Off-topic but I said Barack, anyway. Here's the link to the "Religion and Politics" Forum. And a link to a similar thread here.
You will get that regardless. If she loses, it might not be a look-alike. She is going to be pimped like Joe the Plumber.
In the late 1950s, most Cubans thought Cuba needed a change, and they were right. So when a young leader came along, every Cuban was at least receptive. When the young leader spoke eloquently and passionately and denounced the old system, the press fell in love with him. They never questioned who his friends were or what he really believed in. When he said he would help the farmers and the poor and bring free medical care and education to all, everyone followed. When he said he would bring justice and equality to all, everyone said, 'Praise the Lord.' And when the young leader said, 'I will be for change and I'll bring you change'; everyone yelled, 'Viva Fidel!' But nobody asked about the change, so by the time the executioner's guns went silent, the people's guns had been taken away. By the time everyone was equal, they were equally poor, hungry, and oppressed. By the time everyone received their free education, it was worth nothing. By the time the press noticed, it was too late, because they were now working for him. By the time the change was finally implemented, Cuba had been knocked down a couple of notches to Third-World status. By the time the change was over, more than a million people had taken to boats, rafts, and inner tubes. You can call those who made it ashore anywhere else in the world the most fortunate Cubans. Fortunately, America would never fall for a young leader who promised change without asking, what change? How will you carry it out? What will it cost America ? RIGHT? Remember these words from Thomas Jefferson 'A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have.'
Great Post even though your comparison of Obama and Fidel is way off. To compare communism and capitalism is completely ludicrous. Are you Cuban? Have you lived in a country that was ruled under a Dictatorship? This exact propoganda that republicans have been using to create doubt in people that are not as well informed as others, is so disingenuous. Words, like socialism, terrorist and now you are using Cuba, are words, atleast to those that are not as informed as you and I, that only spurs negative feelings. I am pretty sure you have seen clips of people shouting negative connotations back at the Republican candidates at rallies. I am not sure if you are aware of it, but Cuban doctors are one of the best doctors in the world. You are wrong about America never falling for a young leader. We fell for Bush. Look where we are now. Unfortunately the way Bush and Deregulation has F'ed up this Great Country, whoever becomes President might be President of an arguably Third World Country.
I like how Obama is basically running the same campaign that Bill Clinton did, but somehow he's the next Castro.
Even more fascinating is that, if not for knee-jerk left wing hatred -- partly owing to retaliation for silly right wing efforts to oust Clinton over a sex scandal and the general deterioration of the two-party system -- George W. Bush might be seen for the big-spending, world-interventionist liberal he is. I hope I live to see a day when the major choices on the presidential ballot are meaningfully different. But I'm not holding my breath.
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