Castro sounds like typical American lib

[DarrinS]

When Fidel Castro has the same talking points as Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and many other Democrats, you have to wonder.


Fidel Castro says racist right-wingers fight Obama (http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSB30869920090825)






HAVANA (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is trying to make positive changes in the United States, but is being fought at every turn by right-wingers who hate him because he is black, former Cuban leader Fidel Castro said on Tuesday.
In an unusually conciliatory column in the state-run media, Castro said Obama had inherited many problems from his predecessor, George W. Bush, and was trying to resolve them. But the "powerful extreme right won't be happy with anything that diminishes their prerogatives in the slightest way."

Obama does not want to change the U.S. political and economic system, but "in spite of that, the extreme right hates him for being African-American and fights what the president does to improve the deteriorated image of that country," Castro wrote.

"I don't have the slightest doubt that the racist right will do everything possible to wear him down, blocking his program to get him out of the game one way or another, at the least political cost," he said.

Castro, who writes regular commentaries for Cuba's state-run media, has criticized Obama, complimented him occasionally and said that he is watching him closely to see if he means what he says about changing U.S. policy toward Cuba.

His latest column comes during a visit to Cuba by New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson that has stirred speculation that he may try to push U.S.-Cuba relations forward.

Richardson has been a diplomatic trouble-shooter in nations with which the United States has poor relations. In 1996 he negotiated with Castro for the release of three Cuban political prisoners.

Obama has said he wants to end 50 years of hostilities between the United States and Cuba and has eased the long-standing U.S. trade embargo against the communist-led island.

But he has said the embargo will be lifted only if Cuba shows progress on political prisoners and human rights. Cuban President Raul Castro has said he is happy to discuss these issues but will make no unilateral concessions.

Obama has been criticized by anti-embargo groups for moving too slowly on Cuban policy.

Castro, 83, ran Cuba for 49 years after taking power in a 1959 revolution, but stepped down last year so Raul Castro, his younger brother, could succeed him.

He has not been seen in public since undergoing intestinal surgery in July 2006, but still plays a behind-the-scenes role in government and maintains a high profile through his writings.

He appeared on Cuban television on Sunday for the first time in 14 months meeting with Venezuelan students.

He seemed in good health as he smiled and talked with the students in an appearance some experts believe was aimed at shoring up support for his brother and the government at a time when Cuba is in deep economic crisis.

[DarrinS]

Every Critic a Racist (http://blogs.abcnews.com/johnstossel/2009/08/every-critic-a-racist.html)





During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama’s supporters promised that his election would allow America to “transcend race." Among the headlines:

The Boston Globe: "Obama shows an ability to transcend race”

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “Obama's success suggests we can transcend race”

But of course that hasn’t happened. Jonah Goldberg writes:

It was Obama’s supporters who hinted, teased, promised, and prophesied that Obama would help America “transcend race.” But now, it is they who shrink from their own promised land…

From Day 1, Obama’s supporters have tirelessly cultivated the idea that anything inconvenient for the first black president just might be terribly, terribly racist.

Goldberg has plenty of examples:

For instance, actress Janeane Garofalo summed up the tea parties thusly: “This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up.”

In an ABC News story about how racist white militias are somehow connected to town-hall protests, Mark Potok of the dismayingly left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center insists Obama has “triggered fears among fairly large numbers of white people in this country that they are somehow losing their country.”

Come on. Every president eventually is criticized by the media – even one as “transcendent” as Obama. The President’s supporters should engage his critics with facts, not charges of racism.

[polysylab1k]

I have never thought Castro was a white man.

[whottt]

People getting on rafts to escape = positive changes

[Viva Las Espuelas]

ah yes. castro. love his work

DcF225WimcU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcF225WimcU

[Nbadan]

It's like Bill Maher says, not all republicans are racists, but
all racists are republican.

[DarrinS]

It's like Bill Maher says, ...


No need to read further.

[SonOfAGun]

It's like Bill Maher says, not all republicans are racists, but
all racists are republican.

That's weird. I was not aware Van Jones switched parties.

[whottt]

It's like Bill Maher says, not all republicans are racists, but
all racists are republican.

Bill Maher is one of the most racist people I've ever met in my life(and yes I have met him, more than met actually), he's just racist against the safe skin color.

[hope4dopes]

I know it's a small point,and one that will never be fully settled but which came first the chicken or the egg......
Does Castro sound like and american leftist or... Do american leftist sound like insane communist thugs.

[nkdlunch]

Bill Maher is one of the most racist people I've ever met in my life.

so you have not met Bill O'Reily? Rush Limbaug?

[hope4dopes]

Hmmmm....a glaring silence......where are the usual suspects rushing to defend our glorious leader.

[jman3000]

The board conservatives are starting to sound like typical libs with all this bitching and moaning about every little thing.

[whottt]

so you have not met Bill O'Reily? Rush Limbaug?

No, I haven't met either of them.

[jman3000]

O'Reilly probably isn't that bad a person to hang out with.

He'd probably tell a 20 minute story about his childhood that shoulda been 5... but other than that I'm sure he's just like any other old dude.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

so you have not met Bill O'Reily? Rush Limbaug?
rev "wright", farrakhan, etc............

[nkdlunch]

O'Reilly probably isn't that bad a person to hang out with.

He'd probably tell a 20 minute story about his childhood that shoulda been 5... but other than that I'm sure he's just like any other old dude.

So you are saying all old dudes are sick perverts??

"OCTOBER 13--A female Fox News producer fired back at the TV star today, filing a lawsuit claiming that he subjected her to repeated instances of sexual harassment and spoke often, and explicitly, to her about phone sex, vibrators, threesomes, masturbation, the loss of his virginity, and sexual fantasies. Below you'll find a copy of Andrea Mackris's complaint, an incredible page-turner that quotes O'Reilly, 55, on all sorts of lewd matters. Based on the extensive quotations cited in the complaint, it appears a safe bet that Mackris, 33, recorded some of O'Reilly's more steamy soliloquies. For example, we direct you to his Caribbean shower fantasies. While we suggest reading the entire document, TSG will point you to interesting sections on a Thailand sex show, Al Franken, and the climax of one August 2004 phone conversation. "

[coyotes_geek]

The board conservatives are starting to sound like typical libs with all this bitching and moaning about every little thing.

Everyone switched sides of the tennis court back on November the 5th.

[jman3000]

I've said some pretty fucked up stuff to chicks that would probably make me look gross.

I guess it's one thing to do it with somebody who's reciprocating and another if they don't like it though.

I'd say it's possible, not likely, that the talk was consensual and she saw an opening to make some cash and used it.

[rjv]

Everyone switched sides of the tennis court back on November the 5th.

thing is, they have never really been on opposing sides. more like a mixed doubles pair that occassionally quarrels.

[jman3000]

Everyone switched sides of the tennis court back on November the 5th.

apt

[jman3000]

thing is, they have never really been on opposing sides. more like a mixed doubles pair that occassionally quarrels.

ooo more apt.

[nkdlunch]

I've said some pretty fucked up stuff to chicks that would probably make me look gross.

I guess it's one thing to do it with somebody who's reciprocating and another if they don't like it though.

I'd say it's possible, not likely, that the talk was consensual and she saw an opening to make some cash and used it.


For example, we direct you to his Caribbean shower fantasies. While we suggest reading the entire document, TSG will point you to interesting sections on a Thailand sex show, Al Franken, and the climax of one August 2004 phone conversation.

either he's a sick pervert or a real dumbass to discuss this with a woman. He's obviously not a dumbass.

[whottt]

O'Reilly probably isn't that bad a person to hang out with.

He'd probably tell a 20 minute story about his childhood that shoulda been 5... but other than that I'm sure he's just like any other old dude.

He probably doesn't ask his bodyguards to select the girls he's going to fuck that night based first and foremost on the color of their skin, and then turn around and say shit like all racists are Democrats. I doubt very seriously he does that, I doubt Rush does that...I think it's only Bill Maher that does that. Even if they do do that, I don't see anyone bringing their names up as examples of sage wisdom in this particular thread.

[nkdlunch]

He probably doesn't ask his bodyguards to select the girls he's going to fuck that night based first and foremost on the color of their skin, and then turn around and say shit like all racists are Democrats. I doubt very seriously he does that, I doubt Rush does that...I think it's only Bill Maher that does that. Even if they do do that, I don't see anyone bringing their names up as examples of sage wisdom in this particular thread.

you forget Bill Maher smokes chronic. He probably fucked Lil Kim

[whottt]

you forget Bill Maher smokes chronic. He probably fucked Lil Kim

I smoke chronic too...doesn't mean Bill Maher isn't an extreme racist.

[jman3000]

He probably doesn't ask his bodyguards to select the girls he's going to fuck that night based first and foremost on the color of their skin, and then turn around and say shit like all racists are Democrats. I doubt very seriously he does that, I doubt Rush does that...I think it's only Bill Maher that does that. Even if they do do that, I don't see anyone bringing their names up as examples of sage wisdom in this particular thread.

I can honestly see Rush as an expensive call girl kinda guy... like Elliott Spitzer. He knows he's loaded and not very attractive... so most girls who want his wang most likely want his wallet more.

With hookers he wouldn't have to worry about that.

[jman3000]

So it's only ok to call libs racist now? ok got it.

[nkdlunch]

I smoke chronic too...doesn't mean Bill Maher isn't an extreme racist.

So you wouldn't fuck Lil Kim?

[TeyshaBlue]

So you wouldn't fuck Lil Kim?

I wouldn't fuck that skank with your dick!

[nkdlunch]

I wouldn't fuck that skank with your dick!

Racist!!

[TeyshaBlue]

Racist!!

Dude, don't matter what color that girl is. She's torn up extreme.