Limbaugh compares Obama's new healthcare logo to Nazi swastika

Godwin’s Law states that the longer a debate goes on, the probability of a comparison to Nazis or Hitler rises.  It seems the debate over healthcare is no exception.

Over the last few days, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) has repeatedly accused people at a recent protest against President Obama's healthcare reform of wearing swastikas and SS symbols -- a claim that was later bolstered by a series of photographs. 

"I think they’re AstroTurf, you be the judge," said Pelosi. "They’re carrying swastikas and symbols like that to a town meeting on healthcare."

Perennial Obama critic and conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh was quick to respond to the accusations, arguing today on his radio show that it was in fact the Democrats who were using Nazi symbolism to advance their agenda.  He cited a post on the conservative blog Sweetness & Light that compares Obama's new healthcare logo -- a combination of his campaign logo and the ancient Greek symbol of medicine -- to the Nazi swastika symbol.

“They accuse of us being Nazis, and Obama's got a healthcare logo that's right out of Adolf Hitler's playbook,” said Limbaugh.

Limbaugh then proceeded to describe the ways Democrats are like Nazis -- a list that included their dedication to animal rights and their opposition to smoking and pollution.

Well, the Nazis were against big business -- they hated big business. And of course we all know that they were opposed to Jewish capitalism. They were insanely, irrationally against pollution. They were for two years mandatory voluntary service to Germany. They had a whole bunch of make-work projects to keep people working, one of which was the Autobahn. They were against cruelty and vivisection of animals, but in the radical sense of devaluing human life, they banned smoking. They were totally against that. They were for abortion and euthanasia of the undesirables, as we all know, and they were for cradle-to-grave nationalized healthcare.

What do you think? Is Obama's new healthcare logo really a symbolic reference to Nazism?

--Brendan Bigelow

Photo: The Nazi swastika, left, as it appeared at the Mauthausen death camp (credit: Simon Wiesenthal Center) compared to Obama's new healthcare logo, right.

Comments

[T. T. Stiles]

it sure looks odd anyway.

[Russ]

Obama is determined to replace our current system based on the laws of fifty states and the business practices of hundreds of insurance companies with a uniform system, National in scope, which Socializes health care as a "human right".

[Shartne]

What about the other simalaritys like hitler hating big business, capitolism polution and animals and loving government controled health care and every aspect of our lives. WHAT ABOUT THOSE SIMALARITIES????? point is that obamas faaarrrrr left government controls everything policys are way out of line with what americas stand for, FREEDOM and he is just like hitler in everyway not just this logo.Wake up before he controls every thing and your not free anymore. Before your wages are set, and your taxed into poverty. Health care is not free in England gasonline is above 5 bucks$$$ a gallon. Ours is going to be even higher 10 to 20 a gallon if cap and trade passes and your electric bills will be 300 to 400 dollars higher THATS 3 TO 4 HUNDRED A MONTH HIGHER and hyper inflation will happen. They have things hidden in this bill like they can take your home, land, pond or lake and put you in jail for using more electricity than they deem, what ever. Wake up before its too late. If your disabled or old you dont qualifi for health care becuse your not productive anymore and its really just population control headed for EUGENICS. They are making it to where we wont have any civil rights, do you know what this means. Do you realize what martial law is? You need to find out if you dont. They are trying to pass another bill that says you cant speak out against the Furior and blog or protest or it will be considered a hate crime and I would be taken to jail for speaking out against the presidents policies very scary you people better wake up. WAKE UP!!!!! Or everyone on this blog would be imprisioned for what is now called freedom of speach will eventullay be called a hate crime.

[voniscarl]

Really? This seems so irrelevant, they will find the smallest things against obama. "he was not born in this country" blah blah blah.

[Eric]

All this bulls**t is just distracting everyone from the issues. Focus on the healthcare bills, not the logos. This is what the government wants...for people to be distracted while the IMPORTANT things are happening behind the scenes.

I'm a democrat and hope the bill passes in some for or other. I don't have healthcare because i work for a CHEAP REPUBLICAN who doesnt offer ANY benefits to his employees.

[JeffinSac]

"He cited a post on the conservative blog Sweetness & Light that compares Obama's new healthcare logo -- a combination of his campaign logo and the ancient Greek symbol of medicine -- to the Nazi swastika symbol."

You post the picture of the FULL symbol, but then go on and claim he only reference the swastika, which if your quote is correct he never did. Did you even look at the pictures you posted before writing this article?

[Uncle Samchez]

Shocking racist and xenophobic photo's of left leaners in California. I'm sure they voted for Obama http://www.zombietime.com/hall_of_shame/

[Charlotte]

I'm not a fan of Limbaugh. But he's right. That is a very disturbing resemblance. Obviously someone very clever came up wiht the logo. I'm not suggesting they are Nazis, but it certainly makes one wonder what types of PR people they have inside the administration who wouldnt at least do the due diligence to see there is a marked resemblance.

[BigShott]

Obama is President of the United States and he is using a personal logo of his to push his plan. He is trying to instill that his logo is more important and more trust worthy than the US Presidental seals Once he was elected President, the use of those personal logos should have been discontinued.

[pat]

"The only thing new is the history you do not know"

Harry Truman.

[zyphlus]

GOP banned dope?... i don’t think so
it was banned in 1937 by liberal progressive congress 333 dems to 89 gop and 13 indies and again the senate 75 dem and a meer 17 gop 4 indies.. And signed into law by the liberal progressive FDR.
The first law aginst majuirana was passed in 1905 in racist el paso and no way a yellow dog before a republican dem texas was republican. SO you’re a LIAR and wrong. As far as I can see there was no record of who voted which way either typical of the fascist left.
http://one-simple-idea.com/CongressMakeUp_1855_2008.htm
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_banned_marijuana

[AndreiNFL]

The question is, how do you know President Obama hasn't read any of the bills? stop relaying things that you hear on the radio and believe i t to be true, especially coming from Rush Limbaugh. Listen, the people who are getting thrown out of meetings are acting very uncivilized, based on what I've seen so far. I have seen numerous clips of Senators being cowed down or booed when they try to answer questions that are being asked. Disruption will get us nowhere. Until people stop listening to Limbaugh, and Hanity telling the to be unruly then people will continue to get thrown out meetings. I agree that this is being done hastily, but I understand the urgency in gettng this done, Republicans are against the plan disruptively and not constructively. Their primary goal is to have the president fail! They don't care about the best interest of the country right now, just make President Obama fail!.

[Aaron]

The shapes of the two logos aren't even all that similar, and the content is totally different; in order to have something to complain about here -- and I say this despite my own discomfort with the Obama administration's constant branding -- you have to want to see a resemblance.

Apparently lots and lots of people want to do exactly that. I wonder if they think they are free.

[bill]

America is headed towards the new world order. We are a military powerhouse for the agenda of the aforementioned. Obama is the new puppet master. Actually, to so he is highly comparable to a "God". Educated people know that there is no "diety" such as god, buddha, allah. Social control and mind "control" has been going on for years. Its now time to see if it payed off.

[John]

Statistics show that almost 20% of all americans under the age of 65 were without health insurance in 2007. Plus, the number of children uninsured was about 10.7%. 8 out of 10 of the uninsured come from working american families...and 1/3 of american firms in the country didn't offer health insurance.A further study showed that 29% of people who have coverage are vastly underinsured.

We spend about $100 Billion each year providing uninsured residents health services.

For afamiliy - COBRA costs were around $700 per month. In 2008, the annual premium for a health plan covering a family of four averaged nearly $12,700...single coverage averaged about $4,700.

So, why are people in Washington, media people like Limbough and the general population wasting time arguing about swastikas!

The fact is, we have very large problems to solve. Perhaps we'd all be bether off if we starting yelling at our friends in Washington to formulate solutions...instead of just laying blame.

The fact is Obama seems to understand the impact that these numbers imply with regards to the dramatic affect they can have on our country's future....but when the country gets sidetracked by the stupidity of swastikas...perhaps solutions aren't in the agenda...but instead just false placed egos!

Come on America wake up...go fight for what we need...not just against what you are being told to fight against!

[Daniel S.]

Is it that bad to have an african american president? Is this how far people will go? What happened to these "constitutionalists" when the patriot act was implemented?
In my personal opinion, having secret prisons and kidnapping people of "interest" is more "nazi-like"

I guess everything has rights in a democracy, even the mentally challenged....

[Kid In The Front Row]

Of course it ISN'T a reference to the Nazi symbol. However, it is a poor choice of logo, because it is quite similar-- and unfortunately, that plays right into the hands of the right wing media. As for the rest of their comparing Obama to Adolf Hitler, well, it's just beyond ridiculous.

[Sean]

That's not all. You know what else the Nazi's did? They walked on BOTH feet! And they talked with their MOUTHS! And they listened to MUSIC! For God's sake, they at FOOD! What more proof do you need? The Democrats ARE the Nazis!
Someone think of the Children!!

[Emily]

Does anyone realize that Hitler was a FASCIST and you people are accusing Obama et al of being socialists? For all of you out there who think that you're smart for using big words, perhaps you should do your research about what you're talking about before you jump on Limbaugh's band wagon.

Fascism and Socialism are polar opposites-- literally as far away from eachother on the political spectrum as possible-- with Fascism on the far RIGHT, and socialism on the far LEFT. It is absurd and ignorant to insinuate that our current administration has anything to do with the Nazis.

Moreover, what Limbaugh is doing here is called PROPAGANDA. He is bastardizing responsible journalism by wildly making accusations that advance his own political agenda with no factual basis, and spread HATE.

Guess who else was great at spreading false rumors in order to create a political following and incite hate? Hitler and the Nazis employed this type of media initiative, wrought with falsities, through the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, led by Joseph Goebbels.

THINK ABOUT IT PEOPLE!!

[Jeff]

@ Mike Adkison:

"it is certainly a bastardization of our beautiful American flag. Look at it; the red and white stripes of our flag laying horizontal, as if our flag is laying on the ground. "

Right Mike. And here is a Republican Party symbol. The red, white and blue stripes of our flag laying horizontal, as if our flag is laying on the ground with an elephant trampling on it.

http://images.buycostumes.com/mgen/merchandiser/30055.jpg

[judy holmgren]

I totally agree with you, and so true on the devastation that they have created shutting our country down to the animals, fish, flowers,etc. For the sake of God how much farther are we going to allow them to go before they totally destroy the United States with their crazy ideas. What has happened to the land of freedom that our Vets fought so hard for us to have. Freedom is becoming a thing of the past and if no one is a little scared they are better start taking notice. We do not and should allow the liberals like Obama,Nancy and Harry run our country, find a way to vote them out before it is to late to salvage the county that we all love,

[Eva, Germany]

Rush is talking nonsense. The Nazis were a hardcore rightwing law-and-order party that collaborated with both Christian churches, jailed people for not working or loitering, and went after gays and lesbians, and doctors and women who had abortions (abortion in Nazi Germany carried the death penalty). They gave medals to mothers who had a lot of children. They were white, anti-black and anti-Jewish supremacist who were close with the KKK probably the same time Rush's grandfather was a member.

The Nazis also did not socialize medicine, Germany had health care since Bismarck. The Nazi project was to build the autobahn and a Ford-style car for everyone, and get into spaceflight (they did eventually with the help of NASA).

The Nazis were also not anti-business, quite the contrary, they were endorsed by big business - Flick, Krupp, General Motors, Ford, IBM, Porsche, BMW. Hence they had the endorsement of Big Oil. They did, of cource, force Jewish-owned banks or real estate owners to sell to Christians. Pollution was not even on the radar in the 1930s. Nazis did not have gun control, every 15-year-old boy had a gun. And the Nazis glorified farmers and despised "Jewish" and leftwing city people, especially the media.

[bdz]

I am surprised that Rush did not compare the Great Seal of the United States to a Nazi logo. It also has design elements of an eagle with its wings spread and a circular element - a starred circle with stars inside. Of course the circle is above the eagle's head rather than below its feet.

Both the winged caduceus of medicine and the Great Seal of the United States predate not only Obama but also the Nazis.

The Great Seal is displayed on many US Government web sites.
http://www.usa.gov/About/Great_Seal.shtml

[Cynthia Marsh+]

I'm not sure about this symbol, suspicious ,but every time David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel take front and center it reminds me of the henchmen of Nazi Germany and their effort to control the society by telling the people through the oratory of Hitler how wonderful he was going to make it for everyone and yet behind the scenes they were controlling and destroying all who did not agree with them.First politically and eventually killing the Jews and all the undesirables they set in their twisted minds.It feels like history is repeating itself, but this time it is in America, the land of the free or so we thought.Now it's all about control in every direction.I'm not surprised that they are telling the masses we feel your pain and we will make it all better.. Lullabye to sleepland and a healthcare bill that takes away people choices and eventually could take their lives following right behind, especially if you are considered unnecessary and unfavorable. Yes, what is old is new again.. C. M.

[Lexingtonian]

First of all, anyone who listens to a known demagogue like Rush Limbaugh clearly has issues. Secondly, anyone who BELIEVES the garbage spewing out of his pie hole is a MORON!! He has really outdone himself this time by making a statement like "the Nazis were against big business." Ludicrous!! Ridiculous!! Hitler gained the acceptance of big business by ordering the disbandment of the trade unions and a share of the remunerative profits from armaments contracts. Predictably, this resulted in an accelerated rise (36% between 1933 and 39) in profits and a drop (5% between 1932 and 1939) in the share of wages of the Gross National Income. Throughout this, businesses had to survive several constraints, not the least of which was competition from high-ranking Nazis like Göring who received priority treatment under government regulations on imports, wage and price levels and the allotment of raw materials. Big businesses flourished in Nazi Germany, any intelligent high school junior knows this.

[Gabe M]

AMERICANS PLEASE READ THIS

I think without doubt the UK system is way beyond the US system. You cant compare them.

The UK treats people without a pre-judgement on how wealthy you are, they way it works is this - if you need medical attention you see a doctor and it is paid for through taxes. In America there are far too many people not being seen who don't have Healthcare insurance, and have to wait or recieve just very basic treatment. The US system judges you on your position within society, it is elitist. When you think about it, it is disturbing. This is very very wrong, and much worse than the odd difficulty experienced in the NHS. You can improve America, but you need to want to and stop listening to all the marketing campaigns. Use your head and support Obama.

The corporate companies are worried about losing money, not helping the American people. It's simple.

Listen to Obama - he knows what he's doing!! The NHS rocks, American healthcare (at the moment) sucks! Simple.

[Heartbroken]

Obviously, the Rush stuff is nonsense, and the majority of us see that. This is just another ploy to place blame on extremists, while not addressing the majority of those who have questions.

I'm torn on Healthcare because I have a homeless, disabled brother in his fifties, who can't get one Social Service (I've exhausted them all). For housing subsidies, I was told that since he is a white male, he'll just continue to be kicked to the bottom of the list (priority is given to minorities and women with children, etc.). I spent $26,000 for his medical and food last year, and he needs so much more. He worked as an Independent (carpenters, fishermen etc.), so he's not entitled to any Federal disability benefits. He's lost everything he worked so hard for, all of his life, and has no income, so he remains homeless, living in a gardener's shed with no running water, or electricity, in his home state. He defecates in a bucket, pays $8 for a shower, once every two weeks, at a Laundromat, and stores water in old milk containers. This was never his life. He used to have a good life. For those who say "why doesn't he come and live with me"? Because he's at the point where he'd rather die than take anymore from our family. This is what he has been reduced to. I want him to have medical. Yet, it must be done right. My brother worked hard all of his life, and has been abandoned by his country. He's the one who should receive benefits. But, in my home state, illegals flood our border, with first-hand knowledge of how to abuse our Social Services, and they do. I'm so torn on this issue because as it is, there's nothing left for him now, in any form of assistance. Foremost, I believe that some things need to change in the US. There's too much unfairness. Let's make sure the bill serves the Americans who deserve it. I need to see that in writing. Have patience people. It must be done right. There are so many issues involved.

[August V]

I, as a Danish citizen am posibly not a too neutral person. Still, can anyone (republicans as well as democrats) tell me why universal healthcare i a bad idea? this means tha you included(!) gets free healthcare. If tax is the problem, don't tell me that a rise in vat. from 13.5 % till about 15-18.5 % is devastating to your own economy.

And, no Obama's healthcare logo does not resemble the reichsadler.

[pepe]

You would think Rush was the defender of all that is right with America...like sending his house keeper, a minority woman out to buy his 'pain killers' in the open market place, a parking lot. Too bad the large pharmaceutical companies missed that little bit of capitalism, they could have made a few more free market dollars off of Limbaugh's capitalist addiction to those pain killers and by advertising on his hot air balloon.

[cbngr]

The similarity of designs is coincidental. The fact that the logo for America's heath care program is based on one candidate's personal logo is even more scary. And least the Nazi's were based on a broad nationalistic symbols.

[Sheila]

I absolutely cannot stand the bashing of Obama, give the guy a chance!!! Look at what he he walked into!! Could anyone else do a better job? I think probably not........Time will tell

[John Kooms]

Swastica ? I see Jesus . You people are out of your minds . I doubt most of you even know what a socialist or socialism is . Obama and the Democrats won , get over it .

[Yosef Mama]

Drug addicted adulterers have no moral authority. I think he lost his hearing because even he cannot bear to hear himself speak, though it would be more poetically just if Limbaugh lost his voice, rather than his hearing.

[carla123]

Yes, and Obama and the Democrats seem to have the same principles as the Nazis.
Peas of a pod.

[bob]

There IS something eerily reminiscent about using the logo of the Obama campaign for a national health plan. It screams, "I AM the state!"

And Pelosi's astroturf argument is absurd. By the same token, veterans who show up in uniforms at a demonstration for or against a war are astroturf, as are women wearing Code Pink t-shirts. If you're going to use some criterion to judge authentic grass-roots participation, at least apply the criterion consistently.
And besides, she shouldn't be complaining. Having the Nazis support your cause is a detriment, not a help.

[Fedup Wid-it]

Half of you people can't spell. Yet you all seem to know so much about politics. You are all freaking out! I'm ready for the TEOTWAWKI. I've got my "Bug-Out Bag", and I'm heading for the mountains. I'll sit atop my perch, and watch you all destroy each other. It will probably make me sad, but that's where things are going.

[jojo]

this comparison is completely ridiculous. The symbol has been used in medecin world for centuries...

[Anon]

lol,
The Nazi symbol has wings,
Obama's healthcare Symbol also has wings,
Therefore, Obama's healthcare is a Nazi Symbol.
Sound.

[Nuray Gercek]

I think it certainly does. They both look alike, and they symbolize the same thing:National Socialism!!!
Nazis let the people dig their own graves before they executed them, and these poor people did it without any objection!!!As if they were hypnotized!!! Same thing happens here, poor and uneducated people are hypnotized by Obama, choosing their way into their graves willingly!!!
Only, Obama(as Muslim, I don't know why he denies it here, while he admits it in Egypt)could say people that they will be martyrs and go to heaven if they choose murderous Obamacare!!!!
WWW.RUSHFORPRESIDENT.COM

[Teresa]

I looked into this comparison of the Obama healthcare symbol with the Nazi symbol of the Parteiadler(Symbol of Nazi Party) and with the Reichsadler(Symbol of Nazi Germany). The big differences here are that the swastika is not evident nor is an eagle's head in Obama's symbol whereas those items are apparent in the Nazi symbols that Limbaugh is using for his comparison.
What IS disturbing, however is that the healthcare symbol used by Obama (as in most hospitals and doctor's offices)shows the Caduceus symbol (two snakes entwined on a Herald's staff) which is associated with theft, commerce, deception and death. This widely used symbol is more appropriate for funerals and sales (of pharmaceuticals?)

The symbol actually needed here to indicate healing and medicine in our medical community and Obama's healthcare plan is the Rod of Asclepius which is a single serpent on a rod. The Rod of Asclepius is associated with Asclepius, son of Apollo. Asclepius was a medical practitioner in Greek mythology. This symbol is also related to Astrology.

Obama also chose the five pointed stars in his healthcare symbol. The five pointed star is usually associated with law, order, military power, and war. The number of three stars could be indicative of Orion's belt usually associated with rebirth and afterlife by ancient Egyptians as well as the symbol of the Last Pharoah of the Fifth Dynasty in Egypt, Unas. Unas became great by eating the flesh of his mortal enemies...

Obviously, the choice of symbols is interesting and leading; however, an overall point to be made is that sometimes symbols are just symbols, and I wonder if the Obama Administration actually researched what each individual part or the whole of the ad could mean historically, mythologically or contemporarily. We can play with and personalize our interpretation of symbolic meanings all day long...

[serge]

If the Nazi's hated big business and capitalism so much, why did they do deals with American corporations? why did they have guns and tanks? cause I'm pretty sure that little mom & pop companies cannot make either of those things or anything else the Nazi's used, I do believe that all of the Nazi supplies had to come from big corporations. As for the symbols "matching". Well, guess what, the Greek symbol for medicine is, in fact the Greek symbol for medicine, *not* an eagle. plus its pretty obvious that though the Greek symbol is coming out of the sun of the other one, where as with the Nazi symbol has the eagle (which again, is not the same as the caduceus) sitting on top of the swastika. As for "cradle to the grave healthcare" that Limbaugh mentioned well, I cannot find any historical record of that, besides if "cradle-to-the-grave" healthcare is a Nazi trait than pretty much every wealthy industrialized, democratic country has Nazi traits. As do 2nd and 3rd world countries

[John]

You people really make me sick. Seriously, I am just amazed at what I am seeing on the net. First off: It isn't a plan that you "take or get a fine". You need to stop listening to random stuff online, and actually do that -reading- thing we all learned about in school.
It has been said time and time again, that the plan will be OPTIONAL. Do you all know what that means? That means we can take it or leave it, gasp!!

Also, I am really sick of people comparing everything they don't like to nazis and calling everything socialism. The thing with the auto industry? They received 50 billion dollars, you are DARN right the government better get a say in what is happening. Since they industry completely failed due to their own screw-ups, and they needed MY money, then they need to be fixed by force since they weren't willing to do it on their own. So you guys who can't comprehend why that action had taken place, then you need to stop listening to the hate mongers and go figure some stuff out on your own. You know, form your OWN opinion, you fools. I read things like this article, and it just makes me sick with the sheer amount of ignorance that you people are displaying, not all of you, just 9 posts out of 10.

Also, quite honestly, I don't think I would have minded living in a society that was described above, as long as it didn't take a genocidal approach to the rest of the world. "They were insanely, irrationally against pollution. " and yet had technology during the war that compared or beat ours in many cases. I see it now... I must be a nazi because I think that plants that pump pollutants into my river should be fined and forced to clean it up.. because.. because I want my kids to have some place to live, I MUST be a nazi. I was blind but now I see, thanks you disgusting waste of humanity, aka: Rush.

[Alli]

Thank you, AreYouKiddingMe!!! One could just as easily compare the Nazi logo to the Marines logo (the eagle, globe and anchor). That doesn't mean there is any validity to the idea that Obama is somehow like the Nazis. And, for the record, the Marine logo was created in 1868 and the Nazi logo was not used until 1919, so one could argue that they stole the imagery from us.

And anyone who doesn't recognize the winged Caduceus is either mentally handicapped or woefully uneducated (though I think Limbaugh easily qualifies for both). Obama's logo is simply a Caduceus on top of his 'O' logo. The wings are traditionally associated with Mercury, not an eagle (although given that our national symbol is an eagle, I'm sure it's meant to evoke that).

This is just fear-mongering, plain and simple. Stop comparing dems to Nazis. It's hyperbole that is deeply insulting to the victims and survivors of the Holocaust and the only thing it accomplishes is making you look like a fool.

[Matty]

Every time I see an article about a new logo there is always a comparison with the old logo or with a similar logo. If you look at any logo you will be able to find something negative from some sort of angle especially when you compare a new logo to an existing one. I think people see what they want to see when it comes to logos.

[Jamie]

HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAA

i pity all you pathetic republicans.
so terrible at arguing you actually have to call him a nazi by saying his logo is similar to the swastika. well it quite clearly isn't. and if you want a real argument, why not try saying that a national health care service would devalue American Economy and push the country into deeper recession.

come on, even I can come up with that!!

[Jim Chamberlain]

What is Socialism? Socialism refers to various theories of economic organization advocating state, worker or public ownership and administration of the means of production and allocation of resources, and a society characterized by equal access to re...sources for all individuals with an egalitarian method of compensation. Socialism is not a political system; an economic system distinct from capitalism.
Don't know what egalitarian means? Egalitarian--Affirming, promoting, or characterized by belief in equal political, economic, social, and civil rights for all people.
Damn socialism sounds pretty sweet, why wouldn't we want this? Because peace doesn't make money!!!
Many of you reflect the lowest possible denominator of the American public, you are misinformed and moronic, Nazi's and Socialists aren't the same thing...And that "nazi symbol" it's a caduceus, held by Mecury, messenger of the gods. And if I'm not mistaken, isn't our nations bird the eagle as well? The thing is this country has always been facist, it just took a black president for you racists to realize this, it wasn't news to me, guess the media's curtain is finally falling...

[Steve]

Today, Todd Schnitt commented that a group of persons wore shirts or held up signs depicting Pres. Obama as Hitler. Mr. Schnitt said this was taken to far -- it was not appropriate. I wonder if Mr. Limbaugh would agree -- particularly after comparing Pres. Obama's healthcare logo to Nazi swastika. My point is, that comparison is very suggestive -- don't expect others not to take it a step further or translate its meaning incorrectly. Some of these radio hosts are doing a poor job of setting a good example for their listeners.

[Elin]

WOW! I have followed this debate about the health care for some time and I can´t believe what I´m hearing. There are so many stupid things said about this.
It seems like you americans don´t want good health care.
First you elect a president that promises CHANGE and then when he offers it you get mad and refuse to take it.

It´s not so complicated! There is a whole world around you and many countries have free health care and health care for everyone. Every single country i Europe have it and here it works just fine!
Why do you think it won´t work in America when it works in so many other places.
I live in Sweden and we have great health care. No one can be too sick, poor or rich to get the help they need. We definetly don´t have death patrols or what it was you were so afraid of. As far as I know it doesn´t exist anywhere in the world =).
There is no reason to be afraid, it can only get better.
Come on americans! Take it, embrace it and be thankful you have such a smart president.
/Elin from Sweden

[Adam Lee Miller]

STOP COMPARING PEOPLE TO HITLER!!! Can we stop with this crap now...no one is Hitler. No one in Washington is close to Hitler. Have any of you idiots actually studied the Holocaust or visited the museum in Washington D.C.? I get it...both sides, Dems and Reps hate each other. Well done, message received. But stop with the outlandish accusations that people are "just like" someone who orchestrated the mass murder of 6 million people. Of course some of you are going to deny that ever happened, but let's just go with the idea that it might have. If any progress that is going to actually HELP people in this country, then this sort of thing has got to stop and NOW!

[ame]

Obama's healthcare "symbol" IS right out of Hitler's playbook and the symbol IS the man - right up there with the styrofoam Greek columns - Obama is a dark brooding menace whose ideology undermines all American principles of personal freedom and individual choice. Obozo's minions in Congress totally ignore the American people and behave as if they were the Reichstag - Obama must go - he is a dissembling equivocator obsessed with his image and power.
I detest him - a ill-humored inexperienced arrogant leftist coward - a I HEART CHAVEZ wanna' be dictator - void of moral and ethical values - a total disgrace to American principles of liberty and an utter embarrassment to the USA.
LEFTIST DEMS OUT IN 2010 and OBAMINATION OUT 2012.
TAKE BACK THE UNITED STATES, AMERICANS.
Our government is US, not Obama/Pelosi/Reid.