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Nazi Crap at Gun Shows

Not literally Nazi crap, but close. Dave Weigel reports from a gun show:

This is a place where vendors can sell T-shirts that read “The Fourth Reich: Obama-Biden 2012,” and “Hitler Gave Great Speeches Too..” and, most succinctly, “Fuck Obama.” It’s somewhere for people with hard-to-explain interests in World War II memorabilia can pick up items from Wehrmacht uniforms (”I’m putting the stuff together to make me a German officer,” says a man buying a Wehrmacht officer’s cap), Adolf Hitler mousepads (”Next time… no more Mr. Nice Guy”), and coffee mugs with Nazi commanders’ faces etched on them.

In other words, you can find "Obama is a Nazi" gear and "Nazis are cool" gear under the same roof. Who says wingnuts are narrow-minded?

Speaking of which, I wonder where this guy sits on the Nazis: Good or Bad? spectrum:

One man asks a vendor if she has any “Impeach Obama” bumper stickers. Initially, he’s open to talking about his problems with the president. “There’s a black man in the White House,” he said. “What else do you need to know?”

Here's the thing. If President Obama were like Hitler, President Obama would hate President Obama. But how does one explain that to a wingnut who compares Obama to Hitler while compiling his own Nazi reenactor drag?