Anti-US healthcare reform Nazis

As anyone who regularly visits the Run will know, I’m no fan of Barack Obama’s politics. Reactionary is the word I’d use to sum him up in regard to important policy areas such as the economy and US foreign policy. However, this kind of stuff is insane;

“The health debate in the US is taking an ugly turn with Barack Obama and other Democrats pushing reform being compared with Nazis and one congressman having a swastika daubed outside his office.

The FBI is investigating the swastika that the staff of the congressman, David Scott, found painted on a sign bearing his name near the entrance to his office in Smyrna, Georgia…

In a separate incident, police admitted they were helpless to do anything about a man who openly carried a gun outside the venue where Obama addressed a public meeting on the health issue at Portsmouth, New Hampshire yesterday…

The Anti-Defamation League condemned the swastika paint job as a “frightening display of bigotry and ignorance that should not be tolerated by a democratic society.”

The incident came after the rightwing talk show host Rush Limbaugh last week described Obama’s healthcare logo as “right out of Adolf Hitler’s playbook”.”

As a Brit this all reminds me that even though political debate has sunk to new lows in this country in recent years, things could be much much worse. US politics is scary.