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Rob at Say Anything has taken some exception to my comments at PBA HQ on the Bush billboards in Florida.

Why are they upset? Beats me. Bush is our duly elected leader, whether the left likes it or not. Its not like they have to agree with him or anything. The billboard certainly isn't deserving of this comment:

WTF? I thought displays like this were limited to dictatorships. Oh, wait a second...

The title of that post is "All he needs now is that skinny little mustache..."

I guess appearing on billboards with banal messages like "Our Leader" is tantamount to being a genocidal dictator.

Comparing Bush to Hitler...apparently that's what being progressive is all about.

How the right always manages to miss the point this wildly is beyond me. They either practice doing such on a regular basis or it's a natural born talent, the jury is still out on either conclusion. Anyways, for those that need the obvious explained to them, my post was in part a satire on hero worship and that certain, special cult of personality that develops around a nation's leader who isn't questioned. History has this nasty little habit of repeating itself -- quite often, in some cases. And for a president we all know wasn't legally elected in 2000, and quite possibly in 2004 though we may never knew because easily hackable electronic voting machines were used at the bidding of his party; a president who doesn't like his power being questioned, and a president who shows no bones about making the judicial and legislative branches into rubber stamp bodies that bend to his wishes; seeing billboards of his image being put up of sends a chill down my spine. It reminds me of Kim Jong-il's North Korea, Mao Zedong's China, and Adolf Hitler's Germany.

When a cult of personality is formed around a leader, history shows that questioning them becomes illegal. And, fuck me if I'm wrong, but the last time I checked we lived in America where we're supposed to have the freedom to question our government.

As for the Nazi references, Rob, why does the right jump down our throats whenever we make them, yet places like World Net Daily can use the phrase "sexual holocuast" and you're silent about it. Is this Nazi refernce OK with you? Are you OK with your side equating promiscuous sex with the murdering of six million jews, half a million gypsies, and scores of others?