1930s American Fascists rise again

I had no idea how much Rush Limbaugh was borrowing from the anti-FDR gang, until I read some old speeches by Coghlin.

The "birthers" are using exactly the same kind of inflamatory about "Barak Hussein Obama:"

Here is an historical quote from a 1935 radio broadcast by Father Coghlin:


"I refer to Bernard Manasses Baruch whose full name has seldom been mentioned but which name from this day forth shall not be forgotten in America. This was the name which his parents gave him, the name Manasses. This is the name, General Johnson, of your prince of high finance. Him with the Rothschilds in Europe, the Lazzeres in France, the Warburgs, the Kuhn-Loebs, the Morgans and the rest of that wrecking crew of internationalists whose god is gold and whose emblem is the red shield of exploitation--these men I shall oppose until my dying days even though the Bernard Manasses Baruchs of Wall Street are successful in doing to me what the prince, after whom he was named, accomplished in doing to Isaias."

http://www.ssa.gov/history/fcspeech.html father coghlin speeches

Rush Limbaugh's Father Coghlin's playbook

By calling Obama's health plan "nazi," Limbaugh is beating the same demagogic drum that Father Coghlin and America Firsters did in the 1930s.

In those days, the weapon was anti-semitism -- disguised as "National Union for Social Justice;" today it's Orwellian "new speak" which calls liberals "nazis" and redefines free market fanatics as populists protecting the little guy.

FDR and the New Deal survived those times, and Obama will too.

War between the States continues

In case you thought the Civil War was over read this story about a new poll:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/31/new-poll-less-than-half-o_n_248470.html

That only a plurality of Republicans were willing to acknowledge the president was born in America is nothing short of astounding, considering the preponderance of evidence that confirms his Hawaiian birth.
The conspiracy has a regional flavor. Overall, even including Democrats and independents, only 47 percent of respondents in the South said they believed Obama was born in America, with 23 percent saying he was not and 30 percent saying they were unsure. In the Northeast and Midwest, the percentage of respondents who believe Obama was born in the U.S. was over 90 percent.