Embarrassing us all. This is our man (well, partially our man- only part of Richmond County is in his district, let's go ahead and blame Columbia County and those guys). Representative Paul Broun yesterday warned us of a super scary future with President-elect Obama.
“It may sound a bit crazy and off base, but the thing is, he’s the one who proposed this national security force. I’m just trying to bring attention to the fact that we may — may not, I hope not — but we may have a problem with that type of philosophy of radical socialism or Marxism. That’s exactly what Hitler did in Nazi Germany and it’s exactly what the Soviet Union did. When he’s proposing to have a national security force that’s answering to him, that is as strong as the U.S. military, he’s showing me signs of being Marxist.
"We can't be lulled into complacency. You have to remember that Adolf Hitler was elected in a democratic Germany. I'm not comparing him to Adolf Hitler. What I'm saying is there is the potential of going down that road."
Yes, Mr. Broun, it may sound a bit crazy and off base. But don't let that slow you down. When you have the urge to not compare someone to Hitler, you got to go with it.
The lesson here is that whenever you find yourself starting a statement with the words, "It may sound a bit crazy and off base," you should really just stop talking.
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