Thread: Militant Nicaraguan Socialist running for U.S. President!

Don't we already have two militant Socialists running for President....? Hillary and Obama apparently have competition with this guy.....from Nicaragua. Interestingly enough the current, Marxist/Socialist President of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega....endorsed Barak Obama for President a few days ago. Gee, nice feather in Obama's cap. Juan McCain has MExican Juan Hernandez and Obama has Daniel Ortega.

This stuff is just too unbelievable to be made up...here's the story from the Philadelphia Daily News.

The presidential candidate who can't become president
By KIRSTIN LINDERMAYER
Philadelphia Daily News
lindenm@phillynews.com 215-854-5991
NO MATTER how many votes Roger Calero wins on Nov. 4, he won't be able to serve as president. But that hasn't stopped him from running.
For Calero, 38, this year's presidential election isn't about winning. It's about spreading the populist message of the Socialist Workers Party.
Under the U.S. Constitution, only natural-born citizens can become president. Calero, who has lived on U.S. soil since 1985, was born in Nicaragua.
Now a permanent resident, he lives in the Bronx, N.Y., where he writes for The Militant, a socialist newsweekly.
A former meatpacker, Calero supports a radical re-structuring of the U.S. government that places greater control in the hands of workers and farmers.
"Capitalism needs to be abolished and replaced with a more humane organization where human needs come first, before profits," says Calero, who was in Pennsylvania this week to speak with students at Temple University and workers at a Smithfield Foods plant in Allentown.
Calero supports shortening the workweek without reducing pay, which he believes would force employers to hire more workers. He would launch a massive public-works program to stimulate job growth. He would implement government-guaranteed health care.
Calero also believes that all undocumented workers should be granted immediate and unconditional legalization.
"It's a way to strengthen the unity of the working class," he says, adding that he believes that employers use workers' immigration status to exploit them.
"If immigrant workers no longer fear deportation," Calero says, "they will begin to fight for better wages, for better working conditions."
In addition to advocating for workers' and immigrants' rights, Calero supports the immediate withdrawal of American troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Over the next few months, he will campaign across the country, meeting with everyone from factory workers to coal miners.
"The campaign is a vehicle to reinforce efforts by workers to organize themselves," he says.
Calero will also be collecting tens of thousands of signatures to get on as many state ballots as possible. Some states allow foreign-born citizens to be on the presidential ballot even though they can't take office.
When Calero ran for president in 2004, he was on the ballot in 13 states, including New Jersey, and in Washington, D.C. In states that ban foreign-born candidates, another SWP member will stand in for Calero.
"If a majority of workers support my candidacy, I will push for legislation that changes the Constitution to allow foreign-born citizens to serve as president," says Calero, who added that California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger supports similar measures.
Calero's running mate, Alyson Kennedy, 57, is a garment worker and former coal miner. Calero believes he and Kennedy are the only candidates who can represent the rights of workers.
Other candidates may talk about the plight of the working class, he says, but they don't understand what it takes to help workers achieve basic rights, like safe working conditions, fair wages and health insurance.
"We don't have to pretend," Calero says about his understanding of workers' struggles. "We come from there." *

HAHAHAHA ... I would vote for this nut case before I would vote for McCain, Clinton or Obama

Come on Lou Dobbs and Ron Paul

The scary part is, when the NAU comes about Commies like this CAN be President and probably will be!!

My head is really reeling . This guy sounds more American than our 3 candidates . Oh the pain of American politics

This joker gets press time and is invited to speak at universities and elsewhere? How is that possible?

Heck, Calero makes more sense that the loony tones we have running.