Posted on 02/17/2008 3:50:02 AM PST by MartinaMisc
IN 1963, John F. Kennedy was murdered in Texas by a fervent admirer of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. In 2008, a large Cuban flag emblazoned with the image of Che Guevara, Castro's brutal henchman, is prominently displayed in a Barack Obama campaign volunteer office in Houston.
Obama has been widely compared to JFK, most notably by the late president's brother and daughter. President Kennedy, a stalwart anticommunist, despised Castro and his gang of totalitarian thugs. But when word broke last week that Obama's supporters in Houston work under a banner glorifying Che, the campaign's reaction was to brush it off as an issue involving volunteers, not the official campaign. After two days of controversy, the campaign issued a statement calling the flag "inappropriate" and saying its display "does not reflect Senator Obama's views." Would JFK have reacted so mildly?
In December 1962, Kennedy offered a blunt summary of the Castro/Che record. "The Cuban people were promised by the revolution political liberty, social justice, intellectual freedom, land for the campesinos, and an end to economic exploitation," he said. "They have received a police state, the elimination of the dignity of land ownership, the destruction of free speech and a free press, and the complete subjugation of individual human welfare." Eleven months later, in a speech intended for delivery on the day he was assassinated, Kennedy regretted that Castro's "Communist foothold" in Latin America had "not yet been eliminated."
Were he alive today, it's hard to imagine JFK feeling anything but contempt for those who extol a dictatorship that has been crushing freedom and human beings for nearly 50 years. And it would surely pain him that so many of the cheerleaders are members of his own party.
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Kinda scary to think that he wants to be President of a country he obviously hates.
Great article.
Shows that Obama is willing to get elected by cashing in on strong emotions and sheepish desires for emotional rhetoric, without much concern for the actual source of the emotion.
Suppose Sixty Minutes or other network news programs will look into this?
Wouldn’t hold my breath.
Were he alive today, JFK would be considered a hard right-winger. Today, the Right has gone Left and the Left has gone off the edge.
I am amused that the Dems hold out as their hero someone who, if he were alive today, and who maintained the same ideas and positions he did when he was alive, would not only be shunned by the Democrat Party, but would be openly and viciosuly vilified by it.
JFK was a mediocre president, and the only reason he is exalted by the Dems is because he was killed. That being said, the Dems of today are the eager followers of what JFK despised (communism, totalitarianism, big government nanny-state, etc.). Moreover, JFK believed in and supported the 2nd Amednment, unlike the vast majority of today’s Dems. If JFK were alive today he would be scorned by the Dems as another Newt Gingrich.
JFK would roll in his grave. If he were here today, hewould be a Republican. For all his faults, JFK loved his country and was a patriot.
“Shows that Obama is willing to get elected by cashing in on strong emotions and sheepish desires for emotional rhetoric, without much concern for the actual source of the emotion.”
Someone once said that Dems have the emotional maturity of teenage girls, as evidenced by their swooning over Obambi, quite like teenage girls did with — in their day — Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presly, and The Beatles.
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JFK would have the CIA send them all a box of exploding cigars or, since these are lefties, radioactive condoms.
“Were he alive today, JFK would be considered a hard right-winger. Today, the Right has gone Left and the Left has gone off the edge.”
Yep, When I read the headline “What Would JFK Do” My first thought was that he would probably change his party affiliation. It’s scary that Obama can get as close to the Oval Office as he is now.
Although I will admit that there are RINO’s in the Government that are benefiting from Reagan’s legacy.
The Che flag is disgusting and I’m surprised that Hillary isn’t jumping all over it. McCain will definitely call attention to it.
“Dad? It’s Jack. What should I do?”
Democrats only have JFK, LBJ, Carter and Clinton as presidents they can hold up to voters as proof they are ready to lead. LBJ represents Vietnam, Carter represents double digit inflation, interest rates and unemployment. Clinton represents corruption and abuse of office. That leaves JFK as their remaining icon. So, like Hillary, they reinvent history to suit their views.
Jesse Jackson jr Is Barrack Hussein Obama’s Che Guavera...
CHANGE?
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