Oh, oh. I had two impressions when I read this story. Number one - the polls can't be that good in Florida for the Republicans to go with such a promise and two, it sounds an awful lot like pandering - a thing I wouldn't have expected from Bush.
After the set of these he has displayed so far.
He isn't promising the lame will take up their pallets and walk.
John Kerry panders like it's nobody's business.
George W. Bush delivers.
Say good night, Fidel...
Or maybe he just meant it!! The commie left worldwide have united against him for some reason!
Pandering? I'd say it's about frickin' time. Let's roll.
VIVA BOOOSH!!
So, do you not believe that President Bush will back up what he says? Hint. You don't want to take this bet.
Well, Fidel fell flat on his face the other day and broke a few bones. That's not good when you're around eighty. He won't last much longer and then Cuba will be hankering for a new dialogue with the US and a chance to join the rest of the free world.
IMHO, Pres. Bush is not pandering to Cuban-American voters in Miami, Florida when he promises to pressure Cuba into extending American civil liberties to Cuban citizens. He is simply looking ahead.
Remember, communist dictator Fidel Castro just happened to take an especially nasty fall off of a step the other day. In that fall, the (approx.) 75-year-old Castro shattered one of his knees and broke an arm. It will be difficult for him to get around for some time and he will undoubtedly require an artificial knee replacement. When elderly people fall, rarely are they ever as strong as they were before the fall again and, in fact, many begin a slow but steady physical and mental decline.
Pres. Bush is looking ahead and thinking that Fidel Castro will now have to give serious thought to propping up a successor. Pres. Bush knows this and he also knows that it is plausible that Castro would himself understand that it is in Cuba's best interest that America should be able to work with Castro's successor politically. It would also be in Cuba and America's combined interests for Cuba (a close neighbor geographically) to someday be under the military protection of the United States.
Castro loves his country and I believe that he might yearn to be remembered by his countrymen as a venerable old statesman rather than as a vicious dictator. And, let's face it communism isn't working Fidel! It's time to embark on a new political experiment and it's called capitalism, American style!
Viva Bush! Viva Bush! Viva Bush!
"Oh, oh. I had two impressions when I read this story."
I had another impression, which is that intel says Castro is not long for this world. His fall last week may have been a symptom of an undisclosed illness--or did more internal damage than was reported.