Look who our enemy would vote for!?!

[Army_of_One]

Castro's tip: Clinton-Obama the winning ticket

HAVANA (Reuters) - Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro is tipping Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to team up and win the U.S. presidential election.

Clinton leads Obama in the race to be the Democratic nominee for the November 2008 election, and Castro said they would make a winning combination.

"The word today is that an apparently unbeatable ticket could be Hillary for president and Obama as her running mate," he wrote in an editorial column on U.S. presidents published on Tuesday by Cuba's Communist Party newspaper, Granma.

At 81, Castro has outlasted nine U.S. presidents since his 1959 revolution turned Cuba into a thorn in Washington's side by building a communist society about 90 miles offshore from the United States.

He said all U.S. presidential candidates seeking the "coveted" electoral college votes of Florida have had to demand a democratic government in Cuba to win the backing of the powerful Cuban exile community.

Clinton and Obama, both senators, called for democratic change in Cuba last week.

Castro has not appeared in public since intestinal illness forced him to hand over power to his brother Raul Castro in July last year.

He has turned to writing dozens of columns and essays, but rumors that his health is worsening or that he may even be dead have swirled through the Cuban exile community in Miami in the last two weeks.

Castro's only reference to U.S. President George W. Bush in his latest essay was to say that he "needed fraud" to win Florida's electoral college votes and the presidency in the fiercely contested election in 2000.

Castro said former President Bill Clinton was "really kind" when he bumped into him and the two men shook hands at a U.N. summit meeting in 2000. He also praised Clinton for sending elite police to "rescue" shipwrecked Cuban boy Elian Gonzalez from the home of his Miami relatives in 2000 to end an international custody battle.

But even Clinton was forced to bow to Miami politics and tighten the U.S. embargo against Cuba in 1996, using as a "pretext" the shooting down of two small planes used by exile groups to overfly Havana, Castro wrote.

He said his favorite U.S. president since 1959 was Jimmy Carter, another Democrat, because he was not an "accomplice" to efforts to violently overthrow the Cuban government.

Sixteen years after Dwight Eisenhower broke off diplomatic ties with Cuba, Carter restored low-level relations in 1977 when interest sections were opened in each country's capital.

Castro made no mention of Republican Cold War victor Ronald Reagan, or of John F. Kennedy, whose Democratic administration launched the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion by CIA-trained Cuban exiles in 1961.

One of the most dangerous moments of the Cold War came a year later when Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev faced off for 13 days over Soviet missiles that Castro allowed Moscow to place in Cuba.


Castro's tip: Clinton-Obama the winning ticket | Politics | Reuters

What next? Support from Al Sadr, Bin Laden and The midget from Iran?

[Highwayman]

Not only that Army, but criminals like her too.

Big Dem fundraiser wanted on swindling charges

The Los Angeles Times reports on this website tonight and in Wednesday's print editions that a major Democratic Party fundraiser named Norman Hsu is wanted by authorities for skipping out on an agreement to serve up to three years in prison after pleading no contest to grand theft swindling charges.

In a story by Chuck Neubauer and Robin Fields, The Times reports that for three years Hsu has been carving out a place of political and financial influence by funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions into Democratic Party coffers, much of the money earmarked for Sen. Hillary Clinton. He has earned the ranking of Hillraiser for pledging to raise at least $100,000 for her....

Los Angeles Times: Top of the Ticket: Politics, coast to coast, with the L.A. Times

[Outofdodge]

Originally Posted by Army_of_One

What next? Support from Al Sadr, Bin Laden and The midget from Iran?

One would think they're doing just fine under the current president, especially Bin Laden and your favorite midget.

[Army_of_One]

Personally I doubt if UBL is "doing just fine"...if that guy makes so much as cell phone call he'll get a missle up his ass.....not the case when Slick Willy was in office...

[Outofdodge]

Originally Posted by Army_of_One

Personally I doubt if UBL is "doing just fine"...if that guy makes so much as cell phone call he'll get a missle up his ass.....not the case when Slick Willy was in office...

Slick came closer to killing him than did Georgie. Perhaps you missed the national intelligence report that mentioned UBL's group regaining strength.

As long as Georgie is President, UBL will not perish from any US fired weapon, he's much too valuable as a tool for this administration to use as a scare tactic.

[Highwayman]

Originally Posted by Outofdodge

Slick came closer to killing him than did Georgie...

He did?

Do you mean because Clinton claimed that he did everything he could to get OBL?

That claim doesn’t hold up if you read the recently released CIA report. There was no comprehensive assessment of al’Qaida and no comprehensive report on UBL after 1993 among other things.

What the CIA did have was a lack of funding causing them to divert money from counterterrorism operations to other activity. They only started to get their act together in 2001.

Does this sound like Clinton was doing everything he could to get OBL to you because it doesn’t to me. I mean, it might be a little more believable if he actually had the CIA looking for the guy.

https://www.cia.gov/library/reports/...G%20Report.pdf

BTW, has anyone seen or heard anything out of OBL lately? The last tape from a couple months age appears to be part of another tape from about five years ago. I think there’s a good change that he’s dead and al’Qaida ain’t saying anything. Old guys that die from some disease on the floor of a cave don’t make the best martyrs.

[K C Muffin]

Originally Posted by Highwayman

I think there’s a good change that he’s dead and al’Qaida ain’t saying anything. Old guys that die from some disease on the floor of a cave don’t make the best martyrs.

Or.........they could slit his throat after he dies an' blame us............naaaa - just wouldn't be fitting.

[The Drifter]

more republican vs. democrat bullshit....great, just what the country needs.
You ever think that your posts validate the us vs. them politics of the U.S. Maybe the right side is just as guilty as the left side by exploiting the rift between the two sides?

[Outofdodge]

Originally Posted by Highwayman

Do you mean because Clinton claimed that he did everything he could to get OBL?.

No, because apparently he left camp just before one of the cruise missle attacks.

[jeezeweeze]

Quote from HWY

BTW, has anyone seen or heard anything out of OBL lately? The last tape from a couple months age appears to be part of another tape from about five years ago. I think there’s a good change that he’s dead and al’Qaida ain’t saying anything. Old guys that die from some disease on the floor of a cave don’t make the best martyrs.
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It does make one wonder why no videos lately. I wonder if the Pentagon has info that they cannot release. Also the reward ( how much is it ? ) has not produced any results, and you know those folks suffer from greed and not to mention poverty as much as the next person. Things that make you go hummmmmmmmmmmm.

Believe it or not, I do not think EVERYTHING should be disclosed, we absolutely have to have national security secrets, but if OBL is with the virgins in heaven, should that be kept secret IF that is true ?