Obama Spokesman Quotes Hitler in Attack on Republican Enemy

“Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.” — Adolph Hitler, German Chancellor and Nazi Party leader (1889-1945)

“If Romney thought it was good to say the sky was green and the grass was blue to win an election, he’d say it.” — David Plouffe, Obama 2008 Campaign Chairman, October 30, 2011 on Meet The Press

You don’t need to be a scholar to understand what Hitler meant: Anyone who challenges Dear Leader should be exterminated. And it’s not surprising that Obama’s team finds a rich source of quotable concepts in Hitler’s archive of speeches. Here are a few more:

“How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don’t think.”

“I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.”

“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”

“It is not truth that matters, but victory.”

And this one, of course:

“The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.”