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Fidel Castro praises Obama but says he is neutral
Yahoo ^ | Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008 | Jeff Franks

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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TOPICS: Cuba; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; castro; election; obama

1 posted on 11/04/2008 10:53:00 AM PST by Hadean
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To: Hadean

Commies support commies.


2 posted on 11/04/2008 10:54:19 AM PST by EagleUSA
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To: Hadean

I thought that Fidel assumed “room tempeture”.


3 posted on 11/04/2008 10:55:25 AM PST by Biggirl (Throw The Bums OUT!=^..^==^..^==^..^==^..^=)
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To: Hadean

I thought Fidel was dead?? He’s so pathetic even death doesn’t want him.


4 posted on 11/04/2008 10:58:07 AM PST by max americana
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To: Hadean

This makes Fidel Castro more objective than the US news media.


5 posted on 11/04/2008 10:59:04 AM PST by CzarNicky (The problem with bad ideas is that they seemed like good ideas at the time.)
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To: Hadean
Hmmm . . . Obama is more "cultured" than McCain, says Castro.

Of course, it's a continuum.

Obama is much more cultured than McCain, but not nearly as cultured as Stalin, for example.

6 posted on 11/04/2008 10:59:58 AM PST by wideawake (Why is it that those who like to be called Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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To: Hadean
Fidel Castro praises Obama but says he is neutral

Does that make my Husky an Obama praiser?

He has been neutral since he was a pup.

7 posted on 11/04/2008 11:03:38 AM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: Hadean

8 posted on 11/04/2008 11:03:50 AM PST by End_Clintonism_Now (SOON-TO-BE POLITICAL DISSIDENT.)
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To: Hadean

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. :)


9 posted on 11/04/2008 11:04:15 AM PST by light-bulb
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To: Hadean

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.


10 posted on 11/04/2008 11:04:20 AM PST by anti-comunist
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To: Hadean

Castro is old, bellicose, uncultured, not very intelligent and not healthy.


11 posted on 11/04/2008 11:04:50 AM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: Hadean; All
Louis Farrakhan, Santiago de Cuba, February, 1998: "There is not a member of the black masses in the United States who is not proud of the example set by Cuba and its revolution, with Comandante Fidel at its head"
Source: http://www.fiu.edu/~fcf/farakhan21898.html#says

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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

12 posted on 11/04/2008 11:10:38 AM PST by ETL (Smoking gun evidence on ALL the ObamaRat-commie connections at my newly revised FR Home/About page)
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13 posted on 11/04/2008 11:14:41 AM PST by ETL (Smoking gun evidence on ALL the ObamaRat-commie connections at my newly revised FR Home/About page)
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To: Hadean

Neutral? Come on Fidelito! Where that’s charisma? What’s one more Obama endorsement by a left-wing fascist dictator? Join the fun! /s


14 posted on 11/04/2008 11:24:25 AM PST by RedDogzRule ("Dalai-Bama...the true Antichrist?")
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To: Hadean
...he( Castro)was officially neutral in the U.S. presidential election.

Just like our Media praises Obama but is "officially neutral."

BARF
15 posted on 11/04/2008 12:16:43 PM PST by RedMonqey (Embracing my "Inner Redneck")
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