Yes, it's EXACTLY like that

This morning I went to the grocery store and was behind a car that had this bumper sticker:

CHANGE is also what Germany wanted in 1932.

The CHANGE part was written in the style of the Obama campaign materials. I was so infuriated I was literally shaking. Yes, I believe in free speech and that means protecting the speech you find most abhorrent. Well I guess this is a good test because it is ignorant, irresponsible, and disrespectful to compare (even in these lovely veiled terms) Barack Obama to Hitler. The comparison has been thrown around a lot lately - "you know who didn't allow opposition to be heard at rallies - HITLER! You know who had 'death panels' - HITLER!"

It disrespects the memory of the 11 million people who died under Hitler's hand to make these comparisons. It's disrespectful of this country's president to make such a horrid comparison. And I would have said the same thing if anyone had called Bush Hitler. Inflammatory rhetoric advances no one's cause. If you don't agree with the president's policies or positions, fine. Respond in an appropriate and effective manner, point out the LOGICAL reasons why you don't agree.

And before you say someone is like Hitler, go visit the Holocaust Museum. See the faces of the children who perished in concentration camps. Look at the shoes removed from people before they were sent to their deaths. See a railcar that contained entire families who were killed. And then honor those people by not trivializing the evil that Hitler was by making such flippant comparisons.