Former Bush Official: Obama's Policies Are Like Hitler's and Peron's (TPMDC)

[stevedeshazer]

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/09/former-bush-administration-official-warns-against-economic-fascism-under-obama.php?ref=fpa

Eric Kleefeld | September 17, 2009, 7:05PM

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Former Bush administration official Ellen Sauerbrey, who served as Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration, is warning that President Obama's policies point in a very dangerous direction: economic fascism.

The County Times of St. Mary's County, Maryland, reported on an appearance that Sauerbrey -- a former two-time GOP nominee for governor -- put in at a local Republican dinner this past Saturday. The paper reports that Sauerbrey said that President Obama was surrounded by a cult-like following, edging towards that of Juan Peron or Adolf Hitler. She told the paper that she was not making a comparison between Obama and Hitler, but instead saying that the conditions in this country were such that a dictator could usurp the rights of citizens:

She said that the Obama administration advanced "fascist, socialist ideals."

"I'm really afraid for the future of our country," Sauerbrey told attendees at the annual Lincoln/Reagan Dinner of Sept. 12 in Callaway. "Our Constitution is indeed being dismantled."



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She vaguely resembles an Aeroflot stewardess.

[madrchsod]

1. ya got to love those "teeth"

i wish mine were that good.

a real aeroflot stewardess




you are spot on!

[stevedeshazer]

10. I love that picture

There's a lot happening there on several levels.

[onager]

2. "fascist, socialist ideals."???

Enough of this dumbassery! Damn, it makes my head hurt! Even most ninth-graders knows Fascists and socialists are on different ends of the political spectrum.

The Nut-Right has tried to move the goalposts in recent years, by claiming the title "National Socialist" means the Nazis were really left-wing socialists.

Anybody who would believe that probably thinks the People's Republic of China is a real republic.

This woman shouldn't be allowed anywhere near our government. Except maybe in a govt-run institution for the Terminally Stupid.

[LeftishBrit]

3. Does she think that all of Europe is fascist? Not to mention Canada?

[lib2DaBone]

4. Well, a Bush employee should know..they are experts at Fascism...

[Tanuki]

5. Wow, you mean THIS Ellen Saurbrey?

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ellen_Sauerbrey

She was one of *'s notorious "recess appointments", and

..."Qualifications in Question
"Sauerbrey has led U.S. efforts to rewrite international consensus agreements that promote women's reproductive health and freedom. Demonstrating a clear priority of politics over the needs and rights of women, she has championed President Bush's scientifically unproven 'abstinence-only' policies in place of successful and comprehensive HIV-prevention and family planning programs," Population Action International wrote October 3, 2005.

Sauerbrey "is not well prepared to take the job, having little experience working with refugees and a long record of opposing reproductive rights," Betsy Illingworth of Planned Parenthood wrote October 5, 2005. "Along with opposing reproductive health and rights, Sauerbrey has taken extremist positions on other women's rights issues in the context of the United Nations.

"In her role at the U.N. she has opposed ratification of the Convention for the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), a United Nations treaty agreed to by more than 180 countries (excluding the United States), and has also objected to language in U.N. documents that requires countries to 'condemn violence against women and refrain from invoking any custom, tradition or religious consideration to avoid their obligations with respect to its elimination as set out in the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women.' ... Her record shows that Sauerbrey clearly values ideology over effective and responsible policy. Unfortunately, so does President Bush," Illingworth wrote.

According to an October 9, 2005, New York Times Op-Ed, "Sauerbrey has no experience responding to major crises calling for international relief. As assistant secretary of state for population, refugees and migration, she would oversee a vital $700 million a year bureau that coordinates with private relief groups and other international players like the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees to set up refugee camps and arrange for adequate food, protection and other crucial assistance. She also would oversee the admissions of refugees for permanent resettlement in the United States. This is a post for an established expert in the field." <2>

.....In her position at the UN, according to the Times Op-Ed, "she has relentlessly pressed an antiabortion and anti-family-planning agenda at international conferences meant to focus on urgent problems like sexual trafficking and the spread of AIDS."

[stevedeshazer]

6. She makes Brownie look like an experienced appointee.

[laughingliberal]

7. The neglect of education in this country has served the Republicans well

The lack of education in the USA allows these people to say the stupidest and most contradictory things imaginable and the ignorant lap it up. You gotta wonder about a party that hates education and 'intellectuals.'

[LeftinOH]

8. THEY invented the concept of the Obama "personality cult" out of thin air. Creeps.

[Canuckistanian]

9. Obviously not a Poli Sci graduate

Oh, and she was a Bush recess appointment.