[MadIvan]

I now return you to your regularly scheduled coverage of minor poofter Congressmen.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Ping!

[Thunder90]

KGB Col. Vladimir Putin is looking forward to giving Ortega some more weapons...

[piasa]

LOL...

Speaking of child molesters- didn't Ortega molest his own daughter?

[piasa]

Mr Ortega has also successfully wooed many church figures. "My revolutionary inspiration was Christ. Then [independence hero] Sandino, then Marx," he claimed recently.

Looks like Chavez and Ortega have received the Democratic talking points memo about trying to reclaim religion. Evidently their polling data tells them it's time to glom onto the revival of faith that the Dems went into conniptions over when Bush mentioned it.

[trumandogz]

President Ronald Reagan backed the anti-Sandinista Contras. Some of his senior aides cooked up an ill-conceived scheme to channel funds to the guerrillas from illegal arms sales to Teheran, in what became the Iran-Contra scandal.

What a Damn Lie!

[elcid1970]

"Aw, geez, not this S%$# again!"

(Zdravstvutiye!)

;^)

[cgk]

Reposting the pic OCC posted on another thread last night: North: Who lost Nicaragua?. :)

Sens Kerry and Tom Harkin meeting with Ortega on a "fact-finding mission". Shortly after the 2 libs returned to the US to present their facts, Ortega was jetting to Moscow to pledge his allegiance, much to the chagrin of other libs in Congress who publicly said the 2 were duped.

[George W. Bush]

Only Haiti's economy is in worse shape.

Doesn't seem like the populace has made much progress since Ortega left power. This is why he has a chance to win.

He has carefully tailored his messages to his audiences, however, and knows the country can ill-afford a haemorrhage of capital. So he has also been meeting businessmen and foreign investors to assure them that he does not plan mass nationalisation.

Shrewd.

Mr Ortega has also successfully wooed many church figures. "My revolutionary inspiration was Christ. Then [independence hero] Sandino, then Marx," he claimed recently. He has also forged the most unlikely alliances – his vice-presidential running mate is Jaime Morales, a Contra leader in whose confiscated mansion he still lives.

Old liberation-theology types, no doubt still influential. And a Contra running mate changes voter perceptions.

"He talks about jobs, but he'll scare away investment," said Enrique Martes, a graduate in international relations who drives taxis.

This should tell us something about economic progress. Doesn't look like it can be blamed on Ortega.

...his constant companion, campaign manager, chief adviser and wife, Rosario Murillo. The architect of her husband's new, softer public image, she is a bundle of energy, with unruly curly black hair and a wardrobe of clothes in the new campaign colours of pink and turquoise.

Commies in pink and turquoise. What can you say?