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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McCain will have a FIELD DAY with that Che poster. McCain is a patriot, if nothing else. A young girl once told me that Che was murdered by “US imperialists.†I had to enlighten her with the fact that Che was murdered BY HIS OWN PEOPLE. She didn’t know that. I shudder to think of what kids are being taught in schools these days. Che and his buddies would have raped and murdered this girl on sight.,,, or kept her around as a communal plaything, or something to gang-bang. LWers do not have much regard for women, except to use them for sex. JFK was in no way a Leftist. In fact his father once told Henry Luce of Time magazine that “no son of mine would be a god damned liberal.†Case closed.
JFK DESPISED the LW “hero,” Castro.
Sinatra, Elvis, and the Beatles were NOT RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT. Althought they DID swoon for JFK, lol.
Hillary liked Che in her day, too.
That says all.
Have we confirmed that these are not photoshop jobs? If they are, it just makes us look like the RATs, making stuff up.
Assuming that they are not, has anyone from the Obama camp offered an explanation?
Depends...in 1964 Hillary was active in the Goldwater campaign.
It was after high school, lol. Never ceases to amaze me how LW women can admire violent thugs who would injure them. Maybe they think ALL men are violent?
Just look at Barry! Look at his campaign office! We haven’t really sunk so low, have we?
Here is what JFK DID do, and why he prized freedom so much.
These are real. You just read BHO's explanation of the Che photo. His story on the picture of him during the national anthem is that "his grandfather taught him to do it that way. We don't have to make this up, the truth is scarier.
"I had to enlighten her with the fact that Che was murdered BY HIS OWN PEOPLE."
Well, I'm not quite sure what you mean by "his own people". Che was in Bolivia trying to foment a revolution there, and meeting with little success. He was captured by the Bolivian army and executed.
Che was an Argentinian. Maybe all Western Hemisphere Spanish-speaking people are one group...at least the US government thinks they are.
Senorita Isabel set up her own volunteer Obama office in Houston and is not “officially” connected with the Obama campaign. Still, if David Duke had set up a volunteer “Bush 2004” office in Selma, you might have heard a little bit about it in, say, the New York Times, Boston Globe, ABC/NBC/CBS 24/7/365.
Obama has done the absolute minimum to distance himself from the fair Senorita’s views.
John Galbraith said that politics is not the art of the impossible, it consists in choosing between disastrous and unpalatable options. As unpalatable as I find Juan McCain, Obama would be a four year horror show that would make Jimminy Carter seem statesmanlike in comparison.
JFK cut taxes, used the military to fight communism, and sought smaller government "Ask not what your country can do for you"
More than slightly to the right of Bush.
I think JFK might say he didn’t leave the Democratic Party. The Party left him.
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