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08.12.09

By Frances Rice - A New York Times article stated, "Obama's Economic Ideas Great... Just Like Hitler's Were?" Written by Warner Todd Huston, the article provides an analysis of the stunning comparison of President Barack Obama to Adolph Hitler made by David Leonhardt, in a paper which is owned by a Jewish family.   In his article, Huston expresses amazement over two equally astonishing facts. First, Leonhardt's admission that Obama is just like Hitler, and second, Leonhardt didn't mean it as an insult. Leonhardt, Huston points out, was saying that it was a good thing that, in an economic sense, Obama was being like Hitler. Huston explains how Leonhardt encourages Americans to ignore World War II and the Holocaust and just focus on how Hitler's polices were good for Germany because Hitler, in essence, made the trains run on time. With a level of hubris reserved only for Democrats, Leonhardt wrote approvingly about how Obama is emulating Hitler's economic policies with massive "stimulus" spending and the take over of private industry.  Wait!  It gets much worse...