“Happy” Birthday, Che Guevara
By Humberto Fontova, Jun. 21, 2013, Townhall.com
June 14th marked Ernesto Che Guevara’s 85th
birthday. Yet amazingly, no celebrations were reported by the Obama campaign
precinct-captain who in 2008 decorated her Houston office with his famous visage.
And this precinct-captain was not
your usual bubble-headed Che Groupie who seemed to recall the awesome dude
opening for the Foo Fighters at Lollapalooza. No, this Che fan was middle-aged
woman born in Cuba where she lived during a period when Che Guevara was Cuba's
chief executioner and second in command. At the time, Cuba had the highest
political incarceration and execution rate on earth, far surpassing that of
their Soviet mentors and suitors. Chile’s much-reviled Pinochet regime never
even approached it.
Pictures subsequently surfaced of
Obama campaign worker Maria Isabel at several Obama campaign functions; arm in
arm with Barack, in a bear hug with Michelle Obama, and apparently, very
heavily involved in the Obama campaign. Some background on her hero:
Had Ernesto Guevara De La Serna y
Lynch not linked up with Raul and Fidel Castro in Mexico City that fateful
summer of 1955 everything points to Ernesto continuing his life of a traveling
hobo, mooching off women, staying in flophouses and scribbling unreadable
poetry.
Che was a Revolutionary Ringo
Starr. By pure chance, he fell in with the right bunch at just the right time
and rode their coattails to fame. His very name "Che" was imparted by
the Cubans who hob-knobbed with him in Mexico. Argentines use the term
"Che" much like Michael Moore fans use "dude." The Cubans
noticed Ernesto Guevara using it so they pasted it to him. And it stuck.
Today his famous photo by Alberto
Korda is reputed to be the most reproduced print in the world, emblazoned on
everything from infant wear to super model Gisele Bundchen’s derriere. Even the
Pope, on his visit to Cuba in 1998, spoke approvingly about Che's
"ideals." Che owes all this hype and flummery to the century's top
media-manipulator Fidel Castro, who also dispatched him deliberately to his
death. As those who know him have always said: "Fidel only praises the
dead."
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