Pat Buchanan, Obama as Hitler, Hitler as a peace lover, and the world is happy and gay

(Above: did the creator of this image have any recollection how Adolf Hitler responded to the win of Jesse Owens in the 100 metres race in the Berlin Olympics in 1936?)

America the brave and the free is also the land of the biggest and best crazies, so big and craggy they make the Rockies look like mole hills instead of mountains.

First a lot of people, loons of the first water, are now spending a lot of time and energy proving that Obama is the new Hitler, and Hitler was of course bad, evil, and even thoroughly unpleasant.

Obama's plan to speak to schoolchildren - without parents present - has been presented as a dire, evil plot to recruit children to his civilian army, his "Hitler youth brigade".

Yep, it's all here in that invaluable home for loons, World Net Daily, under the header Parents rebel against Obama TV speech to schools.

A sample:

"Hitler knew that if you control the youth, you control the future. I wrote about him in 'The Threats to Homeschooling: From Hitler to the NEA.' As I noted in that article, Hitler said: 'The Youth of today is ever the people of tomorrow. For this reason we have set before ourselves the task of innoculating our youth with the spirit of this community of the people at a very early age, at an age when human beings are still unperverted and therefore unspoiled,'" he wrote.

Another:

"Let the brain washing begin. Yes, it is a bit of a stretch. But I remember from history class that some other very prominent figures in history started out like this, all about education and change for the better. Capture the hearts and minds and all that. You can call it what you will but Obama Youth or Hitler Youth … This is much too slippery a slope, this day and age with the role of government becoming more invasive the last thing I want is for 'them' to get a tooth into my kids."

Gee, apparently Obama wanted to urge American kids to do their readin' and writin' and work on their 'rithmetic skills, and get focused and begin the school year strong. Seems like that's just another word for a totalitarian regime intent on spreading its propaganda and entrenching its power by brainwashing children. Next thing you know they'll be disputing creationism in class.

On no, America is going Nazi. What will the real Nazis at Storm Front, worried about white survival, do about it when they learn their black President is really Adolf Hitler reborn?

But wait, what noble crusader riding on a steed from the east brings good news?

Why it's none other than Pat Buchanan and he's made his epic journey to let us know that Hitler was in fact a peace loving good guy.

Yep, it's all there in Did Hitler Want War?, proving that Pat Buchanan is way dumber than the British PM of the time, one Neville Chamberlain, waving his sheet of paper and announcing peace in his time.

I can't begin to convey just how whacky and historically crazy this bit of revisionist nonsense is, but let's just go with the last couple of paras:

Hitler had never wanted war with Poland, but an alliance with Poland such as he had with Francisco Franco’s Spain, Mussolini’s Italy, Miklos Horthy’s Hungary and Father Jozef Tiso’s Slovakia.

Indeed, why would he want war when, by 1939, he was surrounded by allied, friendly or neutral neighbors, save France. And he had written off Alsace, because reconquering Alsace meant war with France, and that meant war with Britain, whose empire he admired and whom he had always sought as an ally.

As of March 1939, Hitler did not even have a border with Russia. How then could he invade Russia?

Like the lack of a precisely defined border would somehow spike your invasion plans? Like he only wanted to be friends with England and re-instal the Duke of Windsor on the throne? Like he only wanted to treat Poland the way his goons treated Austria? Like he was surrounded by friends?

Who is this blathering idiot and why hasn't he read any history? Or has Obama recruited him n his drive to establish National Socialism in America?

Well as you know, Buchanan was a senior advisor to Nixon, Ford and Reagan, and he still turns up on the MSNBC network as an expert, and he was even considered a Republican presidential contender in 1992 and 1996 (you can wiki on him here). He's also notoriously and predictably outrageous when writing about this kind of stuff, but he's really excelled himself this time.

He even has the cheek to quote Winston Churchill to end his column:

Winston Churchill was right when he called it “The Unnecessary War” — the war that may yet prove the mortal blow to our civilization.

Well actually Winston Churchill spent the thirties saying war was inevitable and urging Britain to prepare for war, but what would he know. Except he'd probably read Hitler's Mein Kampf and saw a pattern and got a little worried at the notion of lebensraum and slave nations:

Without consideration of traditions and prejudices, Germany must find the courage to gather our people and their strength for an advance along the road that will lead this people from its present restricted living space to new land and soil, and hence also free it from the danger of vanishing from the earth or of serving others as a slave nation.

The National Socialist Movement must strive to eliminate the disproportion between our population and our area—viewing this latter as a source of food as well as a basis for power politics—between our historical past and the hopelessness of our present impotence.

Perhaps best of all is Buchanan's evocative line that Hitler wanted to end the war in 1940, almost two years before the trains began to roll to the camps. Yep, the Holocaust must be the fault of the Poles, or the British or all the others who didn't sue for peace, and work out a deal with that nice man Adolf Hitler.

I guess being either profoundly ignorant about, or profoundly sympathetic to, what Hitler got up to with German Jews in the thirties might be one handy explanation for this remarkably silly - no remarkably offensive - line.

There's more, a lot more, but no more spoilers, so you can enjoy the preposterous feast yourself.

Because I want to draw attention to the upside. Since Hitler is actually a nice kind of peacenik, who's just got a bad rap from history, why are the hysterical Republicans getting so anxious about Obama being Hitler?

He's just a good guy peacenik who wants to imitate another good guy peacenik. Pat Buchanan tells me so.

Phew, I can now wear my "Liberal Fascist" badge with pride. All I want is peace and love and flowers in my hair, Adolf Hitler style, and sing a song of peace:

Springtime for Hitler and Germany
Deutschland is happy and gay!
We're marching to a faster pace
Look out, here comes the master race!
Springtime for Hitler and Germany
Rhineland's a fine land once more!
Springtime for Hitler and Germany
Watch out, Europe
We're going on tour!
Springtime for Hitler and Germany...

The Fuhrer is causing a furor!
He's got those Russians on the run
You gotta love that wacky hun!
The Fuhrer is causing a furor
They can't say "no" to his demands
They're freaking out in foreign lands
He's got the whole world in his hands
The Fuhrer is causing a furor!

Oops, those last lyrics don't quite fit. Damn you Mel Brooks, World War II is all your fault, persuading Hitler to bring it on just so you could have a hit movie and a musical.

(Below: it turns out that some nightmares are just passing dreams, and the world can wake up a better place).