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To: lorne who wrote (3151)	1/5/2004 8:25:52 AM
From: lorne	Respond to of 3959

Desparate democrats?? ELECTION 2004 RNC attacks Bush-Hitler ad Moveon.org spot compares president with German dictator January 4, 2004 WASHINGTON – Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie called on the nine Democrat presidential candidates to repudiate an ad posted on the Moveon.org website comparing President Bush to Adolf Hitler. The ad has since been removed from the website. "This is the worst and most vile form of political hate speech," said Gillespie. "These candidates have a chance to repudiate this pollution of our political process by repudiating these ads at this afternoon's debate in Iowa." Gillespie told Fox News Sunday the Move On organization, supported by billionaire George Soros, plans to spend millions to defeat Bush this year. Move On sponsored a television ad contest for the best anti-Bush spot. "One of the ads that was submitted that they considered viable for airing – with $7 million, by the way, in funds that we don't know where it comes from, but we know they've said they'd spend $7 million to air the ad that they've settled on – one of them morphed President Bush into Adolf Hitler," explained Gillespie. "Those are the kind of tactics we're seeing on the left today in support of these Democratic presidential candidates." The ad shows a series of pictures of Hitler speaking in German. Text on the screen reads as follows: "We have taken new measures to protect our homeland ... I believe I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator ... God told me to strike at al-Qaida and I struck them ... and then He instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did." "Sound familiar?" asks the text, to the sound of cheering Germans. In November, Soros compared Bush to Hitler in an interview with the Washington Post. Saying he believed the White House was guided by a "supremacist ideology," Soros complained: "America, under Bush, is a danger to the world ... When I hear Bush say, 'You're either with us or against us,' it reminds me of the Germans ... My experiences under Nazi and Soviet rule have sensitized me." Soros, a Hungarian emigre, announced before the interview was published he was donating $5 million to Move On, the organization's single biggest contribution ever. worldnetdaily.com

To: lorne who wrote (3151)	1/5/2004 8:44:58 AM
From: rrufff	Respond to of 3959

I don't think I would use the word democrat with either a small or capital "d." I have no problem with dissent and expressions of differences of opinion and Chinu's posts often fall within that category. I.e., I may agree or disagree but we can have discussion within normal standard deviations of reality. The stuff to which I refer is typing (for lack of a better word) that reflects a view that there are conspiracies all around us, from the smallest detail in our lives to the grand scheme, ala The Matrix, in the world at large. I agree with you and often wonder what brings seemingly intelligent people to this level paranoia.