He Knows A Fellow Commie When He Sees One

Here's an endorsement I'd wager Barack Obama DIDN'T want:

President Daniel Ortega, who led the 1979 [communist] 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....

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.

Sounds pretty damning, doesn't it?  Or does it?  The American Left has had a boner for Latin American pinkos going all the way back to Fidel Castro's revolution in Cuba in the late 1950s.  They still love Castro, and their rock-star-groupie-like fondness for Ortega is scarcely any less, especially since he can now hide behind the fig-leaf of "democracy".  Libs will see that as proof positive of the ease with which a President Obama can "rebuild America's standing in the world".  And probably a lot of "independents" along with them.

Almost makes me wonder whether El Presidente has had anything to say about Senorita Rodham.  It's not like her Marxist credentials aren't in good standing, and have been since B.O. was in diapers.  Maybe seniority doesn't matter as much in lefty circles.  Either that or they still have a patriarchy problem.

I also can't help but notice that the Sandanista dictator misidentifies the principal American spokesperson for "the millions of Central American and Mexican citizens who migrate to the U.S. in search of work."  That individual is the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.

Maybe Ortega is saving that endorsement for next week....