Rozen reports: "Cuba's Fidel Castro weighed in on the GOP field Wednesday ahead of next week's Florida GOP primary vote. The former Cuban leader ... took to official state media organs to blast the Republican primary contest ..."
Cuban leader Fidel Castro. (photo: Paul Haven/AP)
Fidel Castro: GOP Field Is "Competition of Idiocy and Ignorance"
29 January 12
uba's Fidel Castro weighed in on the GOP field Wednesday ahead of next week's Florida GOP primary vote.
The former Cuban leader, 85, whose 1959 Communist takeover of the island nation prompted the exodus of many of those whose families now comprise Florida's politically influential Cuban American community, took to official state media organs to blast the Republican primary contest, the Associated Press's man in Havana Paul Haven reported.
"The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is - and I mean this seriously - the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been," Castro wrote in an opinion column carried by a Cuban state paper, Haven wrote.
Castro officially stepped down as the head of the country's communist party last year, turning power over to his brother Raul Castro. His brother officially succeeded him as Cuba's president in 2008.
But the aging revolutionary still exerts a powerful psychological hold on Florida's Cuban America community - and thus on local and national politics. He has managed to outlast eleven U.S. administrations.
Asked at Monday's Tampa GOP primary debate what he would do if he got a 3 a.m. call that Castro had died, Mitt Romney responded that he would "thank Heavens" that Castro had at last "returned to his maker."
"I don't think Fidel's going to meet his maker," Newt Gingrich replied. "I think he's going to go to the other place."
Gingrich, speaking Wednesday at Florida International University, chastised President Obama for supporting the Arab spring pro-democracy revolutions, while not calling for a "Cuban spring" closer to home.
"I don't think it occurs to a single person in the White House to look south and propose a Cuban spring," Gingrich said in the speech to the Florida International University College Republicans, the Miami Herald reported.
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NEVER VOTE REPUBLICAN !!
our future is at stake, and they are idiots
Seems to me like the people in the Arab spring movements want freedom on their terms but the U.S. always looks at how it can use these movements for its own economic or geopolitical interests.
There were also numerous attempt to murder Castro. I remember one in which a black audience member saved him by shouting that the mike he was about to touch was electrified.
I have known Cubans of all stripes. They are a very quick witted and intelligent people (and do they ever cuss!) but I was never able to form an opinion of the Castro government because the refugees over demonized him and his admirers over sainted him.
So I would have to agree with Fidel. It has been been reduced to idiocy.
We didn't invent the "Arab spring" So it's not up to us to create a disaster to start them on that path.
Just as is the author of that quote.
Hell, he'd be smarter and more astute even as a cadaver, than that crowd. He's obviously still got his marbles.
Look for more anti-Castro, anti-Cuban rapprochement when these "monkey see - monkey do" wannabe's swing their toy maces in Florida.
Rapprochement was just what Castro, Kruschev and JFK were closing in on when the latter was assassinated. When Castro heard the news he was stunned, grief-stricken and said to French journalist Jean Daniel, whom he was lunching with at the time "Everything is changed. Everything is going to change!" [Source; "JFK and the Unspeakable" by James W.Douglass], which everybody should read if you really care about this country and it's relationships with other nations -and want to see who truly runs this death-culture and are still at it! Heard about it first on RSN by the way and it repays a full in-depth read.
If this book doesn't get y'r pissed-off-o'-meter off the clock, you are dead to reason (or an old John Bircher -or a current Republican candidate and supporter); same thing come to think of it.
By the way, Cuba had it's "Spring" back in the 60s and just because it didn't want U.S. domination we have done everything in our power to squelch it. Watch the same thing happen with the "Arab Spring" IF it doesn't go OUR way!
NEVER VOTE REPUBLICAN !!
our future is at stake, and they are idiots.
He's been watching all of them from Eisenhower on. He must be working on his own theory of reverse evolution going on just to the north. They keep getting stupider and stupider.
Ron Paul is a domestic bully and his "War Without Bullets" on the Middle Class will leave one just as dead.. no health care, no social security.. but, plenty of Pot on an otherwise empty kitchen table.
It's hard to imagine it otherwise.
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