"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free." - President Ronald Reagan
We will look back the 1982 Air Florida crash in Washington DC......it was a day of tragedy and heroism......we look at the politics and selective indignation over President Trump's "hole" remarks......they are praising President Trump in the streets of Iran.........my AT post about "The darkest hour".....Robert Stack (1919-2003).......Keith Jackson died at 89............... Click to listen:
We don’t really know what President Trump said......my advice to President Trump is to remember that his opponents will use everything against him....so don’t make it easy for them....my advice to Democrats don’t be so hysterical.........click to watch:
The problem is that everything is recorded somewhere: Dick Durbin Advocated for Ending 'Chain Migration' in 2010, a Term He Now Says is Racist - Breitbart https://t.co/Y25fXsPnHv
Speaking of a clean DACA bill, they tried that in Dec 2010 with 59 Dems in the US Senate: the bill went down because Dems like Max Baucus & John Tester of Montana, Kay Hagan of NC, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, and Mark Pryor of Arkansas voted "NO"......
President Obama once referred to Lybia as a "..." show but nobody said a word, or at least I don't recall CNN talking about it for 3 days.....the "anti-Trump-ies" always over-react and display their selective indignation.....
Raul Rivero knows a lot about repression. Don't expect George Clooney to make a movie about his life in one of Castro's political prisons. Nevertheless, Rivero is a prize-winning journalist and poet who was jailed for political reasons with dozens of other Cuban dissidents in March 2003. He was released from prison on medical grounds in the fall of 2004 and now lives in Madrid.
For years, we have watched Latin American lefties, as well as many others in the West, make excuses for Castro. They overlook his political prisons and repression. They do this because they hate the US more than they love the Cuban people.
Years ago, Castro visited Buenos Aires. He was greeted by a group of youngsters, who treated him like a grandfather.
In reality, none of these Buenos Aires youngsters would survive one day in Cuba. As Rivero points out, most of these lefties would reject living in Castro's Cuba:
"The food-ration card that dates back to 1962, a totally controlled press, a legal gag order on free thought, and paramilitary brigades with clenched fists on the lookout for counterrevolutionary tendencies. For me, who like so many other Cubans wound up in jail for daring to speak out and report on the harsh realities in my country, the public, uncritical embrace that certain political leaders bestow on Fidel Castro only serves to prolong the suffering of my people. He milks those encounters for all the propaganda he can to feed to his apparatchiks."
It's time for Latin American leaders to get over their "anti-yankismo" and start seeing the true Castro. The Cuban people could use a little support rather than more embracing of their corrupt dictator.
