U.S. Rep. Paul Broun of Georgia backed away Tuesday from comparing the policies of President-elect Barack Obama to those of Hitler or a Marxist dictator.
After stirring a controversy that was grabbing national attention, the Republican lawmaker from Athens apologized for making such references.
“I regret putting it that way,” Broun told WGAC radio in Augusta. “I apologize to anyone who has taken offense at that.”
Broun acknowledged that he called Obama a Marxist at a Rotary Club meeting in Augusta last week. In an Associated Press interview Monday night, he went further, charging that an Obama campaign proposal for a civilian national security reserve corps would be like the security forces of Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union.
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The Obama transition office has declined comment on Broun’s remarks, but a spokesman told the AP that the idea of a civilian corps was similar to one proposed by the Bush administration to recruit civilians for defense-related work such as rebuilding war-torn Iraq.
“The point I tried to make is that he is extremely liberal, he has promoted a lot of socialistic ideas, and it just makes me concerned,” Broun said Tuesday.
His comments to the Associated Press, however, drew criticism from Georgia Democrats and both of the state’s Republican senators Tuesday.
“I don’t agree with the statement,” said U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson, who called the president-elect Monday and left a message of congratulations.
U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss echoed that view. “I commend President-elect Obama on his historic election,” said the senator, who faces a run-off on Dec. 2 with Democratic challenger Jim Martin.
November 12th, 2008 at 5:47 am
There is a profound difference between the founding fathers and those who operate in the political system of government today. The founders actually existed within and experienced tyranny first hand. Liberty was something longed for deep within their souls, like a fire that could not be extinguished.
The founding fathers understood directly that personal freedom was greater than all other aspects of human existence. Thus, they created a system of government by which the disadvantages of to much freedom were far less an inconvenience than those disadvantages of no freedom. This intention to be free and to sustain being free is what was immortalized within the principles of our constitution.
Today, policy makers create legislation intended to curb offense, to extinguish the probability of “what ifs,” and to secure revenue. The end result of this is the reduction of the disadvantages of to much freedom. The Rule of Law has deviated into the color of law, in that nowadays only the appearance of lawfulness exists within policy or legislation.
November 12th, 2008 at 6:07 am
Wow, they put him back in line… I wonder what “incentives” were presented LOL.
November 12th, 2008 at 6:21 am
When will these spineless jellyfish get a backbone and quit back pedaling on everything they say just because some SS spook threatens their job? And if even HALF of you Obamination backers (that are now out there panic buying guns and ammo, making it extremely difficult for us REAL gun enthusiasts to afford them now) voted AGAINST him instead of falling for his rhetoric, we would perhaps not be any better off, but we dang sure would have a better chance at KEEPING our weapons and purchasing them at real market value! I am sick to death of all you whiners out there who vote these ignoramouses into office, then cry for the government to pay for YOUR mistakes, YOUR healthcare, YOUR childcare, YOUR house, or whatever and when it never happens, you just jump onto the next bandwagon that is making promises they’ll never keep and spewing words that mean: NOTHING! and vote yet another spineless jellyfish in and the hellacious cycle continues. Get a clue. See how easy they bow under pressure? Where is the pressure YOU should be putting on your representatives?! Where have all the backbone’s gone? Oh, that’s right. They sold them to their masters.
November 12th, 2008 at 6:44 am
Oh yeah…what kind of handshake is this………..
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=iC1keQH68HE
November 12th, 2008 at 6:52 am
Indeed, wrong answer. Judges have ruled that they would have accepted:
“Yes, I made such comparisons and I stand by them. End of discussion.”
November 12th, 2008 at 7:21 am
it figures,the man has NO BALLS! Remember the politicians who have failed us….
November 12th, 2008 at 7:43 am
Keep your eye on this guy, Paul Broun. No I take that back. I apologize if anyone was offended.
November 12th, 2008 at 8:02 am
Well, I say it was a fair warning. He shouldn’t have taken it back.
Apparently, no one is allowed to present any “what ifs” anymore. So, when we all get bent over for our final raping, no one is going to be able to say “I told you so” because they’re all a bunch of castrated douche nobs in Washington. You have to “go along to get along.”
FEMA camps, here we come!
November 12th, 2008 at 8:50 am
Typical Republican they find their Spine one day and loose it the next!
Obama is a Communist and his policies are not going to work to restore the economy. Yes throwing money at something at first will seem to help but in the end it will only make thing worse. You can’t give tax cuts to people that don’t pay taxes and stimulate anything.
And since I live in Illinois and know the true gun grabbing record of “LORD OBAMA SUPREME RULER OF THE UNIVERSE”.
YES, Obama will come for the guns with his Hitler style youth brigades. I predict that most of those Hitler/Obama youths will be Black gang bangers looking to take revenge for what they see has 200 years of oppression.
November 12th, 2008 at 8:58 am
Guess he ran out of his Dr. Gonad balls medicine that was giving him his testicular fortitude.
November 12th, 2008 at 10:38 am
I’m offended, How dare that man, Mr. Braun, insinuate that Obamas Required Civilian Defense Team is dangerous. Its just jumping jacks for three months under the direction of Rahm’s Emannuel’s Circle of Love. Nothing to fear here except for getting in shape and finding a babysitter for 12 weeks. Mr. Braun is crazy. I dont need guns. Everything is alright for how could it not be. We are all linked in our new governments Circle Jerk of Love
November 12th, 2008 at 10:40 am
Hi, I’m Johnny Knoxville — welcome to “Jackass”!!
November 12th, 2008 at 10:50 am
WHOA!
Why does the infowars.com site have a damn poll question asking if we own a gun!??! >>
After the election of Barack Obama, gun sales skyrocketed (see video below). Do you…
* Own a gun
* Plan to buy a gun
* Feel there is no need to own a gun
>Alex just had a caller the other day saying how he passed all the tests to get into the FBI as an employee but they rejected him afterward. He said they told him why he was rejected and it was because they checked up on his web surfing habits, and saw that he goes to infowars.com to listen to the Alex Jone show !! So guess what folks–the same technology that lets the fed bastards see you going to sites like infowars can also let them see how you answer a poll question there like the one about owning a gun (which is none of the feds damn business) and means even if you bought it from a private dealer and think there is no trail back to you as owning a firearm, they can know anyhow if you answer such a question.
So the question to YOU ALEX is what the f*** are you doing asking that question on your site for when you know damn well the feds can see that ?!?
November 12th, 2008 at 10:57 am
who exactly would ObamaHitler be try to kill?
November 12th, 2008 at 10:58 am
im sure he got a call from “the black voter” and then he caved. You cant cross “the black voter” after all 12% of the voting block runs the nation right now.
November 12th, 2008 at 11:31 am
Apologize for what?? If it walks like a duck……
November 12th, 2008 at 11:57 am
Another self-hating white coward who stands by as America is turned into a neo-commie slave sewer – yawn.
November 12th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
William,
Your concern is understandable.
However, if you really believe you can use the internet anonymously – you are only fooling yourself.
They want us to fear and be suspicious of each other. They want us to fear guilt by association.
It is time for us to stand up – and have the moral fortitude to be recognized FOR what we believe in!
If there are employers who discriminate against such Patriots – then let not your hands toil to build up their totalitarian dreams.
And, as for the FBI, I would never want to work for any 3 letter agency that didn’t really believe in their oath to Uphold the Constitution against our many enemies boith domestic and foreign.
And clearly, if they are rejecting men of true conviction, then they have simply become a tool of tyranny – and an administration of traitors.
So live if cowering fear and don’t rock the boat – if you want to tend your own garden – but do not expect those of us who love this country to so easily turn our back on it – and capitulate to our new Global masters.
November 12th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
I guess Obama’s mafia hit man…er…um…new Chief of Staff sent a dead fish to Mr. Broun.
November 12th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Other than Ron Paul and maybe one or two others, it seems like every government official that dares to stick their necks out and say something against the party line, always comes back later and makes some type of retraction or apology. Screw that….grow a freakin’ backbone and stand behind what you say!!!
November 12th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Pennsylvania teacher’s aide said Obama would be shot
http://www.prisonplanet.com/pe.....-shot.html
Now here is they way free men should talk,Yup! not sensible and rather very stupid,but this is what the USA is all about. Except not since criminal contitutional rapists took over. Obama is no sacred Cow or maybe he is but what ever all cows get slaughtered in the end by their onwers in order to remain alive and buy more cows.Obama is just a brown/mulatto cow much like Bush was a white one whose been used and will soon be out to pasture.
The teacher has every right to think of Obama getting ventilated with slugs.The main question is why a supposed ‘ intelligent ‘ ape should be so emotionally immature to vent his spleen on a bunch of kids with filthy braces. Again, this illustrates the quality of retards educating the already ‘fucked up’ youth. As for Obama, he as everone one knows is just another ‘Uncle Tom’ and it is not really his fault. They NWO , wanted an agreeable pearly white teethed new one, and Oreo-cookie -’Black – actually mulatto on the Outside and White as in Elitist in the brain and blood, and who could speak legibly For christs sake. He will be a lame duck becuase he has already sold his soul and handed it to his masters and like a tired prostitute who still owes his Cadillac driving-chinchilla fur coat wearing pimp big time, he has to go out there and continue spreading his legs. Very unfortunate indeed, but it is simply the price for grovelling to belong to the Great ‘washed’ satanist cabal gods of human sacrifice. The USA, despite his presence and inspite of it, will exprience a rude awakening this year forward,becomes of the sins of her devils and no-one within it will be spared not only financially but psychologically and physically. Welcome to the terror dome in the prisonplanet, Lord have mercy
November 13th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
“Wow, they put him back in line… I wonder what “incentives” were presented LOL.”
Couldn’t have said it better myself haha.
I swear…Other than what Jeff J said about Ron Paul and a couple others, nothin but a buncha spineless cowards.
November 14th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
No doubt 21…it’s a sad day when people have to fear saying what needs to be said only because their afraid they might offend somebody or some group. Screw political correctness and reprimand all those who use it. We have to reverse these incredible dumbing down techniques and get back to the ways that worked.