Comments on: Obama Getting it Right on the Holocaust?

By: gonzotx

gonzotx — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 03:59:34 +0000

You and Larry must be smoking the same weed. There is NOTHING this boy has said that should be admired. He will be the destruction of this Country.

By: Senneth

Senneth — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 09:23:59 +0000

Wow, Larry. Elise is not vapid nor clueless. Au contraire, she is erudite and informed and her posts are always a joy to read. She asked you, very politely, a simple question. I don’t believe she deserved this kind of response from you.

By: Doc99

Doc99 — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 21:46:54 +0000

PS I would be amiss not to give attribution to a commenter “gorb” on rantburg.com.

By: Doc99

Doc99 — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 21:45:03 +0000

Calling out Aquavelvajad from Buchenwald reminded me. Allied Supreme Commander Gen. Eisenhower ordered all possible photographs to be taken, and for the German people from surrounding villages to be ushered through the camps and even made to bury the dead.

He did this because he said in words to this effect:

“Get it all on record now – get the films – get the witnesses – because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”

I wonder … in how many years will someone stand up to deny that 9-11 ever even happened?

By: TexasMirth

TexasMirth — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:06:36 +0000

Animal Control-Could you explain your remark? It doesn’t jive with historical facts, but maybe you have an explanation or a correction to make?

By: listing starboard

listing starboard — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 12:22:45 +0000

Seems highly unlikely that Hussein Hopenchange would wing a speech without TOTUS.

By: Jim S

Jim S — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 11:58:46 +0000

That’s part of his problem, he considers himself more a citizen of Islam than he does an American citizen. He is a US citizen, isn’t he?

By: The Magus

The Magus — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 08:53:19 +0000

Larry needs glasses. Of course he used a teleprompter. I watched the entire speech and YES there was a TELEPROMPTER.

By: whoframedrudy

whoframedrudy — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 06:00:16 +0000

“cozying up”

Pat Buchanan’s take on the Speech is that Obama kicked Israel:

“The Israel-centric Middle East policy of George W. Bush is dead … Obama is directly challenging the thesis of Israel and its lobby, AIPAC, that U.S. and Israeli interests are one and the same.”

Re the standoff between Obama and Netanyahu on settlements and two-state: “A collision that could shatter the coalitions of both Bibi and Barack now appears inevitable …”

The danger with Buchanan is he’s so smart, you can’t tell when he’s lying. Does he really think Obama will man up to AIPAC? Or is he just stirring up trouble for Obama with Jewish voters?

For Buchanan, either is a win. He wants to lameduck Obama ASAP, and he’s no fan of AIPAC (and vice-versa).

By: BlueTopaz

BlueTopaz — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 04:12:52 +0000

I was in Buchenwald in 1984 with my German class. They used to take the starving prisoners out twice a day to make them watch the animals being fed.

By: Peggy Sue

Peggy Sue — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 03:39:16 +0000

I think you’re right, Harp. It’s like a riptide. You may not see it but it’s a force to be reckoned with–just beneath the surface.

People in my part of the country have been blinking and winking. Awake!

People are angry. Someone referred to the summer of 2009 as the Summer from Hell.

Despite what the MSM reports, people know what they know and feel what they feel.

The Kool-aide has an expiration date!

By: Seattle Moss

Seattle Moss — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 03:34:09 +0000

That’s easy..

OBAMA DOESN’T REPRESENT ME!!!

Obama is hostile to my interests!

Obama supports the other guy and looks down on his own country and long standing allies.

Obama is destroying the concept of a free market economy with the very real prospect of decades of agony.

By: Peggy Sue

Peggy Sue — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 03:20:44 +0000

Susan, you are so right. There is no voice for the “other” 7 million. And that’s not to diminish the 6 million Jews, an unspeakable number. But 13 million human beings were exterminated by the Nazis.

And yet, we rarely hear about those “others.”

Btw, I did watch “Band of Brothers” when it first aired. Top notch. I would highly recommend it.

By: Onofre's arm

Onofre's arm — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 03:07:53 +0000

I think there are a multitude of reasons to dislike Obama, take your pick! There’s plenty to go around.

By: Peggy Sue

Peggy Sue — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 03:06:24 +0000

On this, you and I can agree. James. There’s no comparison in what was done to Jews and gypsies and the German political opposition during WWII and the over-hyper sentiment in the States and elsewhere in regards to Muslim terrorists or the over-vigilent and senseless bigotry against German Americans or Japanese Americans during the 40s. The scale of the abuse and horror just isn’t there. Doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be on guard, always, against our own over-emotional response to perceived threats. But to make an analogy to American action and the Nazis horror is beyond the pale.

I’m glad Barack Obama made a point of discrediting those who would deny the Holocaust. Oddly enough when I went to highschool, the Holocaust was never covered. I read novels about the ghettoes and concentration camps but thought it was merely fiction. No one talked about it. Not my parents or teachers. But then, while at university, I attended a seminar and watched film footage of the Brits bulldozing dead bodies, hundreds of bodies into lime pits. What the Nazis had left behind. And the Germans were very good at record keeping.

There is no deneying or forgetting what happened. It’s a memory that needs to be kept alive, well beyond those few survivors that still exist.

We should remember. We should always be on guard. But let’s not draw false parallels. It only cheapens and dimishes the unspeakable horror that happened before most of us were born.