So what- exactly are the Obama workers in the photo thinking by reverently placing portraits of Che Guevara everywhere in the Houston Office?
I'd really like to avoid name calling - but why bother - calling a moron a moron is not an insult anymore than is calling a genius a genius. These people are morons.
Definition: Moron was originally an English scientific term, coined in 1910 by psychologist Henry H. Goddard from the Greek word moros, which meant "dull' (as opposed to "sharp"), and used to describe a person with a mental age located between 8 and 12.
Seriously, I can't get my mind around a major party (ha!) "mainstream" candidate having so many brain dead followers - many apparently having no problem adorning a field office with a Communist icon.
Do they know who Che was? Do they know that he was a violent revolutionary? Or do they think it is just a cool thing to put on a wall - the 2008 version of LO VE in a square? Are they themselves Communists?
Given the 2 portraits of Che in this office, it is entirely within reason to ask. Sure, Obama Pods, go off on me if you like but - Che was a committed Communist. If a portrait of Castro was up in the Obama office no one would question that they were Communist sympathizers. Then again a "Warhol" of Castro has not been marketed as far as I know. And yes, I read The Motorcycle Diaries.
Are they telegraphing that THEY are violent revolutionaries?
If so - when they start the revolution who, I ask you, WHO will teach Poli Sci 101 and How to Be a Perpetual Victim 102, and the Dead White Guys Suck Ass extension courses at community colleges around the country??!!Woe is us!
Do they understand that Communism does not allow for Whole Foods Markets?
Santa Monica hippies and Venice Beach stoners are fine with going to the organic farmers' market to purchase arugula- but Arianna "I'm rich because I married well and married gay" Huffington, David "name another building after me NOW!" Geffen, and John "proud to be the second most self hating gay man in America after Andrew Sullivan" Avarosis and the other latte libs need to send the help, (that they buy 'holiday' gifts for EVERY YEAR, Damnit, and therefore are clearly pro labor) to Whole Foods or Gelson's or Trader Joes for the soy milk, not some pot head street fair that screws up traffic every Thursday afternoon.
Sorry kids, Whole Food, Williams Sonoma and Double Shot Non Fat Lattes are purely capitalist creations.
Do they know that any Cuban American who sees this image will joyfully vote for John McCain? And plenty of other people who remember the Cold War as well. How can we be expected to trust these folks?
Some of us know who Che was, and may even find him interesting. But we harbor no delusions about Marxism. So either the portraits of Che in an Obama field office are clueless or Marxist.
I thought that Senator Obama's lastest foot in mouth statement on Clinging to Religion would disipate like everything else negative about him.
I was wrong.
Michael Goodwin of the Daily News calls him Snob-ama in an op-ed today.
There are thousands of articles on the Google and as JM pointed out yesterday CNN spent quite a bit of time covering the Bad News Barr-y.
No Quarter has part of the video up of Senator Obama's speech at a fundraiser in San Francisco. His supporters may say he speaks the truth but if you watch just the little bit of the speech he is calling small town people racist. Period. He says when the "pitch" is that government can change the fact that it's delivered by a 46 year old black guy named Barack Obama that adds another layer of skeptism.
You see, they're cynical, racist and bitter. And I wonder at the word "pitch." Is he in advertising? By the way, the crowd titters appreciatively at his remark. Oh, isn't he just the funniest? Mocking small town people in big industrial states at a fund raiser where the price of admission was $2300?
I find it interesting, too, that the Reverend Wright said that "Hillary doesn't know what it is to be black man" yet Senator Obama can put himself in the shoes of a small town (assumingly white) person and tell us exactly how he/she feels. In John's post below when he is agonizing over the price of arugula, you know he feels their pain!
Senator Obama seems to spend a lot of time explaining himself. On this he started out defending his remarks and when that didn't work he now says he regrets them. Like his fab speech on race. He never explains why he was sitting in those pews for twenty years.
Go on, put the quotes below on the google - they are all true.
And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations. Barack Obama
The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity, but that she is a typical white person. Barack Obama
For those of you who are just weary of the primary, and feeling kind of ground down or that it's like a Bataan death march, I just want everybody to know that the future is bright. Barack Obama
There are people in the party who are very concerned about this turning into some kind of a Bataan Death March. Obama goon, David Axlerod
In this country, racism is as natural as motherhood, apple pie, and the fourth of July. The Obama family pastor, Rev Wright
For the First Time in My Adult Lifetime, I Am Really Proud of My Country. Michelle Obama
I asked Obama if she thought that her husband, as the Democratic nominee, could take John McCain. "Oh, yeah. We got him," she replied.
This is my favorite:
Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula? I mean, they're charging a lot of money for this stuff. Barack Obama - on a farm in Iowa.
You are likable enough, Hillary. Barack Obama
Every place is Barack Obama country once Barack Obama's been there. Barack Obama (except, California, Texas, Ohio, New York, Florida, Mass., Rhode Island, Tennessee, Michigan, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Arizona, Nevada, New Jersey, New Hampshire, New Mexico....)
The freshman senator told reporters in July that he would overcome Hillary Rodham Clinton's lead in the polls because "to know me is to love me."
Barack is one of the smartest people you will ever encounter who will deign to enter this messy thing called politics, Michelle Obama
It will light upon you, You will experience an epiphany. And you will say to yourself, I have to vote for Barack. I have to do it. Barack Obama
If Hillary needs to pull out for the good of the party there is something wrong with the party.
Pennsylvania voters don't make 6 figures to bloviate on television. West Virginia voters don't spend much time hunched over the laptop at Starbucks screeching into the echo chamber at the Dailykos. Many Kentuckians and Indiani (what is the plural for people in Indiana?) actually think since the election is close they have the right to participate. In simpler times -say last year - that was called democracy. I don't say "arugula fascism" lightly but the Arugula Club in the media wants the election over before all the returns are in. Hijacking an election is certainly an element of fascism. The Arugula set has a script: Shining Knight defeats Evil Queen and, by God, they want it played out.
Who can say what will finally happen in this campaign? The infantile demands of the MSM to end the Democratic race now are telling. Not about the race - about the MSM. The Obama apologists in the media have gone from excited teens to strident college kids and just this weekend they approached being good old fashioned nut-jobs.
The two words that keep coming to mind as the the controlled demolition squads at the "news" outlets discuss (read: insist) Clinton exiting now. They are: weird and dishonest.
A look at the raw facts would lead the dispassionate observer to conclude that the race is close. If this was a championship football game the scoreboard would read Obamites: 52 Hillarians: 45 with about 4 minutes left in the fourth quarter. The Hillarians have the ball and are driving (see PA polls). I don't need to stretch this analogy out too much further but let's just say the Obamite side of the stadium is demanding that Hillary drop the ball now and forfeit the game.
No one can honestly assess Clinton's arguments for staying: it's very close in both delegates and popular votes, she's won the big states, there have been bad calls by the ref (Dean) and then say "Gee, we want to go home so you should quit." Wah. wah. wah. The Obamites want to beat the traffic.
It's weird.
Or is it? The media is on the field and playing the game, too. The calls for Clinton to leave are intellectually dishonest. The arguments for her to go now are vapid. So what is this about?
I have few ideas:
1. The "arugula" set has invested emotionally in the idea of Obama in the past few months. Most of the TV media talking heads calling for Clinton's departure are part of the arugula set. Olbermann and Matthews are the most obviously biased - but there are plenty of others. Huffington comes to mind. Wealthy people who think their money and position infers wisdom. Obama is their man. They have the right to their opinions. But they also have the megaphone. There are not any "Budweiser" Democrats hosting shows on MSNBC. Or feminists for that matter. Old boys network meet your new pals - the Arugula Club.
2. Unconscious sexism is clearly at play here. Imagine if John Edwards was less than 1% behind BHO and polling ahead - by large margins - in 3 of the 4 upcoming contests. Would the Arugula club be demanding he cave? Hell no. All they would be discussing is race and the race.
You see, the Evil Queen won't pack up and go like she is supposed too. The script they finished late the night of the Iowa caucuses is being rewritten without their consent. They are hopping mad.
Screw 'em.
Let the election of the next President of the United States proceed.
