What a terrific political mind you have TarHeel.

I hope that this new PAC runs both of those on Iowa TV. The one comparing the Democratic frontrunner to Adolph Hitler. Wow. What can I say. Powerful stuff, there.

I'm sure Iowa voters will respond to those kinds of hard hitting ads.

Are you fucking kidding me with that Hitler thing?  Dude, you are sick.

Congratulations, Tarheel!  Just when I didn't think you or Edwards supporter could sink any lower, you did.

You have my admiration.

First I want to say that I find a few of these videos distasteful and disrespectful. I do not in any way support their proliferation.

Maybe we need to call a truce or something. This is really crossing over a line that I am not comfortable with.

This began with the accusations from Hillary Clinton supporters that John Edwards is a Sexist and a Racist.

And now it has come to this.

I recommend that we all take a few deep breaths, maybe go for a long walk and then come back and argue this nomination process out without violating our Democratic core principles.

I understand the revulsion that Hillary Clinton supporters feel for this type of obvious slander. My only desire is that they understand the revulsion John Edwards supporters feel for the obvious slander recently posted against him.

If we can agree that these are places we prefer not to visit again it's possible that a modicum of civility might just take over. It's worth the effort.

One would think that Hillary haters from both the right and the left would realize that over the top vitriole against Hillary is NOT a winning strategy. Moderate people get turned off by the hatred and will just start tuning you out and not taking seriously ANYTHING that you do say.

Oh, well, your outrageous attacks against Hillary isn't anything new that her campaign hasn't seen before. While your candidate and Obama focuses on dragging Hillary down in the next few weeks at the exclusion of everything else, Hillary will continue to focus on a positive agenda. That's how she's going to win by the way. She's going to answer the question that is on most voter's minds "why should I vote for you? what's in it for me?"

So continue on with the vitriole. I don't think it does your candidate any favors. Which is why I hope you continue wasting your time and alienating even more posters here at mydd with this garbage....  

You should be ashamed of yourself.  I hope desmoinesdem will put you in your place.

Last night and this morning I have seen posters who come across as "outraged" quite a bit on this site write posts in other diaries, even attacking posters who express outrage about this vile video, but they are strangely silent when it comes to condemning the display of this Hillary/Hitler video on MyDD.   Why should anyone listen to them complaining in the future, when they can't condemn filth like this?   Yes, I am specifically referring to the posters Vox Populi, jeremiahthemessiah, and TomP.  I usually don't call people out by name, but in this case, I must.   I am personally tired of the hypocrisy that is on full display here.  If they can't condemn stuff like this, then why should anyone listen when they complain about Clinton supporters?

I don't care for the Hitler video, I just think a too-literal reading of it misses the point of what it's trying to do.

Images and footage of Hitler now have been presented so many times in so many different contexts, and thus
are so deeply embedded in the public consciousness that the images themselves -- independent of the historical
figure of Hitler -- have taken on a life of their own, as iconic representations of the mythic controlling leader who
demands -- and receives -- from his or her followers blind acceptance, subservience, obedience, and worship.

It is this idea that the video is trying -- rather hamfistedly -- to tap into. This same idea is used with much greater
discipline -- and to much more pointed and eloquent effect -- in the 1984 ad and in the film version of The Wizard
of Oz, the obvious reference for the outsized head of Hillary Clinton in that ad.

One can criticize the Hitler video for perpetuating the endless cascade of Hitler images with which we've been
inundated for the last 70 years -- each of which serves to make us forget just a little more of who Hitler was and
what he did.

But I don't believe the author of the video -- or TarHeel, for that matter -- is pushing a literal connection between
Hitler and Hillary.

I see the Hitler aspect of the video more as a cautionary reminder to beware of leaders who assert their power
seductively, i.e., who seek to perpetuate and extend their power by using that power in a way that manipulates
the frequent human tendency to want to bask in its "reflected glory."

The danger is obvious: The more powerful this kind of leader, the more likely that those who are drawn to power
for its own sake -- and there are many -- will fall under the spell of said leader, eventually losing themselves and
defaulting on their right and responsibility of self-determination.

There is only one candidate, on either side, who has anything like this kind of power -- who has so much power,
in fact, that power itself is a discrete part of the sell: Hillary Clinton. Is she using this power manipulatively, as a
tool of seduction? There is no better or more merciless message control operation anywhere.

And power is the great aphrodisiac. We're seeing this in the cascade of official endorsements of Clinton. We're
seeing it in drumbeat of inevitability, which -- whether or not that precise word is used -- is being pounded both
by the so-called "mainstream media" and by her supporters.

For weeks now, Hillary Clinton's footsoldiers on this site have been telling those of us who support other candidates:
"Why are you even wasting your energy on that? Why resist a candidate who has built up this much 'support' in the
polls? And even if you don't especially like her, you have to support her anyway, for the good of the Party. Are you
a good Democrat or not?"

I repeat: The connection between how Hitler acquired and used power and how Hillary acquires and uses it is
not literal. Not even close.

But it is evocative -- and it's an evocation I don't care for.