Che, Obama, and the Revolutionary Agenda
By Bud White on June 23, 2008 at 9:40 PM in Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud, Barack Obama, Bolshevikization, Chicago, Cuba, Cult, Cultist Thugs, Democratic Party, Messiah, National Security, Obama's Thugs, Patriotism
Some attribute the use of Che’s image in Obama’s campaign offices to his naive young followers. The only Che they know comes from Hollywood, portrayed by Gael Garcia Bernal in the 2004 film The Motorcycle Diaries. That Che is commercial success, even a commodity:
His likeness adorns mugs, hoodies, lighters, key chains, wallets, baseball caps, toques, bandannas, tank tops, club shirts, couture bags, denim jeans, herbal tea
But, as Alvaro Vargas Llosa writes in a TNR piece titled The Killing Machine, the idolatry of Che is another example of blind hero worship. His description of idolatry fits Obama as well as Che:
It is customary for followers of a cult not to know the real life story of their hero, the historical truth…It is not surprising that Guevara’s contemporary followers, his new post-communist admirers, also delude themselves by clinging to a myth—except the young Argentines who have come up with an expression that rhymes perfectly in Spanish: “Tengo una remera del Che y no sé por qué,” or “I have a Che T-shirt and I don’t know why.”
But Obama supporters have a flag of Che and they do know why. The Obama campaign is top-down to the extreme, going so far as to move the DNC’s political apparatus to Chicago. Charles Lemos writes:
Obama is seeking to personify the Democratic Party. No one person personifies the Democratic Party. This is an internal coup following on the heels of the May 31st Rules and By-Laws Committee that was anything but democratic, the Democratic Party is now a Bolshevik party.
And like good Bolsheviks, Obama supporters know how to organize, to penetrate and to overtake an existing organization. As George Buchanan reported from Moscow in 1917: “The Bolsheviks, who form a compact minority, have alone a definite political programme. They are more active and better organized than any other group.”
The picture above shows Maria Isabel, a Houston-based volunteer for the Obama campaign. The Houston Fox News 26 report of the Che flag caused a minor ripple when it was reported in February. The Obama campaign issued a weak press release targeted at Cuban-Americans, but they did not explain why the Che image is paired with Obama’s in their headquarters.
Below is another picture from Houston:
Che is the iconic representation for their revolutionary desires. They see themselves as a “enlightened” revolutionaries, people who support direct talks with Raul Castro and Ahmadinejad. See below Victor’s page at mybarackobama, one of many with pro-Che sentiments:
Although the images and words of Che are ubiquitous in the Obama campaign, Obama himself has silenced his more vocal supporters. Maria Isabel, interviewed on the Spanish language Enrique Y Joe radio show, told the hosts that the Obama campaign:
advised her that she could continue to speak on behalf of the campaign but was “prohibited” from talking about the flag because “what happens, what happens is that is that there are a lot of groups that, well, some people like Che Guevara and other people don’t like Che Guevara and that if I appear on television talking about the flag it would cause a lot of distractions.” When asked who told her that, she answers flatly, “Barack Obama.”
Why did Obama himself muzzle one of his own volunteers? Could it be that Obama actually knows Che’s history better than his supporters? Or does Obama understand that much of his success is due to his own branding as a post-communist-Marxist, revolutionary figure who will transform the culture, end war, let the young run the country, and redeem the United States?
Is it because Obama is aware of Che’s allure? Is Obama familiar with “José Luis Montoya, a Mexican police officer who battles drug crime in Mexicali, [and] wears a Che sweatband because it makes him feel stronger”?
Whatever the reason for Obama’s censorship of Isabel, it’s not because of the crimes and human-rights abuses Che committed; for Obama Che is purely political currency.
In reality, Che Guevara, the man adorning the walls and blogs of Obama supporters, stated his belief in
hatred as an element of struggle; unbending hatred for the enemy, which pushes a human being beyond his natural limitations, making him into an effective, violent, selective, and cold-blooded killing machine.
And this revolutionary “hero” was guilty of many, many murders:
In January 1957, as his diary from the Sierra Maestra indicates, Guevara shot Eutimio Guerra because he suspected him of passing on information…Later he shot Aristidio, a peasant who expressed the desire to leave whenever the rebels moved on
Once the Batista regime was overthrown, Che was placed in charge of La Cabaña prison. During his brief time there, hundreds, and perhaps as many as two thousand people were murdered at the hands of Che and his henchmen:
there were about eight hundred prisoners in a space fit for no more than three hundred: former Batista military and police personnel, some journalists, a few businessmen and merchants. The revolutionary tribunal was made of militiamen. Che Guevara presided over the appellate court. He never overturned a sentence…I pleaded many times with Che on behalf of prisoners. I remember especially the case of Ariel Lima, a young boy. Che did not budge
While Obama may have no scruples about seducing the young with a sanitized version of Che Guevara, the truth about the South American revolutionary reveals that his sentiments were more like Joseph Stalin than Robin Hood. Certainly with degrees from Columbia and Harvard, Obama knows this truth. What does this tell us about him?
by Ronald Scott
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