Cuba's Fidel Castro Gives Up on Communism: "The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore"

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=365755&CategoryId=10718 ^

[hattend]

The “Cuban Model” of communism worked great for Fidel when the Russians were giving Cuba gazillions of dollars to keep his regime afloat.

[Pinkbell]

Isn’t it something how they once again go to their tried and true “It’s the U.S. fault” card? If it wasn’t for the “evil” U.S. trade embargo, Cuba would be in great shape right now, don’t you know?

[Art in Idaho]

Gee, thanks Fidel. Now will you release the Political Prisoners rotting in your jails?

[Pan_Yan]

I like the immediate Walmart comment, followed by the attempt at 'Cuba has a mixed economy'.

I think the best might be this little gem:

Um, anyone know which model DOES work these days?

[cranked]

Truth beknown, it never worked for ya, especially after the fall of the Soviet Union......CastroIdiot. =.=

[NFHale]

Psst...Hey Fidel...gots a secret fer ya...

The Russian model didn’t work so well either, ya stupid proletarian j*rkoff...

Another one of my goals soon to be met:

Goal #1. Outlive Teddy Kennedy: Check
Goal #2. Outlive John Murtha: Check
Goal #3. Outlive Jimmy Carter: Working on it...
Goal #4. Outlive Lautenberg: Working on it...
Goal #5: Live to See Saddam Hussein dancing on a rope, taken on a surrepetitious cell phone camera: CHECK! (enjoyed it, too).
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Goal #n: Live long enough to see Fidel assume room temperature and become worm food: Working on it.

A man’s GOT to have goals.

Was that mean? Harsh? Do I care? Lemme think fer a minute...Nah

[Farmer Dean]

My goal list is the same as yours,except you forgot to mention Jane Fonda.

[NFHale]

“..Meanwhile, in other news, Sean Penn’s head explodes...”

One can “hope”...what nice imagery!

[NFHale]

No I didn’t...she’s somewhere in the : : : part...

She is a real POS. That guy that publically hocked a tobacco loogie on her s few years back is a personal hero of mine.

Loved it.

But hey...that’s just me being me, brother.

[GOPJ]

Maybe he could come talk to our radical liberal elite...

[GOPJ]

Meanwhile, in other news, Sean Penn’s head explodes.

And the sun comes up in the West...

[NohSpinZone]

And Joe Biden praises Bush for his management of the Iraq War. Hmmmmm, I smell a rat...

[Caipirabob]

READ: FIDEL CASTRO IS DEAD...

[Blind Eye Jones]

Sorry, I meant to say top down on the Castro Convertible. But if he did convert — like other who are pro Jewish and have turned from communism (Horowitz, Kristol, Podhoretz) — could he be labeled a neocon?

[DaveTesla]

“The closest any socialist state ever came to working was probably Yugoslavia.”

The Tito regime killed in cold blood some 1,700,000
to 1,800,000 people, mainly collaborators and anti-communists.
This range includes the dead from camps, massacre, anti-
communist fighting, and communist executions.

Sorry, but If that is not communism what is?

[DaveTesla]

The Tito Regime 1941 to 1987.

3 million battle dead, 2 million murdered.
May it NEVER happen again.

[metmom]

Too little, too late.

An interesting development nevertheless. I wonder what’s up with that.

[April Lexington]

I wonder if Fidel now regrets having JFK put away?

[eater-of-toast]

I've always joked that Cubans would know they'd made the transition from socialism to communism, when they had to start importing sugar and cigars. (Bit o' the old dark humor there.)

[chilltherats]

He owes us a suicide.