Fidel Castro Chimes In On GOP

[dales]

http://www.nysun.com/national/castro-pe ... est/87721/

Castro Pegs the GOP Primaries, As the Best Contenders Shun American Presidential Contest

By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun | February 25, 2012



The first words Fidel Castro has ever uttered that I have agreed with are those recently published on his blog, in which he opined that the current U.S. Republican nomination race is one of the most inane and stupid events in modern world history. On its record, the Obama administration should be sent packing, bag and baggage. It will have issued $5-trillion of new debt in one term, and publicly held federal debt as a percentage of GDP will have increased from under 50% to about 80%. It is a regime of narcissistic posturing and confidence tricks and bad policy options that richly deserves and badly needs a severe thrashing at the polls, as did its arrogant, bone-headed predecessor and the louche, rascality-tainted latter Clinton road-show that preceded that.

Instead, there could well be only the second occurrence of three consecutive two-term administrations in the country’s history (after Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe, the scarcely comparable principal authors of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Monroe Doctrine, 1801-1825).

The most disturbing aspect of this election is that despite the parlous condition of the country and the profound vulnerability of the incumbent, the best Republican candidates — Jeb Bush, Mitch Daniels, Chris Christie, Marco Rubio, Paul Ryan, and Haley Barbour — have sat it out. As I keep lamenting, in the terrible year 1968, with assassinations, riots, 550,000 draftees in Vietnam and 200 to 400 of them returning in body bags every week, at one time or another, Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey, Nelson Rockefeller, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan were all running for president, and all of them were more impressive than the present contestants.

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[rubato]

What back-alley crackhead thinks that Haley Barbour is a good candidate?

He is the biggest pig on K-street! You want the person most likely to fuck the average person into nothingness, its Barbour!


And Ryan had one of the stupidest proposals ever to see light in congress.

Barbour was the head of the biggest lobbying firm in Washington in the 'free and easy' Reagan, Bush I and Bush II years. And he was rewarded by giving him the governors office in MIssissippi (the most corrupt Republican state in the union and the most backwards in all social metrics).

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[Lord Jim]

one of the most inane and stupid events in modern world history.

For contenders in that category, Fidel might want to watch a recording of some of those four hour diatribes he was famous for....

Of course Dr. Castro has been an avid follower and commentator on the American political scene ever since he endorsed TIC for re-election in 1980....

[liberty]

I Agree with President Johnson that Castro was involved in the Kennedy assassination. So you see I think Castro has been I our politics for a long time.

[Andrew D]

Actually, Obama has -- except for being too timid about it until recently -- done an admirable job coping with The Republican Recession.

Republican policies got us into this mess, and the Republican party's leaders -- who are completely out of touch with their own party's members -- have done everything they can to undermine all efforts at recovery.

Don't believe that the Republican leadership is out of touch with ordinary Republicans? Consider those pesky things known as facts: By a whopping 68% to 26%, Republicans favor including tax increases in any solution to the debt/deficit problem.

But you needn't look that far. Just look around this board:

The extent to which the aspiring leaders of my party have been driven paralytic to the point of borderline madness by a small group of hyperactive Randians, was on full display when they were asked the question in a recent debate if they would be willing to accept a deal that had 10 dollars in spending cuts for every dollar in tax increases....

Not one of them raised their hand...

Ronald Reagan would have taken that deal in a heartbeat....

The party of Reason seems to have abandoned it ....

The leaders of the Republican party have exactly one policy objective: Get Obama out of the White House. The worse the economy is, the more likely that result is. So the Republican leaders have been trying to keep unemployment as high as possible.

In the face of a relentless campaign of obstructionism by a cabal that hasn't the slightest concern for ordinary Americans, Obama has done quite well.

[dgs49]

And Castro knows something about politics, don't he?

Basically won all his elections with about 100% of the votes.

Why, exactly, would anyone read his blog?

[liberty]

And Castro knows something about politics, don't he?

Basically won all his elections with about 100% of the votes.

Why, exactly, would anyone read his blog?

49 you are such a cynic. You doubt that he gets 100 percent of the vote? I have you know that I believe that God routinely gets a hundred percent of the votes of the angels. And since Castro has transformed Cuba, according Democrats like Shelia Jackson Lee, into paradise on earth; surely the angels of Cuba would vote a hundred percent for him.

[dgs49]

Note to Andrubato:

I agree with you completely. Republicans have strangled the middle class with higher gas prices, demonized the successful, choked small business (the primary job creator) with new regulations, constantly lobbied for higher taxes...

...no, wait. Barry did all that.

Never mind.

[Grim Reaper]

More nonsense from dgs49.

[Andrew D]

Note to Andrubato

I take the strongest exception to that.

Not because I have anything against rubato, although we have disagreed on many matters.

I am not "Andrubato" or "Andrewdriver" or "Andrew49" or "Lord AndrewJim" or "AndrewGob" or "AndrewGuy" or "Andrewvere" or "Andrewberty" or any other "Andrew" combination which anyone can come up with.

I am none other than who I am.

I take responsibility for my own assertions, including, on numerous occasions, having apologized for assertions which I should not have made. And there may be other assertions which I have made for which I should apologize. Or not.

But my assertions are mine.

I do not parrot other people. I agree with other people on some things; I even quote other people on some things. But my decision to agree with, or even to quote, someone is mine.

I make up my own mind. (Or the combination of minds which is mine.)

Even when I am, as I have admitted, "obviously wrong," it is I who am "obviously wrong". (Or we who are; the distinction, for this purpose, is without a difference.)

Not someone else.

No one pulls my strings, unless he or she wants to burn when I set them ablaze. (Perhaps not the best long-term career decision, but still, in my judgment, the best long-term personal decision.)

You may notice, dgs49, that you have pissed me off. Whatever you think of my opinions, please do me the courtesy of recognizing that they are mine.

Thanks.

[rubato]

Note to Andrubato:

I agree with you completely. Republicans have strangled the middle class with higher gas prices, demonized the successful, choked small business (the primary job creator) with new regulations, constantly lobbied for higher taxes...

...no, wait. Barry did all that.

Never mind.

Republicans fucked the country from 2001 until the present. Their policies first created 8 years of the worst performance in median income since WWII and then created the wost economic collapse since the great depression.



Had we continued to follow their policies afterwards we would have had no recovery at all (like all of the countries who have used their "all austerity" program) and the US car industry would have disappeared completely.

I have posted the following before along with charts showing that Sweden (much bigger stimulus than us) and other 'stimulus' countries recovered very vigorously while all of the austerity countries have flat lined. But I don't think you care about the facts and I won't hunt down all of that data again.



You are an absolute, pure, ignoramus.



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