You know, the guy already got elected and you got re-elected. You can ditch the Chicken Little routine.

Hey Broun, you're not dick, but you're definitely a prick!

There, how do you like it??

Hey Broun, I didn't want to compare you to a moron, but was just trying to point out the potential of going down that road

While this guy is a moron, TPM should also point out what is incorrect with what he said, or it perpetuates a lie. IE. Hitler was not Elected.

I know there are tremendous challenges that will determine the success of Obama presidency in the long run.

But I'll thank the low bar set by Bush, followed by outrageos distortions like O is a marxist, communist, socialist, terrorist-friendly nigger who will govern with Jermaih Wright on one side and Bill Ayers on the other.

Obama speaking confidently with some of the most respected economic minds in the background seems sufficient to increase electorate confidence.

At least for the first six months or so, because of these far off attacks, Obama not painting the White House black will be sufficient to make people like him.

And speaking of slow news days, did you all hear National Enquirer thinks Cindy McCain's having an affair??

I'm no fan of McCain, but come on - do they honestly believe Cindy would allow herself to be seen all lovey duvey in very public places while her husband was running for Prez???

Then again, they did break the Edwards love child story...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/12/inational-enquireri-cindy_n_143272.html

I see that Broun used the "I'm sorry if anyone was offended" approach. He's not sorry he said it, he's not acknowledging that the remarks might (!) have been inappropriate, much less wildly inaccurate. He's just sorry, in essence, that he got caught.

I called Broun's office and talked to a nice guy working there. He was actually surprised when I told him the context of Obama's actual quote. So for the record, here it is. He's clearly talking about expanding programs like AmeriCorp.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200811060010

Today, AmeriCorps -- our nation's network of local, state, and national service programs -- has 75,000 slots. And I know firsthand the quality of these programs. My wife, Michelle, once left her job at a law firm and at City Hall to be a founding director of an AmeriCorps program in Chicago that trains young people for careers in public service. And these programs invest Americans in their communities and their country. They tap America's greatest resource -- our citizens.

And that's why as president, I will expand AmeriCorps to 250,000 slots and make that increased service a vehicle to meet national goals like providing health care and education, saving our planet and restoring our standing in the world, so that citizens see their efforts connected to a common purpose. People of all ages, stations, and skills will be asked to serve. Because when it comes to the challenges we face, the American people are not the problem -- they are the answer.

So we are going to send -- we're going to send more college graduates to teach and mentor our young people. We'll call on Americans to join an Energy Corps to conduct renewable energy and environmental cleanup projects in their neighborhoods all across the country. We will enlist our veterans to find jobs and support for other vets, to be there for our military families. And we're going to grow our Foreign Service, open consulates that have been shuttered, and double the size of the Peace Corps by 2011 to renew our diplomacy.

We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.

We need to use technology to connect people to service. We'll expand USA Freedom Corps to create online networks where Americans can browse opportunities to volunteer. You'll be able to search by category, time commitment, and skill sets; you'll be able to rate service opportunities, build service networks, and create your own service pages to track your hours and activities. This will empower more Americans to craft their own service agenda, and make their own change from the bottom up.

Would love to see the President-elect cruise on in to Georgia and help turn the race around for Jim Martin. Wonder if Broun would say any of this socialist/Hitler crap to the President-elect's face should Barack appear in that state... I'm guessing not, what an effing coward.

Broun: As we used to say in the 'hood- Sit on it and rotate.
And, unabogie, that 'nice' guy you talked to in Broun's office---I've called too many Republican Congressional offices and talked with people answering the phone that have NO idea what their boss is saying or doing.

Rep. Paul Broun is a complete dolt on the same order of magnitude as Michele Bachmann and that famed Neiman Marxist, Sarah Palin. How many Republicans in Congress are dipshit wingnuts like this? Let's begin with this moron's hopeless conflation of Hitler, socialism, and Marxism. Separately, if any public policy entailing elements of redistribution were socialist or Marxist, Reagan's earned income tax credit would earn him a Mausoleum in Red Square. There are two possibilities here, and I don't know which is more disturbing. Either Broun, in his own muddled mind, actually believed that he was articulating a coherent thought or he knew he wasn't but wanted to engage in infantile name-calling anyway.

What is rarely, if ever mentioned is that Hitler believed that socialism was a right-wing ideologogy whose meaning had been made into its opposite by ( who else? )Jews. The Nazi-wingnut also believed that nationalism, or aryan supremacism, was identical to socialism, hense the phrase 'national socialism':

Munich Speech of April 12th, 1922

1. 'NATIONAL' AND 'SOCIAL' ARE TWO IDENTICAL CONCEPTIONS. It was only the Jew who succeeded, through falsifying the social idea and turning it into Marxism, not only in divorcing the social idea from the national, but in actually representing them as utterly contradictory. That aim he has in fact achieved. At the founding of this Movement we formed the decision that we would give expression to this idea of ours of the identity of the two conceptions: despite all warnings, on the basis of what we had come to believe, on the basis of the sincerity of our will, we christened it ''National Socialist.' We said to ourselves that to be 'national' means above everything to act with a boundless and all-embracing love for the people and, if necessary, even to die for it. And similarly to be 'social' means so to build up the state and the community of the people that every individual acts in the interest of the community of the people and must be to such an extent convinced of the goodness, of the honorable straightforwardness of this community of the people as to be ready to die for it.

Silly boy. Move on to something interesting to the American peeps.