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.Back in July, we reported that Sam Webb, the head of the Communist Party USA gave the fledgling Obama Administration high marks. But this endorsement is nothing compared to the endorsement of a "leader" who has been using Communism to destroy his country for 50 years now. And destroy it he did. Now he praises The Messiah for making "positive changes" (presumably nationalization of banks and auto companies, the attempts to cripple our economy with confiscatory taxes on common atmospheric gasses and the wholesale destruction of the best health care system in the world among many other things).
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.
Isn't it funny how the crusty old communist's rhetoric regarding conservative objections to the Obama agenda mirrors that of the radical lefties in Washington? In fact, California Congresswoman Diane Watson said almost exactly the same thing as Castro did about the folks who have legitimate objections to the radical Obama agenda. Neither one of them having the facts, reason or logic on their side, they result to smear tactics to attempt to distract people from the fact that they have no facts, are completely unreasonable and utterly illogical. Watson said Castro was one of the most brilliant leaders she ever met and praised his health care system -- you know the health care system that wasn't good enough to treat Castro's cancer.
This whole thing has gone from being funny to being deadly serious. First we have a neutered communist nut from the United States -- virtually powerless -- proclaiming his love for Obama. Now we have a guy who has 50 years of experience in the communist oppression business praising Obama. Most of us aren't old enough to remember that Cuba was every bit the thriving democracy that we were in the 50s. Castro's revolution turned it in to a poverty-ridden slime hole where citizens are lucky to have toilet paper much less decent health care. And this change happened in a decade or less -- the blink of an eye in the annals of world history. In more modern times, Catro's protege' is doing this same thing in Venezuela. Juxtapose the high praise communists have for Obama with the history Castro and Chavez have of turning thriving democracies into crap in the blink of an eye and the fact that Obama has 44 unaccountable "czars" -- many of them with communist leanings -- infesting the White House. Throw in the fact that Obama has nationalized banks and car companies, and has designs on the nationalization of health care and the destruction of industry with ridiculous taxes on common atmospheric gasses and it's down right scary.
There were plenty of dissenters when Castro hijacked Cuba's democracy and Castro slaughtered or imprisoned the ones who didn't escape. There are plenty of dissenters in Venezuela and they are being systematically eliminated. One of Obama's "czars" -- Van Jones -- has praised Hugo Chavez's efforts to silence the media and take over business. If we don't fight hard enough we could be talking 50 years from now about the thriving democracy that WAS the United States of America.
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