The Elian Gonzales Kidnapping
Posted on 06/06/2004 5:13:09 AM PDT by 11th Earl of Mar
Gore says Miami Mayor Penelas betrayed Democrats
Former Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore delivered a harsh message to Miami-Dade County Mayor Alex Penelas, three months before he faces a U.S. Senate primary.
BY BETH REINHARD
breinhard@herald.com
Former Vice President Al Gore, who lost the 2000 presidential election by 537 votes in Florida, on Saturday called Miami-Dade County Mayor Alex Penelas ``the single most treacherous and dishonest person I dealt with during the campaign anywhere in America.''
The statement was e-mailed by a Gore spokesman in response to a Herald inquiry about Penelas's role in the 2000 campaign. Gore supporters say the vice president had counted on Penelas for a late boost in the Hispanic community, and the mayor did not come through.
The harsh remarks come just three months before Penelas faces a Democratic primary election for the U.S. Senate. Gore's reproach could seriously damage the mayor's bid to succeed Sen. Bob Graham, since party loyalists tend to dominate turnout in a primary.
In a telephone interview Saturday evening, Penelas defended himself, saying he was ``by Gore's side from the very beginning.''
''Al Gore has a right to be upset about the election, but had he won his home state of Tennessee or West Virginia, we wouldn't be here,'' Penelas said. ``He also owes an explanation as to why he waited until the middle of October to engage in Florida.''
He said Gore has declined to return his phone calls to discuss the 2000 campaign.
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I don't see how he could be a "lifelong pawn" of someone who is 70 years older than him...
"When liberals attack"
>>``the single most treacherous and dishonest person I dealt with during the campaign anywhere in America.''
And Gore knows quite a few.
Alex Penelas stood at the courthouse steps and said "I will hold President Clinton and Janet Reno personally responsible if any action is taken to return this boy"Dude. Thank you for posting your remarks about Penelas. I didn't know, but now I do. No wonder Gore hates him: he has integrity.
Small people like al gore tell big lies don't they. Gore was a loser and didn't need help crashing.
Al Gore may need to try some Prozac; his obsessive anger is becoming more obvious every time he speaks or writes.
"The big tent is fast becomming a medium sized tarp."
Great line!
I dream of the day when it's nothing more than a few freaks from the '60s walking around in the rain with lawn bag ponchos.
The big tent is frazzled at the edges and is caving in.
" Gore managed to lose his own home state in 2000, so I have a question for you 'rats – what have the Democrats of Tennessee learned about Al Gore since they elected him Senator that the rest of you Democrats in America are too stupid to understand? "
A BIG DITTO BUMP! I have learned up close and personal over the last twenty years that the people of Tennessee DO NOT SUFFER FOOLS GLADLY. They are some of the smartest, humblest, neat n tidy and wittiest people I have had the pleasure meeting!
We both had a common point of agreement that the Island Prison of atheistic communist Cuba is no place for a little boy to have to grow up.
Few would disagree with this, I suppose, but notice how adherence to this belief tends to skew opinions on other issues (below).
Elian's mother died trying to bring her son to Miami to his uncles and to freedom, when the raft she was floating on fell apart.
In other words, Elian's mother and the group she was with were attempting to enter the country illegally. Were they Mexicans who died of thirst in the middle of the desert or suffocated in the back of a truck, I suspect many Freepers would not describe their plight in such terms ("trying to attain freedom") and would be considerably less sympathetic.
In the Island Prison, she was raising Elian without the help of the boy's father who never married her and had little involvement in the boy life.
In other words, she was a single mother. In other threads on this forum I've seen women in this situation described as "sluts" and "whores."
No written will could have stated any more clearly whom she intended to have custody of the boy in the event of her demise. She and the father had been in contact with the uncle's in Miami planning the escape to freedom.
If the father had so little involvement in the boy's life, it's rather surprising that he was involved in the escape plan. My memory of the situation is that the boy was taken by the mother without the father's knowledge.
To say that Elian was sent back to Cuba because of parental rights is a wretched joke perpetrated upon Elian, for in Cuba there are no parental rights. The communist State literaly owns all the children.
I'd tend to say that most Americans were operating under an American conception of parental rights, not a Cuban one. On other threads on FR father's rights are considered sacrosanct. Why not in this situation?
its peaceful, law abiding occupants
Peaceful and law abiding? Didn't the family refuse to cooperate with the law at every turn? Didn't they lock the boy in the house so as to prevent him from being taken peacefully?
Just some observations.
If anybody really cares about this guy .. they better get him committed somewhere before he hurts himself or someone else .. and I'm not joking. This guy is delusional and scary.
Did he play on our fears, Al?
" When Clinton, Reno and all their jack-booted thugs broke the door down without a proper warrant, pepper sprayed its peaceful, law abiding occupants and kidnapped little Elian Gonzales back to the Island Prison, they did America a great favor in an ironic way: it cost Al Gore the presidency and saved the USA. "
Notice how these three freaks, Clinton(jail bait predator), Reno(transgender) and Al Gore(dimbulb) never actually were hands on parents. I still think Janet Reno is a man in drag with meat and potatoes between her/his/its legs (barf).
" I dream of the day when it's nothing more than a few freaks from the '60s walking around in the rain with lawn bag ponchos. "
lmao I'll have to pass the lawn bag poncho line on...too funny
If you are looking for a perfect world you might want to try Cuba.
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