But I do want to comment on the propensity of conservatives to go back to the Fuhrer time and again. Let's step back to Chamberlain for a moment before we move on to Hitler. Conservatives were calling the Iran deal the second coming of Munich even before any of its terms had been worked out. Which highlights something important about their beliefs on this topic: For all their talk of a fantasy deal in which Iran gives us everything we could possibly want and demands nothing in return, the whole point of the Munich analogy is that negotiation is useless by definition.
When conservatives said that Obama was like Chamberlain, they weren't saying Obama is a bad negotiator and could have gotten a better deal. The clear implication of the Munich analogy is that there shouldn't have been any negotiations at all, and that war is inevitable so we might as well just get on with it.
If your adversary is Hitler — and as far as many on the right or concerned, every potential adversary is Hitler — then war to save the world is the only option, and anyone who seeks a diplomatic solution to a dispute is a sucker. But that was when they were being kind. It accepts that he doesn't actually wish for the extermination of the Jews, even if that is the inevitable result of his foolishness.
But of course, conservatives have thought for a long time that Obama is absolutely brimming with malice — toward America, toward Christians, toward Jews, toward white people, toward just about anyone they like. Which is why we've hardly gone a month throughout this presidency without someone comparing Obama to Hitler, on matters both weighty and mundane. He then called on Americans to be involved the same way the way in the struggle against Hitler.
After his remarks drew criticism, Santorum insisted that he wasn't comparing the president to Hitler. A distant cousin of President Obama who mounted an ultimately unsuccessful primary challenge to Kansas Sen. Obama - Successful Americans. Sticky Header Night Mode. Related Articles. Ponder also declined to comment after the meeting was over. Said Sandra Page, a retired Fairhope high school educator: "We are teaching hate in our school systems.
Baldwin County School Board members and Superintendent Eddie Tyler also remained quiet during the public commenting session. And individual school board members also did not address the comments. Instead, the board spent most of their time praising Tyler for the work he has done in helping Baldwin County schools move beyond a host of hurdles such as building new schools at a time of soaring growth and limited resources.
Tyler's superintendent contract runs until June, but all of the board members said they would like to see him remain with the school system. By comparison, the superintendents at the only two schools systems in Alabama larger than Baldwin County - Mobile County and Jefferson County - pay their superintendents substantially more.
Tyler, after the board meeting, told AL. Though no one said Ponder by name, Tyler said he felt some of the speakers "engaged in character assassination with no solid justifiable knowledge" to back up their concerns. But Tyler said the school system will take some of the public's suggestions "under consideration.
And I worry about that again in our country. Rick Perry, Texas governor. This is Omaha Beach. Ben Carson, retired neurosurgeon. In a interview with NewsmaxTV, Carson suggested the Obama administration had created a favorable climate for the rise of Communism in the United States. The interviewer asked whether Carson was specifically calling Obama and former Attorney General Eric Holder communists.
Carson responded by encouraging viewers to reach their own conclusions.
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