Champion of the Peasants and Workers

He was champion of the peasants and workers

Brought a change of direction for his country

Denegrated the USA and called on the people to "stand up"!

I wonder if Barack will be as influential as Mao?



Of course, he did have a few extreme ideas once he was in charge, and I don't think Barack is willing to be this direct with societal changes...

Mao’s first political campaigns after founding the People’s Republic were land reform and the suppression of counter-revolutionaries, which centered on mass executions, often before organized crowds. These campaigns of mass repression targeted former KMT officials, businessmen, former employees of Western companies, intellectuals whose loyalty was suspect, and significant numbers of rural gentry. The U.S. State department in 1976 estimated that there may have been a million killed in the land reform, 800,000 killed in the counterrevolutionary campaign. Mao himself claimed a total of 700,000 killed during the years 1949–53. However, because there was a policy to select "at least one landlord, and usually several, in virtually every village for public execution", 1 million deaths seems to be an absolute minimum, and many authors agree on a figure of between 2 million and 5 million dead. In addition, at least 1.5 million people were sent to "reform through labour" camps. Mao’s personal role in ordering mass executions is undeniable. He defended these killings as necessary for the securing of power. -- source

Communist Faithful for Obama

Okay, this one's for those thinking, "Hey Ulysses, what's with all these posters pairing Obama with socialism/communism?" Well, the central reason I did it was because of his stated platform promises, and what direction those will take the US in, but here's a clue that I'm not off base:

Hat tip to the Glenn Beck website. They featured a video from a Houston local newscast. A straigtforward piece about the campaign and the doings of the candidates. In the beginning of it, they show a new Obama office being opened up in Houston. The screen shot below is from their office, with a small picture of Barack on the wall, and a huge flag glorifying Marxist rebel and authoritarian, Che Guevara.



From The Cult of Che, posted on Slate:

The cult of Ernesto Che Guevara is an episode in the moral callousness of our time. Che was a totalitarian. He achieved nothing but disaster. Many of the early leaders of the Cuban Revolution favored a democratic or democratic-socialist direction for the new Cuba. But Che was a mainstay of the hardline pro-Soviet faction, and his faction won. Che presided over the Cuban Revolution's first firing squads. He founded Cuba's "labor camp" system—the system that was eventually employed to incarcerate gays, dissidents, and AIDS victims. To get himself killed, and to get a lot of other people killed, was central to Che's imagination. In the famous essay in which he issued his ringing call for "two, three, many Vietnams," he also spoke about martyrdom and managed to compose a number of chilling phrases: "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. This is what our soldiers must become …"— and so on.

Remember, everyone says Obama isn't just a candidate, he's now a movement. A movement to what? Socialism, Collectivism, Nationalized industries, class envy and an assault on individual freedoms?