>>?And where do you stand on his anti-United States/pro-Castroc c*ck comments?<<<
I am against them.
That said:
a) I probably wouldn’t expect much different from any average Cuban as that is what they are brought up to believe. Heck, a third of Americans these days are pretty much as Marxist as the average Cuban, and thus we have Barack Hussein Obama as our President.
b) I have no doubt Elian was singled out for extra “training” in Cuban political doctrine and has certainly been given many priviliges to encourage him to be an extra-loyal Cuban Marxist.
In other words, I don’t hold it against him. He went through a terrible trauma as a small child, nearly dying at sea, in a small, leaky boat and watching his Mom and 9 others drown.
Then, following this trauma and loss, rather than being immediately reunited with a comforted by his father, he was used as a pawn in a political game and media circus for months.
Finally, he goes home and because of the media circus is pretty much destined to be a propaganda pawn for the rest of his life. Of course, I’m sure it has its financial and other benefits, but it also made it far less likely that he would ever be able to think outside the Marxist box.
If he had been quietly returned his father promptly, and lived the life a an average Cuban boy, it is hard to say how he would have turned out, but I guess we wouldn’t know anyway as his views would not be news.
Oh by the way, how many other deadbeat dads have you defended? Is this some new cause I haven’t been privy to?
Deadbeat Fathers’ Rights. Sure, sign me up.