The audio recording of Barack Obama espousing his socialist philosophy of “redistribution of wealth” is all over the Internet and Fox News today (although most other media outlets are ignoring it), but there’s another disturbing section on that tape that has so far escaped notice.

The link to the audio is here: Chicago Public Radio - Audio Library: Odyssey.

At about 15:30, Obama compares what was going on in the United States during the time of Brown vs. the Board of Education to … Nazi Germany. Yes, really. Here’s the quote:

“…just to take a, sort of a realist perspective…there’s a lot of change going on outside of the Court, um, that, that judges essentially have to take judicial notice of. I mean you’ve got World War II, you’ve got uh, uh, uh, the doctrines of Nazism, that, that we are fighting against, that start looking uncomfortably similar to what we have going on, back here at home.”

There you have it. America is close to electing a President who compares his own country to Nazi Germany.

(Hat tip: On the Mark.)

Turns out that this story is a great example of the dishonest right wing propaganda I sadly fell for in 2008, because the quote above was misleadingly truncated to omit the next sentence:

[T]here’s a lot of change going on outside of the court that, you know, the judges have to essentially take judicial notice of. I mean, you’ve got World War II. You’ve got the doctrines of Nazism that we are fighting against that start looking uncomfortably similar to what’s going on back here at home. You’ve got African Americans who are returning from the war with certain expectations in terms of, “Why is it that I’m now in uniform and yet am denied more freedom here than I was in France or Italy?”