Elián (Gonzalez) saga might hound Obama (Miami) visit

Summoning a time of political upheaval in Miami, a great-uncle of Elián González plans Friday to publicly denounce two Barack Obama campaign advisors who helped send the boy back to his father in Cuba eight years ago.

One day before the expected Democratic nominee addresses a conference of mayors in Miami, Delfín González will hold a 1 p.m. news conference outside the Little Havana home where Elián lived with relatives for several months in 2000.

Earlier this week, CNN reported that Elián, now 14 years old, has joined Cuba's Young Communist Union. Obama was an Illinois lawmaker during the 2000 dispute and did not take a public position.

At issue are foreign-policy advisor Greg Craig, who represented Elián's father in the custody battle with the Miami relatives, and legal advisor Eric Holder, a member of Obama's vice-presidential search committee who was deputy attorney general when the 6-year-old boy was seized by federal agents and returned to Cuba.

''We're going to express opposition to Barack Obama's visit to Miami, and explain how we're opposed to him having individuals on his campaign who were associated with Elián's seizure in 2000,'' González said. ``Some wounds are so deep that they do not heal over time, such as taking a child and sealing his fate to a communist dictatorship.''

González, 74, said he has not given money to Republican John McCain. Asked if the Republican Party had put him up to holding the news conference, González said, ``No, no, no. This is spontaneous between us and the community.''

The Miami Herald was notified about the news conference by Republican state Rep. David Rivera, of South Florida. He also provided background information about the two campaign advisors.

''The link between Barack Obama and a Castro apologist like Greg Craig is extremely relevant to Cuban-American voters because it provides further insight into Obama's weak position toward the Castro dictatorship,'' Rivera said.

Obama has called for lifting restrictions on travel and money transfers by Cuban Americans to family on the island, and for initiating talks with the Cuban government in the hope of sparking democratic reforms.

Asked to respond to the concerns about Obama's advisors, campaign spokesman Josh Earnest issued a statement that focused more on the candidate's proposal to change U.S. policy toward Cuba.

''Senator Obama -- like the vast majority of voters -- is looking to the future, not the past, which is why he believes we should both: keep the embargo to pressure the Cuban government to respect human rights and lift travel and remittance restrictions for Cuban Americans so that families can visit and support one other,'' he said.

Rivera said Cuban Americans are also planning to protest Obama's speech Saturday at the InterContinental Hotel at the nearby Torch of Friendship in Bayfront Park.

During the months-long custody battle over the shipwrecked Cuban boy in 2000, Craig antagonized Miami's Cuban exile community by keeping Elián's father cloistered in Washington with Cuban government operatives. Craig was hired by church groups who wanted the boy reunited with his father after his mother died at sea, but the high-powered lawyer was accused of doing Castro's bidding.

More recently, Craig represented former Bolivian defense minister Carlos Sanchez-Berzaín, accused of ordering a violent crackdown on anti-government protests in 2003. Craig said Sanchez-Berzaín was not to blame for the deaths of at least 60 people.

This is not the first time Craig has drawn flak for advising a presidential candidate. In 2004, he played the role of President Bush to help Democrat John Kerry prepare for a debate in Miami.

Thanks to potlatch....maybe more names should be added to the list....

OBAMA’S SUPPORTERS READ LIKE A LIST OF WHO’S WHO AMONG RACISTS, THUGS, MUSLIMS, MARXIST AND AMERICAN HATERS OF THE WORLD.

>William Ayers (Weatherman Underground bomber, unrepentant domestic terrorist)
Frank Davis (Member Communist Party USA, Early mentor to Obama)
>Jeremiah Wright (Black Liberation militant, racist, and Pastor)
Tony Rezko (Corrupt Financier, ties to Terror Financing)
>Louis Farrakhan (Nation of Islam Leader, racist, anti-American)
RailaOrdinga (Fundamental Islamic Candidate, Kenya, Obama’s Cousin)
>Daniel Ortega (Marxist Sandinista Leader. Nicarauga)
Raul Castro (Hard-line Communist Leader, Cuba)
>Communist Party Illinois, (US Communist Political Party)
Socialist Party USA, (Marxist Socialist Political Party)
>The New Black Panther Party, (Black Militant Organization, anti-American and racist)
Hamas Terrorist Organization, (Islamic Terrorist Organisation)
>More than 80 attorneys for Guantanamo detainees -who have been offering free-of-charge legal services. Not surprising that lawyers for Muslim terrorists would support Obama. >The Communist Party USA
>The Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism
>Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim congressman
> Sam Graham-Felsen, (Obama campaign’s official blogger) He spent time in France taking part in labor riots, has written for a socialist magazine, hung a communist flag in his home, and was a fan of Marx while at Harvard.
>Kwame Kilpatrick
>MoveOn.org George Soros’ (slumlord undergoing trial) son, Jonathan Soros, an attorney and financier, recently promoted to deputy manager of Soros Fund Management , is personally involved with MoveOn.org’s activities.
>Muslim Americans for Obama ‘08
>The Muslim American Society
>Obama Supporters for Marijuana Law Reform
>Obama Youth, “Obama Youth” had as its logo the Islamic crescent and stars (until word got out on the net and they had to clean it up)
>President Daniel Ortega ..who statee, “It’s not to say that there is already a revolution under way in the U.S. ... but yes, they are laying the foundations for a revolutionary change.”
>Project Islamic H. O. P. E., ..who displayed Obama as their banner boy until word got out and they had to clean that up. Obama is no longer there on the site.
>Rev. Al Sharpton ..obviously supports Obama, but obviously advised to keep it quiet.
>Shepard Fairey, Official artist of the Obama posters...remarkable resemblance to Marxist posters
>Tony Rezko, Obama said that he estimated Rezko raised about 50,000 to 60,000 for his political career. Obama has collected at least $168,308 from Rezko and his circle.
>Malaak Shabazz Daughter of Malcomb X
>The Socialist Party USA >George Soros billionaire - Jew hater
They all support, endorse, and/or friends and mentors and advisors of BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA.

They all hate America, they all want to destroy America as we know it. They all want the United States to retreat in the war on terror, and they all want to make over the United States into a marxist/socialist/collective nation Obama’s own core ideology/theology, coincide with these people. This says all you need to know about Obama.. You can and should judge a man by the company he keeps.
Maybe this explains Obama hands were over his crotch instead of saluting the flag/anthem and refusing to wear the flag pin- claiming to do so was ‘false patriotism’

From post #11.

More than 80 attorneys for Guantanamo detainees -who have been offering free-of-charge legal services. Not surprising that lawyers for Muslim terrorists would support Obama.

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It’s difficult to imagine they are so blatantly antiAmerican!

See this :

Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left

And a review:

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By	Kat Bakhu (Albuquerque, NM United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left (Hardcover)

I had long wondered why people on the Left had the propensity to speak more positively about people who would slit their throats than they do about their own country, which affords them more freedom and opportunity than anywhere else. David Horowitz has answered that question thoroughly and convincingly in his Unholy Alliance. Where I felt bewildered and confused, I now feel crystal clear. Unholy Alliance is such a great book.

It begins with the leftist movements at the beginning of the 20th Century, and works its way up to the present day, exploring the anti-American attitude of these movements in detail. Horowitz shows that the enemies of the US back then are largely the same group today, operating under the same misperceptions, making the same mistakes, and pursuing the same impossible utopia.

Individual chapters are included on the Patriot Act (I was persuaded that it is a GOOD thing); the democratic flip-flop on Iraq once G.W. Bush implemented what they agreed with Clinton needed to be done; the driving components of the current anti-war movement; as well as chapters on individual personalities who are major spokespeople of the Left. Horowitz covers a lot of ground, and he covers it concisely and clearly. Unholy Alliance is richly informative without ever being boring or plodding.

This book is so illuminating that I simply cannot do justice to it here. I love people who reason so clearly that they help me get my own reasoning clear. Horowitz is just that type of person! In the terrain of mindless clichés (no-blood-for-oil, etc.), he is a breath of real fresh air.

Why isn’t anyone talking about Eric Holder — also on Obama’s VP search committee?

“Caroline Kennedy, daughter of the late President John Kennedy, will vet prospective running mates along with former Fannie Mae CEO Jim Johnson, who performed the same task for John Kerry in 2004 and Walter Mondale in 1984, and former deputy Attorney General Eric Holder.”

Obama VP Committee Member Helped Enable 2000 Elian Gonzalez Seizure

“Besides his already-known role in facilitating the Clinton pardons, including that of fugitive billionaire financier March Rich, there’s the matter of former Clinton Administration Deputy Attorney General Holder’s involvement in the Elian Gonzalez case in 2000.”

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2008/06/13/obama-vp-committe-member-helped-enable-2000-elian-gonzalez-seizure

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