A Globe columnist is all worked up because a Houston Obama office had a picture of Che hanging on the wall. (Check out the columnist's picture, by the way.) My guess is that the division between people who see this as controversial and people who say, So what?, mirrors Hillary/Obama demographics exactly: anyone who has been to college in the last 25 years doesn't care.
There is a reason that this is not controversial, and it's the same reason that I own this image on a T-shirt.
Also, these campaign offices are often lent by outside organizations that support the campaign. This one probably just belonged to TexPIRG or some other group that's full of hippies.
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so the image is from a Fox affiliate? you're right about this, and might I further add that would any candidate blow up at this? Or react much differently than the Obama campaign did? I'm a little worried about Obama getting elected and hiring a militia or two to carry out his secret motive for a dictatorship. Who wouldn't want to eliminate anyone who gets in his way?
and of course the Kennedy parallel tries to knock those who compare the two in the teeth. I was in an Obama campaign office a couple of weeks ago. It wasn't even the office of Jim Delehunt, who endorsed Obama and provided me with the means to help the campaign, it was the office of a lawyer friend of is who had a better phone system, more space, and more accessibility. The unisex bathroom door didn't work too well. I thought about writing a letter to Obama's campaign manager expressing my discomfort for working under such conditions.
Yeah, the simple fact is that this is how campaigns work now. In working for Obama I worked out of a union office and an office that does some kind of African American political organizing. I'm pretty sure the latter had a picture of Malcolm X hanging on the wall. I didn't think it mattered if I or others working on the campaign might not agree with that, because it wasn't our office--it had been loaned to us.
Assuming that Republican candidates have volunteers, I'm sure that Huckabee has an office somewhere that is full of bloody fetus pictures, Guiliani had one with a big portrait of Mussolini, McCain has one with an ad for Japanese internment camps, and Romney had one with a picture of the Love Is characters having fifteen blond children and then marrying those children to each other.
And based on how Obama's campaign allows people to make phone calls from home, using their own computers and phones, it could be said that one Obama volunteer office is decorated with a big painting of a crying clown and some sometimes inappropriate sketches drawn by my roommate.
What do people in Boston think of Jacoby anyway? He seems like he might be a little like Dwight Jaynes, this sportswriter in Portland who used to write reams about how the Blazers should be more like John Stockton.
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