Sunshine and Light

Pronouncement

Ok, people, I need some imagination here. Let's start with the fact that President Bush's popularity rating is in the toilet with everyone. Even his "supporters" hate him. Do we all agree on that? Good. Having said that, I hereby declare that anyone who compares President Bush to Hitler completely loses my attention and respect. This is because of two things:

1. Hitler: Murdered 6 million of his own citizens in gas chambers. Comparing someone whose policies you don't like to Hitler strikes me as something that would be extremely offensive to the survivors of those concentration camps and disrespectful to those who were starved, tortured and killed. Plenty of presidents have waged war, plenty of presidents have had distasteful policies. Casualties of war are still different than what Hitler did. Let's have a little respect for the survivors of the Holocaust.

2. How about some imagination? Maybe he's more like LBJ or Robert McNamara? Maybe J Edgar Hoover? Those of you with a little more culture might be able to pull up a figure from overseas. Pope Alexander II anyone? Going to the same old comparison doesn't show any eternal truths, it's more like a serious lack of creativity or knowledge. If you're comparing President Bush to Hitler because you don't know any other historical figures, maybe you just shouldn't make any comparison at all.

I'm not saying that people can't complain about President Bush or his policies, I'm merely suggesting that maybe just comparing him to history's officially sanctioned bad guy doesn't show an understanding of the current administration. Honestly not even Stalin or Lenin would be good comparisons because of the huge amount of people that they offed. But at least you would then pass the imagination test since no one seems to have gone there.

posted by MyHusbandRules @ 8:38 AM