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To: Sully- who wrote (63983)	2/12/2008 1:38:51 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Berkeley Cops: "We're Neutral" In Marines Little Green Footballs At the CODEPINK demonstration outside the Marine Corps recruiting office in Berkeley, the Marines are getting no help at all from local police. This video shows the thuggish protesters blocking the doorways, as policemen do nothing. One of the cops tells a counter-protester, “We’re trying to remain neutral.” (Click for video) bayareanewsgroup.com (Hat tip: princetrumpet littlegreenfootballs.com

To: Sully- who wrote (63983)	2/12/2008 2:25:36 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 90947

I saw this - one version is the office isn't an official Obama campaign office ... yet: littlegreenfootballs.com I dunno know - still shows the mindset of Obama people. They'll probably take it down. At least flying the Che-Cuban flag they are honest.

To: Sully- who wrote (63983)	2/13/2008 1:22:15 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 90947

Obama's Commie Confederates? Best of the Web Today by JAMES TARANTO Tuesday, February 12, 2008 4:44 p.m. EST Republicans campaigning for president in South Carolina are routinely called upon to take a position against the Palmetto State's flying of the Confederate battle flag near the Capitol in Columbia. Imagine what would happen if reporters found the stars and bars flying in a GOP candidate's campaign office. Some campaign worker would be out of a job, and the candidate himself would have great difficulty living it down. Not surprisingly, this is a story about media double standards. The Little Green Footballs blog notes that cameras from Houston's KRIV-TV caught a glimpse of a different invidious flag hanging on the wall of what the narrator describes as a new Barack Obama campaign office in Texas' largest city. During a report on the run-up to the March 4 Texas primary, the KRIV camera pans past a Cuban flag with an image of Che Guevara, an ally of communist dictator Fidel Castro. Guevara presided over show trials and executions of Castro enemies after the communist takeover of Cuba in 1959 before leaving Cuba in 1965 to foment terror and revolution elsewhere in the Third World. Does Che Guevara symbolize the kind of "change" Barack Obama wants to bring to America? Obama's Web site announces that the office "is funded by volunteers of the Barack Obama Campaign and is not an official headquarters for his campaign." But it is yet another indication of how creepy his supporters tend to be. And, as we said, if this were a Republican and a Confederate flag, the calls for him to denounce it would be deafening by now. opinionjournal.com

To: Sully- who wrote (63983)	2/13/2008 3:36:19 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Change? What Change? Power Line Barack Obama likes to talk about change, but prefers not to get specific about what sort of change he has in mind. The controversy over Obama's volunteer campaign office in Houston, which sported a Cuban flag bearing an image of Che Guevara, should be viewed in that context. Here, courtesy of Gateway Pundit, is a video still of the Obama office: Obama said the Cuban flag with Che on it was "inappropriate," a criticism slightly more muted than the one he leveled against politicians who wear the American flag on their lapels ("hypocrites"). The Obama campaign emphasizes that this was a volunteer, unofficial office, and that Obama didn't endorse using the image of a mass-murdering terrorist (my words, of course, not theirs) in his campaign. The incident is significant, however, in that it reveals what sort of change at least some of Obama's supporters think he has in mind. Are they wrong? Maybe, but what has Obama said or done to disabuse them of the idea that he is a Che-admiring leftist? Then again, maybe these far-left Obama supporters are "confused" because they've been following his votes in the Senate. Obama was one of only 29 Senators who voted to filibuster the provision of the FISA reform bill that extended immunity to telecommunications companies that cooperate with law enforcement and intelligence authorities in identifying international terrorist communications. As Jennifer Rubin points out, this put Obama to the left of liberal stalwarts like Barbara Mikulski. This vote was significant because, just as terrorist supporters try to intimidate citizens by suing "John Does" who report suspicious activities, the terrorists' allies, absent immunity, would have tried to disable intelligence programs by harassing telecom companies with lawsuits. So, while I assume that Obama's "change" doesn't involve actually emulating mass-murdering terrorists like Che Guevara, it's reasonable to infer that it won't involve doing much to catch them, either. powerlineblog.com