Who need enemies?

So just a few days ago, the Fox television station in Houston (KRIV 26) aired stories about local Barack Obama supporters establishing offices there. In two of the offices, Cuban flags with the image of Ernesto “Che” Guevara were prominently displayed. This caused a little uproar in the conservative blogosphere.

Well, it’s bad enough when your supporters are open fans of The Butcher of La Cabaña (even though Guevara has been dead for 40 years). But when a real, living Marxist revolutionary starts to support your campaign—and refers to it as a “revolution”—you might have reason to be concerned.

Right, Mr. Obama?

From The International Herald Tribune (via Drudge):

MANAGUA, Nicaragua: President `Daniel Ortega[/TAG], who led the 1979 revolution in Nicaragua, says Barack Obama’s presidential bid is a “revolutionary” phenomenon in the United States.

“It’s not to say that there is already a revolution under way in the U.S. … but yes, they are laying the foundations for a revolutionary change,” the Sandinista leader said Wednesday night as he accepted an honorary doctorate from an engineering university.

Ortega led a Soviet-backed government that battled U.S.-supported Contra rebels before he lost power in a 1990 election. He returned to office last year via the ballot box.

In statements broadcast on Sandinista Radio La Primerisima, Ortega said he has “faith in God and in the North American people, and above all in the youth, that the moment of great change in the U.S. will come and it will act differently, with justice and equality toward all nations.”

[…]

Ortega also called Obama a spokesman for the millions of Central American and Mexican citizens who migrate to the U.S. in search of work, though polls indicate most Latino voters so far have favored Clinton over Obama.

All right, Barack! That’s the kind of endorsement you need! First you get the endorsement of Ted Kennedy (a.k.a. “The Man Who Might Have Saved Mary Jo Kopechne Had He Tried”). That’s bad enough. But then you attract the support of Che Guevara idolizers in the Houston area. And now this Ortega endorsement. (You can try as hard as you want to disassociate yourself from this one, Mr. Obama, but straight-thinking Americans everywhere will remember this.)

So for the benefit of all the doe-eyed, swooning, young morons out there who constitute this emerging Obama “revolutionary phenomenon,” I offer the following fun Ortega facts [all emphasis added by me]:

• In 1963, he attended the Universidad Centroamericana in Managua, where he studied law, and quickly joined the then-underground FSLN [Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional, or Sandinista National Liberation Front]. Ortega was imprisoned in 1967 for taking part in robbing a branch of the Bank of America brandishing a machine gun, so the revolution could arm itself, but was released in late 1974 along with other Sandinista prisoners in exchange for Somocista hostages.
• After his release, Ortega was exiled to Cuba, where he received several months of guerrilla training. He later returned to Nicaragua secretly.
• In 1998, Ortega was accused of sexual molestation by his stepdaughter, Zoilamerica Narvaez Murillo. According to Time.com, “Narvaez herself admitted that she had been silent for so many years for ‘political reasons,’ fearful of hurting Ortega’s career and the Sandinista cause. Even more abject was her husband Alejandro Bendana, 47, a onetime Harvard University lecturer and widely published left-wing author who was one of Ortega’s most loyal lieutenants during his years in power. In an open letter to the press last week, Bendana begged his wife’s forgiveness ‘for not doing enough to stop Daniel Ortega in his aggression against you’ and for ‘having participated in the creation of an idol’ powerful enough to get away with it. Bendana and his wife separated last June. ‘I realize now,’ Bendana told TIME last week, ‘that I subordinated my conscience to the Sandinista cause.’

Wow. There’s that Cuban revolutionary connection again! And sexual molestation. And bank robbery….

And for all you budding Obamistas out there who might be marginally interested in learning a little more about where your icon comes from, take a gander at this. That Saul Alinsky connection in there is kind of interesting, don’t you think?

Daniel Ortega’s “faith in God and in the North American people, and above all in the youth” doesn’t necessarily reflect positively on all you Obamistas, does it?

And what about that part where Ortega calls Obama the “spokesman for the millions of Central American and Mexican citizens who migrate to the U.S. in search of work”?

Doesn’t that make him the spokesman for 12 million illegal aliens…?

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