Posted on 10/27/2008 8:23:45 AM PDT by Ebenezer
Today's online edition of the Cuban Communist Party newspaper Granma features a short article titled "Obama and McCain Keep an Intense Campaign During a Crucial Week", which includes a photograph of Barack Obama at a rally (nothing with John McCain, perhaps because of lack of space). I have translated the piece as follows:
WASHINGTON, October 26. — Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain keep an intense campaign leading to the presidential election in the United States this coming November 4.
Over the weekend, both candidates visited several Western states which are historically Republican, such as Nevada, Colorado, and New Mexico, PL [Prensa Latina, the official Cuban news agency] reported.
Meanwhile, a crowd of over 100,000 people according to Denver Police attended an Obama rally in that American city on Sunday, which broke his previous attendance record set one week ago in St. Louis, AFP reported.
Both at the national level and in key states, the Illinois Senator is ahead according to the polls, although the difference fluctuates between 4% and 13%.
With eight days to go before the election, the Gallup firm gave 51% of support to Obama and 42% to McCain on Sunday.
Also in Obama's favor are the discrepancies between McCain and his running mate, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, who is immersed in a scandal after it was revealed that her party gave her $150,000 to buy clothes and visit stylists.
This ain’t exactly no sur-prize that those commies like Obama, not to mention the U.N. Is it? The world beware if this man gets in the White House. Too MANY people like him and all the wrong ones, at that. And I ain’t ashamed to say “the wrong ones,” either. They can’t wait to see the U.S. destroyed.
Reads like an article from our media.
Their perfect candidate: educator, organizer, lawyer, re-distributor.
EXACTLY!
Speaking of Cuba, I posted this the other day on a thread, but it bears repeating. I received it in an email.
A STORY FROM A CUBAN FELLOW - THINK ABOUT THIS !!!!!!!!
Each year I get to celebrate Independence Day twice.
On June 30 I celebrate MY independence day and on July 4 I celebrate
America’s.
This year is special, because it marks the 40th anniversary
of my independence.
On June 30, 1968, I escaped Communist Cuba and a few months
later I was in the US to stay. That I happened to arrive in Richmond
on Thanksgiving Day is just part of the story, but I digress.
I’ve thought a lot about the anniversary this year. The election year
rhetoric has made me think a lot about Cuba and what transpired there.
In the late 1950’s most Cubans thought Cuba needed a change, and they
were right. So when a young leader came along, every Cuban was at
least receptive.
When the young leader spoke eloquently and passionately and denounced
the old system, the press fell in love with him. They never
questioned who his friends were or what he really believed in.
When he said he would help the farmers and the poor and bring free medical care and
education to all, everyone followed. When he said he would bring
justice and equality to all, everyone said ‘Praise the Lord.’ And
when the young leader said, ‘I will be for change and I’ll bring you
change,’ eve ryone yelled, ‘Viva Fidel! ‘
But nobody asked about the change, so:
*By the time the executioner’s guns went silent the people’s guns
had been taken away.
*By the time everyone was equal, they were equally poor, hungry, and
oppressed.
*By the time everyone received their free education it was worth
nothing.
*By the time the press noticed, it was too late, because theye were
now working for him.
*By the time the change was finally implemented Cuba had been knocked
down a couple of notches to Third-World status.
*By the time the change was over more than a million people had taken
to boats, rafts, and inner tubes.
You can call those who made it ashore anywhere else in the world the
most fortunate Cubans. And now I’m back to the beginning of my
story.
Luckily, we would never in America fall for a young leader who
promised change without asking, ‘WHAT change?
How will you carry it out? What will it cost America?’
Would we?
Manuel Alvarez, Jr
Many years ago (if memory serves me right, during that infamous interview with Barbara Walters), Fidel Castro predicted that the United States will one day become a socialist country. If Obama is elected, boy, will he be proven right!
ping
To all Obama supporters in Puerto Rico who are otherwise pro-American, who do you think the Communist Cuban government is rooting for?
Mr. Alvarez knows what it’s all about.
History is full of charismatic leaders promising “change” to their respective countries and then leading them down a tragic road; Lenin in Czarist Russia, Hitler in Weimar Germany, and Mao in Nationalist China, for instance. And now Obama wants to do the same to America.
Well, on a forum on Puerto Rico politics, where mainland politics is sometimes discussed, there’s one guy for Obama and five other people constantly rebuking him reality.
with reality
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