By Any Other Name

Turgidson: “Strangelove? What kind of name is that. That ain’t no Kraut name is it, Stainsey?”

Staines: “He changed it when he became a citizen. It used to be Murkwurdigliebe.”

Turgidson: “Well a Kraut by any other name”

-          Dr Strangelove, 1964

Speaking in Miami yesterday, New York mayor, Democratic Party presidential candidate, and hard leftist  de Blasio used  a well-known catch phrase of communist mass murder Che Guevara in his speech. One can wonder if now the mayor, whose real surname after all is Wilhelm, will go back to New York and offer his constituents there some of the inspirational sayings of that other famous 20th Century paladin of strong, vigorous, progressive,  activist,  central government  Reinhard Heydrich. That would be appropriate for the guy in more than one way and even more amusing that the bit in Miami.

He has since backtracked, “apologized”, and said that poor uninformed  fellow that he is, he had no idea that it was Guevara’s slogan, an odd claim from a someone who spent time in Central America   and was well connected with the Sandistas. Well, as the man said, a gaffe is what occurs when a politician slips up and says what he really wants or believes.