Posted on 02/12/2008 5:06:29 AM PST by PJ-Comix
Imagine if it were discovered that the campaign office of a Republican candidate for president had a small picture of Augusto Pinochet in it? The firestorm of outrage from the Left and their MSM allies would be immediate. Reporters would be hounding the candidate asking him why one of his campaign offices has a picture of the Chilean strongman. This would also be a big topic for the talking heads on the tube. However, when it turns out that a big picture of Che Guevara on a Cuban flag appears prominently in a Houston area campaign office of Barack Obama as you can see in this VIDEO there is no reaction from the MSM. The amazing thing here is that the Obama campaign workers didn't even think it was unusual to have such an image on their wall otherwise they would have sanitized it before letting the Fox News crew film their office. So was this just some sort of strange fluke? Apparently not. Here is another VIDEO of an Obama volunteer with her own Che Guevara flag on the wall. Remember, these are two different Obama campaign offices in JUST the Houston area. How many other Obama offices around the country also have/had images of thug communist Che Guevara? I said "had" because the word might have already gotten out to the Obama people to sanitize their offices due to "rightwing paranoia" and the possible "swiftboating" of dear Obama. Meanwhile the DUmmies are alternately defensive and worried about the Che Guevara flag showing up in a Houston campaign office(s) as you can see in this THREAD titled, "Obama HQ has Che Guevara and Cuban flag on the wall." So let us now watch the DUmmies both defend and agonize over the Che Guevara image at Obama HQ in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, wondering if Drudge or Rush will be featuring this story later today, is in the [brackets]:
Obama HQ has Che Guevara and Cuban flag on the wall
[Which the DUmmies heartily approve except for the fact that it might cause poor widdle Obama to be "swiftboated" by EVIL rightwingers.]
Bayou City has a new Obama campaign office, and the Houston branch of FOX has a video report here. Not big news. But if you watch the video, you might notice something a bit... uh... weird:
[You mean like a communist thug being presented heroically on a foreign flag on the wall?]
Yes, it seems that they have a Cuban flag - with a superimposed portrait of Che Guevara - on the wall. Now, I appreciate that some progressives admire Che. But when you've got TV cameras rolling, is it really the best idea to be identifying yourself with a man who most of the country (including a lot of Dems) consider to have been a bloody murderer?
[Psst! We really love Che Guevara but we must keep it a secret from outsiders. It is the love that dare not speak its name.]
It suggests to me that some of these people are far from ready for the primetime. McCain will eat amateurs like these for breakfast. It also kinda makes me wonder what sort of "new support" is being brought into the party. I think Dems can live quite happily without the Viva Fidel contingent.
[You mean live without DUmmies since they are mostly of the Viva Fidel contingent as were the Obama folks shown in these videos.]
This is a blunder for sure
[Yes. It is an error to let outsiders find out how we commie-libs REALLY feel.]
I noticed DU has a Che avatar too. Big deal
[Correct. Che Guevara avatars abound in DUmmieland.]
So does almost every college dorm in America...and who is volunteering there. Still probably not a brilliant idea to have that right there for the cameras when trying to win in Texas.
[Psst! Don't let outsiders know how much we love that commie thug!]
Bad move, people. That will probably be a sound byte by tomorrow.
[Good news! The MSM is still ignoring this.]
Hasta la Victoria Siempre! Viva la Revolucion!
[Socialismo o Muerte!]
I noticed that there are no Obama signs there or any other indications either.
[Better make an appointment with your optomotrist. There is an Obama poster clearly visible in the video next to the Che Guevara flag.]
Apparently, you didn't watch the video. There's a close-up of the Obama poster in it.
[Thank you for pointing out the obvious.]
That has to be fake
[Sure, sure. Those Che Guevara flags were photoshopped in by the EVIL Fox News.]
Is Che Guevara the boogie man? Please let me know. My understanding is that he is a great Latin American Hero, and yes, he was a revolutionary. Sounds like that's what George Washington was as well. I have seen many here at DU with that avatar. Are we really that concerned about the f*cked up GOP assholes to this extent?
[In DUmmieland that commie is a great hero.]
"To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary...These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the The Wall! (El Paredón)" --Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
[LOUSY FREEPER TROLL!!!]
Actually, SMART people watched the video link and saw THESE ARE HIS PEOPLE, with HIS POSTER on the wall, it is HIS BUTTON on HER COAT, and they are IN HIS/THEIR CAMPAIGN OFFICE. Maybe my remarks were stupid. MAYBE, just maybe, it is really NOT their flag - but good luck with that since it IS next to OBAMA'S poster, it IS behind OBAMA's supporters, and it IS in OBAMA's campaign office.
[Not much room for deniability there. Hee! Hee!]
A blind dog can open an "office" It is in no way official or sanctioned.
[Did that same blind dog also eat your homework?]
go che. Power to the People.
[Which Obama office do you work at?]
Surely you realize that this can be used against him?
[And you DUmmies will call it "swiftboating."]
The Republicans are going to tell everyone who Che Guevara is!!!
[Damn them for that history lesson!]
These people need to think and be more careful. I guarantee you that there are Repubs collecting any kind of material like this to use against him if he is the nominee.
[Li'l Beaver is also collecting this material. Hee! Hee!]
I won't say it's not an office or that it's not paid staff, but what with it being Fox News and all could they have invented this? Could we put it past them?
[Toss out that "fake video" lifeline.]
I'll be going down there for the volunteer meeting at seven Tuesday. I'll letcha know if it's still up. I expect that it won't be.
[Yes. Let us know if that Obama office has been sanitized.]
I find it very difficult to believe anyone interested enough in politics to join a campaign would be naive enough to not understand what effect that flag would have. I just don't believe someone in that position could be that ignorant.
[I don't have any trouble believing this. With the plethora of Che Guevara T-shirts and posters out there, leftists would think that a Che flag on a campaign office wall is quite normal. It happened not just once but TWICE in the Houston area.]
Unbelievable. I can see the fall commercial now. I we need is Barack riding around in a tank with a helmet like Dukakis
[While wearing a Che Guevara T-shirt.]
Oh no Freerepublic already has this as one of their top stories
[Also the DUmmie FUnnies. Hee! Hee!]
The art of Swiftboating consists in smearing the opponent, repeating a lie a million times, until it's too late for all the damage to be undone.
[So what part of the Che Guevara flag on the Obama campaign office wall is a smear?]
OMG!!!!!!
IBTP!
IB4TP!
And by 'go', this DUmmie means executions for all!
PING!
The only solution to this year’s race is to dig up Reagan.
Wow... just wow.
[Also the DUmmie FUnnies. Hee! Hee!]
Busted by FR!
In case you don’t know, I couldn’t do a DUFU yesterday since my internet connection was down until late afternoon.
PJ-Comix,
IF McCain is the best that the Republican Party can produce OBAMA is EXACTLY what we DESERVE... if we rally behind McCain we will DESTROY the two-party system and get RINO’s forced down our throat for the next 20years
Well, except for the ones that he tortured and murdered.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1967673/posts
JUST SAY NO : To John McCain (and ANY “conservative” who endorses him)
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Any RINO is better than an open communist. We have been dealing with RINOs for the last 50 years at least. This dude is scary. The mass outpouring of love for him by the left is even scarier.
The office featured in this video is funded by volunteers of the Barack Obama Campaign and is not an official headquarters for his campaign.
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In the video the reporter says "Paid staffers are expected to man the office by the end of the week"
Sweet Rolex there, Ernesto. I'm sure that all of the "little people" of the revolution had them. < /sarc>
Sorry for the little pic.
It would kill you to stay on topic?
Power on the People?
One of the DUFU rules is no threadjacking. If the link is appropriate to the DUFU topic, then it is okay to post. Otherwise no threadjacking. < /sermonette>
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