History anyone?

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Do the schools teach history anymore?

There is a politician running for some office in Eaton County (where I am now a resident) whose last name happens to be Reich. Now, I don’t care about names really. I don’t buy into this whole, “Don’t vote for Barak because his middle name is Hussein” B.S. but this guy is just asking for it. On my way home from work today I saw two of his signs, both of which said in big letters at the top “Make the REICH choice” and I could not help but think…. “The Reich choice? You mean, like the Third Reich choice?” Now, I’m not saying he’s a Nazi or anything but come on… if you’re running for public office why would you promote yourself in such an exploitable way?  The only reason for this oversight I could come up with was this… he must not know about that whole World War 2 thing… that or he’s just a moron for approving a campaign based around a slogan that can so clearly be mistaken for Nazi propaganda.

Are our politicians really this stupid?