Remember how a month ago we were still hearing about how Barack Obama needed to stop pussy-footing around and get aggressive? Well, now a Georgian congressman named Paul Broun is admonishing America that President-Elect Obama might be the next Adolf Hitler. Yes, Obama as in the first black American president. Yes, Hitler as in the man who with a bit of Gleichschaltung and Third Reich rhetoric was responsible for the deaths of 6 million Jews, not to mention the gypsies, homosexuals, and other non-Aryans during the Holocaust. Evidently when Herr Broun heard Obama’s speech last week, he thought the “Yes we can” motif referred to beginning WWIII.

Jake Tapper of ABC News writes:

Rep. Paul Broun, R-Georgia, recently said that he fears President-elect Obama may create a security force akin to the Gestapo to impose a Marxist dictatorship.

"It may sound a bit crazy and off base, but the thing is, he's the one who proposed this national security force," Broun told The Associated Press. "I'm just trying to bring attention to the fact that we may - may not, I hope not - but we may have a problem with that type of philosophy of radical socialism or Marxism."

In July, Broun explained, Obama spoke of creating a civilian force so as to help the military shoulder some of the nation's national security burden...

"That's exactly what Hitler did in Nazi Germany and it's exactly what the Soviet Union did," Broun said. "When he's proposing to have a national security force that's answering to him, that is as strong as the U.S. military, he's showing me signs of being Marxist."

Broun theorized that after Obama creates this national police force he'll ban gun ownership.

"We can't be lulled into complacency," Broun said. "You have to remember that Adolf Hitler was elected in a democratic Germany. I'm not comparing him to Adolf Hitler. What I'm saying is there is the potential."

Minimally Broun shows a sliver of self-awareness. He might be “crazy and off base,” but at least he knows it! Maybe while we’re getting vigilant though, we should be wondering why Broun, a man who voted no on the Sexual Orientation Employment Nondiscrimination Act and no on the Unequal Pay Bill, is likening anyone else to Hitler.