Obama Transformed. A Question of Decency.
Posted on | May 2, 2011 | 1 Comment
It seems everywhere you turn these days in the East Bay (for some reason especially out the front door of every Barnes & Noble and Borders) there is a similar ad—Obama’s Hitler Moustache is a fixture—with various critiques, some half-intelligent, about his policies. It is not the political banter that I have an issue with—after all I grew up with old men hollering about this or that, wishing Italian politicians incurable diseases from polio to leprosy.
This is democracy. Our right to express ourselves. This is not being sent to the Ninth Circle of Hell for an anti-Stalin joke. What rubs me the wrong is the question of decency—no comment needed here, I assume—and the question of accuracy. Obama won a Noble Peace Prize; the other Mustachioed Mann sent a few million to the ovens. Imagine relations or survivors of that nightmare walking past the picture of the first African-American president dolled up as the Fuhrer….
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June 10th, 2011 @ 9:40 am
Thank you Ramon for your contribution. All I can say is that I agree with every single word you’ve written.
God Bless.