Indeed. Think they have a 1959 Buick Electra I could get?
Posted on 06/25/2010 6:31:09 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Gov. Charlie Crist's special assistant in South Florida has resigned over the governor's attendance at a fundraiser for his U.S. Senate campaign attended by business leaders who back lifting sanctions on Cuba. The fundraiser -- story here -- was co-hosted by Alfredo Duran, a lawyer and prominent supporter of opening dialogue with the communist regime.
Chris Miles, 20, joined the governor's office shortly before Crist left the Republican party to run as an independent in late April. He previously worked for Sen. George LeMieux and for U.S. Rep. Lincoln-Diaz Balart's re-election campaign.
"I appreciate the opportunity that I have had to represent the governor in South Florida,'' Miles said in a statement. "However his decision to accept campaign contributions from business associates of the Castro regime has prompted my resignation. There are few issues I consider sacred, and that is certainly one of them.''
Crist's spokesman, Sterling Ivey, confirmed that Miles had left the governor's office but didn't give a reason.
Beth Reinhard
not only a demand for GMS, but also for bread and butter and salt and pepper — but since Cuba has no economy and the Cubans have no money and there is no free enterprise, the “Market” you are thinking about doesn’t exist.
Cuba is a concentration camp.
“Cuba is a concentration camp.”
I’m not sure what the embargo in Cuba is accomplishing. I know the Cubans live under an evil dictatorship and stole American assets. What I’m looking for is some coherent way to sort out why we trade with some evil dictatorships and not with others. I don’t see a sane pattern here. I’d like somebody to set forth a coherent policy on this.
Also, I don’t mind using “sticks” as a policy, but what if “carrots” may be more effective in influencing those countries toward greater freedom?
But to whom do you offer the “carrot”? The Castro family and their mafia don’t want Cuba to be free — and the Cuban people are so oppressed in ways that you can’t even conceive that they can’t respond to the “carrot” — they would need to be free in the first place in which case they wouldn’t need the “carrot” —
You can’t offer a “carrot” to donkey that muzzled, hog-tied and blindfolded. Or you can. but the donkey can’t choose the carrot.
No, Saudi Arabia is not a concentration camp, even for women — it is oppressive and has draconian laws — but the peop;le are not kept in a state of constant hunger with no resources — you don’t get arrested for normal human activity like trying to get food with money that you have worked for.
The death of Fidek and Raul is not relevant to the Cuban situation. Again, it’s not Oz where the land of the Munchkins can be liberated by the death of a witch.
How many Soviet leaders died and the system stayed in place?
It’s only fascist systems (Nazi Germany, Franco’s Spain) that are magically changed by the death of a leader.
he poeple who in the ‘80s were saying that the system was about to go under didn’t even know ethe system — most had never even been there.
Right now Cuba is like the South at the end of the civil war — there isn’t evn food for the tourists. This is the moment to push even harder.
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