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    Barry says Ho Chi Min inspired by the founding fathers

    Obama, striking a wistful tone, observed that it may have taken 67 years, but the United States and Vietnam were finally enjoying the relationship that Ho once wrote of. After all, Obama said, Ho had been “inspired by the words of Thomas Jefferson.”
    The message here was that if only we might have bridged our differences then – if only Ho and Truman could have done what Obama and Sang did this week, so much unpleasantness might have been avoided.
    While Jefferson did get pretty fired up about “the blood of tyrants,” it’s hard to see how the Sage of Monticello inspired the murderous career of the Vietnamese dictator. Ho famously slaughtered his opponents, including the infamous butchery of peasant farmers who resisted his brutal taxation in the early days of Ho’s regime. Not particularly Jeffersonian.
    Estimates run as high as half-a-million killed in Ho’s effort to consolidate power after his communist forces drove the French out of Indochina. The killing of landlords and bourgeois-class merchants was famous even in its day and since then has been documented in even more horrifying detail.
    In Obama’s credulous citing of the Constitution as an inspiration, there is particular historical dissonance.
    And those who carried his banner forward following his death in 1969 – he remains “Uncle Ho” even to this day – built upon his brutal regime. Following the final U.S. retreat from Vietnam untold thousands of Vietnamese, deemed collaborators by the regime, were put to death. He and his Leninist regime used V.I. Lenin’s tactics: murder, terror and “reeducation” to obtain, maintain and expand power.


    Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013...#ixzz2aCKOklsV
    So? Screw the founding fathers. The best of them still lived in a different era and had no conception of the world today. (The most intelligent well-intentioned people in the world today should not have a say on what government will be like in the year 2263.) The worst of them were racist, sexist, slave-raping terrorists who are an embarrassment to our country today. - Quaoarsking

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    Doesn't Obama make you proud to be an American?

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