[alnitak]

Cuban President Fidel Castro holds baby Michel as Pierre and Margaret Trudeau look on during their state visit to Cuba in January 1976. Castro presented Margaret Trudeau with this photo just hours before Pierre Trudeau?s funeral in 2000.

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This is almost too funny to believe (maybe he is also a dab hand at brain surgery!):

His intellect is one of the most broad and complete that can be found. He is an expert on genetics, on automobile combustion engines, on stock markets. On everything.

Combined with a Herculean physique and extraordinary personal courage, this monumental intellect makes Fidel the giant that he is.

He is something of a superman.

[Miss Marple]

Words fail me.

[joeystoy]

"He is an expert on genetics, on automobile combustion engines, on stock markets. On everything."


That's why Cuba is the world leader in biotech, automotive technology, financial services... and everything else.

[Pikachu_Dad]

Good golly. I had no idea that Trudeau was that, that, that... words fail me.

[Cincinatus]

On the occasion of the publication of this piece, I am reminded of a reply once made during debate in the House of Lords:

"I am indebted to you for demonstrating that there is no such thing as unutterable nonsense."

[llevrok]

The first Trudeau gave 2 million French the keys to 20 million non French pocket books

Looks like Junior would give the rest of the country to Cuba - if he could.

[dirtboy]

He is something of a superman.

Looks like this kid's red diaper was strapped on a bit too tightly.

[Lurker]

In his view, revolution, when rigorously adopted, cannot fail to lead humanity towards ever greater justice, towards an ever more perfect social order.

People who write drivel like this should be dragged into the streets and beaten to within an inch of their stupid, useless lives.

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[bonfire]

Is this a joke??

[saganite]

That wasn't hilarious, it was disgusting but right in keeping with the Left's worship of dictators and butchers.

[Petronski]

Fidel is also the most curious man that I have ever met. He wants to know all there is to be known. He is famous for not sleeping, instead spending the night studying and learning.

[Psychotics are famous for not sleeping.]

His intellect is one of the most broad and complete that can be found. He is an expert on genetics, on automobile combustion engines, on stock markets. On everything.

[But he did not invent the internet...that was another famous (would-be) socialist tyrant.]

Combined with a Herculean physique and extraordinary personal courage, this monumental intellect makes Fidel the giant that he is.

[Alexandre's kinda hot for Fidel here, in a purely creepy way.]

He is something of a superman.

[He is the ideal specimen of the New Soviet Man. Or, he is a god.]

The Jefe (chief) sees all and knows all....

[Okay, he is a god. Or, he is an authoritarian madman in command of an all-saturating domestic intelligence service....(Must get that thought out of my head, or Jefe will know)....Nah, he is a god.]

[mitch5501]

"When my father had reached a depth of around 60 feet, he realized that Fidel was down there with him, that he had descended without a tank and that there he was with a knife in hand prying sea urchins off the ocean floor, grinning."...and he was wearing concrete flippers!!!and as he bent to slay another urchin...blinding rays of brilliant piercing sunlight burst forth from Fidel!!! as,still grinning,he handed my father a pair of rose coloured glasses.That he be not blinded by the glory of Fidel!

The guy sounds like Smithers,in more ways than one.

[fanfan]

Canada ping.

Please send me a FReepmail to get on or off this Canada ping list.

[Paradox]

Liberals are absolute idiots. The smarter they are, the dumber they can be.

Liberals support for Castro over the years is plainly, and factually, proof positive of either their ignorance, or their down right evil.

Castro is not in any way, shape, or form, a good man. He is one of the worst men in this hemisphere.

This essay is an affront to common sense and decency. It is a screaming anthem of insanity.

[Paradox]

Ya know, I REALLY hope the Miami Herald picks this one up, and publishes it. I would love to see the passionate yet rational refutation of this thesis that those WHO REALLY KNOW would give this piece.

[Gay State Conservative]

He is an expert on genetics, on automobile combustion engines, on stock markets. On everything.

Car engines? I guess breaking down a short block 6 from a '57 Chevy teaches you a lot.

[razorback-bert]

The only thing I can see Alexandre missed, was saying he wanted to have Fidel's child.

[Steel Wolf]

Can anyone spot the logical disconnect here?

Cubans remain very proud of Castro, even those who don't share his vision. ... ... But Castro's leadership can be something of a burden, too. They do occasionally complain, often as an adolescent might complain about a too strict and demanding father. The Jefe (chief) sees all and knows all, they might say. In particular, young Cubans have told me that an outsider cannot ever really imagine what it is like to live in such a hermetic society, where everyone has an assigned spot and is watched and judged carefully. You can never really learn on your own, they might say. The Jefe always knows what is best for you. It can be suffocating, they say.

So, it's okay for Castro to impose his will on others, because anyone who resists is "like an adolescent" who doesn't realize that Father knows best. Why? Because Castro is a master of genetics, automotive engineering, and everything? He's basically a "superman", so they should do as he says?

Historians will note, however, that never in modern times has a small, peaceful country been more subjected to unfair and malicious treatment by a superpower than Cuba has by the United States. From the very start, the United States never gave Castro's Cuba a choice. Either Castro had to submit himself and his people to America's will or he had to hold his ground against them. ... The United States never fails to make the Cuban people well aware of its spite for this small neighbouring country that dares to be independent.

So when Castro resists the global center of science, culture, military power, and political thought, namely, the United States of America, who's the "superman" and who's the "adolescent"? I thougth Trudeau's point earlier that the place of the weak was to fall behind that of the strong, and to be lead by enlightened leadership.

If obeying your betters is good for the Cuban people, then it's good for Castro. If independence and revolutionary ambitions are good for Castro, they're good for the Cuban people.

[Armando Guerra]

Wow. I've never read anything before that gave me both the urge to laugh and vomit at the same time.

[sergeantdave]

This scribbling should be enshrined on every schoolhouse wall as the ramblings of a brainless, useful communist idiot who believes the end justifies the means.

Pathetic.

[arthurus]

Actually I have never heard that either one of them was gay.