Che Day

On the eve of the French Revolution, the aristocrats inhabiting the palace of Versailles enjoyed, “as an ironic lark, sporting the clothing of the working classes,” according to writer Charles Stenson. These pampered elites were undisturbed by the fact that their peasant getups mocked the real peasants, many of whom were dying as a result of the elites’ self-serving policies.

These clueless aristocrats have descendents in spoiled college kids who think it’s trendy to idolize Communist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara. Che’s face is emblazoned on T-shirts, he was glamorized by the movie “The Motorcycle Diaries,” and Time magazine described him as “a potent symbol of rebellion.” But few of the hipsters who admire Che realize what he actually stood for.

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Thank you Ashley for posting this.

I’ll add some links to your thread.

Stepping back in (the not so distant) time...

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5lJrMvqahA

“Obama Supporter, Che Guevara Shill”

Video Description - quote:

February 12, 2008

Here’s an interview with Maria Isabel who is a precinct captain for Barack Obama in Houston Texas. She was previously recently featured in a piece by the same TV station in which she was shown opening a new volunteer office for the Obama campaign. In the office, next to a small poster for Barack Obama, she had hung a HUGE Cuban flag emblazoned with the image of Che Guevara. Guevara was the Argentine murderer that helped establish the Castro dictatorship in Cuba before he was killed by Bolivian Rangers after trying to launch a similar guerrilla war in that country. Guevara was Castro’s chief executioner at the Military Fortress called La Cabaña.

During the interview Maria Isabel Reveals that she is in fact Cuban herself. Most Cuban-Americans despise Che Guevara, Fidel Castro and the communist regime. Then again most Cuban-Americans are Republican. Obama’s supporter and Democrats in general deny their socialist tendencies. Ms. Isabel apparently didn’t get the memo. She’s gotten it now.

Category: News & Politics
Tags: Whitey Che Guevara Barack Obama Communists Democrats Cuba Fidel Castro Political prisoners firing squad executions

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“Che Guevara Connection in Obama Camp”
Newsmax ^ | 3/4/08 | Humberto Fontova
Posted on March 4, 2008 7:22:02 AM PST by slickeroo

“Che Guevara Connection in Obama Camp”
Tuesday, March 4, 2008 8:01 AM
By: Humberto Fontova

SNIPPET: “Those Che Guevara posters recently spotted in Obama’s Houston campaign offices were not hung by a young volunteer who dug the cool looking dude’s awesome guitar licks for the Smashing Pumpkins, nor by an older one who thought she remembered the groovy guy with the beret “hangin” with Wavy Gravy at Woodstock.

The campaign volunteer who hung the Che poster is named Maria Isabel and according to the Lone Star Times, she hung similar banners from her balcony at home. Apparently she’s no “low-level” volunteer either. She serves as a campaign ‘precinct captain” and the co-chair of the Houston Obama Leadership Team.

Most interestingly, she is a middle-aged woman who was born in Cuba and lived there as a child during a period when Che Guevara was Cuba’s chief executioner and second in command.

At the time, Cuba had the highest political incarceration and execution rate on earth, far surpassing that of their Soviet mentors and suitors. Pictures have surfaced (see Babalu blog.com) of Maria Isabel at several Obama campaign functions; arm in arm with Barack, in a bear hug with Michelle Obama, and apparently, very heavily involved in the Obama campaign.”

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