Let’s see – Obama’s gotten Castro, Qaddafi, Hamas…

…and now, Kim Jong-Il?

The Chosun Sinbo, the mouthpiece of North Korea’s Japanese front organization Chongryon and often for the North Korean regime itself, has announced its preference for Obama over McCain, whom it calls “a variant of Bush” and “nothing better than a scarecrow of neoconservatives,” which is a bit odd considering that the Bush Administration’s giveaway diplomacy is better for Kim Jong Il than even Clinton’s awful performance.

The blogger – from the “One Free Korea” blog, heretofore unknown to me – throws in a key caveat (I’ve added emphasis):

The Republicans’ efforts to capitalize on the Hamas endorsement made me slightly squeamish, because there are separate issues here that shouldn’t be mixed. It isn’t fair for anyone to imply, based on an unwanted endorsement, that a candidate in any way supports the endorsing entity’s ideology or actions. It is fair to ask whether the endorsement suggests that the endorsing entity knows something about the candidate. Why would Hamas or Kim Jong Il both believe that if Obama is elected, his policies would mean boom times for evildoers? Are they wrong?

I don’t want to presume that Obama solicits or appreciates the endorsement of these dictators – no more than I appreciate the usual howler-monkeys on the left drawing significance from some right-fringe wackjob endorsing a GOP candidate.

But what do these dictators know that Obama’s supporters – especially the ones who aren’t sporting “Che” paraphernalia – don’t?
(Via CW)

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