Posted on 11/04/2008 10:52:58 AM PST by Hadean
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuban's former communist leader Fidel Castro on Tuesday praised Democrat Barack Obama as "more intelligent" than "old, bellicose" Republican John McCain, but said that he was officially neutral in the U.S. presidential election.
The ailing Castro, 82, said in a column published in state-run media that neither of the candidates running in Tuesday's election was concerned with the world's most pressing problems as they campaigned to lead what he called "a parasitic and plundering empire."
Obama, Castro wrote, is "without doubt more intelligent, cultured and calm than his Republican adversary."
McCain, he said, is "old, bellicose, uncultured, not very intelligent and not healthy."
Quoting from a letter he wrote to Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Castro said if McCain wins "the danger of war will increase."
"When this opinion (is published), no one will have time to say that I wrote something that can be used by one of the candidates in favor of his campaign," Castro wrote.
"I had to be and have been neutral in the electoral contest," said Castro,
Castro also said the U.S., which has imposed a trade embargo against Cuba for 46 years, had a long history of racism and that Obama's selection as the Democratic presidential nomination had "astonished" many because he is black.
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Commies support commies.
I thought that Fidel assumed “room tempeture”.
I thought Fidel was dead?? He’s so pathetic even death doesn’t want him.
This makes Fidel Castro more objective than the US news media.
Of course, it's a continuum.
Obama is much more cultured than McCain, but not nearly as cultured as Stalin, for example.
Does that make my Husky an Obama praiser?
He has been neutral since he was a pup.
Of course Castro loves Obama. The whole world loves him. So just a thought, and I’m not too much into the whole speculation concept, but has anyone put together the Mayan calendar and the the term for Obama? Pretty interesting, granted many things can magically line up if you look for a link, but Obama took office in January of 2005, Mayan Calendar puts end of their age in 2012... And this just happens to be 7 years from the time Obama took the stage. It’s interesting, no wonder everyone in the world loves him. :)
THAT IS NOT NEWS I KNEW THAT ALL ALONG.JUST FOR THE RECORD OBAMA’S MOTHER VISITED CUBA IN 1960 JUST AFTER CASTRO CAME TO POWER. I HEARD A STORY LAST NIGHT THAT ACCORDING TO SOME GUY IN CUBA OBAMA IS HIS SON, BECAUSE SHE WAS 4 MONTH PREGNANT WHEN SHE MARRIED OBAMA’S AFRICAN FATHER.
Castro is old, bellicose, uncultured, not very intelligent and not healthy.
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"Minister Farrakhan and his delegation met privately with President Fidel Castro of Cuba."
http://www.finalcall.com/media/cuba/
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Louis Farrakhan, at the annual Saviours' Day celebration in Chicago, Feb. 25, 2008: "This young man is the hope of the entire world that America will change and be made better"..."If you look at Barack Obama's audiences and look at the effect of his words, those people are being transformed."
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23333598/
Video of Farrakhan's Obama endorsement at the above 'annual Saviours' Day celebration in Chicago, Feb. 25, 2008'. Hear him call Obama "The Messiah" And speak of "universal change":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OowxMcVTjTE
Neutral? Come on Fidelito! Where that’s charisma? What’s one more Obama endorsement by a left-wing fascist dictator? Join the fun! /s
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