Pence embraces town hall questioner who compares Obama to Hitler.
By on Sep 4th, 2009 at 11:44 am
Pence embraces town hall questioner who compares Obama to Hitler.
Yesterday, Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN), who serves as chairman of the House Republican Conference, held a town hall-style meeting at Madison Park Church of God in Anderson, IN. During the event, an elderly woman stood to ask Pence a question, and in the midst of doing so, told the congressman that President Obama wants members of Congress to be treated as “a superior race.” “And we know who came up with the terminology of a superior race,” she continued, “it sounds a lot like Hilter.” Many in the crowd applauded. Rather than reject the questioner’s false assertion, Pence simply said, “Thank you.” Watch it (beginning at 1:50):
(Video courtesy of the Pendleton-Gazette)
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The Greatest Generation my ass, the most Hateful Generation is more like it.
RIP
September 4th, 2009 at 11:48 amSGT Stephen R. Sherman
C CO 1-5 IN (STRYKER)
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Mosul, Iraq
How about Hitler and Mark Fuhrman?
http://progressnotcongress.org/?p=2777
September 4th, 2009 at 11:48 amThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Obama has two arms and two legs. You know who else had two arms and two legs? Hitler.
Obama eats three meals a day. You know who else ate three meals a day? Hitler.
Obama uses his mouth and vocal cords to produce words that he puts in a particular order as a way to communicate with people. You know who else was able to do this so called “talking?” Hitler.
Obama sleeps for several hours each night, and then awakens each morning. You know who else went to sleep every night? Hitler.
The only possible conclusion is that Obama IS Hitler. The comparisons are so OBVIOUS that I can’t believe no one noticed them before now.
September 4th, 2009 at 11:51 amthis woman was a teacher for 36 years…
**shaking head**
September 4th, 2009 at 11:52 amPence is a total and absolute dolt. I wouldn’t buy a used car from the slickster. The good people of Indiana deserve better representation than they are getting from this snake.
September 4th, 2009 at 11:52 amAs far as the House is concerned, Pence and his moronic supporters are irrelevant. The House will pass a bill with a strong public option and they’ll do it with zero Repub votes just like they did the stimulus package.
September 4th, 2009 at 12:00 pmThat idiot is really going to say that the first mixed race President is like Hitler?
God Bless free speech (it makes the morons easier to spot).
September 4th, 2009 at 12:00 pmPresident Obama wants members of Congress to be treated as “a superior race.”
– - Proudly ignorant, the wingnuts invariably begin from a false and ludicrous premise.
September 4th, 2009 at 12:00 pmAs a member of Congress (or in general) maybe Pence likes to think of himself as superior. And likes the talk of Hitler. The guy is a freakin’ Aryan.
Comparing Obama to Hitler is so preposterous though.
White supremacist, KKK, Right winger, Nazi, Hitler, brownshirts, teabaggers, birthers, deathers… those are the appropriate comparisons.
September 4th, 2009 at 12:00 pmWhere in the world did she get that idea anyway…?
September 4th, 2009 at 12:01 pmObama wants members of Congress to be treated like a superior race? No. Members of Congress ARE being treated (and acting) like members of a superior CLASS.
They have access to health care (amongst other things) with an ease an ordinary american citizen can’t afford. This reform is about making sure Regular Joe can get the same level of health care that Lieberman Joe gets.
September 4th, 2009 at 12:03 pm…told the congressman that President Obama wants members of Congress to be treated as “a superior race.” “And we know who came up with the terminology of a superior race,” she continued, “it sounds a lot like Hilter.”
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The person who’s using the terminology of “superior race” is this elderly woman, not President Obama.
So maybe it’s the elderly woman who needs to be compared to Hitler.
This entire group appears to be made up of people who would much rather hang negative labels on Obama than engage in any meaningful conversation about health care. Socialist, Communist, Hitler, etc. — and they don’t know what any of the labels mean nor do they care. They’re just using them in place of “assh*le”, and calling the president an assh*le is all that’s important to them.
September 4th, 2009 at 12:03 pmOld racists are a sad kind of animal.
Wisdom is supposed to come with age, but for some it never does.
September 4th, 2009 at 12:04 pmThe comparisons ,from a crowd who applauded secret prisons , wars for resources and the gutting of the constitution as heroic acts of Americanism by the previous administration ,of Obama’s agenda on health care as being Hitler-like are laughable .
September 4th, 2009 at 12:05 pmThe fact that all the changes Bush made have been swept under the rug and continue unabated is very troubling indeed !
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175109/david_swanson_the_more_things_change
These scum bags are traitors to the country….period.
September 4th, 2009 at 12:07 pmOn a good note
September 4th, 2009 at 12:16 pmThe Obama administration has cut more $30 million in non-humanitarian aid to Honduras — calling it a signal that Washington is not happy with the status quo. President Manuel Zelaya was ousted in June and the de facto rulers won’t let him back —even as the country prepares for new elections. Zelaya met with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday.
ALthough the secretary of states former campaign manager represents the “business interests” in Honduras ,this is still welcome news .
We’ve all known this clod isn’t the most attentive congressman. After all, he believed rural Indiana looked exactly like downtown Baghdad post-invasion.
Just another fine, “Christian” politician who believes the unborn are entitled to full protection under the 14th amendment, but if the child is born gay, the protections fly away.
Warrantless wiretapping on American citizens? Sure! Let’s report illegal aliens to the authorities if they’re lying near death and have to head to an emergency room. And, of course, being the fine, “Christian” politician he is, he fully supported the Iraq War and has no problems with moving the conflict east a few clicks…
September 4th, 2009 at 12:16 pmAnother fine example of an old moron who no doubt will wrap herself in the flag and clutch her bible and tell herself she is a patriot.
September 4th, 2009 at 12:19 pmThe first comment to this story in The Herald Bulletin link took exception with the story’s title, “Pence town hall crowd outraged, but civil” and said this:
I would barely consider any kind of meeting, town hall or not, as being civil so long as people are comparing our President to Adolf Hitler. Hitler attempted to extinguish an entire race of people, President Obama is seeking to get medical coverage to every citizen of this country. As a citizen of this county I’m embarassed to be in any way associated with the people who so flippantly made that awful comparison. And to the people making that comparison I would say that the next time you come to discuss important, “adult-type” issues in public you should come prepared with more than just grade school insults. Fact, Mike Pence both supports Medicare (a government run health care system) and participates in the Congressional health care plan, run by….you guessed it, the government. So for him to not support this legislation is like someone saying, “What is good for the goose, is not good for the gander.” Representative Pence, your hypocracy is going to be exposed and the errors in your ideology proven wrong and when that happens I ask what other lies and half-truths will you tell us to win our vote?
A long comment (and it could use a few breaks) but a good one.
Predictably, another commenter accused the comment’s writer, Kevin, of having “facist, socialistic views”. There seem to be a lot of really stupid people in this country. Sounds like the president better exhort our youth to stay in school or something…
September 4th, 2009 at 12:22 pmPence is a dunce.
September 4th, 2009 at 12:23 pmYa know, the transition to digital from film in movie theaters is really going to cause a crisis in this nation. After all, we have so many people who are virtuosos in PROJECTION. All that talent is going to go to waste.
September 4th, 2009 at 12:26 pmA teacher, huh? It’s good our president will be encouraging our kids to stay in school. By the looks of states like Indiana and Texas, however, they’ll be staying in some really crappy schools.
September 4th, 2009 at 12:28 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Comparisons to Hilter insult the memory of the 60 million people dead from WWII.
September 4th, 2009 at 12:34 pmThe Rumplers have awaken from their eight year hibernatiion of intentional ignance
September 4th, 2009 at 12:34 pmThank you…. for recognizing I, as a Congressman, am part of the Superior race.
September 4th, 2009 at 12:40 pmRumplers, a strange and often radical political activist, goes into deep iganantic sleep with zero brain wave actiivity once it approves of a new leader and stays that way for either four or eight years, whichever comes first, then awakes, ignant of the last four/eight years then, proud of its ignance, attend a town hall and feign knowledge of current events.
September 4th, 2009 at 12:42 pmZelaya didn’t do himself any favors today with his C-SPAN talk. He quoted “the famous Chinese General Ho Chi Minh.”
Maybe, the Honduran President was unaware of North Vietnam.
September 4th, 2009 at 12:44 pm24. Watchdog,
Dude. Do you even read your own links?
1) Substantial evidence that it wasn’t Lenin in the picture
2) Lenin and Hitler playing a game of chess matters….how…? (other than being a historical curio, it’s completely and utterly irrelevant to any discussion of healthcare. If it was a picture of Obama, Hitler, and Lenin playing chess together, it may have mattered. And would’ve been the most laughable farce since the President’s “Kenyan birth certificate”
3) Must we go into the background of everyone who ever worked for, say, Reagan/Nixon/either Bush? Do you really want to dig up THOSE skeletons?
Keep trying, young pup. This is weak, even for you.
September 4th, 2009 at 12:45 pmGO HERE to tell him what you think about him,
https://forms.house.gov/pence/IMA/webforms/contact_form.htm
September 4th, 2009 at 12:46 pmHonduras and other latin and South American countries lean left rather than worship facists such as bush.
September 4th, 2009 at 12:51 pmHey watchpoop, where do you stand on the issue of the 1989 thesis from the then-34-year-old Republican who is currently the G-NO-P candidate for the governorship of Virginia?
You know — the one in which he said that working women and “feminists” were detrimental to the American family and that it was a devastating day when the Supreme Court upheld the right of married couples to use contraceptives, “even though the state had long been empowered to regulate the legal and sexual relationships of marriage” (page 29).
Do you think Mr. McDonnell should be cut some slack over ignorant statements like these? Or should he be held to the same standard you wish to hold Mr. Jones?
I’m just curious.
September 4th, 2009 at 12:52 pmi’m not at all surprised by the sh!t spewed forth by this crowd considering the mtg took place in the Madison Park House of Make Believe, located in the fundy state of Indianastan.
September 4th, 2009 at 12:53 pmI thought America would rise above the last 8 years but it seems we are sinking to a new low. More hate and division than ever. Outlandish rumors, lies, inuendoes, talk radio feeding the racist hatreds, news media not correcting the outright lies but building on them.
September 4th, 2009 at 1:05 pmThe few talking heads that try to disspell these insane lies are drowned out each day by new ones.
From healthcare to a 10 minute encouragement to stay in school they attack a man who is trying to clean up the corrupt stench of 8 years, clean up for the citizens that attack him. What has happened to America ?
Current health [insurance] reform
Its like pulling into a gas station, and the guy filling the tanks and the guy behind the counter get to decide who gets your money in a three way vote. Two wolves and one sheep.
The politicians in DC have shown themselves to be wolves, neutered and spineless rumpdraggers for certain, but a wolve nevertheless.
And thats what this health reform issue is about at its heart. Private profit or socialized debt, which you get either way. So, which one would cost less? Would be the fiscally logical question.
/soapbox
September 4th, 2009 at 1:06 pmAs we saw in pass 8 years if an American said anything about George W. Bush that person would be arrested by the FBI. Remember when anyone who spoke up against the lies Bush was telling was called un Patriotic even when we had proof he was lying. Now with racist and KKK members leading the way Americans can even threaten the Presidents life without anyone doing anything. This happen in 1960 until 1963 when the GOP finally completed the job on Nov. 22, 1963 at 12:30pm
September 4th, 2009 at 1:07 pmfrom Dallas Texas live on TV as we watched the President get assassinated. Good move in killing the accused as it gave Senator Specter his chance to give the famous Magic Bullet story that even 5th Graders wouldn’t believe. Well we are the United States and we do kill our Presidents but we blame others and justify our conduct. Looks like Bush/Cheney put the US ahead of such countries as Iran and now has showned the World that the USA was the true Axis of Evil during 2000 and 2008.
Of course, astute reporters have since questioned Pense to see how his views differ from the questioner’s, right? We do have a free press which is effectively giving the voters a clear and accurate description of our governmental representatives, right?
/snark off
September 4th, 2009 at 1:17 pmAnyone notice how when a former bush employee does speak out he corrects himself in two days ? Tom Ridge a Bronze Star veteran could not even meet Rachel Maddow’s eyes when she asked him about his meanings in his book. Gonzalez former AG turned his comment regarding torture investigation totally around.
September 4th, 2009 at 1:18 pmAnd they call Obama a dictator ? Has he silenced anyone ?
Even cheney shut up for a month after critizing bush. Tell me again about the warm, loving bush family. Evil, evil, evil.
Mccain, McConnel, Blount have all used Bethesda Hospital for health issues, yet per McCain, “the American public aren’t ready for government healthcare.” In other words Americans do not deserve the healthcare they pay for the Senators.
WAKE UP PEOPLE, MARCH, DEMAND THE SAME CARE !!!
September 4th, 2009 at 1:21 pmHey, TAPEWORM, don’t you have a couple dozen double quarter pounders with cheese for your fat as$ to choke on while straining your stool guarding those elderly folks?
September 4th, 2009 at 1:21 pmI somewhat understand these people’s fear of the rise of another Hitler; they are scared by a severe economic downturn. However, I’m astonished that they’d look for him in the party which believes ‘health care should be universal’ and not in the party that believes that ‘torture is necessary to keep us safe’. Personally, I’ve never found Quakers to be very threatening, whereas those who feel the need to spy on them do concern me.
September 4th, 2009 at 1:23 pm34. Livid,
Hey, Indianastan voted for Obama…it’s just PART of the state that’s whacked-out Evangelical GOP madness. You know, the one’s represented by Steve (Lettuce Smoker) Buyers, Dan (Bill Clinton is a Columbian Drug Lord) Burton, Mark (Pot smokers are Satanic Homosexuals) Souder, and the above-mentioned clod.
September 4th, 2009 at 1:29 pmWow. So this person hears “superior race” when it was never said, apparantly thinks about “superior race” when he see Obama on TV…and then accuses Obama of being Hitler? Wow. We may have hit a new low in intelligence here.
It seems to me that if that person is seeing, hearing and thinking about “superior race” when nobody is actually saying or advocating any such thing…he may be the one with the issues.
Seriously, this is just f-ing stupid as hell. Who goes out and says, “I am going to interpret something I don’t like or understand in the worst possible way. Then I am going to compare my ignorant interpretation to something else horrible. Finally I am going to state how very worried I am that something bad is happening based purely on my own faulty logic.
September 4th, 2009 at 1:39 pmHitler turned one segment of population against another, he used lies and rumors to promote hatred and fear to achieve domination over population. He was a coward and a bully hiding behind others, taking his own life at the end rather than being accountable. The only ones telling lies now are the conservative, republicans.
September 4th, 2009 at 1:41 pmHow many posters here, have heard the craziest things from people they thought were well read, intelligent people ? Everyday it amazes me that seemingly educated people are listening to republican wild ideas.
September 4th, 2009 at 1:43 pmYet another religious nut as a politician. Just disgusting.
September 4th, 2009 at 1:47 pmWe should have not been surprised at how the election of a black man as President of the United States would have brought to the surface a flood of hate and racism that hasn’t been seen since the 1950s. I guess it was always there lurking beneath the surface. I remember the time Bill Cosby first appeared on a major TV program, I Spy. In the southern town I grew up in there was a lot of discussion about how disgusting it was to have to look at a black person on television. After a while Cosby seem pretty harmless and likeable and everyone seemed to calm down, and the show was good too. I am wondering if the current infestation of racism will also die down. Of course then there was no such thing as the internet.
September 4th, 2009 at 1:55 pmHaving Mike Pence standing before her should have been sufficient refutation of any claims of superiority for members of congress.
September 4th, 2009 at 2:19 pmSedition, the new Republicanism
September 4th, 2009 at 2:24 pmcomparisons of our leadership to Hitler are ridiculous.
September 4th, 2009 at 2:26 pmIsn’t it time for thinking people to push to get America back on track ? It is the big money people making our decisions and it ain’t for our good. People should be thrilled that anyone is willing to take over the Presidency after the beyond horrible mess bush left it in. Can you say 1.6 trillion debt from bush ? It will take money and hard work by everyone to oust the corp suckers called Senators.
September 4th, 2009 at 2:26 pmDuring the event, an elderly woman stood to ask Pence a question, and in the midst of doing so, told the congressman that President Obama wants members of Congress to be treated as “a superior race.” “And we know who came up with the terminology of a superior race,” she continued, “it sounds a lot like Hilter.”
WTF? Seriously, what the fracking hell is this person talking about? Members of Congress a superior race? She has to be terribly, terribly confused or off her meds to have come up with that bit of irrationality.
Hitler wasn’t the first or last to wander around yammering about superior races, but even he wouldn’t have consented to the notion of the US Congress being superior, a race, or any combination there-of. Well, I can’t say what he would have considered to be an encompassing statement about our congress, but it probably wouldn’t have been complimentary.
The proper form for Congressman Pence to have used is not “Thank you.” He should have said “Thank you for sharing.”, then ran like hell for the exit. Oh, wait, he’s an R-Zombie; he wouldn’t have to run, he can wait for the brain salad snack following the meeting.
September 4th, 2009 at 2:39 pmPresident Obama wants members of Congress to be treated as “a superior race.
*) well at least he didn’t point at her and say she was a proud american.
*) Oddly enough, Obama wants the people to have the same level of healthcare as Congress. It is the repubs who seem to want to keep their priviledged position.
September 4th, 2009 at 3:17 pmRosencrantz says:
Seriously, this is just f-ing stupid as hell. Who goes out and says, “I am going to interpret something I don’t like or understand in the worst possible way. Then I am going to compare my ignorant interpretation to something else horrible. Finally I am going to state how very worried I am that something bad is happening based purely on my own faulty logic.
September 4th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
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Quite a lot of people, actually. Conservative talk radio has built an entire industry around this very idea.
September 4th, 2009 at 3:22 pmOh yeah; gotta embrace them there amurikins. Honest hard working, white, old, and stupid. Bring em all in to the Greedy Ooold Party!
September 4th, 2009 at 5:28 pmWhere anything goes except diversity… reform, … and intelligence.
Rosencrantz says:
Wow. So this person hears “superior race” when it was never said, apparantly thinks about “superior race” when he see Obama on TV…and then accuses Obama of being Hitler? Wow. We may have hit a new low in intelligence here.
Maybe this woman is elderly and and her intellectual capacity is diminished.
What’s striking to me is why are the people who are confused, uninformed, sometimes stupid and downright racist getting all the press with their opinions on health care reform while the rest of America is not being heard?
The answer: Corporate $$$$$$$$$ run the show.
September 4th, 2009 at 11:16 pmWatchPUNK
You are a worthless and ignorant punkass troll. Just STFU
September 5th, 2009 at 3:37 amThe schoolteacher lady has her facts all wrong at 2:40 but luckily she didn’t actually read the bill so she can’t verify that she’s full o’crap. Ironically, instead of downloading and reading the bill for herself she’s perfectly content to parrot rightwing crazy talk and disinformation in front of the townfolk.
Then at 6:26, Pence the math whiz further stupids up the room saying “a trillion dollars isn’t a thousand billion, it’s a million million.” It never dawns on him that it could be both.
And what’s his healthcare plan? Taxcuts!
September 5th, 2009 at 8:52 pm1st Republic 14th Star…Your post made things so clear for me. I am ashamed I didn’t think of it before. I have two arms and two legs, sleep several hours each night, eat three meals a day and my thoughts come out of my mouth as words. I MUST BE HITLER. OMG, we have a nation of 300 million Hitlers. I hope those Republicans and wingnuts on the right are smart enough to know how to get rid of all 300 million of us nasty Hitlers. Nice one 1st Republic. Hope more people realize how stupid this kind of thinking is.
September 6th, 2009 at 2:04 pmObama is no Hitler, please. He is more like Trotsky.
September 6th, 2009 at 2:51 pmAdele Stan on Alternet has posted 6 Sept a piece on “Van Jones Resigns…” that includes more on Pence:
“Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana, who lends his endorsement to Grassfire, an organization that organizes members of the armed Patriot movement through its ResistNet site, called on Jones to resign, saying, “His extremist views and coarse rhetoric have no place in this administration or the public debate.”
Grassfire is currently organizing ground-level opposition to the clean energy legislation — especially its cap-and-trade mechanism — supported by the White House.
AlterNet reported last month on the racist videos and statements posted on the ResistNet site, including a call for “white folks to riot in the streets” and a video that equates President Obama with Adolf Hitler. Van Jones is African-American.”
Why does a sitting congressman like Pence get a free pass to endorse an armed revolt against the government?
September 7th, 2009 at 2:34 pm