|
|
We appreciate your help
in keeping this site going.
|
|
03-21-2016, 03:52 PM
|
|
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Metro Detroit
Posts: 13,016
|
|
Obama in Cuba
Presidential visits to any foreign country are heavily scripted, so the location and timing of this picture was no doubt placed on Obama's visit to Cuba following careful consideration and forethought.
So, what is the takeaway from a US President allowing is picture to be taken in front of the Plaza de la Revolución in Havana with the visage of el Che in the background?
|
03-21-2016, 03:55 PM
|
|
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Sonoma County, CA
Posts: 20,496
|
|
Why, he's a Marxist revolutionary, of course. Just like the Right Wing blowhards have been saying for 8 years!
__________________
Smoke me a kipper. I'll be back for breakfast.
|
03-21-2016, 04:00 PM
|
|
Admin
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Behind the Orange Curtain in California
Posts: 37,237
|
|
Doesn't bother me in the slightest. In fact, if it makes the RW nippleheads over at Fox News lose their minds? It's a good day.
__________________
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
- Mr. Underhill
|
03-21-2016, 04:02 PM
|
|
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Sonoma County, CA
Posts: 20,496
|
|
How much consideration and forethought do you suppose went into these?
__________________
Smoke me a kipper. I'll be back for breakfast.
|
03-21-2016, 04:03 PM
|
|
Rational Anarchist
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: DFW
Posts: 7,315
|
|
Recognizing that Ernesto is a Cuban hero?
__________________
"We have met the enemy and he is us."
|
03-21-2016, 04:06 PM
|
|
Persona non grata
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2013
Posts: 12,654
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by whell
Presidential visits to any foreign country are heavily scripted, so the location and timing of this picture was no doubt placed on Obama's visit to Cuba following careful consideration and forethought.
So, what is the takeaway from a US President allowing is picture to be taken in front of the Plaza de la Revolución in Havana with the visage of el Che in the background?
|
Why not?
Che was awesome.
A real Hero of the common people.
__________________
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend."
|
03-21-2016, 05:32 PM
|
|
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Metro Detroit
Posts: 13,016
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tom Joad
Why not?
Che was awesome.
A real Hero of the common people.
|
Well, I figured someone that created the Cuban labor camp system, who helped replace one miserable police state with another, and who had folks shot who disagreed with him was someone that you'd think was "awesome".
|
03-21-2016, 06:02 PM
|
|
Jigsawed
|
|
Join Date: May 2009
Posts: 10,580
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by whell
Well, I figured someone that created the Cuban labor camp system, who helped replace one miserable police state with another, and who had folks shot who disagreed with him was someone that you'd think was "awesome".
|
Che has become a fashion statement.
|
03-21-2016, 06:20 PM
|
|
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Sonoma County, CA
Posts: 20,496
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dondilion
Che has become a fashion statement.
|
Which is precisely what was intended.
__________________
Smoke me a kipper. I'll be back for breakfast.
|
03-21-2016, 06:15 PM
|
|
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Sonoma County, CA
Posts: 20,496
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by whell
Well, I figured someone that created the Cuban labor camp system, who helped replace one miserable police state with another, and who had folks shot who disagreed with him was someone that you'd think was "awesome".
|
The truth is that Che was a great and charismatic revolutionary fighter but far too nuts to work in the government. Basically, Fidel and Raoul knew early on that they needed to get rid of him but he was too popular to purge. The solution they hit on was to give him tasks at which he would both chafe and fail, then convince him to leave Cuba and spread the revolution to other parts of the world.
So, the Cuban government came out the winners. They got rid of a seriously loose cannon (who also happened to smell very bad), spread the fame of the Cuban revolution around the world and, with his eventual death, had a martyr around which build the cult of Che.
__________________
Smoke me a kipper. I'll be back for breakfast.
Last edited by Boreas; 03-21-2016 at 06:17 PM.
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT -5. The time now is 10:21 AM.
|