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Fidel Castro endorses Hillary and Obama, and says Democrats only support democracy in Cuba because of Florida's Cuban Exile community.

I'm hoping the Clinton and Obama campaigns have a bruising response.

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zach.:

I, for one, question the timing.

it was bankable that a statement like this would make international news. is he simply trying to put himself back in the spotlight to dispel rumors of his demise?

this is a softball for clinton and obama, though. if they don't knock it out of the park, they are going to have serious trouble.

8.29.2007 11:58am

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Ronald Coleman (mail) (www):

I'll really be moved when he endorses a black man for a leadership position in, say... Cuba.

8.29.2007 12:08pm

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Aziz (mail) (www):

he didnt "endorse" - he just said it would be an unbeatable ticket. the main thrust was his accusation that

all U.S. presidential candidates seeking the "coveted" electoral college votes of Florida have had to demand a democratic government in Cuba to win the backing of the powerful Cuban exile community.

Clinton and Obama, both senators, called for democratic change in Cuba last week.

8.29.2007 12:26pm

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Vic Stein (mail):

If it wasn't for the powerful Cuban exile community and their third-rail support of the asinine embargo strategy, Castro would have been out of power long long ago.

8.29.2007 12:46pm

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Brian Finlayson (mail):

Why do dictators, thugs and tyrants always come out for the deomcrat?

8.29.2007 12:52pm

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Hank Barnes (mail) (www):

Best quote from the article:

Castro said his favorite U.S. president since 1959 was Jimmy Carter, another Democrat, because he was not an "accomplice" to efforts to violently overthrow the Cuban government.

Oy vey, I say.

HankB

8.29.2007 12:57pm

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Elisha Feger (mail) (www):

Brian: Birds of a feather flock together?

8.29.2007 1:08pm

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Dean Esmay:

If it wasn't for the powerful Cuban exile community and their third-rail support of the asinine embargo strategy, Castro would have been out of power long long ago.

Really? I could list more than a dozen brutal tyrannical regimes that we've had free trade with for decades. What would make the tyrant Castro any different?

Did China turn into a liberal, human rights respecting democracy when I wasn't looking?

8.29.2007 1:14pm

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La Ventanita (mail) (www):

Dean, don't hold your breath for that "bruising response"

8.29.2007 5:36pm

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Jack G (mail) (www):

Dean, don't hold your breath for that "bruising response"

Not unless you're part toad-frog or sperm whale.

8.29.2007 9:19pm

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Vic Stein (mail):

China has a heck of a lot more muscle and systematic social control than Cuba: they eased into capitalist trade very gradually and deliberately to help inure themselves from radical change.

Cuba, however, has been an exercise in locking up the remaining Cubans with a madman instead of letting the world pour in: most likely in part as a way of the originally fascist exile community's way of punishing them. Now it's just force of insane, pointless habit.

8.30.2007 12:08am

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Mark @ Urthshu (mail) (www):

Effectively, there is no embargo. Everybody else trades with Cuba. They hardly need us.

8.30.2007 9:48am

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Andrew Ian Dodge (mail) (www):

For a corpse he sends out a lot of press releases.

9.1.2007 7:30pm

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