{"id":4687,"date":"2008-02-11T19:50:41","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T19:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/02\/obamas-flag-of-choice-the-nati.html"},"modified":"2008-02-11T19:50:41","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T19:50:41","slug":"obamas-flag-of-choice-the-nati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/02\/obamas-flag-of-choice-the-nati.html","title":{"rendered":"Obama’s flag of choice? The national flag of Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the face of the man who said, “If in doubt, kill him<\/a> ” superimposed on it<\/a>. He also said, “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.\u201d And this, “\u201cHere in the Cuban jungle, alive and bloodthirsty.\u201d And this, \u201cI ended the problem with a .32 caliber pistol, in the right side of his brain…. His belongings were now mine.\u201d
\nHow does Che Guevara convey hope and change? How does he represent the views of a candidate who believes in diplomacy and who wants to end the Iraq war?
\nBTW, this sounds familiar doesn’t it: \u201cThe struggling masses agree to robbing banks because none of them has a penny in them.\u201d No wonder the left love him so much, he’s their kind of guy!
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\nUpdated<\/strong>: OK, someone took the last comment the wrong way so I wanted to make sure that you got what I was saying, I wasn’t comparing Democrats to bank robbers in a one to one comparison but by way of analogy. When I read the quote I thought of how the average Democrat voter doesn’t care if they raise taxes on the wealthy because they aren’t wealthy. Just as the robbers don’t worry about robbing a bank because they don’t have money in it, the Democrats don’t have to worry about taxing the wealthy because they know they won’t be paying. (Yeah, I know there are wealthy Democrats — I won’t even try to figure that one out \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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