I Must Condemn Iowa Billboard Comparing Obama to Lenin and Hitler

-By Warner Todd Huston

Recently an Iowa Tea Party group sponsored a billboard in Mason City, Iowa that grouped President Obama with Communist Soviet dictator Vladimir Lenin and monstrous WWII maniac Adolph Hitler.

The billboard showed the three leaders each with the word “change” under them and with a message that read, “radical leaders prey on the fearful and naive.”

Clearly the billboard was saying that Barack Hussein Obama was a “radical leader” in the same vein as Lenin — whose Russian Revolution spawned nearly a century of oppression, gulags and wars — and Adolph Hitler — whose unhinged hatred for Jews sparked genocide and WWII.

I must admit I got a smirk out of the whole episode. But even as I got that nervous giggle out of my system, I simply cannot countenance the message of this sign and must wholeheartedly condemn it.

I do agree that Obama has a penchant to utilize fear and crisis to further his agenda. I also agree that he is a socialist in intent as well as background. But to lump him in with two of the worst murderers in human history? What genocide has Obama implemented? How has he become the tyrant the other two were?

To equate Obama’s mere socialism with the evils of Lenin and Hitler really makes foolish the folks making the comparison. Obama is nothing like Hitler or Lenin in but the tiniest, most insignificant of ways.

Just as it was wholly idiotic to say that Bush was like Hitler, I condemn anyone that says Obama is like Hitler.

Incidentally, the billboard was removed after national attention came to it. Of that I approve.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, AmericanDailyReview.com, among many, many others. Mr. Huston is also endlessly amused that one of his articles formed the basis of an article in Germany’s Der Spiegel Magazine in 2008.

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