Really?? Now why would Obama have connections to the Elliot Gonzales case??
Posted on 09/20/2008 12:56:28 PM PDT by Obamalujah
Florida Republican Accuses Obama Debate Prepper, Gregory Craig, of Teaming Up with Fidel Castro in Elian Gonzalez Case. Here's the article from the Miami Herald.
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People in FL though wanted Elian sent back to communism. That’s why the Bushes said nothing about the tragedy.
Wasn’t the kid here illegally? Why shouldn’t he have been sent back?
Not this people!!! and I’m a Floridian.
And Jeb was not a good governor.
HUH?
The mother died on the trip over to freedom. Elian was being cared for by an uncle and his family if memory serves.
Elian was the sole survivor of a group which included his mother--he was by a lucky chance found by some Americans and brought to shore. Elian's father was still in Cuba and had not opposed his departure, but when the case became news, Castro demanded the boy back and the Clinton adminstration complied. The case was presented to the public as reuniting the kid with his father, but the father was never given a chance to express his opinion openly, and was not offered the option of joining Elian in Florida.
For the Clintons, just like for Dan Rather, Obama, and left-wing Democrats in general, Fidel Castro is a good guy and the anti-Castro Cubans are the bad guys.
Really? Elian Gonzales's mother took him and ran to the Land of Opportunity and dies in the attempt, yet Elian, a minor, lived to walk these shores. On Accordance with law, anyone who can drag their bedraggled carcass onto our shores and walk around, be they a minor or an adult, has the right to ask for citizenship. Elian Gonzales was not accorded that right, but was instead made into a Revolutionary poster child by the Clinton administration, with the abetted by a drooling and willing Janet Reno, who dehumanized him by calling him something like "Banana Boy". Even then the public brainwashig campaign did not take and a black helicopter raid, complete with THIS immortal scene
Was becessary to force the kid to return to the Motherland.
We give the people who come from Cuba political asylum. They can't very well ask to leave that Communist dictatorship through normal means.
It's the least we can do after the Bay of Pigs fiasco.
His Mother wanted him to enjoy freedom. She died trying to get him out of Cuba. His father was not married to the child's mother and didn't take care of his son until Castro became involved, and along with the liberals in our own country made it a political cause.
They had family in this country who were more than willing to take Elian in.
The illegal immigration issue stemming from our unsecured borders is a completely different issue. Mexico is using the United States as their dumping ground to solve their own social problems. It is not fair to Americans to absorb this cost into our system. If we need more labor, then we need to allow more legal Mexicans into our country, not allow this undocumented mass of people, many who have criminal records, into our country.
Castro and the Clinton administration colluded and left a bad taste in everyone’s mouth, and the sneering Democrat denials that the raid never happened left a bad taste in the mouths of normal Americans.
Good grief, I didn't notice that the first time around....BUMP! (I get flamed for typing like that, so I hope you're asbestos coated.) HOWEVER, as a second generation American who's grandfather joined the Navy to fight WWII on THIS side, I have a special place in my heart for Cuban, Venezuelan and Nicaraguan refugees. And others. Some people really ARE refugees, desperate for a better life and willing to go through legal channels to get it.
Elian's family Stateside tried to go through legal channels, but the Clinton administration was busy sucking up to Castro and worked against them. There was no legal or moral excuse for that.
SUPREMELY good question.
Being cute does not make him legal.
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