The Tea Party should keep their hands off German history. SPIEGEL 10/21/2010:

[Call Me Wesley]

Not-So-Steeped in History

US Tea Party Should Keep Its Hands Off Hitler

A Commentary by Charles Hawley



Many on the American right have developed a taste for including a bit of German history in their stump speeches. Hitler comparisons abound and the Berlin Wall even made a cameo recently. But the flippant references to the Holocaust are ignorant and offensive. And they should stop.

German politicians are well aware of the dangers of making ill-thought-out references to their country's history. In 2002, then-German Justice Minister Herta Däubler-Gmelin, speaking to the southern German daily Schwäbisches Tagblatt, said in reference to US President George W. Bush's increasingly bellicose rhetoric against Iraq: "Bush wants to distract people from his domestic difficulties. It is a popular method. Hitler did the same thing."

It was the hint of a parallel more than a direct comparison. But Germans, the majority of whom hated Bush even then, were outraged -- and Däubler-Gmelin paid a high price for it. She was forced to resign.

The lesson doesn't seem to have made it across the Atlantic.

Read full article here.

[Hannah Bell]

1. larouche isn't a tea-partier.

[Call Me Wesley]

3. Larouche is nowhere in the article.

I'm not sure what you're saying here, and I don't mean this in a snarky way, please. There's just no mentioning of Larouche.

On edit: I see it now, it's on the poster.

On further edit: He's just a left-right-centrist-right-left-middle-right-left swinging anti-Semitic. Whatever rocks his little boat. :shrug:

[Hannah Bell]

4. he's the leader of an information/spy/covert ops network for hire.

[Call Me Wesley]

6. Yes.

I haven't searched his website, but I guess the graphic with Obama with a Hitler moustache comes from it. He probably isn't a tea bagger. I don't care.

I wouldn't hire him. Nor his wife.

[Hannah Bell]

7. just wondering why, if your op is about teabaggers, you illustrate it with a picture of larouchites.

[Call Me Wesley]

8. Easy:

Since it's about comparing Obama with Hitler, I wanted one with the Hitler moustache, and it was picture number two. Haven't even seen the Larouchites stamps there. Here's the full gallery: http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-60763.html

[MisterP]

2. even more confusing is the single-payer sign nt

[War Horse]

5. Very powerful article

Thanks for posting this.