Debate over the health care plan championed by U.S. President Barack Obama is turning rancorous, with figures on both sides of the discussion lobbing harsh criticism at the other and even the Obama health care logo coming under attack.
As we saw with this week's Obama Joker poster, which brandished the word "socialism" and likened the Prez to Heath Ledger's character in The Dark Knight, there has been vehement opposition to some of the President's policy initiatives.
Addressing some of the opposition she has encountered, the U.S. Speaker of the House and universal health care advocate, Nancy Pelosi, recently accused protesters at Democratic health care town hall meetings of carrying swastikas.
In response, the website Sweetness and Light likened the Obama health care logo to a swastika and compared Democrats to Nazis. Makes perfect sense.
Here's the Obama health care logo ...
Fairly innocuous, right? Not according to Sweetness and Light, which proves that if you look hard enough, one can find a swastika hidden in anything ...
There you have it. The President must be a Nazi.
According to Sweetness and Light, which fashioned the controversial photo comparison seen above, the Nazis and the Democrats are both:
"Against big banks and capitalism, against big stores, against pollution, for two years mandatory voluntary service to the country, for make-work projects, against cruelty and to animals, against smoking, for abortion and for universal health care."
Just another day of modern American political discourse.
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August 6th, 2009 10:54 PM
Check out the insignia for an enlisted United States Marine and ask a marine if his badge resembles any nazi symbol. Then let me know how that works out for you.
August 7th, 2009 7:25 AM
Nazis aside, here is my problem with the logo: Caduceus, the staff with wings and two snakes. It has more to do with death than anything else. The better symbol to use is the rod of Asclepius which is associated with healing...much better than death.
August 7th, 2009 8:11 AM
Errr...."Mandatory voluntary service to the country"?
August 7th, 2009 9:06 AM
Has anyone looked at the medical symbol lately? I guess they are nazis also. Lets quit picking the president apart and start backing some of the reforms he is trying to enact.
August 7th, 2009 9:10 AM
"Mandatory voluntary service service to the country" is Demo-speak for a draft....or is that non-draft? I'm not yet fluent in Demo-speak.
August 7th, 2009 10:48 AM
I like the way you completely gloss over Nancy Pelosi's comment about the town hall attenders carrying swastikas, which there is NO evidence of anywhere, and you don't bother to defend those poor folks. Instead, when someone responds to NANCY'S initial swastika comments (that started it all) you attack them. Bye by your credibility.
August 7th, 2009 10:49 AM
Eagle imagery is fairly common in American iconography. The Obama logo has more in common with the back of a quarter than the Nazi symbol.
August 7th, 2009 10:50 AM
How about you get clever and spend your energy defend the folks attending those meetings exercising their CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS.
August 7th, 2009 11:28 AM
Oh common, thats a joke. Whats has this to do with Nazi's people or Nazi symbols?! You guys just have tag along with each other instead of criticize each other and YOUR president. At least he's trying to do something for the normal people in the US instead of making the richer more wealthy. I think he wants only the best for you Americans(poor or rich) but i think the Republicans can't handle a normal status of health care for all b/c of their insurance companies will loose money and thats the simple case! Be glad the USA is back into the limelight in the world b/c of Obama. Just my 2 cents of course.
August 7th, 2009 12:31 PM
To all of you that back Obamas health. HAVE YOU READ IT. I have.
Please read it. Every page has what the GOVERNMENT tells you you have to do. Dr. Blumenthal in Washington will "oversee" the choices your doctor makes about you. When you old and sick they will send you classes that show you how to end your life thats how they will save money.Pages 427-430. They will have access to your bank account. I have a friend in Belgium, it takes months to see a doctor ad then about 3 hours in his office to see him.
We do so need a reform but not this way.Expand Medicaid to all that don't have health insurance