Focus On The Family Compares Obama To Nazis

[meegbear]

Two days after Obama and the Democratic Party won a ringing 7 million refusal of rightwing fearmongering and hate, the extreme right are unrepentant and none the wiser. Smintheus at Unbossed writes:

This evening James Dobson's Focus on the Family Action sent out a fundraising email to members that likened the victories of Barack Obama and congressional Democrats in Tuesday's election to the Nazi bombing of England during World War II. The author of this vile letter is Tom Minnery, Senior Vice President of Focus on the Family Action. It was nearly inevitable that anger over losing the 2008 election would soon provoke right-wing extremists to violate Godwin's Law. Obama's victory in Colorado may have been particularly galling for the Colorado Springs based Focus on the Family, which has been heavily involved in the political campaign this year advocating for conservative issues. James Dobson personally endorsed the McCain-Palin ticket this fall.

Focus on the Family has not so far posted this hateful fundraising letter on the web. Here is the opening section of the letter:

Dear Friend,

The spirit of Winston Churchill was alive and well on Tuesday night at Focus on the Family Action headquarters.

You may recall that in the most desperate days of World War II – when Great Britain was being pounded daily by Hitler’s Luftwaffe – that Winston Churchill called on his countrymen not to despair from danger but to rise to the challenge.

It goes on in exactly the same vein, saying that:

Our nation has never faced the kind of anti-family, pro-abortion assault that we’re likely to see in the coming weeks and months. We don’t have to guess what the Left will do now that they control Congress and the White House; they’ve told us.

What are FoF so upset about? Freedom of choice, freedom of marriage and legislation to combat discrimination against gays in the workplace. The last, according to FoF, will be an assault on FoF members' religious freedom. Nice of them to state so clearly that theirs is a path of bigotry.

Obama has their number.

http://crooksandliars.com/cernig/focus-family-compares-obama-nazis

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Idiots. They drive me nuts

[Alter Ego]

2. Someone call the WAAAAAAAmbulance.

Dobson is officially irrelevant and no one but his rabid fundie followers gives a shit what he thinks or says.

[volstork]

3. Focus on your OWN fucking family!

:puke:

[azurnoir]

13. Oh they do, they do

haven't you seen the "Purity Balls" wear teenage girls "marry" their fathers and promise them their virginity?

[Ghost in the Machine]

4. Why oh *why* can't we still feed these idiots to lions???

[tigereye]

5. folks who have NO IDEA about what a real, sane family and good social policy

are. They are despicable. :grr:



Dobson is an embarrassment to the mental health profession.

[Corkey Mineola]

6. cue "Running on Empty..." nt

[classof56]

7. Well, I'm sure this will produce what Dobson really wants--

Lots and lots of money in his coffers from those "Christians" who are as wacko as he is.

Meanwhile, he should be ashamed. Very ashamed. But of course he won't be. Jesus, after all, had nothing to say about loving one another, being kind, caring and compassionate. Now did he?

Dobson makes me sick. Sorry my mother used to send him her hard-earned money!

[torgos_pizza]

12. If Jesus were alive, these right wingers would ship him off to Guantanamo Bay

radical Christians are the ultimate enigma- The basically worship Jesus as a God, but oppose everything he stood for.

Jesus was a Jew- but they hate Jews

Jesus was a pacifist, but they crave war

Jesus advocated charity, but they oppose efforts to help the poor

Jesus advocated compassion, but they advocate indifference.


So....why do these people worship Jesus, a man who stood for everything the right wing opposes and hates?

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

8. Can we just call Godwin's Law whenever we see these and move on? nt

[FiveGoodMen]

20. These people cause real political trouble -- with consequences.

We wouldn't have had Bush for eight years except for 'spiritual leaders' like Dobson, Robertson, etc.

A million dead Iraqi civilians would still be alive.

Our treasury wouldn't be cleaned out.

No we can't just move on.

[torgos_pizza]

9. And Michael Savage accuses liberals of being Nazis and having mentally illness

It's classic projection - the right accuses us of possessing the negative characteristics that in reality THEY possess.
For example, right wing radio blowhard Michael savage is a rabid bigot, advocates fascists tactics, and clearly has psychiatric problems. But of course, he accuses his liberal critics of having those traits.

[amber_86]

10. Wow these people are crazy

I just have to laugh about it because it's stupid. They are the ones that are Nazi they are full of hate.

[LiberalFighter]

11. About 2 weeks ago I heard on their Sunday radio show that

they think it was wonderful that a child went from fearing the parent to fearing god.

Doesn't say much about their loving god.

[torgos_pizza]

14. Fear is just a means to control people

Fear of damnation is just a way the christian church controlled the masses- make them afraid of something, and you will stifle independent thought and make them obedient. I don't recall anywhere in the New testament where Jesus threatened to send people who didn't worship him to Hell...

[juno jones]

21. Or their parents. n/t

[asjr]

15. Focus should be designated a subversive

organization. Can't they be sued for slander or libel?

[Initech]

16. Wow, the GOP Ministry of Propaganda didnt take long to make the Nazi comparison!

They're imploding at the seems! This is great! :popcorn:

[kevinbgoode]

17. This is another group which profits from promoting religious tyranny.

Their support of campaigns to remove the constitutional rights of all Americans is a direct violation of the religious freedoms of all Americans. The American people have the right - and the responsibility - to defend our Constitution and the religious freedom of all citizens by confronting the FoF's support of tyranny.

[yellowcanine]

18. Wow. I never knew that Hitler won a vote of the British people before he bombed them.

[underpants]

22. Yeah and I don't remember about buildings let alone a whole city being destroyed Tuesday night

in fact I haven't found a single report of anything amiss going on

They were HAPPY

[FiveGoodMen]

19. Let this be a warning!

One good election result doesn't wipe away all the crap that's soiled this country.

These assholes still have their own propaganda networks, still have many many millions of faithful soldiers, still have utter determination to destroy the establishment clause. They don't mind lying and cheating for Jesus.

We've won a single battle, but the enemy isn't retreating.

(Goddamned right, they're the enemy!)