The Political Fish

Los Angeles California Representative Diane Watson (D) at a townhall meeting heaped praise on the Cuban Revolution, Che Guevara, and the allegedly wonderful Cuban healthcare system (wondering why they try to float to Florida on cars). Oh yeah, and in the process towed the Democratic party line of race-baiting anyone who disagrees with the President.

Apparently Los Angeles talk radio station KABC AM-790 was the only news outlet to cover this astonishingly irresponsible comments…take a listen.

Makes you wonder why Cubans do whatever they can to get to South Florida doesn’t it? I mean, in this womans shockingly naive worldview, Cubans got it made!!

This statement is chocked full of stuff to pick through. All the birthers out there can have her statement about “electing a President from Kenya and Kansas”. I thought it was Hawaii?

Thanks to Michelle Malkin for typing out the transcripts to this poor womans idiotic statement. Maybe it will sink in better if you can read it.

WATSON: You might have heard their philosophical leader. I think his name is Rush Limbaugh. And he said early on, “I hope that he fails.”

Do you know what that means? If the president, your commander-in-chief, fails, America fails.

Now, when a senator says that this will be his Waterloo, and we all know what happened at Waterloo, then we have him and he fails. Do we want a failed state called the United States?

And remember: They are spreading fear and they are trying to see that the first president that looks likes me fails.

Now just understand what’s at the bottom line.

And you know we just got, 48 hours ago, we just go back, we were in Beijing, China, Hong Kong, China, we were in Taiwan, we were in Guam, we were all over the Far East.

I just want you to know: People look at the United States as a country that has changed its way and has elected someone from Kenya and Kansas, I’ll put it like that.

And they’re saying, “We thought you would never do that.”

So we don’t want to have this young man, and he just turned 48 — we want him to succeed, because when he succeeds, we regain our status. We regain our status.

It was just mentioned to me by our esteemed speaker, “Did anyone say anything about the Cuban health system?”

And lemme tell ya, before you say “Oh, it’s a commu–”, you need to go down there and see what Fidel Castro put in place. And I want you to know, now, you can think whatever you want to about Fidel Castro, but he was one of the brightest leaders I have ever met. [APPLAUSE]

And you know, the Cuban revolution that kicked out the wealthy, Che Guevara did that, and then, after they took over, they went out among the population to find someone who could lead this new nation, and they found…well, just leave it there (laughs), an attorney by the name of Fidel Castro…

One final question, who the heck were these people clapping for this woman? Is there really an element of society this dumb?

These pictures have been popping up around Los Angeles recently, and are causing quite a stir out there. The media affair with President Obama has apparently not died down, because they are up in arms about someone excercising free speech, albeit in an odd and somewhat inappropriate way. That being said, unless there is a city ordinance about putting up posters, nothing has been done that can be considered illegal, thus this should be a non-issue.

But, of course when you criticise THIS President for some reason, it becomes a major issue, often spun into a racial issue. So, as one might expect…this picture has hit the Drudge Report, along with many other website across the blogosphere. KTLA, the local station in the LA area ran a story today, which issued a challenge to the anonymous poster from Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson.

“Depicting the president as demonic and a socialist goes beyond political spoofery,” says Hutchinson, “it is mean-spirited and dangerous.”

“We have issued a public challenge to the person or group that put up the poster to come forth and publicly tell why they have used this offensive depiction to ridicule President Obama.”

Is it really mean spirited? Is it really dangerous? Frankly, to look for the deeper meaning means you are looking to hard. Comparison with the Joker really doesn’t even hold much water anyways, as the Joker was basically an anarchist, whereas Obama is on an endless quest to put everything under governmental control. The Socialist tag at the bottom of the picture, is well….very accurate. While he will never say the word, its taboo ya know, he is running a socialist agenda. Its not politically expedient to state it that way though.

My only question is, where was all the outrage at all the horrible things that were said about George Bush during his presidency? President Bush was constantly derided in the media with claims of lesser intelligence, comparisons to Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Mao and every other mass murderer dictator from history. He was constantly the subject of MSM hit-jobs throughout his entire administration. Yet, the outrage was never there…seems curious to me, since as Mr. Hutchinson stated above that it is dangerous and mean-spirited to engage in this sort of behavior.

I actually recommend to whomever is putting up these posters to remain anonymous. It drives them crazy, and its amusing to watch.