[Jim Robinson]

Obama even “admires” the Declaration and the Constitution. Not enough to abide by it however. “The constitution is a flawed document,” he says. “If the congress doesn’t act, I’ll do it on my own.” ~~Comrade President B. Hussein Obama.

[dfwgator]

All dictators have attempted to show they have a rational side. The late Soviet dictator Yuri Andropov was said to enjoy Scotch and American jazz. Hitler's propagandists showed him with little girls who were of the same age as Jewish girls he had ordered killed. The Fascist Italian dictator Benito Mussolini supposedly made the trains run on time. Stalin's gulags were so good, claimed American journalist Anna Louise Strong, people applied for admission. Strong, who never met a communist she didn't like, also praised China's Mao Zedong.

Osama Bin Ladin built hospitals, well at least that's what Patty Murray said.

[Mr Rogers]

Never trust a leftist. They will ALWAYS say what they need to say at that moment, to create the effect they want on their listeners...

[ClearCase_guy]

Is this about Sally Hemings?

[Red Badger]

I thought this was a Bill and Hillary thread!.............

[dirtymac]

I heard this story when I was in college in 1972. The libtards were trying, even then, to make a case for Ho Chi min.

[onedoug]

Sorry, but this is the best image I could find of this. The text is at least readable.

[SeeSharp]

"a committed Marxist-Leninist, trained in the 1920s at Moscow's famed Lenin School."

True, but that's not where his original indoctrination took place. He was a student at the University of Paris first. He was there during the Versailles Conference and tried to get in to the conference by claiming to be a representative from the "Republic of Vietnam". There was, of course, no such thing at the time. Vietnam was a colony of the French and he was denied entry.

[reg45]

Ho Chi Minh probably admired the American Revolution for its anti-colonial aspects.

[BilLies]

The man is the stupidest man of color I have ever seen or heard.

[Skepolitic]

Ho Chi Minh did share some of Jefferson’s sentiments and words.

For example, “Nothing is so precious as liberty and independence” was the motto of his party. The preamble of his party’s Proclamation of Independence: “’All men are created equal. They are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness’. This immortal statement was made in the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America in 1776. In a broader sense, this means: All the peoples on the Earth are equal from birth, all the peoples have a right to live, to be happy and to be free. Those are undeniable truths.”

Unfortunately, he did not understand that these principles are inherently incompatible with Marxism. It is perhaps even more unfortunate

Ho was not the Jefferson of Viet Nam, but it is ignorant to argue that he was not impressed and influenced by Jefferson’s thinking. And it is stupid to criticize Obama for this when there are so many other serious scandals.