Feb 13 2008
Obama responds to the Che Guevara flag
Not that he actually responds, but his response, even if it is typically unresponsive, is still a response.
“The office featured in this video is funded by volunteers of the Barack Obama Campaign and is not an official headquarters for his campaign.”
I don’t think that is gonna fly. Is he suggesting he has no influence? No opinion?
Team Obama: Che Flag Is Inappropriate, Not Ours Anyway
The office with the Che flag isn’t an “official” Obama office, we’re told.
The Fox News report mentions that “paid staffers are expected to man the offices by the end of the week.” I guess their first task will be redecorating.
As he is already fielding criticism for a lack of flag lapels and not holding his hand over his heart during the national anthem, this just adds more fuel to the fire of those who want to paint him as unamerican.
I’m not sure this is as mitigating as Team Obama would like. It’s not like we ever thought Obama himself picked out the decor. The point is Obama seemed like a guy who seemed particularly moderate, thoughtful, who repudiated the “I Hate Republicans And Everything They Stand For” Howard Dean approach, and who seemed to be keeping a healthy distance from the no-enemies-to-our-left fringe. Seeing him enthusiastically backed by the hooray-for-Marxist-murderers crowd, well, it makes those of us who kind of liked Obama, policy differences aside, wonder if he’s just a standard-issue leftist with nicer, deliberately evasive rhetoric.
What does it say that among these Obama volunteers, none of them thought to say, “hey, fellas, you know, this guy ran show trials and executions… Is this really the image of ‘change’ we want to project to the electorate?”
All good questions.
Not that He answers to me, but I think Obama needs to address this head on.
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I as an American citizen, believe that Obama is a man. A man with testicles. Just like any good man that functions properly. And he uses those testicles for justice. They are the building blocks of democracy. And if you take those away from him, well I just might not aProVe! International Communism is an epidemic….will it infect you?
Far-left symbolism, such as that evident in the display of Che Guevara propaganda, seems to be important to the Barack Obama campaign. Four months ago, I pointed out another example of it in a post, Photo on Obama Web Site Raises Questions. In that post, I questioned the subliminal message the liberal Democrat hoped to convey by posting on his campaign website a photo of Obama sitting in front of a framed photo of Muhammad Ali standing over a knocked-down opponent in a boxing ring. Oh, the symbolism!