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09.17.09 | 3:31 pm

Ellen Sauerbrey, an assistant Secretary of State in the last Bush administration, tells TPMDC that Obama’s economic policies are fascist and comparable to the policies of Adolph Hitler and Juan Peron but that she has not — as a local newspaper reported — compared Obama himself to Hitler or Peron. Glad we cleared that up.

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