the crazies continuing to show just how crazy they are

Billboard linking Obama, Hitler draws complaints

DES MOINES, Iowa – A billboard created by an Iowa tea party group that compares President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin is drawing sharp criticism — even from fellow tea party activists who have condemned it as offensive and a waste of money.

The North Iowa Tea Party began displaying the billboard in downtown Mason City last week. The sign shows large photographs of Obama, Nazi leader Hitler and communist leader Lenin beneath the labels "Democrat Socialism," "National Socialism," and "Marxist Socialism."

Beneath the photos is the phrase, "Radical leaders prey on the fearful & naive."

The co-founder of the roughly 200-person group said the billboard was intended to send an anti-socialist message. But Bob Johnson admitted Tuesday that the message may have gotten lost amid the images of fascist and communist leaders.

"The purpose of the billboard was to draw attention to the socialism. It seems to have been lost in the visuals," Johnson said. "The pictures overwhelmed the message. The message is socialism." He said he didn't know of any plans to remove the sign.

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Do these nutjobs really think that comparing Obama - a center-right president who has continually bent over backwards to appease the repugs in the vain hopes of some kind of bipartisanship, and who has pissed off his base constantly with these ridiculous moves - to mass- murdering dictators who have taken over their countries allowing no dissent of any kind is going to further their cause? I honestly wonder what they think the comparisons are, though I assume that they are just trying to be provocative and they know that Obama has nothing whatsoever in common with any sort of dictator.

Just how insane are these people?