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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	Some great examples
	Date:	9/29/2009 9:58:40 PM

These are direct quotes of Democrats during the 1964 election (Goldwater v. Johnson).

Martin Luther King: "We see dangerous signs of Hitlerism in the Goldwater campaign"

Calif Gov. Pat Browne on Goldwater's acceptance speech: "...had the stench of fascism....All we needed to hear was Heil Hitler"

Jackie Robinson: "I now believe I know how it felt to be a Jew in Hitler's Germany"

SF Mayor John Shelley: "Republicans had Mein Kampf as their political bible"

And that doesn't include the media coverage which was even worse. My point here is not to pick on Democrats per se (although I do love to do so), but just to point out that there is as the old saying goes, nothing new under the sun. Mean spirited politics, lack of respect for politicians by other politicians and the general public are as old as the republic itself. We have such a short memory in this country and tend to view history from a very parochial perspective (temporally speaking).