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July 4, 2008 - 4:44 am - by Richard Fernandez
Roderick Reilly
2008-07-07 11:27:19

Folks, can we cool it on the “Obama/Hitler” talk?

Can you hear yourselves? Have you already forgotten about Bush Derangement Syndrome?

Look, I get it that Obama is a bigger fraud than the average politician, an empty suit with a vapor trail for a resume, and that his two dopily-titled books describe a life and person less interesting that he thinks it is. I figured out I wouldn’t vote for him on a huge bet with a gun to my head long before any of the Chicago stuff started coming out. I don’t want him to win either, especially since he and the Drag Queen party he represents are hell-bent on recreating the 70s. But. He’s. Not. Hitler. For that matter, he’s not quite Hugo Chavez, either. He is Jimmy Carter with better clothes and a tan, though, and his wife is a motor-mouthed insufferable shrew. But he’s not Hitler, and Michelle is not Eva Braun or Ilse Koch.