The American Spectator

Stan Redmond| 6.17.09 @ 6:50AM

So reflective of the Rock Star in Chief. If we meddle in Iran the mullahs will get angry and scream "death to America". If we meddle in the affairs of terrorists, they might hate us and fly planes in to our buildings. If we meddle in North Korea they might build nukes. Ooops. Wait. Obama is a total coward. The only "enemies" Obama will confront is liberty, capitalism, and American greatness.

Robbins Mitchell| 6.17.09 @ 7:18AM

Being of that generation,I must protest painting all of us what that same damned hippy dippy trippy flower power brush....not all of use were seduced by that ideological pablum.,...not even most of us,I dare say....the street brawling lefties were merely the loudest of the lot...squeaky wheel and all that....the ones who craved media attention as some sort of verification of their own sanctimonious pretensions and got it by the carload...and now that they run the show,the hubris,having festered for a generation,bursts forth like a suppurating pustule...a boil on America's political ass that begs to be lanced.....death where is the sting?

Bill| 6.17.09 @ 7:49AM

Ribbins: I agree with you. Like you many of my friends and I did not get caught up in drug and anti culture of the day.Many of us served with honor when called upon. This should be a wake up call for those of us who love this country and our freedom and who look upon the other in the world who are less fortunate as a obligation to reach out to them with help. This country is one of the few that still shines a bright light to the rest of the world. It is time to rise up and stop this nonsense. We need to get involved and take back our country.

Curly Smith| 6.17.09 @ 8:27AM

Those 60's flower children were rebelling against their parents and, by extension, their country. Some have changed over the years but the ones currently running the show have not - they, or in many cases -their- children, are still rebelling against their parents and the country. Like others have said, they were a small minority but, like other favored protest groups (ACORN, Cindy Sheehan when she was still a useful idiot), they received favorable media coverage that far exceeded their significance. The Clueless Cabal is only interested in creating turmoil and upsetting the status quo and is not interested in doing the hard work of building a lasting legacy. For Pelosi and Reid it's been a 60 year temper tantrum, for Obama it's only 47 years so he's got a lot more toys to destroy before he catches up.

Rebecca| 6.17.09 @ 8:53AM

I don't think Obama minds meddling, even in Iran. When it looked like Ahmadinajhad was going to lose, he excitedly took credit that the people were inspired by his Cairo speech and decided to go for change. He also doesn't mind telling Isreal to stop settlements, put Gitmo prisoners in Burmuda without Britian's permission, and messing with my health care.

His no meddling stance is similar to his no lobbyist one. It depends on if it suits him. I don't find him a person of great integrity. It doesn't appear that he says what he means and means what he says. Contrary to what he says, he doesn't like to make hard decisions or take risks. He likes to talk and manipulate (kind of a feminine approach to politics).

Bilwick| 6.17.09 @ 9:45AM

To use the Nockian distinction between "State" and "Society, " I wish the former would reduce its meddling with the latter; but now we have a Head of State who is also a High Priest of the Cult of the State, so the meddling will continue. Meddling with the people who want to harm me? Not so much. But meddling with my life and property? That's "progress"!

Jorge Sandoval| 6.17.09 @ 1:58PM

I actually wish Obama was more of a Leftist.

What America needs right now is a Fidel Castro. Someone to confiscate the stolen goods of the oligarchs and disperse them to the people.

Forget taking the Che shirt off your back, we need a president who will wear a Che shirt proudly, while rounding up the Fascists at the American spectator ! VIVA !

Michael Tomlinson| 6.17.09 @ 2:21PM

Frank Gaffney using the idea of Bill Clinton being our first "black President" has with much evidence declared Barack Obama our first "Muslim President." I'd like to suggest he is our first "New-Age female President" or 21st century "Neutered President."

Marc Jeric| 6.17.09 @ 3:57PM

After my escape from a communist terror regime and after 5 years of waiting for my visa in France, I finally arrived in California. Accepted to graduate school at UCLA, after 6 years there I got to my PhD in Engineering in 1968. There was a book fair organized by students, where I saw collected works by Lenin on sale - 3 books with about 500 pages each, $1 each. I asked the student selling them - Who do you think is subsidizing these $1 books? He said that he did not know anything about that. Well, I thought - that about tells me everything I needed to know about the 1960's generation.

ed| 6.17.09 @ 4:02PM

Funny how we never hear about how MUCH is actually spent & wasted on America's laughably oversized defense budget.

America should read the global tea leaves and get the hell out of foreign countries once and for all.

Marc Jeric| 6.17.09 @ 4:02PM

I see where this commie creep Jorge Sandoval is plotting our execution. He thinks the rich are rich because they stole the money from the poor; you know, before the poor became poor they got all the money and that is where the rich stole it. Anothe ACORN thug stinking up our coversation - and he gets paid for it from the stimulus money.

Chuck Dee| 6.17.09 @ 4:41PM

'What America needs right now is a Fidel Castro. Someone to confiscate the stolen goods of the oligarchs and disperse them to the people.' -Jorge Sandoval.

Sweet! Then we'll be just like the happy little island of Cuba!

Colleen| 6.17.09 @ 4:53PM

Hilarious...I get done reading this and bring Lucianne.com up on another browser and what does the first article in her must-read lineup say:

"Iran accuses US of meddling after disputed vote"

Mr. Homnick, your column was well-written, pithy and had humour! Perfect.

Chuck Dee| 6.17.09 @ 5:06PM

Jorge, how come you don't live in Cuba? In fact why aren't millions of Americans fleeing the evil oligarchs and immigrating to Cuba? Are you one of the oligarchs? Is Michael Moore an oligarch? Is that why he doesn't live in Cuba? Just saying.

rdman| 6.17.09 @ 8:21PM

Hey Jorge... here's your "real Che" which exposes the kind of person you are and epitomizes the Lefties... nothing but HATRED!!!

The Che Guevara Farce
Humberto Fontova Thursday, May 3, 2007

His writings revealed a severely troubled young man. "My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood. Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any enemy that falls in my hands! With the deaths of my enemies I prepare my being for the sacred fight and join the triumphant proletariat with a bestial howl!"
The term "hatred" was a constant in his writings: "Hatred as an element of struggle"; "hatred that is intransigent;" "hatred so violent that it propels a human being beyond his natural limitations, making him violent and cold-blooded killing machine."
His deranged fantasies included a continental reign of Stalinism. To achieve this ideal the troubled youth craved, "millions of atomic victims."
The troubled young Argentine was aloof and contemptuous towards everyone around him: "I have no home, no woman, no father, no mother, no brothers. My friends are friends only when they think as I do ideologically."
Fortunately for the troubled young Argentine, while a vagabond in Mexico city, he had the good fortune to meet an exceedingly shrewd judge of the human psyche. This judge, a Cuban exile, properly diagnosed the Argentine's psychosis and made an "intervention" in the nick of time, channeling the troubled youth's talents and yearnings toward ends considered constructive by the worldwide intelligentsia: establishing Stalinism.
Shortly the Argentine found himself gainfully employed in Cuba. His raging bloodlust was amply indulged in the extermination of anti-communist Cubans, a species of mammal that enlightened opinion worldwide considers an insufferable pest.
At first the troubled young Argentine took an active role in the mass murder of defenseless Cubans, shattering the skulls of the convulsed victims with a blast from his own pistol. But given the volume of these murders the task proved fatiguing and the Argentine soon appointed Cuban henchmen to better facilitate the serial bloodbath.
Not that he distanced himself from the slaughter. In fact, he took such a keen delight in the murder process that a special window was constructed in his office allowing him to watch and gloat at the orgy of bloodletting in the field below his office.
In this process the Argentine was helping his Cuban mentor establish a personal fiefdom that would prove quite enduring, to put it mildly. Alas, the (live) Argentine's usefulness to his mentor would prove nowhere near as enduring and soon his "martyrdom" was skillfully arranged.
No sane person would wear a Che T-shirt. No decent person would tolerate one in his surroundings. But Che's Guevara's image is considered the most reproduced image of the century, gracing everything from T-shirts to posters, from thong undies to skateboards, from cellphones to infant "onezies." Hollywood hails him in blockbuster movies and Time magazine celebrates him among the "heroes and icons" of the century, alongside Mother Theresa.
Any serious analyst of Che's "guerrilla" campaigns cannot escape the conclusion that Ernesto Guevara was actually incapable of applying a compass reading to a map. Yet seemingly sane historians place him alongside Mao Tse Tung of (the 8 thousand mile) "long march" fame.
In scope, range and duration the Che Guevara farce far surpasses any other in modern history. In comparison, The South Sea Bubble was a chump operation. Only the modern era's master huckster and media manipulator — with the eager aid of his ever-faithful accomplices in the Western media, academia, publishing and filmmaking — could have created a masterful guerrilla warrior and secular saint out of this sadist, coward, and epic idiot.
Fidel Castro's influence over the Western "intelligentsia" can only be described as magical, and renders any public evaluation of his regime among the smart set completely devoid of logic. To wit: He brought the world closest of anyone to nuclear Armageddon. Yet he was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize by Norwegian parliamentarians.
He jailed and tortured at a rate higher than Stalin. Yet Cuba sat on the U.N.'s Human Rights Committee.
His legal code mandates 18 months in prison for anyone overheard cracking a joke about him. Yet Jack Nicholson and Chevy Chase sing his praises.
He abolished Habeas Corpus while his chief hangman (Che Guevara himself) declared that judicial evidence is an archaic bourgeois detail. Yet Harvard Law School invited him as their guest of honor, then erupted in cheers and tumultuous ovations after his every third sentence.
He drove out a higher percentage of Jews from Cuba than Czar Nicholas drove from Russia. Yet Shoah Foundation Founder Stephen Spielberg, considered his dinner with Fidel Castro, "the eight most important hours of my life."
He jailed the longest suffering black political prisoner of modern history (Eusebio Penalver who suffered longer in Castro's dungeon's than Nelson Mandela suffered in South Africa's).
He sentenced other blacks (Dr. Elias Biscet, Jorge Antunez) to 20-year sentences essentially for quoting Martin Luther King in a public square. Yet he's a hero to the Congressional Black Caucus and receives passionate bear hugs from Charles Rangel.
He twice tried to destroy New York City. Yet Newsweek magazine hailed him as "The Hottest Ticket in Manhattan!" and Time as "The Toast of Manhattan!" referring to the social swirl that engulfed him on a visit to New York in 1995 from the city's best and brightest.
He converted a nation with a higher per capita income than half of Europe, a larger middle class than Switzerland and a huge influx of immigrants into one that repels Haitians. Yet, even the London Times, (owned by Rupert Murdoch) recently editorialized about Castro's "achievements."
Twenty years ago a regime in South Africa denied voting rights to its black citizens. Advocates of economic sanctions against this regime were hailed — from every political pulpit, university lectern, and newsroom on this planet — as human rights champions, as selfless and as lovers of their fellow man, among a deluge of other accolades.
Indeed, to merely remain indifferent to this denial of voting right to south African blacks was deemed horribly insensitive, if not downright criminal, by everyone from Charles Rangel to Jesse Jackson, from Christopher Dodd to Jimmy Carter and from Bono to Sting.
Today his own regime, the longest reigning Stalinist dictatorship in the Western hemisphere, denies voting rights to black (and white) Cubans. Yet advocates of economic sanctions against his regime (that jailed and tortured political prisoners at ten times the rate as South Africa's) find themselves denounced — from every political pulpit, university lectern and newsroom on this planet — as "hot-heads!" "right wing crackpots!" "hard-liners!" and "hate-mongers!"
In brief, except among "right-wing crackpots," Cuba is ritually discussed, not with facts or reasoned observations, but with handy (and bogus) cliches.
Che Guevara's delight in slaughtering Cubans was made possible only because these Cubans were completely defenseless at the time. Bound and blindfolded was his preference. And in that very manner they were lined up in front of his firing squads. In other settings featuring firearms (held by others) the troubled Argentine quivered with fear.
On Oct. 8 1967, for instance, upon finally encountering armed and determined enemies, Che quickly dropped his fully-loaded weapons and whimpered: "Don't Shoot! I'm Che! I'm worth more to you alive than dead!"
His captors viewed the matter differently. In fact they adopted a policy that has since become a favorite among Americans who encounter (so-called) endangered species on their property: "Shoot, shovel, and shut-up."
Justice has never been better served.
Humberto Fontova is the author of "Exposing the Real Che Guevara and the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him."

Paul Curley| 6.17.09 @ 8:55PM

Sir,

I think the president has handled the Iran situation quite adroitly thus far. Had he engaged in tub-thumping support for the far-from-moderate Mousavi, the US would be in a far weaker position to influence and take advantage of the unfolding events in Iran. I think it's too early to say whether his approach is the wrong one.

John II| 6.17.09 @ 9:55PM

In general, I would ordinarily think that Paul Curley is right, but don't ever forget this: our current president is the offspring of a vagrant father and a loose-witted hippie mother--and we're not allowed to know how well or otherwise he did in school, how he got into Columbia, and how he, finally, got into Harvard. Or how well he did either in Columbia or in Harvard. All we know is that his concrete achievements are next to nil and that his posturing is boundless.

There's reason to be, as I believe the Left has it, "concerned."

macdaddy| 6.17.09 @ 10:04PM

Excellent article. Having been born in the 60's, I was unaware that meddling was the worst thing you could do back then. Nowadays, it's voting Republican.

Christopher Holland| 6.17.09 @ 11:43PM

So the guy who meddles in everything you care to think of draws the line at meddling in Iran! Don't tell me Obama knows what he is doing, he does not have a clue. I have bad thoughts about the future when I start thinking how better Jimmy Carter was as President, but that is how far the bar has been lowered.

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