ext_191476 ([identity profile] hunterkirk.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] talkpolitics2009-04-14 09:22 am

Democrats praise Castro and Communism

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/21008.html



“It was almost like listening to an old friend,” said Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Il.)

“In my household I told Castro he is known as the ultimate survivor,” Rush said.

Rep. Laura Richardson (D-Ca.) said Castro was receptive to President Obama’s message of turning the page in American foreign policy. "He listened. He said the exact same thing" about turning the page "as President Obama said," said Richardson. Richardson said Castro knew her name and district. "He looked right into my eyes and he said, 'How can we help? How can we help President Obama?'"

Castro said that the delegation had expressed to him that a segment of American society “continues to be racist,” and is at least partly to blame for the travel restrictions.

SO, why is it Democrats get so googly eyed when they talk with communists? They see them as brothers and victims of the same evil namely the USA. Even the communist party in the USA sound just like the Democrat party. BUT should you point out these things well then your speaking nonsense. So explain to why the Democrats went there and why they were falling all over themselves to praise Castro and his communist government?

[identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com 2009-04-15 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
Why do Americans hate Cuba/Castro so much? I'm not joking.

I find it somewhat perplexing as well. The world community, as successive UN motions have shown, increasingly put the US towards a minority of one on the matter of trade embargoes etc.

[identity profile] allhatnocattle.livejournal.com 2009-04-15 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
To me it seems Cuba rightly defended themselves against American business interests. Yankee oil corps wouldn't process USSR oil so they kicked them out as they had the right to do. They defended themselves against invasion as they had the right to do. Somehow Americans brainwashed their own masses to hate Cuba for being independent and sovereign. I have a real problem with those who buy that BS.

[identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com 2009-04-15 11:44 am (UTC)(link)
All that is true, but an ever greater motivation is Castro's communism which the US public have a fanatical and irrational opposition to. If elected Marxists are not safe from this vitriol, it is hard to imagine how the leader of a single-party state (even one with high levels of decentralised control such as Cuba) have any chance of a remotely fair hearing.