Posted on 08/24/2009 11:37:02 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
HAVANA (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is trying to make positive changes in the United States, but is being fought at every turn by right-wingers who hate him because he is black, former Cuban leader Fidel Castro said on Tuesday.
In an unusually conciliatory column in the state-run media, Castro said Obama had inherited many problems from his predecessor, George W. Bush, and was trying to resolve them. But the "powerful extreme right won't be happy with anything that diminishes their prerogatives in the slightest way."
Obama does not want to change the U.S. political and economic system, but "in spite of that, the extreme right hates him for being African-American and fights what the president does to improve the deteriorated image of that country," Castro wrote.
"I don't have the slightest doubt that the racist right will do everything possible to wear him down, blocking his program to get him out of the game one way or another, at the least political cost," he said.
Castro, who writes regular commentaries for Cuba's state-run media, has criticized Obama, complimented him occasionally and said that he is watching him closely to see if he means what he says about changing U.S. policy toward Cuba.
His latest column comes during a visit to Cuba by New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson that has stirred speculation that he may try to push U.S.-Cuba relations forward.
Richardson has been a diplomatic trouble-shooter in nations with which the United States has poor relations. In 1996 he negotiated with Castro for the release of three Cuban political prisoners.
Obama has said he wants to end 50 years of hostilities between the United States and Cuba and has eased the long-standing U.S. trade embargo against the communist-led island.
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He’s not dead yet?
If there was anything "conciliatory" in that statement, somebody please point it out.
This is encouraging
Fidel, like you, Obama can make every damn change he wants with his one party rule despite the white racists opposing him, so get a Marxist clue.
OH shut up and die already!
Fidel, Fidel...your country is crying out for.... TOILET PAPER. Forget the propaganda Fidel and solve your problems at home.
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Previously...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2321668/posts
“Cuba, Cyberwar and Toilet Paper”
UBIWAR.com ^ | 20 August 2009 | Posted in ubiwar by Tim Stevens
Posted on August 21, 2009 4:57:07 PM PDT by Cindy
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Previously...
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE5792F420090810
“Cash-strapped Cuba says toilet paper running short”
HAVANA (Reuters)
I know. Most probably made a deal with satan himself.
Uncle Fidel knows a fellow traveller when he sees one.
Well, if anyone knows about Oslimebo, it would be a dirt ball like castro!!!
Hey Fidel, why isn’t there a groundswell of rage at Michael Steele then? He’s eight times blacker than Obama!
And vice versa(since FDR’s day)!
Fidel Castro was a rich, privileged White guy who overthrew the Black President of Cuba, Fulgencio Batista. Does he REALLY want to go there ?
Fidel Castro there are so many articles on the internet about your toilet paper shortage. Let’s look at this one:
“Fidel Castro and the people’s toilet paper”
By MACK HALL
August 18, 2009
Posted: August 18, 2009, 10:13 AM CDT
SNIPPET: “Cuba, which in 1959 was violently changed from an oppressive thug-ocracy into, well, another thug-ocracy, only with longer speeches and more efficient firing-squads, is currently suffering from a shortage of toilet paper.
The shortage of premium wipe might be explained by the publication of Fidel Castro’s latest book, a 339-page Fidel Castro dictionary from which scholars m ay choose Fidel Castro’s favorite words and=2 0Fidel Castro’s favorite phrases in order to think and write the way Fidel Castro and the Fidel Castro government want them to.
No word yet on whether the phrase “died of a heart attack while trying to escape an end-of-life counseling center” is in Fidel Castro’s latest gift to civilization and scholarship.”
Well said. You beat me to it.
Yes, I think he does FieldMarshalJ.
Bttt
Thank you Jet Jaguar.
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