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jwhop
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posted November 26, 2016 01:18 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Fidel Castro, the leftist icon of the American Socialist set, dead at age 90.

Cuban Americans celebrating in Miami.

November 26, 2016 12:58 AM
Fidel Castro is dead

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/fidel-castro-en/article117186483.html

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Randall
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posted November 26, 2016 02:16 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
He was Obama's Marxist Mentor.

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jwhop
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posted November 27, 2016 12:01 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I agree Randall.

Donald J. Trump
✔ ý@realDonaldTrump

Fidel Castro is dead!
8:08 AM - 26 Nov 2016

And the longer statement here:

“Today, the world marks the passing of a brutal dictator who oppressed his own people for nearly six decades,” Trump said in a statement issued a couple of hours after his tweet.

Fidel Castro’s legacy is one of firing squads, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and the denial of fundamental human rights. While Cuba remains a totalitarian island, it is my hope that today marks a move away from the horrors endured for too long, and toward a future in which the wonderful Cuban people finally live in the freedom they so richly deserve.

Though the tragedies, deaths and pain caused by Fidel Castro cannot be erased, our administration will do all it can to ensure the Cuban people can finally begin their journey toward prosperity and liberty. I join the many Cuban Americans who supported me so greatly in the presidential campaign, including the Brigade 2506 Veterans Association that endorsed me, with the hope of one day soon seeing a free Cuba.”
President Elect, Donald J Trump

For people sick of the commie apologists, Donald Trump’s moral clarity is a breath of fresh air. There is no nuance with a murderous tyrant like Fidel Castro and those who try to find it reveal their own moral turpitude.
http://spectator.org/fidel-castro-is-dead-liberals-mourn-trump-nails-it/

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posted November 27, 2016 08:52 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for juniperb     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
This is a time we are in total agreement on a statement from Trump.

The world lived under the shadow of castro long enough.

Trump spoke the truth for this American and I certainly hope now Cuba has a future rich in freedom, development, and commerce .

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posted November 27, 2016 11:25 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Enneline     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Randall:
He was Obama's Marxist Mentor.

luckily we can agree on one thing apparantly: Castro was a communist tyrant and dictator

but, on a serious side note: did Obama and castro really ever met?

Also, do you know what a Marxist is? I mean a real Marxist, the original meaning ?

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posted November 27, 2016 12:18 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Yes, they met. And Castro was a textbook Marxist, while Obama is a Marxist wannabe.

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posted November 27, 2016 12:23 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Enneline     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Randall:
Yes, they met. And Castro was a textbook Marxist, while Obama is a Marxist wannabe.

okay, i would have been prejudiced against Obama as well if i had known he sympathizes with that....communist....tyrant

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posted November 28, 2016 08:52 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Obama is attending his funeral. What does that say to the world?

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posted November 28, 2016 01:10 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for StubbornVirgo     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by juniperb:
This is a time we are in total agreement on a statement from Trump.

The world lived under the shadow of castro long enough.

Trump spoke the truth for this American and I certainly hope now Cuba has a future rich in freedom, development, and commerce .


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posted November 28, 2016 05:46 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Obama and Biden both decided not to attend. It is likely Kerry will.

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posted November 28, 2016 06:55 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The statements about Castro from Obama, Stein, and Carter are embarrassing.

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posted November 30, 2016 07:58 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Astro keen     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Fidel Castro was grossly maligned by the western media. How much of it is true, I wonder. Yes, he was a Marxist. He made amazing progress towards equality and removing poverty that puts America to shame.

Found this on a site in Castro's defense:

Not just anyone removes illiteracy in a year.
Not just anyone low infant mortality of 42 % to 4 %.
Not any way more than 130 thousand doctors, ensuring 1 Doctor per 130 people, with the highest rate of doctors per capita in the world.
Not everyone believes the greatest faculty of medicine in the world, graduando1500 foreign doctors per year, with 25.000 doctors graduates of 84 nations.
Don't anyone send more than 30 thousand doctors to work in over 68 countries of the world by adding nearly 600.000 missions.
Not everyone gets to be the only Latin American nation without child malnutrition.
Not everyone gets to be the only Latin American country without drug problem.
Not everyone gets 100 % of schooling.
Not everyone can move in their country without seeing a single child sleeping on the street.
Not everyone gets to be the only country in the world that fulfills the ecological sustainability.
Not everyone gets that its population has 79 years of life expectancy at birth.
Not everyone believes vaccines against cancer.
Not everyone gets to be the only country that eradicates the mother to child transmission of HIV.
Not everyone gets to have the largest number of Olympic medals of Latin America.
Not everyone survives over 600 attempts on his life and 11 Presidents Americans trying to overthrow him.
Not everyone survives 50 years of blockade and economic war.
Not everyone gets to be 90 years old, with so much prominence in world history.
Loved by millions. Misunderstood by many others.

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posted November 30, 2016 10:36 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Fidel Castro, a murderous Socialist thug dictator and pimple on the a$s of humanity. Just like all the other murderous Socialist thug dictators.

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posted December 02, 2016 10:56 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

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posted December 02, 2016 11:30 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Frightened by Trump, Inspired by Fidel
George Neumayr
November 30, 2016

The Left’s warped reaction to the death of Castro.


The left allows itself any number of rhetorical excesses about Donald Trump. He is a “fascist,” a dangerous “strongman,” a “tyrant” in waiting, and so forth. But when an actual tyrant dies such as Fidel Castro the left quickly adopts more measured rhetoric. Its hysterical editorialists suddenly turn sedate. They urge people to see a reviled figure in perspective. Castro’s legacy is “divisive,” as the New Yorker hesitantly put it. “Cuba today is a dilapidated country, but its social and economic indicators are the envy of many of its neighbors.”

Casting about for a circumspect word to describe a mass murderer, Barack Obama hit upon “singular.” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau offered the slightly more daring description “remarkable.” Pope Francis called him a “deceased dignitary,” in a telegram that the Vatican normally doesn’t send (it typically only sends telegrams for leaders who die while still in office, according to the Catholic press).

Careful not to mourn his death too obviously, the press peppered its stories with similarly evasive and hedging language: Castro was a “controversial” and “charismatic” figure who, in the laughably neutral words of the New York Times, “transformed Cuba.” Many newspapers made reference to his repression but didn’t want their readers to forget his “achievements” either, as if “free” access to crumbling hospitals balanced out his slaughtering of tens of thousands of people and displacing more than a million people. Under Castro, said the BBC, “Cuba registered some impressive domestic achievements. Good medical care was freely available for all, and Cuba’s infant mortality rates compared favorably with the most sophisticated societies on earth.”

The nods to his monstrous crimes by leftist pols, to the extent any came, were quick and breezy. British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn deserves first prize in this category: “For all his flaws, Castro’s support for Angola played a crucial role in bringing an end to Apartheid in South Africa and he will be remembered both as an internationalist and a champion of social justice.” In that “for all his flaws” lie how many murders?

Naturally, Donald Trump’s honest reaction to Castro’s death generated criticism for its “tone.” In the Washington Post, former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers called it “highly problematic.” This, of course, comes from the same media that now openly congratulates itself for its lack of balance in covering Trump. The other day, CNN correspondent Christiane Amanpour was pleading with her fellow journalists to abandon the sham pretense of objectivity and adopt the “Edward R. Murrow standard” for Trump. She believes in “being truthful, not neutral.” She will not stand idle during this “post-truth,” “post-values” age. She will “fight against normalization of the unacceptable.”

She conceives of journalism as a high priesthood that defines good and evil for the unenlightened masses. But not long after cheering her comments, journalists returned to their keyboards to normalize the evil of Castro with evasive pieces on his passing. Even Amanpour got into the act, interviewing international figures about the “unclear” legacy of Castro. She can find nuance in Castro but not in Trump.

Journalists who wouldn’t have survived a day in Castro’s Cuba treat Trump as an enemy of press freedom (for such grave offenses as not informing his press pool that he was going out to dinner). They gasp at Trump’s health care plans, while praising Castro’s hospitals. They freak out over Trump’s “Muslim ban,” while minimizing Castro’s suppression of religious freedom. They couldn’t have voted in Castro’s Cuba but demand a recount in America (Jill Stein called Castro a “symbol of the struggle for justice”).

After Trump won, the New Yorker’s David Remnick nearly fainted from fear. It was a “sickening event,” a “tragedy for the American republic,” and a victory for “authoritarianism” at home and abroad, he wrote. But Castro never elicited such breathless denunciations from his magazine. Castro was merely a “controversial” figure. His totalitarianism generated less outrage from it than Trump’s tweets.

Now the media, never too worried about the jingoism of Castro, is harrumphing over Trump’s flag-burning comments. It can forgive nationalism in foreign leaders but not its own.

Meanwhile, the press continues to push the storyline that Trump’s coming administration is causing the great and good of the world to tremble, a claim to which the American people rightly shrug, especially since many of these international luminaries appalled by Trump’s inauguration will soon turn up at Castro’s funeral.
http://spectator.org/frightened-by-trump-inspired-by-fidel/

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