# The Congress and Godwin's law

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congress-and-godwins-law/546963>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [July 16, 2010, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congress-and-godwins-law/546963 "2010-07-16T20:26:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2010, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congress-and-godwins-law/546963/21 "2010-07-20T13:31:34Z")

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> [@Grumman](#):
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> If he was being compared to Hitler for actually doing something _wrong_, I wouldn’t have a problem with it.

I guess, but unless “something wrong” is gathering millions of people into death camps for liquidation, a Hitler comparison is still probably over the top.

On preview: more or less what **Brainglutton’s** link says.

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**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2010, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congress-and-godwins-law/546963/22 "2010-07-20T13:36:23Z")

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Clearly you missed where the Vice President of the United States, while on the Senate floor during a session, told a senior member of the US Senate to go fuck himself. Politics have always been dirty on both sides of the aisle, but the Republicans have been scraping the bottom of the septic tank lately.

And of course there’s [all this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=511831) to consider.

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**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2010, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congress-and-godwins-law/546963/23 "2010-07-20T17:06:05Z")

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Obama _is_ like Hitler: He did some things some pople don’t like. Hitler did some things some people didn’t like.

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