Barney Frank delivers Maximum Pwnage!
August 19, 2009
How would you respond to someone saying “when you support a Nazi policy as Obama has…”?
It’s such a relief to see a Democrat with a spine. And it made me smile. I can’t wait for people to criticize Frank for his response to that lady – more entertainment will ensue.
(h/t my friend Pete, who can’t post this on his Facebook account right now because he’s using it to teach a class.)
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I suppose it would be ironically funny that the rabble roused by the hard-right wermacht referred to Mr. Obama as “Nazi,” if it weren’t so damned unfair and “pot calling the kettle black”—ish (pun noticed but unintended).
What this is all about is Racism in its worst form.
I hope every dipshit who goes to hassle a speaker who clearly favors heatlh care reform, gets chewed up and spit out like Mr. Frank did with a few of these cretins!
Sorry I made you have to censor my comment.
No worries; it’s automatic. The original text resides in the database; someday I’ll give up on the idea of bypassing profanity filters in schools and shut it off, then your comment will be there in all its obscene glory. :coolgrin:
Barney Frank is my representative, and I have never been more proud of him!!
OK, I REALLY REALLY don’t understand, please can someone out there please explain to me how a national health care plan/service can make Obama a Nazi? What on earth is this woman on about???? Are there really people so insular and inward looking that they haven’t seen how enormously successful and popular public health care has been here in Australia and the UK? If a government here proposed closing it down they’d be thrown out in the blink of an eye.
I just find this all so confusing…
But I am serious how does public health care=nazi?
They’d be thrown out here, too. Medicare in Canada is one of our crowning glories. It’s about like … CARE, you know?
In a TV series a few years a go on CBC, Canadians voted for “The Greatest Canadian”. It was a great series, a very effecitve way of teaching some history. The winner was Tommy Douglas, the Baptist preacher and Premier of Saskatchewan who was the father of health care and founder of a major, left-leaning political party. Can you imagine if a Baptist preacher were a major, national advocate of social equality in the US? There would be even more need for health care what with all the anti-everything zealots being striken with apoplexy.
WeeDram’s comment left me wondering. Where are the religious leaders’ voices in our country speaking in favor of health care for all? They are quick to criticize, but they say nothing positive. But, the, there isn’t much positive about Christianity I’ve ever seen.
It doesn’t, not by any stretch of logic that I can conjure up. But people hate Nazis, so if she calls Obama a Nazi… Really I think that’s all it boils down to. And she is not alone.
The conservative script keeps changing, like a flock of birds flying together. First Obama was an anti-American radical, and then a Socialist anti-American radical. Then Glen Beck labeled him a fascist and that’s been gaining traction.
It certainly has nothing to do with accepted definitions of political science; we’ve got a couple commenters on a recent thread over at SEB claiming that he’s a fascist socialist. The mind boggles.
Gerry – why would religious leaders want government to fix fundamental problems with society, when they can put on band-aids with small acts of charity and pat themselves on the back? There certainly are religious leaders in favor of universal health care, but they’re not the ones with mega-churches and syndicated tv shows.
I’m so fond of this clip. I mentioned on digg.com a couple of days ago that I hope this becomes the ‘Have you no shame?’ moment of the McCarthy era now. The look on the woman’s face really brings everything into light.
For me, as an evangelical christian, this is a social justice issue. The question that comes up constantly was one posed by a friend on facebook that it just doesn’t make sense that we have a modern society where education is a right, but somehow health care isn’t? Worse yet, there are people profiting from the misfortune of others and are protecting their ability to make money at the misfortune of others.
…oh and I can’t stop watching this because of Frank’s ability to be smart and articulate and breathtakingly hilarious.
Pete, exactly. As an atheist, I completely agree. Check out this wonderful Sun Times editorial by Roger Ebert; I’m safe on board, you can pull up the life rope.