[lbo-talk] Re: recall, camejo vote

[John Thornton]

>
>On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> > The Hitler stuff comes from Arnie himself - how he admires the guy, etc.
>
>To be fair to Arnie, that Hitler quote thing seems to have been a smear
>job.  The original quote from the shelved book proposal seems to have run:
>
>    "I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for his way of
>    getting to the people and so on. But I didn't admire him for what he
>    did with it."
>
>So there's a tiny touch of ambiguity in it.  But there's nothing in that
>quote you could hang a guy on.  And there doesn't seem to be anything else
>in his (very public) life that corroborates it.  They really had to dig
>down low to get this.
>
>Michael Pollak

Taken as an isolated case this might seem true but you are conveniently 
forgetting his comments about admiration for dictators. His respect for 
them as strong leaders. Not a touch of ambiguity in those statements. 
Nothing overtly anti-semitic, but he hardly seems a fan of democracy. I 
think that's what most peoples concern is not that he's a Nazi sympathizer. 
To be fair to Arnie, he's a fan of authoritarian dictators and has said so 
on multiple occasions. He has smeared himself with his own words.

John Thornton