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> Nicaraguan leader calls Obama's campaign 'revolutionary'
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>
> The Associated Press
> Published: February 14, 2008
>
>
> MANAGUA, Nicaragua: 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.-sup****ted
> Contra rebels before he lost power in a 1990 election. He returned to
> office last year via the ballot box.
>
> In statements broadcast on Sandinista Radio La Primerisima, Ortega
> said he has "faith in God and in the North American people, and above
> all in the youth, that the moment of great change in the U.S. will
> come and it will act differently, with justice and equality toward all
> nations."
>
> Obama, a senator from Illinois, is locked in a tight race with Sen.
> Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination.
>
> Ortega also called Obama a spokesman for the millions of Central
> American and Mexican citizens who migrate to the U.S. in search of
> work, though polls indicate most Latino voters so far have favored
> Clinton over Obama.
>
> Also Wednesday, Ortega gave approval to various army officials to
> receive training at the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security
> Cooperation, operated by the U.S. Defense Department in Fort Benning,
> Georgia -- even as he said he would continue to lobby for the school's
> closure.
>
> The president claims that members of the now-defunct National Guard
> who were trained at the school, formerly known as the School of the
> Americas, were involved in torture. Human rights groups say graduates
> went on to commit abuses throughout Latin America.
>
> The U.S. military has acknowledged that some graduates committed
> crimes after attending the School of the Americas, but that no cause-
> and-effect relation****p has ever been established.
>
> Ortega did not explain why he approved the training, but said he would
> try to ensure officials did not turn into "torturers and killers."
What is scary about this?What do *you* call Obama's campaign?My point is
simply if many people feel this "movement" is unique or surprising (and
yeah, a nicaraguan leader might use an unfriendly word meaning something
unique or surprsing is "revolutionary")l then all that means is someone
else
recongized it but you dont like that person.
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