I always hated it when the left or right said things like Bush was as bad as the Nazis. He was bad, yes. His instincts and morals may have been similar to Hitler, but he did not set out to exterminate a whole group of people and he did NOT kill 6 million people in the attempt.

I am now frustrated by the meme "Obama is no better than Bush."

He is disappointing to us, and frustrating and certainly these are serious times and we are not getting the change and help we voted for on crucial issues. Yes I am angry about extension of the patriot act, the lack of real reform a full year after the economic crisis began the waffling on the public option. But surely we can talk about those things without meaningless comparisons to Bush.

Bush took us into and illegal unjustified war. He lied and lied and lied to the american people. He bankrupted our country turning a huge surplus into an even more huge debt. He started down the slippery slope of spying on Americans. He funded all his buddies at blackwater etc. etc. He is and was certainly worse than President Obama on almost every level.

It is a stronger more compelling argument, in my opinion, to talk about what is actually happening and how angry you are, strategist on what we can do and how we can do it, rather than resort to hyperbole and meaningless comparisons to Nazis, fascists, Bush-ites, etc. etc. Let's have a real argument about what is going right and wrong under this administration and leave the meaningless, fanatical exaggeration to the other side. That kind of rhetoric is weak and for the non-thinkers and irrational.

My two cents (yen) for the day.