On 9/23/13 7:27 PM, Julio Huato wrote: > And to demonstrate de Blasio's opportunism you invoked as evidence his > showing up to support the Sandinistas back in the 1980s? Do you see > what I mean by not making any sense?
I likened this to Obama going to antiwar meetings in Chicago when he was starting out, although Obama was certainly much sleazier than de Blasio on his worst days. You make it sound like going to a Nicaragua Solidarity meeting was like a New Yorker cartoon of bearded anarchists meeting in a sewer tunnel. The NYT got it right: "The involvement of the United States galvanized activists across the country who saw parallels to Vietnam. Tens of thousands of Americans — medical workers, religious volunteers, antiwar activists — flocked to Nicaragua hoping to offset the effects of an economic embargo imposed by the United States. Many were drawn to the idea of creating a new, more egalitarian society." _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
