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Liberals protested Bush over the war in Iraq, which ended up killing, by conservative count, at least several hundred thousand innocent civilians and several thousand Americans. We can add in torture, and attempts to gut basic freedoms with the Patriot Act. Does that justify comparing him to Hitler? Fuck if I know, but I'm not gonna cry about it.
Teabaggers protest Obama using similar rhetoric because he gave them health care reform. Or because they are too stupid to figure out that it was Republicans, and not Obama, who gave us the deficit and the financial crisis.
The worst you can say about Obama is that he failed to end many of Bush's mistakes quickly enough.
Bush was the radical, and it's hard to imagine how things could have turned out worse thanks to the decisions he made. He deserved every last protest, and it's a shame he didn't get clobbered in the face with that shoe.