Lula da Silva's aid was not amused.
How sad it must be to come up with all these creative governing principles -- listening in on private phone calls, reading personal mail, secretly video-taping protestors -- only to live long enough to see a third-rate intelligence like George W. Bush adopt them all as his own. It's enough to drive anyone nuts.''What's this? Are you becoming a pubic hair?'' Fidel sneered at an aide to Brazilian President Lula da Silva. ''What did I fall into, you faggot?'' he screamed in Spanish at a pair of jokester Miami radio deejays. Jeb Bush is ''fat''; Condoleezza Rice is ''mad.'' Even Fidel's inner circle must be wondering if he's become refreshingly candid or just seriously unmoored.
Sigh. In this journalist's view, George W. Bush has become Fidel Castro and Fidel Castro has become DNC head Howard Dean.