Because, you know, they both… talked… and… inspired people… through words!  IT’S THE EXACT SAME THING, PEOPLE!

From the February 11th broadcast of the Tom Sullivan Show:

CALLER: Listening to Obama, and what I’ve seen on TV. I’m 65 years old, and it harkens back when I was younger and I used to watch those deals with Hitler, how he would excite the crowd and they’d come to their feet and scream and yell.

SULLIVAN: Oh, yeah, yeah.

CALLER: And I don’t think — I can’t think of any other politician that has excited them as much as he has.

SULLIVAN: He — I presume you’re not saying he’s a Hitler, but I understand your point.

…

SULLIVAN: Before the break, a caller just before the bottom of the hour said that Barack Obama’s speech reminds him of hearing the speeches of Adolf Hitler. So, ladies and gentlemen, from the past, a little archive, a little walk down Der Fuehrer’s memory lane. Here he is, the one, the only, Adolf Hitler.

[plays audio clip of Hitler speech]

SULLIVAN: Yay! Yay! All right, great. I don’t know what he said. Here’s Barack Obama.

[plays audio clip of Obama speech]

SULLIVAN: Yay!

[plays audio clip of Hitler speech]

SULLIVAN: Yay!

…

SULLIVAN: Well, I understand that Hitler is hated by, and should be, by most everybody in civilized society.

CALLER: Yes, even you. Even you.

SULLIVAN: But the point being, you must remember something. Adolf Hitler was able to gather a country of people and get them excited about whatever it was that he was talking to them about. He was a very fiery, enigmatic — I’m not sure — I mean, he was — I mean, he really got the people all thrilled, and I’m sitting there going, “I hadn’t thought about him being associated in any way with Clint” — and I asked the guy, I said, “Are you saying that Obama is like Hitler?” And he said, “No, it’s the speaking style, that’s all.” And the speaking style is actually kind of similar.

Using this logic, we can also now safely compare Ronald Reagan, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Mohandas Ghandi, Winston Churchill, and Abraham Lincoln to Adolf Hitler– because all of them, like the monomaniacal Nazi dictator responsible for one of the worst mass atrocities in human history, were able to gather a country of people and get them excited about whatever it was they were talking about.

Likewise, Tom Sullivan is just like Nelson Mandela because they both pee standing up.  Except for Tom Sullivan, who I’m told pees sitting down.