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Nearly every revolutionary becomes a tyrant. Someone like Nelson Mandela stands out because he is one of the few exceptions.

Most revolutions fail, usually after making a bad situation worse.

Those that succeed usually make a worse situation worse still.

Most revolutionary leaders can only be loved by the dysfunctional romantics of the looney left. Che Guevarra worship is a case in point. You really need to have lost touch with reality to see anything good in that dim-witted mass murderer.

bg, you are tolerable when you agree.

steven, i didn't know che personnally, but cuba is much better off than it was, and would be better still if usa didn't interdict them.

anyway, your face won't appear on many teeshirts, so you lose.

Aime, in the mid '80's I voted Dems. in the senate, bought the keep the bastards honest line. But I got sick of the carping, know best attitudes that lead to constant compromise etc. Decided I'd rather see the govt. of the day able to enact their policies unimpeded. Full speed ahead, and damn the torpedoes.

You can blame me.

DEMOS,

Whether Cuba is better off than it would have been had Castro not been successful is, to say the least, questionable. The number of people drowning while trying to reach Florida suggests Cubans aren't all that happy.

Or am I missing something? Do you know of people drowning while trying to reach Cuba from Florida?

What I find interesting is the parallel between Che and the seventh century Arabian warlord with the taste for young girls. Che seems to be a secular 20th Century version of Muhammed.

To get back to the Democrats, they're gone anyway. Who cares? They'll enjoy their parliamentary pensions.

Thanks to everybody who posted an opinion. I'll take your views on-board. Looks like it's still a two horse race then?

Aime, a two horse race for the ministerial leather but there are other players trying for the vacancies left by the democrats.
The greens seem to be more clear about what they are doing (although they are way to far to the left for me). Family First will be rounding up the votes of those who think that the worlds problems are not enough fundamentalism rather than too much of it.

It will be interesting to see what happens in the next election, will Labor grab control of both houses or will voters try and put a check on them in the senate? Will workchoices have scared people off giving one side of politics control of both houses?

R0bert