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| Castro Endorses Obama |
| 2012-06-11 |
| Mary Anastasia O'Grady, Wall Street Journal President Obama has received yet another endorsement, this time from the daughter of Cuban military dictator Raúl Castro. Mariela Castro proclaimed her support for the sitting president 10 days ago, during a visit to the United States. "I believe that Obama needs another opportunity and he needs greater support to move forward with his projects and with his ideas, which I believe come from the bottom of his heart," she said in a CNN interview in New York. I'll bet Mitt Romney is shocked, shocked and disappointed. The dictator's daughter, who is a vociferous proponent of the Cuban status quo, Surprise again! was ostensibly in the U.S. to discuss matters pertaining to her field of expertise, which has something to do with advocating for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights. She'll fit right in at the Democratic National Convention. As the Cuban-born writer Carlos Alberto Montaner put it in a syndicated column last week, "Mariela is tolerant of sexual preferences and intolerant of all the rest." He added: "For her, freedom and emotional coherence are something very specifically situated south of the navel."... |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #4 If she really wanted to help Barry, she'd have endorsed Romney. Stupid commies... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2012-06-11 17:32 |
| #3 "I believe that Obama needs another opportunity and he needs greater support to move forward with his projects and with his ideas, which I believe come from the bottom of his heart," I was thinking more along the lines of the bottom of the barrel. |
| Posted by: gorb 2012-06-11 12:11 |
| #2 Reason #478,652 not to vote for the bastard. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2012-06-11 09:45 |
| #1 Of course she would endorse Obama. Communists always endorse other Communists. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2012-06-11 07:53 |