Cuban boy's saga haunts Obama (Elian Gonzalez)

WorldNetDaily ^ | 6/22/08 | WorldNetDaily

[wagglebee]

Family members of Elian Gonzalez, the refugee boy rescued from the ocean but returned to his Cuban father during the Clinton administration, called a press conference to protest Barack Obama's visit to Florida and the candidate's hiring of two staff members who were involved in sending the boy back eight years ago.

The capture of Elian Gonzalez

The family specifically points to Obama's foreign policy advisor, Greg Craig, who represented Elian's Cuban father during the custody battle, and Eric Holder, a member of Obama's vice-presidential search committee, who served as deputy attorney general during the much-publicized affair.

Delfin Gonzalez, Elian's great-uncle, stood in the front yard of the home where immigration agents had seized the boy at gunpoint on April 22, 2000. "My fear is that those who collaborated with Cuba's communist government and made a great mistake with a defenseless child will make the same mistake again against this nation that is facing danger from terrorism," he said.

Gonzalez told the Miami Herald earlier, "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."

[wagglebee]

Obama is simply showing his true colors, the good news is that this WILL cost him the Florida vote.

[Mikey_1962]

Obama is a Pinko.

[sinanju]

Oh dear, does the Gonzalez family really want to bring that up?

Recall the joygasm of liberal racism and ethnic slurs aimed at the Miami Cubans during the Elian Affair. To the dems, Miami Cubans don’t count as an approved minority.

They’re too self-sufficient (and too republican).

[Bean Counter]

[Southerngl]

Can’t trade for cigars with Cuba, but we can little children.

[river rat]

How could ANYONE be surprised that OBAMA is surrounded by Communists, Black Racists, Marxists, Local Terrorists, Islamist Racists, America Haters, Radical Pastors, Leaches, Corrupt politicians, etc, etc......

That is who OBAMA is.......

WHAT is the CHANGE Obama promises will bring hope to these miscreants who support him.....

The horror is — there are enough lunatics, assholes and morons in America to elect Obama...

[Clemenza]

Correct. I always found it fascinating that both the press and the "call in shows" in South Florida allowed for people to say the worst things about Cuban Americans, most of whom are intelligent, hard working citizens. Of course, they would NEVER allow such hate to be used against the large Jewish and black populations down there.

I am so happy the Herald will likely fold within the next decade...

[no dems]

Obama is simply showing his true colors, the good news is that this WILL cost him the Florida vote.

Do you really think so; you think THIS could cost him FL? I certainly hope you're right.

[Southerngl]

However, that being said, I do think that most Muslim societies think it’s perfectly ok to yank children from their mothers in America and keep them hostage in their own country and call it justified.

So. Do we keep him because we know we are *right*, and give up all acknowledgements to mothers who lose their children to other societies when their father kidnaps them? Or do we acknowledge the father’s parental rights, however screwed up I think they are and give the same authority to American mothers.

8 years later and I am STILL arguing with myself on this one.

[Yardstick]

That is exactly right.

BTW, a prediction — in a few years, if trends continue, the libs will hate Iraqis in a similar way.

[Shooter 2.5]

More obama true "colors".

[isrul]

And with no real opposition candidate, the sickly looking puke’s chances are even better.

[Cyber Liberty]

This won’t hurt Oblama. Heck, even FReepers were divided pretty evenly at the time Elian was seized at gunpoint as to whether that was a bad thing for Janet Reno to do.

[wagglebee]

Obama lost Florida to Hillary by a significant margin. There are a lot of ‘Rats in Florida who supported Hillary but won’t vote for Obama. The Cuban vote in Florida has traditionally gone GOP, but Kerry picked up a bunch of them in 2004. This issue WILL push them back in the GOP column.

[wagglebee]

Heck, even FReepers were divided pretty evenly at the time Elian was seized at gunpoint as to whether that was a bad thing for Janet Reno to do.

But the Cuban voters in Florida WERE NOT divided, they went 80% for Bush in 2000.

[isrul]

I doubt it. The Cubans never belonged to a death cult masquerading as a religion. Iraqis do. They are muzzies first, humans second.

[Cyber Liberty]

Unless the Cubans have been breeding heavily, they're being diluted with retirees from New Yawk and New England.

But I always hope. McQueeg is likely to get a lot of the Cuban votes, because a lot of the Cubans support illegal immigration. Sad but true....

[KC_Conspirator]

I do remember the slurs of the media on the Cuban-American community. They are NOT approved minorities according to liberals.

[purpleraine]

Dear BO: When a child is returned to a surviving parent, things are not all bad. It is as it is intended to be.

[Yardstick]

If trends continue, I think Iraq could wind up as a smashing success. Every time a lib encounters an Iraqi or sees one on TV, it will be a reminder of how utterly wrong the Dims were on Iraq. They wanted failure and suffering in order to teach Bush (and America) a lesson. But here will be Iraqis going about their lives with satisfaction, in a country that wouldn’t have existed without George W Bush. Granted libs will have managed to rationalize their sicko defeatism, but still, on some level that would have to sting. And if Iraqis were to display even a particle of appreciation for the US’s efforts — oh man, the libs’ goat would be thoroughly gotten.