Stretching the Imagination

Presidential Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on the health care bill and Tea Party protests against it:

You hear in this debate, you hear analogies, you hear references to, you see pictures about and depictions of individuals that are truly stunning, and you hear it all the time. People — imagine five years ago somebody comparing health care reform to 9/11. Imagine just a few years ago had somebody walked around with images of Hitler [emphasis added].

Yep, just imagine.