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White House weighs in on swastika vandal
2009-08-12
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The White House said Wednesday that the unknown vandal who daubed a swastika on a sign belonging to a Democratic lawmaker amid a raging healthcare debate should be "ashamed." The incident in the southern state of Georgia, reflected the raging temperature of debate over plans by President Barack Obama to enact groundbreaking health reform. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said that it was highly inappropriate for anyone involved in the healthcare showdown to invoke the Nazi Holocaust, as some observers worried the healthcare debate was taking on racial tones. "I think, whenever that's offered up into a public debate, it is a sign that things have gotten ... completely out of hand," he said. "The notion that we're having a public policy debate at the end of a spray paint can on somebody's sign, I think, is ridiculous. "I think anybody, who offers up that sort of analogy ought to be ashamed of themselves because they could not be more in the wrong." Georgia congressman David Scott, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, was involved in an outspoken debate exchange with a constituent over health care in a town hall meeting that attracted widespread media coverage. A few days later, he found a swastika painted on a sign outside one of his district offices.
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