let them die. He needs to shut up. He needs to read a book
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Death Panels and putting the elderly and disabled to death by government. No doubt this cretin has been listening to him all of his life. Or the JBS.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)It's just propaganda and they know it is. These fools actually got people believing this so they won't get healthcare. So then they just get sicker and sicker afraid of something that isn't happening.Very sad.
Aldo Leopold
(685 posts)In 2005, Campfield said that he was interested in joining the legislative Black Caucus.[6] Campfield described the group's bylaws as racist because he said they restrict membership based on race, which described as being more restrictive than the Ku Klux Klan's bylaws.[6] The leader of the Black Caucus considered asking members of the group to vote on whether to give Campfield honorary membership, but Campfield said he only wanted full membership.[7]
Aside from the idiocy of his reasoning, I wonder how he knows so much about the bylaws of the KKK.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Really! Show some creativity, Senator... even if it goes horribly awry, it'll still give us a laugh.
Aldo Leopold
(685 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Last edited Tue May 6, 2014, 01:29 PM - Edit history (1)
That was pretty vile.
TRoN33
(769 posts)I'm a Deaf person. He is one of biggest idiots of this century and people get to elect him to their own state offices to represent them. They must be proud of him.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Yes, sorry, I meant it in the political/sensitivity context.
I will remove it.
onecaliberal
(32,777 posts)you live in Dumbfuckistan.
chknltl
(10,558 posts)I'd wager that the good Tennessee Sen. is quite the expert on Nazism too!
SunSeeker
(51,512 posts)TRoN33
(769 posts)He regretted that the people who are upset about his comment doesn't get his point. Campfeld is one self centered asshole who understood that his comment is considered racist yet it makes him smile and senile about it.
ASSHOLE.
dsharp88
(487 posts)Response to EarlG (Original post)
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awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Sickening statement.
Endgames
(29 posts)Always using Godwin's Law.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)in this country is staggering. There is no excuse for this level of ignorance, meanness and/or stupidity. That's just vile, to say something like that?!!!! Just vile. But the sad part is some citizens believe him.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)I read in another thread how we should have election days set aside as national holidays .. which would be a great idea, but better yet, extend the voting days to two or three. Anything to get people to vote. This is why these vile people get into office .. the teabagger/conservative base is getting to the polls. Not to mention all the other ways Republicans are disenfranchising minorities. The country has reached an all time low .. well since Reagan.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)Sad thing is, the dumbass teabaggers probably believe that qualifies...
yuiyoshida
(41,818 posts)Republicans will go. This shows it. All you can do is shake your head, and wonder WTF they were thinking. People who say crap like this deserves all the attention they can get, just to show how stupid, stupid gets.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Making Nazis better than Republicans.
Game Set Match, Mr. State Senator.
Satire, kiddies.
hue
(4,949 posts)liberal N proud
(60,332 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)It boggles the MIND!!!!!!!
randys1
(16,286 posts)Initech
(100,038 posts)reflection
(6,286 posts)DirkGently
(12,151 posts)... at every public appearance he makes, for the rest of his life. He should not be permitted to brush this off with a "Sorry if anyone was offended," or "I misspoke."
We need to hear exactly how it is that reform of private healthcare insurance laws are analagous to the murder of six million people by German racists in World War II.
We should wait for him to answer. In the meantime, no one should listen to a thing he has to say.
Jesus.
PumpkinAle
(1,210 posts)Reaction across the political spectrum was quick and, it would seem, uniformly aghast.
It was not unexpected that Tennessee Democratic Party chairman Roy Herron should refer to frequent anatagonist Campfields blog statement as outrageous, pathetic, and hateful. Herron goes on to say that Sen. Campfield and other Tea Party Republicans are endangering the lives of thousands of Tennesseans by their resistance to the states receiving federal funds for Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act. Par for the course.
But the Knoxville senator also found himself being lambasted by Herrons opposite number, Devaney, chairman of Campfields own party. Devaney wasted no time adding his condemnation, calling Campfields words ignorant and repugnant.
The GOP state chairmans statement deserves to be read in its entirely:
"While Stacey Campfield routinely makes remarks that are over the top, today's comments are ignorant and repugnant. No political or policy disagreement should ever be compared to the suffering endured by an entire generation of people. Those comments have no place in our public discourse. He should offer an apology to members of the Jewish faith immediately."
Clearly taken aback, Campfield posted a response to his own blog item as an answer to what rapidly became a cascade of criticism:
I regret that some people miss the point of my post, he said. It was not to offend. It was to warn. To draw attention to Obamacare and the slippery slope that I see occurring in the lives of myself, my constituents, and the rest of the country with the continued taking of freedom by the federal government
That formulation will be recognized as a variant of the non-apology apology, the thrust of which is Im sorry if I offended anyone.
From that first paragraph Campfield goes on to say this:
In no way was my post meant to diminish or detract from the pain, suffering and loss of human life that occurred during this dark time in human history. Instead the post was meant to draw attention to the loss of freedom that we are currently experiencing. I stand by my steadfast opposition to Obamacare.
And, in a final paragraph, he makes an effort to equate the Affordable Care Act with the public funding of abortions.
And he concludes: I will continue to stand up against the government takeover of the nations [sic] healthcare. I will continue to support freedom and life
Under the circumstances, the more pertinent question might be whether Stacey Campfield will be around next year to stand up and support anything in the state Senate. He is rapidly becoming a man without a party.
There's no "if" to it. He seems to have offended everybody this time.
http://www.memphisflyer.com/JacksonBaker/archives/2014/05/05/stacey-campfields-train-ride-to-ignominy
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)90-percent
(6,828 posts)Some people say that when you say the following phrase out loud; Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, you are immediately stricken with a bolt from the sky that delivers a nice case of lung cancer.
-90% Jimmy
I mean, if you're going to use nazi comparisons, any other form of untrue hyperbole is FAIR GAME
tclambert
(11,084 posts)"Obama is a socialist Nazi in the back pocket of the bankers. Hitler! BENGHAZIIIIIIII!"
derby378
(30,252 posts)Is it wrong to insist on legislators who know how to spell?
OffWithTheirHeads
(10,337 posts)ailsagirl
(22,885 posts)It's one of those grotesque statements at which you don't know whether to laugh or cry.
I guess we'll go for the laughter.
But really unbelievable
mnhtnbb
(31,373 posts)savalez
(3,517 posts)ailsagirl
(22,885 posts)Bill USA
(6,436 posts)Conservative Psycho-rhetoric of 2014. Campfield should tour mental hospitals to give motivational speeches to beyond-all-hope psychotics - on "How to turn insanity into a career choice - contact your local GOP HQ"..
LongTomH
(8,636 posts)DesertRat
(27,995 posts)Blue Owl
(50,259 posts)Generic Other
(28,979 posts)when some rancid yokel with a cheap brown suit from Tennessee brags about the smarts of people who voted for him. har har. Joke's on them!
IronLionZion
(45,380 posts)just like Lindsey Graham.
And of course anyone who brings up nazis/holocaust for political reasons has lost the argument and is a desperate pathetic loser.
marble falls
(57,010 posts)rightfully upset by the remark, but he will never ever take the words back. Ever notice how sympathetic to real Nazis these guys are the whole time they smear everyone they disagree with as "Hitler"?
For shame!
Cha
(296,846 posts)looks like I found a couple.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)idiot..the train ride led to the execution of the Jews. Healthcare is not going to lead to the death of Americans , but will only make them healthy and possibly pro-long their lives. Wtf is wrong with these people? Oh and btw idiot the Jews didn't sign up for those train rides they were brutally forced on the train and if they didn't go they would be murdered on the spot.
ailsagirl
(22,885 posts)allan01
(1,950 posts)Turbineguy
(37,291 posts)Jamaal510
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blackspade
(10,056 posts)young_at_heart
(3,763 posts)How is such extreme vileness in a politician possible??
Alkene
(752 posts)Perhaps Sen. Campfield could develop his own talk show, in which he could have extended and uninhibited one-on-one conversations with leading intellectuals of our time, or perhaps facilitate a round table discussion format.
(You have no idea how hard that was to type.)
tavernier
(12,368 posts)Teabaggers would think it a natural transition.
Hubert Flottz
(37,726 posts)And a lot of hard right wingers in the USA, supported Hitler, even after the invasion of Poland and the Americans landing in North Africa. Right wingers like Prescott Bush, for instance. Notice Little Stacey's blonde hair and blue eyes.
Mentioning Nazis is relevant here, in that the Nazi party left a perfect example of what a country should never again do or be. To ignore the bloody inhuman Nazi example, is totally ignorant. Stacy's idiotic comparison, is just meant to inflame the stupid tea-billies who will rise to any bait, the more radical and insane, the more effective, amongst the dipshit clod class, who he's preaching his incendiary political vomit/venom too. He's simply taking a page right out of the Palin/Rove playbook.