Remember all those who went after Ron Paul who took white suprememist money? Are they ready to go after Barack for his quiet disapproval of a totalitarian thug? Jeff Jacoby asks if the new JFK is anything like the real deal:
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.
The lionizing of Che, a sociopath who relished killing and acclaimed "the pedagogy of the firing squad," is not just "inappropriate." It is vile. No American in his right mind would be caught dead wearing a David Duke T-shirt or displaying a poster of Pol Pot. A celebrity who was spotted with a swastika-festooned cap or an actress who revealed that she had gotten a tattoo depicting Timothy McVeigh would inspire only repugnance. No presidential campaign would need more than 30 seconds to sever its ties to anyone, paid staffer or volunteer, whose office was adorned with a Ku Klux Klan banner. Yet Che's likeness, which ought to be as loathed as any of those, is instead a trendy bestseller and a cult favorite.
some of Che's hits:
Che oversaw the bloodbath, ordering hundreds of executions in the first months of 1959. Those he killed, "The Black Book" records, included "former comrades-in-arms who refused to abandon their democratic beliefs." Humberto Fontova, who observes in "Exposing The Real Che Guevara" that Che was for Castro what Heinrich Himmer was for Hitler and Lavrenty Beria for Stalin - "the snarling enforcer." "Hatred as an element of struggle," he wrote in 1967, "unbending hatred for the enemy, which pushes a human being beyond his natural limitations, making him into an effective, violent, selective, and cold-blooded killing machine."
The reponse on the $500 from the jackhole racist who gave money to Paul,
Paul spokesman Jesse Benton said. "Ron is going to take the money and try to spread the message of freedom."
I do not think Obama is a communist or supports Che. Although he has met this wench, but a thousand pictures taken by himself and this heinous supporter of tyranny cannot equal collaboration.
But if he is to be my next President, I expect him to quash this and take care of these little issues than will soon infest his Presidency with volunteers given jobs.
Remember, this is Chicago politics, and patronage is part of the diet like perogies.
One of the clues in this Sunday's crossword puzzle:
Three letter word for a guerilla Guerava ...
6 comments:
Funny how political ideology changes parties over the decades. Just as Reagan switched from Democrat to Republican, so would JFK.
JFK was a war hero and a hawk. Especially when it came to dictatorial systems, and dictators.
It was JFK who first defined the "domino" theory of south east Asia. It was JFK who escalated the troop numbers in Vietnam, from the tiny advisory force that Truman and Ike had there. JFK wanted the commies out.
I can see JFK wanting Saddam out of power. I cannot see JFK making the same mistakes, as President Bush, in prosecuting the war so poorly.
It is a TINY part of Americans that hang Che's flag, even most lefties can't go along with that. It's misinformation to suggest otherwise. It is what you called it, a cult. It's not a main lefty ideology.
JFK would have loved to see the Berlin wall come down. He would be very nervous about what Putin is doing, and would make it his priority to work behind the scenes to do something about it.
JFK (for good reasons) didn't trust the CIA, but liked using behind the scene tactics. I'm sure he would upset today's Americans with his secret efforts trying to topple dictators. JFK approved of assassination techniques. Live by assassination, die by assassination - and he wouldn't stop doing it even if he knew that's the way he was going to go.
JFK would be appalled that we have allowed Castro to stay in power for 50 years.
If JFK walked into somebody's home and saw a flag of Che hanging on the wall, the first thing he would do, is tap their phones.
Actually, our military is overwhelmingly opposed to the Iraq war. JFK would have opposed this war in the beginning, since it has nothing to do with protecting America.
go to see time: I stopped by today and you show up nice. JFK had his blunders in the use of the military, Bay of Pigs and the Vietnam starter kit, if you don't count our possesion after the French were booted in 54. And Hoover would have loved to see what their My Space looked like.
libhom: I will disagree on his involvement. Could he have prosecuted the war differently? yes. But his perception of the threat of v and the Sadaam could be seen with the same threat as Khruschev, Mao and the party boys
I meant to say "good to see"
my children distracted me. Hence my usual erratic thought and prose
Obama's silence on the Che flag is disturbing, to say the least!
Jacoby did a great job, but I like the cartoon. A lot of these are poor ethnic kids, who've been hoodwinked by multiculturalism.
It's a disaster.
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