Posted on 08/28/2007 11:00:40 AM PDT by West Coast Conservative
Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro is tipping Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to team up and win the U.S. presidential election.
Clinton leads Obama in the race to be the Democratic nominee for the November 2008 election, and Castro said they would make a winning combination.
"The word today is that an apparently unbeatable ticket could be Hillary for president and Obama as her running mate," he wrote in an editorial column on U.S. presidents published on Tuesday by Cuba's Communist Party newspaper, Granma.
At 81, Castro has outlasted nine U.S. presidents since his 1959 revolution turned Cuba into a thorn in Washington's side by building a communist society about 90 miles offshore from the United States.
He said all U.S. presidential candidates seeking the "coveted" electoral college votes of Florida have had to demand a democratic government in Cuba to win the backing of the powerful Cuban exile community.
Clinton and Obama, both senators, called for democratic change in Cuba last week.
Castro has not appeared in public since intestinal illness forced him to hand over power to his brother Raul Castro in July last year.
He has turned to writing dozens of columns and essays, but rumors that his health is worsening or that he may even be dead have swirled through the Cuban exile community in Miami in the last two weeks.
Castro's only reference to U.S. President George W. Bush in his latest essay was to say that he "needed fraud" to win Florida's electoral college votes and the presidency at the fiercely contested election in 2000.
Castro said former President Bill Clinton was "really kind" when he bumped into him and the two men shook hands at a U.N. summit meeting in 2000. He also praised Clinton for sending elite police to "rescue" shipwrecked Cuban boy Elian Gonzalez from the home of his Miami relatives in 2000 to end an international custody battle.
But even Clinton was forced to bow to Miami politics and tighten the U.S. embargo against Cuba in 1996, using as a "pretext" the shooting down of two small planes used by exile groups to overfly Havana, Castro wrote.
He said his favorite U.S. president since 1959 was Jimmy Carter, another Democrat, because he was not an "accomplice" to efforts to violently overthrow the Cuban government.
Sixteen years after Dwight Eisenhower broke off diplomatic ties with Cuba, Carter restored low-level relations in 1977 when interest sections where opened in each county's capitals.
Castro made no mention of Republican Cold War victor Ronald Reagan, or of John F. Kennedy, whose Democratic administration launched the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion by CIA-trained Cuban exiles in 1961.
One of the most dangerous moments of the Cold War came a year later when Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev faced off for 13 days over Soviet missiles that Castro allowed Moscow to place in Cuba.
Of course since likely Castro will be dead by the election, he’ll be able to vote for them.
lol....I’d imagine the last thing the DNC wants to see is a Castro endorsement. Hopefully OBL will be next.
Well, this settles it. The senior Communist leader in the Western Hemisphere has endorsed Hillary Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama. Why should we even hold elections?
There was a time when an endorsement of a U.S. presidential candidate by a communist dictator would mean ruin for the candidate’s chances. But now, with the hard left in charge of the Democrat party, it could only help.
There is a winning Democrat slogan.
Hillary/ Obama ‘08 - The choice of Fidel Castro.
Quick! Somebody call James Carville! Here’s their “Bumper Sticker”:
Hillary - Obama ‘08
Fidel’s Dream Team!................
>> At 81, Castro has outlasted nine U.S. presidents since his 1959 revolution turned Cuba into a thorn in Washington’s side by building a communist society about 90 miles offshore from the United States.
Outlasted ... talk about euphemisms? I didn’t realize longevity of leadership was a virtue. Our system of government forces President’s out of office after two terms ... dictators are not governed by such annoying laws.
H
I see a tagline ...hmmmm
They win, we raze Washington, DC.
An endorsement from a communist. How fitting..
I don’t think Fidel had to tell us who he wants to win the White House. Everybody, here and abroad, who hates America wants hillary to win.
Oh, what a campaign commercial this would make. Wonder if David Zucker's busy....?
“”Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro is tipping Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to team up and win the U.S. presidential election.””
“Meanwhile in other news... Generalismo Francisco Franco is still dead”.
LLS
That ticket is a guaranteed loser in my opinion..
>> At 81, Castro has outlasted nine U.S. presidents since his 1959 revolution turned Cuba into a thorn in Washington’s side by building a communist society about 90 miles offshore from the United States.<<
Funny choice of words—a dictator-for-life has “outlasted” nine U.S. Presidents who follow the Constitutional term limitations required of them. My, what an accomplishment. /sarc
Lordy, lordy, is he grasping at straws, a straw cow, and a straw meow, both mouses that roared?
I see a sign for GoE III.
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