Barak Obama won’t wear an American flag on his lapel, or place his hand over his heart during the National Anthem, but on the wall of his Houston campaign office hangs a Cuban flag with a picture of Communist mass murder Che Guevera.
During a report on the run-up to the March 4 Texas primary, news cameras from Houston’s KRIV-TV caught a glimpse of different flags on the wall of what the narrator described as a new Obama campaign office in Texas’ largest city. The KRIV camera man pans past the Cuban flag with an image of Guevera, an ally of communist dictator Fidel Castro.
Guevera was put in charge of trials and executions of Castros enemies after the communist takeover of Cuba in 1959 before leaving the island in 1965 to bring a revolution through terror in third world Latin America .
So, is this flag a symbol of the kind of “change” Barack Obama wants to bring to America ?
Apparently the presidential hopeful has been made aware of the situation, and Obama’s Website put out a statement about the flag: “The office featured in this video is funded by volunteers of the Barack Obama Campaign and is not an official headquarters for his campaign.”
Why won’t Obama denounce the flag, and what does he think about his volunteer supporters who hang it in an office dedicated to his candidacy?
It is a fair question and one similar to what is asked to virtually every republican candidate that has ever stepped foot into South Carolina . Republicans campaigning in the Palmetto state are routinely put on the spot to take a position on the Confederate battle flag near the capitol in Columbia , and it isn’t even in an office that has ties to them.
Imagine if reporters and camera men found the stars and bars hanging in a republican candidate’s campaign office. Paid for by volunteers or not, the candidate would have a hard time living it down and the demands for him to denounce it would be deafening by now.
So, why does Obama get a free pass on this controversial flag? The story may gather attention in the next week, but if it weren’t for bloggers this story would never have even got out of the bag.
During a report on the run-up to the March 4 Texas primary, news cameras from Houston’s KRIV-TV caught a glimpse of different flags on the wall of what the narrator described as a new Obama campaign office in Texas’ largest city. The KRIV camera man pans past the Cuban flag with an image of Guevera, an ally of communist dictator Fidel Castro.
Guevera was put in charge of trials and executions of Castros enemies after the communist takeover of Cuba in 1959 before leaving the island in 1965 to bring a revolution through terror in third world Latin America .
So, is this flag a symbol of the kind of “change” Barack Obama wants to bring to America ?
Apparently the presidential hopeful has been made aware of the situation, and Obama’s Website put out a statement about the flag: “The office featured in this video is funded by volunteers of the Barack Obama Campaign and is not an official headquarters for his campaign.”
Why won’t Obama denounce the flag, and what does he think about his volunteer supporters who hang it in an office dedicated to his candidacy?
It is a fair question and one similar to what is asked to virtually every republican candidate that has ever stepped foot into South Carolina . Republicans campaigning in the Palmetto state are routinely put on the spot to take a position on the Confederate battle flag near the capitol in Columbia , and it isn’t even in an office that has ties to them.
Imagine if reporters and camera men found the stars and bars hanging in a republican candidate’s campaign office. Paid for by volunteers or not, the candidate would have a hard time living it down and the demands for him to denounce it would be deafening by now.
So, why does Obama get a free pass on this controversial flag? The story may gather attention in the next week, but if it weren’t for bloggers this story would never have even got out of the bag.
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