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Recasting the Presidents As Famous Dictators

Posted by samzenpus on from the dictator-in-chief dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A pretty simple, non-scientific Google exercise confirming that, regardless of their political platform, US presidents inevitably end up being compared to famous dictators by their detractors, with Hitler being the go-to comparison (hello, Godwin's law)."

4 comments

  1. Proof that people on the 'net are stupid by Locke2005 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Bush gets compared more often to Stalin, Lenin, and Mao, while Obama gets compared more often to Hitler? Obama being slightly to the left of Bush, shouldn't it be the other way around?

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    1. Re:Proof that people on the 'net are stupid by OrwellianLurker · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Obama and Bush are both industry owned; both can be compared to Mussolini, except the planes are never running on time.

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    2. Re:Proof that people on the 'net are stupid by ffreeloader · · Score: 1

      Uhhh.... Hitler was the head of the National Socialist party, not the National Fascist party.

      The Nazi's weren't fascists, they were socialists with a strong nationalistic fervor, and both Marx and Engel agreed with their political viewpoints. Hitler, Goebbels, Strasser(a nazi party founder), etc... knew what they believed and where they fit into the political spectrum. They were skillful politicians, and to even suggest they were so naive, or stupid, that they misnamed themselves is just plain strange.

      Everything Obama is pushing for was in the Nazi party platform. And, Obama is a lot more than "slightly" left of Bush. He's far left, and so were Stalin, Lenin, and Mao as socialists and communists are the left side of the spectrum as they are both total-government-control ideologies.

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  2. The Greatest Evil ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The Executive Office of the President of the United States of America, its current President Barak Hussain Obama.

    Such a terriorists organizaion, the would sudders and calls for a savior.

    Who will rise, and save the peoples of the Earth from the the Evil, the Greatest Evil know to humanity, Barak Hussain Obama?