Chenge you can believe in
As if he doesn’t have enough trouble because he demonstratively (and provocatively) refuses to bow to the orthodoxy of wearing a stars-and-stripes lapel pin — suggesting some who do are hypocrites — a TV image of the interior of a volunteer Obama campaign office in Houston, Texas, threw up a new reason to be wary of this fellow.
Yep, that’s a Cuban flag, with an image of Marxist revolutionary, fraud and murderous thug, Ernesto “Che” Guevara, superimposed on it. Obama called the flag “inappropriate”, but clearly some of his supporters are the kind of people that go in for romanticising such icons of often-militant opposition to the free world. NewsBusters has a good roundup of analysis, noting that Obama himself didn’t hang the flag, and that the image is a symptom of little more than juvenile radicalism. Still, the association should worry the rest of his supporters.
Meanwhile, the best headline on the subject is from Ed Driscoll’s blog: Sixties Radical Chic, Frozen In Amber.
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!
Good point. Which reminds me of this poster:
Reminiscent of a certain style and era, not so? The American Digest has a revealing analysis of the artist and his imagery.
Obama and Che? Why not? Both young. Both charismatic. Both photogenic. Both for change… forgetting that Che baby personally supervised the mass executions of some 5000 people in Havana’s baseball stadium to consolidate Castro’s revolution. Such idiots also revere Fidel himself another old fascist wrapped in a red flag which somehow excuses his tyranny.