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February 16, 2008

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This past week, the local Fox affiliate in Houston did an interview at Barack Obama’s Houston campaign office. The interview wasn’t the interesting part. The interesting part was that hanging on the wall was a huge Cuban Flag with Che Guevara super-imposed onto it. Why is this a big deal, you ask?

Well, besides the fact that they’re hanging a CUBAN flag in the office rather than a United States flag, that they would have Che Guevara on that flag is just despicable.

Che Guevara was a murderer and he hated America and Americans. Here’s a little quote from the lovable Che:

“The U.S. is the great enemy of mankind!” raved Ernesto “Che” Guevara in 1961. “Against those hyenas there is no option but extermination. We will bring the war to the imperialist enemies’ very home, to his places of work and recreation. The imperialist enemy must feel like a hunted animal wherever he moves. Thus we’ll destroy him! We must keep our hatred against them [the U.S.] alive and fan it to paroxysms!”

Now, does that sound like a man that should be adorned on the wall of Barack Obama’s campaign office, who by the way, is running for the Presidency of the United States? Is Che Guevara what Barack Obama is all about? Is this the type of man that is running on this whole “change” platform? What’s Obama going to change? The United States into a Marxist/Socialist country? Well, Obama is waaaaay left of Hillary. Maybe some of the dopes who are supporting him should wake up and smell the coffee.

Where is the American Flag on Obama’s wall? Oh wait, he doesn’t think an United States flag means all too much, as he won’t even wear a flag on his suit jacket!
Tip from LGF

Asked about it Wednesday in an interview with KCRG-TV in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the Illinois senator said he stopped wearing the pin shortly after the attacks and instead hoped to show his patriotism by explaining his ideas to citizens.

“The truth is that right after 9/11 I had a pin,” Obama said. “Shortly after 9/11, particularly because as we’re talking about the Iraq war, that became a substitute for I think true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security.

“I decided I won’t wear that pin on my chest,” he said in the interview. “Instead, I’m going to try to tell the American people what I believe will make this country great, and hopefully that will be a testament to my patriotism.”

On Thursday, his campaign issued a statement: “We all revere the flag, but Senator Obama believes that being a patriot is about more than a symbol.

Ah yes…more than a “symbol”. The Flag, Mr. Obama is more than a symbol. It is America.

There is no way that this man should ever step foot in the White House.

UPDATE: Here is the woman who is in the picture. Her name is Maria Isabel and she is the precinct captain for Barack Obama in Houston. If this is the type of person that is a leader in his campaign, then I don’t think the Republicans have too much to worry about in November!

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16 Responses to “Che Guevara and Barack Obama’s Houston Campaign Office”

  1. Forrest Phelps on February 16th, 2008 1:35 pm

    What is that next to the Che flag?

  2. William Miller on February 16th, 2008 3:24 pm

    Next to the Cuban Che flag is a campaign poster of Obama.

    You can see it here: http://207.234.249.73/mwd/obama_poster.jpg

    The caption below the clip says, “The office featured in this video is funded by volunteers of the Barack Obama Campaign and is not an official headquarters for his campaign”.

  3. William Miller on February 16th, 2008 3:26 pm

    The report also states that paid staffers are expected to man it by the end of that week.

    How much you wanna bet that flag goes bye bye> *grin*

  4. mglazarus on February 24th, 2008 7:03 pm

    This red doper lady has no idea who Che was..my mother tells me when she roomed with him in 1952 (aprox) while in Guatemala, that Dr. Guevara was also an inspirational figure..his icon face now adorns, the shirts, hats, bumper stickers of the younsters who like her have no idea what and who he was..his premise was based on this; ” a smart and reasonable guy who will reach out to people with a wide range of views and bring them together to bring about “change”"….that my friend comes from the direct manifesto of Dr. Che Guevara..sound familiar my friends? That Maria Isabel, bless her heart..she is sooo ugly, she has self alienated herself to her lame response of being to busy…she has to answer the distraught phonecalls ..for once Obama will answer much sooner.

  5. mglazarus on February 24th, 2008 8:11 pm

    Manifesto: Three Classic Essays on How to Change the World, by Ernesto Che Guevara, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, & Rosa Luxemburg, Ocean Press (NY), 2005, ISBN 1876175982

    what’s worse may this ******** maria isabel, has read Guevara’s authored words, and she has found her answer in Obama…this is yet more disturbing..

  6. yankeenut07 on February 25th, 2008 3:41 pm

    mglazarus - your writing seems a little disjointed and to be honest - I can’t figure out if you love or hate Che, or that matter Obama!

    It’s obvious that you dislike Ms Isabel, or at least you think her ugly.

    As for the Marxist Guevara ? - I don’t like any murderers…that’s pretty easy. Obama, on the other hand is a respected US politician for which there isn’t one single issue that I am in agreement with him, except perhaps, the spelling of, “lapel flag pin.”

  7. LibNOT_SR on March 18th, 2008 9:59 am

    A comment/question above asks,”What is that next to the Che flag?”

    Hey Forrest, it’s an American flag - I guess your point is….hey, they DO have the American Flag hanging up too! Right? They can’t be all that bad, can they?

    Yeah, back in around 1936 the American Nazi party rented out Madison Square Garden (I think it was) - gee there were American flags all over the place - next to the Nazi flags, of course. I guess I could go on and on….leftists are leftists and we’ll never agree on much of anything.

    Go visit the Daily Kos….they’ll love your commentary.

  8. gabe on October 6th, 2008 8:16 pm

    It upsets me to see how heavily biased you are. You sohould never call yourself a reporter. A mere blogger, maybe, but never a reporter.
    I am cmpletely aware of your points of view, and i respect them completely, but it seems as if your one-sided view blinds you to the meaning of obama’s actions as a whole (by this I am referring only to the fact that he rejected the flag pin in certain occasions.)
    As you can see, Obama DOES proudly wear the pin. He only rejeced the pin when it became a sole substitute for TRUE patriotism. He rejected it when his makeup and dresser person said “wear this, that will REALLY show them how patriotic you are.”

    It is BS to assume that because one wears a flag pin he is patriotic. If the population assumes so, and the candidate knows, then the flag pin can successfully serve to hide one’s UNpatriotism.
    I think that what Obama did in this case was to NOT call us stupid. He would be calling us stupid by saying/thinking “let me wear this flag pin, because that will really show these dumb americans how patriotic I am. THIS will be thedetermining factor in making them understand how patirotic I am.”

    I am 18 years old, btw. An I regret that there are MUCH older ppl in this country, people that RULE this country, that have such dated, close-minded opinions. I feel somewhat more apt at doing some of your jobs, and I JUSt started attending college…

  9. david on October 12th, 2008 10:49 am

    Gabe,

    It’s very obvious that your a young girl who is extremely ignorant in your views. One day you’ll grow to become a young lady and realize your previous outlook on politics was a mistake because of your lack of maturity on the issues as well as the little experience you have in life. Live a little bit, pay some taxes, get yourself a job and come on back here and we will certainly except your apology.

  10. Gabe on October 12th, 2008 2:36 pm

    excuse me, don’t patronize me. You should be the one apologizing.
    I am a male, “my friend” (as Sen. McCain would say).
    david,

    What I meant by “I am 18″ is: I feel surprised that, at such a young age I can rationalize at an equal, maybe even superior level as that of many, much older and experienced people. Wisdom is not proportional to the amount of time one has lived. Neither is knowledge.
    “My friend” (as Sen McCain would say) here is proof that your views may somewhat be antiquated, or at least lacking some righteousness: your assumed me to be a woman.
    I’m not sure exactly what that means, for I am not a sociologist, nor a psychologist, but it seems as if your male chauvinistic ideals are strong, and that - in my opinion - grants your political opinions very little credibility, just as any other lack of reasonable sensibility or ethicality would.
    Please lets not start any petty argument.
    We are all entitled to an opinion. Just don’t attempt to patronize me, or treat me in any condescending manner for mine.

  11. Gabe on October 12th, 2008 2:38 pm

    david,

    excuse me for not revising my text. i just now saw that there are some repeated phrases and out of order/context stuff.

  12. Gabe on October 12th, 2008 2:52 pm

    about the che guavara flag,

    briefly here’s what i think. In this political context, the display of che’s face on the cuban flag is more than unethical.
    the thing is that
    1) I be tobama didnt know that was even there, for the office was a volunteer task force. do you really think Obama goes into EVERY office somewhat related to his campaign to inspect it for ethical integrity?
    2) the image of che guevara has been SOOO decontextualized in the recent decades. It now has NO political meaning in most places. Go around the world and you’ll see clothing, banners, and many other sources of graphic design displaying Che’s image for the sole purpose of marketing and profiteering. many actually find the image to be attractive! (now, don’t distort my words, for i did not say that i believe the image to be attractive). The point is, most people - unless educated beyond public high school level - don’t even know what that image originally stood for. It’s meaning has been lost over time, and it now stands only for countersocial purposes; it stands only as eye-candy for those who have no idea what it means, likely such as the lady who was working in that office.

    I think that the lady was just trying to show some love for her home country (Cuba, of course), without knowledge of the implications of the display of such an image, and the meaning of the image itself.
    Look, for those who are thinking “LOVE FOR CUBA??!! THATS RIDICULOUS! WHOEVER LOVES CUBA IS CRAZY AND UNETHICAL, AND THEREFORE UNPATRIOTIC.” Well, I am talking about unconditional love, one that has NOTHING to do with Cuba’s current political state.
    As for patriotism… I was born in Brazil. That does NOT make me unpatriotic, for I was raised in the United States. I had no control over the choice of my birthplace. But I DO love the United States of America.

  13. david on October 12th, 2008 3:50 pm

    Ms. Gabe,

    You don’t need to try and explain yourself or as I see it make excuses for you beliefs. One day you’ll understand how pathetic you sound.

  14. Gabe on October 12th, 2008 4:11 pm

    david,

    you must either be either ignorant or sarcastic.
    First of all, I’m NOT a girl.
    Second: “Back at’cha. Pal.” (as Gov. Palin would say)

  15. thomas mcintosh on October 25th, 2008 12:51 pm

    Exactly the kind of misleading, fear-invoking rhetoric that the McCain campaign has now become famous for, and exactly the reason why I voted for Obama.

  16. david on October 25th, 2008 11:54 pm

    You should have to log in to this site to post comments, I really get disgusted reading these moronic liberal statements. Isn’t this a conservative site? If so, we shouldn’t have read idiotic statements that none of us agree with.

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