...communist leader, Daniel Ortega!
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.-supported Contra rebels before he lost power in a 1990 election. He returned to office last year via the ballot box.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/02/14/america/LA-POL-Nicaragua-Ortega-Obama.phpMemory Refresher: Ortega met with senators--and coincidentally co-liars about their Vietnam experiences--John Kerry and Tom Harkin when they went down there to undermine US foreign policy under Reagan in direct violation of Article I . They secured a signed pledge from Ortega vowing not to seek Soviet military aid. In a brilliant display of Chamberlain-esque chumpery, Kerry waved his signed pledge on the floor of the senate declaring that Reagan's support for the contras was unnecessary.
2 days layer Ortega went to Russia and bought $750 million in Soviet military hardware.
