This is what our president said following a diatribe against the United States by Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega: “I’m grateful that President Ortega did not blame me for things that happened when I was three months old.” How unfortunate that Barack Obama did not himself blame President Ortega for things that happened when Obama himself was 21, 22, 23, 24 years old, when Ortega was the Communist dictator of Nicaragua. Like driving one-tenth of the population of Nicaragua into exile in Honduras. Like the systematic abuse of the Miskito Indians. Like the harrassment of the nation’s archbishop, Miguel Obando y Bravo, who had provided key support for the crushing of the Somoza regime in 1979. Like the inhumane treatment of Nicaragua’s small and liberal Jewish community (now being duplicated in Venezuela, the home of Obama’s handshake pal, Hugo Chavez). Like the destruction of the free press. Like the forced nationalizations. Like all manner of conduct that goes under the name of Marxism-Leninism. My guess is that President Obama wouldn’t blame Daniel Ortega for any of that because, at the time, he was too busy opposing the efforts of the Reagan administration to block the spread of Marxism in Central America and overthrow Ortega’s evil regime to notice.

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