Birth Certificate Found! Obama was Born in Austria, with a Mustache!

by Jim Washburn

“On what planet do you spend most of your time?” That was Rep. Barney Frank responding to a questioner at a Massachusetts town hall meeting who likened President Obama to a Nazi and had the poster to prove it: a likeness of the pres with a Hitler mustache added. Frank was properly incredulous: “When you compare the effort to increase healthcare to the Nazis, my answer to you is that it is a tribute to the First Amendment that this kind of vile, contemptable nonsense is so freely propagated. Trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to argue with a dining room table. I have no interest in doing this.”

While so many other Democrats are running for cover or caving in to the fearmongering propagated by the insurance industry, Frank is one of the few pushing back and still arguing for a public single-payer option in the plan. You know, like most of the civilized world has. While folks on the right are yammering about fictitious government “death panels” deciding who lives or dies, where’s their concern over the very real, routine, documented decisions made by insurance companies to deny life-saving coverage to their patients? Where’s the concern over the companies’ business model where your health care is an entirely secondary side-effect to their turning a profit?

Read up on the creation of the Nazi death camps sometime. Extermination wasn’t the main goal: getting the most work out of prisoners at the least expense was, keeping them alive on slop until they grew so weak it was more cost-efficient to kill them. And the execution chambers? Their design, construction and mode of killing was all put out to competitive bid. As much as I hate insurance companies, I will not attempt to draw a parallel, other than to say that profit and the common good do not necessarily go hand in hand.

I keep thinking about an interview I read with Walter Cronkite where he said the most frightening interview he ever did was with a biologist who was studying the effects of insecticides and other common chemicals on the human brain. Cronkite said the scientist told him, “The day may come when we lose our ability to reason, and we won’t even know it.”

Listening to these AM radio-powered morons call Obama a Nazi for trying to get them better health care than our national shame of a system presently does makes me wonder if we haven’t already passed the point Cronkite was worried about.

Here’s Barney at the town hall:

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