The ultimate wacko.

Nelson Mandela. A communist. That’s what I heard a lunatic fringe Republican call Mandela the other night. That was supposed to make Mandela a bad guy. Rather than a great man. That’s the way Republicans talk and think.  They call Barack Obama a socialist. These are meant as labels that make Mandela and Obama unworthy. But as I see it, there’s nothing wrong with being a communist or a socialist or a Marxist. Call me a political  leftist or a progressive. And I’ll take that as a compliment. The last thing I’d want to be is a lunatic fringe Republican. The ultimate wacko. –Jim Broede