Tuesday, February 12, 2008

BARACK OBAMA

Team Obama: Che Flag Is Inappropriate, Not Ours Anyway

The office with the Che flag isn't an "official" Obama office, we're told.

The Fox News report mentions that "paid staffers are expected to man the offices by the end of the week." I guess their first task will be redecorating.

I'm not sure this is as mitigating as Team Obama would like. It's not like we ever thought Obama himself picked out the decor. The point is Obama seemed like a guy who seemed particularly moderate, thoughtful, who repudiated the "I Hate Republicans And Everything They Stand For" Howard Dean approach, and who seemed to be keeping a healthy distance from the no-enemies-to-our-left fringe. Seeing him enthusiastically backed by the hooray-for-Marxist-murderers crowd, well, it makes those of us who kind of liked Obama, policy differences aside, wonder if he's just a standard-issue leftist with nicer, deliberately evasive rhetoric.

What does it say that among these Obama volunteers, none of them thought to say, "hey, fellas, you know, this guy ran show trials and executions... Is this really the image of 'change' we want to project to the electorate?"

By the way, I'm mildly surprised that Team Obama called the Che flag, "inappropriate" instead of merely "controversial" or some milquetoast term.

UPDATE: Apparently in this office there is more than one Che flag, unless they re-hung it while the news crew was recording its footage.

02/12 12:58 PMShare