Bachmann: Democrats are calling Obama a Nazi

By Andy Birkey
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 at 12:43 pm

michele-bachmannRep. Michele Bachmann appeared on Christian talk radio station KKMS on Tuesday to discuss health care. Along the way, she praised protesters who turned out at town hall meetings and implied that Democrats who oppose health reform — including one woman who tussled with Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., last week — are responsible for references to Obama as Hitler.

“It was really a beautiful sight to behold,” Bachmann said of the often boisterous forums held throughout August. “This was not something that was generated or created by any political party because the people who come to these town halls aren’t necessarily Republicans, they are Democrats and independents.”

She continued, “In fact, the woman who took Barney Frank to task in his town hall, and she held up a picture of Obama as Hitler, she was a Democrat, so this isn’t just Democrat, Republican, independent.”

“This is about people saying ‘I don’t want the government to control my health care.’”

As the Washington Independent’s David Weigel noted last week, the woman with the Obama-Hitler poster was a member of the Lyndon LaRouche movement. Across the country LaRouche supporters are bringing Nazi imagery to town halls to oppose health care reform for many of the same (often misinformed) reasons Bachmann opposes health care reform.

“The LaRouche cultists oppose Obama’s plan because they think he’s trying to euthanize old people and the infirm,” writes Weigel. “They oppose it for one of the reasons that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) oppose it, and they’re providing a lot of the ‘research’ for this smear.”

While Bachmann appears to be trying to tie Democrats to the Obama-Hitler protest signs, she forgets that the people carrying those signs are on her side.

LaRouche, who has run for president as a Democrat since 1976, hasn’t had the support of the party.

Conor Clarke of Atlantic Monthly explains: “LaRouche (whom I interviewed and profiled for the New Republic a few years ago, and who really doesn’t like me) has never been recognized by the Democratic Party, which won’t let him seat delegates at its conventions and has cited his ‘explicitly racist and anti-Semitic’ views as a reason for the ban.”

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19 Comments

Mill
Comment posted August 26, 2009 @ 1:10 pm

Michele …. hire a fact-checker before you go public, PLEASE! You’re making a spectacle of yourself and your home state … and we’d rather you didn’t


Kami
Comment posted August 26, 2009 @ 1:12 pm

ARE YOU F’N KIDDING ME?!!!!!!!!!!!! DEMOCRATS??!!!! wait, isn’t it the GOP who are mostly made up of white surpremacists who don’t support Obama, oppose health care reform, make up ‘death panels’??? hello???? Bachmann is a raging imbecile.


Just call me crazy
Comment posted August 26, 2009 @ 2:04 pm

And they think I’m nuts… get her some medication…


stop it! please
Comment posted August 26, 2009 @ 3:27 pm

Please stop giving this demented twit page space.


jmy9595
Comment posted August 26, 2009 @ 3:57 pm

A walking talking joke, but if the people of her gerrymandered county are satisfied with her speaking for them, that’s their right. She does her own party much more damage than ours by flapping her gums.


jmy9595
Comment posted August 26, 2009 @ 4:00 pm

Gerrymandered district, I should say, not county.


Michael Bryant
Comment posted August 26, 2009 @ 4:36 pm

Was she at her meeting long enough to figure out who was there?


Lee
Comment posted August 26, 2009 @ 10:10 pm

Did Michelle do these word salads while she was running for offiice? She is better than reality tv and dummer .


LL77
Comment posted August 26, 2009 @ 10:26 pm

Minnesota independent? seven comments and seven slurs against the congresswoman.
It is interesting that Ms. Bachman is a “raging imbecile” because she suggested that a democrat dared to be independent, speak their mind, and not all follow the party line in lock step. Yet it’s the GOP that is single minded and made up “mostly of white supremacists”. As a GOP backer, I am surprised that you forgot to mention that we are also gun toting, women hating, homophobes. Don’t stray from the talking points. . .


Bud Smith
Comment posted August 27, 2009 @ 1:48 am

Michele is crazier than a fly in a base drum!


Miles
Comment posted August 27, 2009 @ 10:47 am

No, she’s a “raging imbecile” for making stuff up, and ignoring the facts of who actually is promoting that hateful Nazi imagery. As a congresswoman, she should be better informed than the rest of us.

She deserves every column inch that can be devoted to her, to document what she says and its distance from the truth.

I don’t believe the GOP is made up “mostly of white supremacists,” but you can’t deny that the GOP is far more caucasian than the makeup of the general population; that some Republicans utilize “dirty tricks” strategies to undermine opponents, and that Republicans today are the party that responds to new ideas, rather than generating them.


Randy
Comment posted August 27, 2009 @ 11:38 am

LL77, many Klansmen idnetify themselves as Republicans. Would you have any objection to a news story that said “Republicans burn cross?”


conservativevoice
Comment posted August 27, 2009 @ 1:59 pm

To Randy, you are the racist bigot. ?Klansmen identify themselves as Republican? You have heard of Sen. Byrd(Dem West Va), a retired klansman and ex KKK recruiter that throws the phrase ‘white ni&&ers’ around who is still serving in the senate? You did hear about the black man that was hospitalized after black men beat him up because he is a Repub? Racism knows no bounds, it never sides w/ any color. I don’t know anyone that would celebrate a burning cross on anyone’s lawn. Pathetic you get away with calling yourselves the ‘tolerant’ party, you are anything but. Look in the mirror, tolerance begins w/ you. As far as dirty tricks to undermine opponents, I guess Moveon.org or mediamatters or dailykos or huffingtopost or nbc or messnbc wouldn’t know anything about ‘dirty tricks’…..hatred knows no bounds.


Randy
Comment posted August 27, 2009 @ 4:56 pm

As do all conservatives, you miss the point entirely. I was referring to the post that said the LaRouche supporter was a Democrat.

I know all about Robert Byrd’s past affiliation, but I’m talking about the reality of 2009. Let me ask you this: to what party does Peter Brimelow belong?


LL77
Comment posted August 28, 2009 @ 10:23 am

Sorry, I didn’t mean to stray into this forum of open minded and independent thinkers.
Clearly commenting that “many Klansman identify themselves as republicans” refers to LaRauche? and “Republicans burn cross” is right on point of this discussion of healthcare and a woman with a sign?
But, “as all conservatives, [I] miss the point entirely”.


Randy
Comment posted August 28, 2009 @ 1:33 pm

Getting miffed is easier than answering a question, I suppose.


eric zaetsch
Comment posted August 28, 2009 @ 3:56 pm

LaRouche supports the Conyers single payer approach, and has clearly said so.

Instead of talking about irrelevant things, here’s a link to what he says, so people can look and think for themselves instead of being spun to.

http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2009/3628lar_obama_fascist_health.html

It is rationing care. So is the present system where for-profit insurers ration care. Where people die waiting for organ transplants and committees exist, now, to rank and rate those most promising for organ transplants when organ matches are available that could benefit multiple recipients.

Mickey Mantle, when he died, was not considered a good liver transplant risk, and got no transplant. Walter Payton died without one. People die. It’s natural, if you are born you die. If a “revenue neutral” demand is made then revenue neutral decisions have to be made.

I do not know that the LaRouche criticisms are better or worse than Palin’s. I expect LaRouche is better informed and more intelligent than Palin.

Don’t you?

But he is for single payer and has been for years. That’s something he’s on record for example, 2001, this link:

http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2001/2814_conyers_hearing.html

This Google

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=-obama+single+payer+site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.larouchepub.com&btnG=Search

Instead of name calling about “LaRouche cultists” and such hot-button language, try not to be half-assed on the facts. I have no idea why LaRouche has gone off in the more recent direction, he does seem to have seized the bit in his teeth and is not being reined in, but some of his prior stuff is sane and makes more sense in terms of how the public should be treated than those who have been taking UnitedHealth money and now are representing UnitedHealth interests over the public interest.

Have you ever thought – a one thousand page bill is suspect? It is making something way too complex out of saying cover everyone, convert to single payer, tax as needed to fund things but if Medicaid and Medicare and universal coverage costs continue to sky-rocket then reexamine things and see how cost control can then be added to a proper system put in place now, with far less than a thousand pages needed, for something upon which in the future cost-cutting and savings measures can be incrementally added.

A thousand page kludge bill is a crock. It is done that way to hide the fact that the insurers are NOT being slapped down for profiting out of the suffering and game playing denials of coverage and rescission efforts they inflict and are allowed to inflict upon people, at present, under the status quo they so vigorously lobby and spend to defend. Bachmann is as owned by those promoting the status quo as others, and you allow her do misdirect and use disinformation to divert attention from where sensible attention should remain – the private insurance burden on the public, the obscene profits that firms like UnitedHealth, the number one firm by far in Stirb’s top one hundred money making firms in Minnesota:

http://ww2.startribune.com/projects/st100/revenueView.html

Your story stinks.


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David
Comment posted September 7, 2009 @ 8:38 am

Bachman got Gary Laidig’s seat in the Minnesota Senate before she went on to Congress. Laidig was a person of substance. How could his party have exchanged him for such a person. A pretty face, maybe.


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