Friday, February 15, 2008

¿¡Revolución!?


I told myself I was going to lay off on the political posts for a while - then I see this:

Nicaraguan leader calls Obama's campaign 'revolutionary'

President Daniel Ortega, who led the 1979 revolution in Nicaragua, says Barack Obama's presidential bid is a "revolutionary" phenomenon in the United States.

"It's not to say that there is already a revolution under way in the U.S. ... but yes, they are laying the foundations for a revolutionary change," the Sandinista leader said Wednesday night as he accepted an honorary doctorate from an engineering university.

Ortega led a Soviet-backed government that battled U.S.-supported Contra rebels before he lost power in a 1990 election. He returned to office last year via the ballot box.


America may need revolutionary change but it is only because it has grown so far from it's roots. America works best on the basis of its inception, taking it further in the socialist direction is precisely what will be its undoing. Unfortunately, socialism is easy and people like easy. It's a rough road that leads to freedom and glory.

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