The Calle Ocho [Eighth Street] crowd are as old as Castro, DC, and their grandchildren are registering as Democrats. The immigration battle is taking its toll, even on the very favored Cuban community.
]]>Helms kept Cuba in its place to grow the tobacco industry… that is not gonna change
also the GOP needs those Miami Cubans
]]>As for Cuba policy, yeah, what an amazing success the U.S. Cuba policy has been for the last 48 years (snark!). So Fidel dies of old age in his sleep just so a buncha Cuban ex-oligarchs can continue dreaming of the day when they return to Cuba and reassume their rightful place as, well, owners of everything and everybody. It’s as if the former slaveowners of the Confederacy had seen their plantations seized and given to their former slaves and been exiled to Britain after the American Civil War, and spent the next 50 years agitating for a return of their plantations and re-imposition of slavery. Actually, if the Union had actually done that, it would have probably been a lot better for the nation as a whole, since the former Confederate aristocracy poisoned the well of American politics to this very day… but anyhow. Cuba. Astounding success for American foreign policy. Alrighty, then!
– Badtux the Snarky Penguin
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