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Sen. Obama is in the lead with Democratic delegate counts, but there are miles still yet to go in that Presidential nominee race. In the meantime, more comes seeping out about strange doings in his campaign offices. As reported in this IBD editorial, one of his offices has a huge Cuba flag with a picture of Che Guevera-the icon of failed Marxist revolutionaries hunted down and killed in Bolivia.
Obama gives this the big ’so what’ and moves on down the campaign trail.
Witness these editorial comments from IBD:
But rather than repudiate the image, Obama would only call it “inappropriate,” apparently without insisting it be taken down. That contrasts with his dismissal of his Senate colleagues who wear lapel flags as “hypocrites.” Some hypocrites.
The display of the Castroite flag with Che’s picture on it sends a particularly disturbing message about his campaign. Apparently, Obama tends to attract the kind of people who think of mass murderers like Che and Fidel as romantic revolutionaries. Those same people see Obama as a man with a messianic message. These are the voters he’ll be indebted to should he win higher office.
Obama was a toddler in October of 1962 when I was serving as a Military Intelligence officer during the Cuban Missile Crisis-a close run thing with a dangerous Fidel Castro demanding the nuclear trigger from Chairman Khruschev of the USSR. We damn near came close to a nuclear war over the antics of Khruschev and Castro, if it wasn’t for the cool decision to blockade Cuba and force out those IRBMs under wraps on the decks of those Soviet vessels to turn around.
Now, as an adult Obama wants to cozy up to Castro Cuba in his desire for “engagement”. We guess he didn’t read his history during his days at Punahou in Hawaii. That means he’s less well equipped than others to understand what muscular diplomacy is all about.
One wonders what he would do when he finds out that Iran’s President Ahmadinejad had 20 nukes pointed at targets in Israel, EU and America. My guess is that he would whistle up an Air Force One flight to Tehran to crack open pistachios with the Islamist crackpot.
Investors Business Daily, February 12, 2008
Election 2008: How is it a front-runner for the highest office in the land can reject an American flag on his lapel but permit the display of a huge Cuban flag at one of his offices, emblazoned with a mass murderer’s mug?
Improbable as it sounds, it’s true. Barack Obama, displaying the same “anything goes” standard of patriotism he showed when he ostentatiously refused to wear a U.S. flag in his lapel, now shows he’s got a whole different idea about patriotism.
One of Obama’s volunteer offices in Houston was caught operating under a huge flag of communist Cuba with Che Guevara’s face printed on it, according to images shown on Fox News. Flak from bloggers ensued — followed, of course, by spin control.
But rather than repudiate the image, Obama would only call it “inappropriate,” apparently without insisting it be taken down. That contrasts with his dismissal of his Senate colleagues who wear lapel flags as “hypocrites.” Some hypocrites.
The display of the Castroite flag with Che’s picture on it sends a particularly disturbing message about his campaign. Apparently, Obama tends to attract the kind of people who think of mass murderers like Che and Fidel as romantic revolutionaries. Those same people see Obama as a man with a messianic message. These are the voters he’ll be indebted to should he win higher office.
Worse yet, it signals that a U.S. commander in chief tolerates supporters with loyalties to nations other than the U.S., including those loyal to enemy states that spy on and seek to harm the U.S.
It coincides uncomfortably with Obama’s call for no-strings-attached diplomatic relations with communist Cuba. He’s even offered to meet with the dictators of Cuba, sanctimoniously implying that other administrations had no good reason for not doing so.
Obama’s naive idealism is based on a false understanding of history. Cuba is a nation that aimed Soviet missiles at us in 1962 and is likely to do the same if and when Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez gets advanced weapons from Russia or Iran. That’s not all:
• Also in 1962, Cuba attempted to launch the first 9/11-style attack on New York’s subways and department stores — with the mastermind behind that none other than Che Guevara himself.
• In 1982 it tried to get the USSR to launch nukes at the U.S.
• In 1996, Cuba shot down two U.S. planes, killing six Americans whose only “crime” was trying to rescue Cuban refugees at sea. Had a political candidate in Latin America pasted up a picture of Che at election time, there’d be no doubt where he stood — ones who did just that are now running countries with names like Bolivia and Venezuela. Is that what Obama really stands for?
