Posted on 11/20/2008 8:29:43 AM PST by upchuck
President-elect Barack Obama is expected to name two attorneys to his administration who helped return Elián González to Cuba, angering some Miami Republicans.
Two veterans of the Elián González saga are expected to be named to top posts in Democrat Barack Obama's administration, infuriating some Cuban-American Republicans who haven't forgotten the 6-year-old boy seized in Miami and sent back to the communist regime.
The Associated Press is reporting that Obama's top choice for U.S. attorney general is Eric Holder, who served as deputy attorney general during the 2000 raid in Miami. Greg Craig, who represented González's father in the custody battle, is expected to be named White House counsel.
Both were advisors to Obama during his presidential campaign, prompting a small contingent of Cuban exiles to protest outside of his speech to the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Miami in June.
President-elect Obama has not made the appointments official, but both the Republican National Committee and some Cuban-American leaders in Miami are already signaling their disapproval.
''This is a clear sign that the Obama administration is diametrically opposed to the concerns and views of the Cuban-American community,'' said state Rep. David Rivera of Miami, who helped organize the June protest. ``It is a blatant and disrespectful slap in the face.''
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
America’s shame.
I have one words for Obama voters: Suckers!
Greg Craig really represented Archer Daniels Midland Corporation in the Elian Gonzales case. His highly publicized freedom imperiled a Sugar and Vegetable Oil Plant they were building on Cuba.
Finally, the guy is in his underwear and he sheepishly hands over the trophy too -- and we see that it is engraved "Best Dressed Man on Campus".
I'm thinking that with the Clinton Administration virtually back in place, maybe Obama should just let Hillary move into the White House.
commie pukes.
i met a woman yesterday who proudly voted for obamao.
i asked her if she was for socialism.
she asked me, “what’s that?”
The kidnapping of Elian by Clinton’s goon squad took place
on the Saturday of Easter weekend, IIRC. I pray for him every year on that day.
Do you honestly think he cares, Rep. Rivera?
This is gonna be Bubba’s third term.
“I have one words for Obama voters: Suckers!”
Do you really think the idiots that voted for Zero actually give a damn about Elian? While that was going on all the asshats I spoke with were saying “he belongs with his father”. Elian shouldn’t stay with his relatives in Florida...These are the same red diaper babies who voted for Zero.
I’ll post my prediction, which came to me like a nightmare, last night:
If Hillary turns down the Sec. of State position, it will go to (the envolope please) Carolyn Kennedy.
Maybe this is why Ted has carved out a spot for Hillary in the health care issue, and why there is talk of creating a new Senate position just for Hillary. To get her to refuse the ‘offer’. Then, Carolyn Kennedy will be named, and the birds in the sky will sing (just before the hawk hears them and picks his dinner) and the lion and lamb will lay down together.
I think some of them were dumb enough to believe Barry’s lies, yes.
Coming soon to the closet of every home schooler, gun owner, and blog poster. Coming later to those of us marked as untermenschen like the Falun Gung in China. We're to be organ donors for the elite of "New Unity" Fascists of Amerika.< / over-the-top cynicism >
Don’t know much about the individuals involved. If they are Clintonistas they are probably scoundrels. That said, IMO, Elian Gonzalez’s father had every right to take him back to Cuba.
Parental rights trump politics and political rights every time in my book.
Elian might have had a much better life in America, but that doesn’t matter. My kids might have a much better life if some billionaire kidnapped them to raise them as his own, but they are MY kids.
The Gonzalez case was a very simple custody case, IMO. Unless the Miami relatives could prove his father was unfit, it should have been a no-brainer. If Dad wants him, Dad gets him.
All the freedoms we enjoy in America and want for the Cuban people, are pretty much worthless if our government denies fit parents the basic right to raise their own kids.
commie pukes.
i met a woman yesterday who proudly voted for obamao.
i asked her if she was for socialism.
she asked me, “what’s that?”’
The union teachers have certainly done their jobs, haven’t they???
Thanks Florida voters!
That’s what I was just thinking, about what exactly happened in Florida this year. Is the exile community losing its clout? Anyone have links/data to the Cuban-American vote breakdown?
bttt
Well, at least they’ll be good at storming into people’s private homes to enforce OBAMA-law.
Predictable choice really. Pro-Communist child abusers. That sums up the ethics of the incoming coup perfectly.
Isn't that THE TRUTH.
0bama is dredging up some of the worst from the Clinton years.
Pray for our nation.
Well, Hispanic Americans who voted for the NEW Liar-in-chief, are you HAPPY?????????????
Waco and Elian Gonzalez will look like a walk in the park after this gang’s done with us all.
Exactly! Maybe the Cubanos have gone over to the darkside as well. Or, like many folk out there suffer from BDS.
Whatever the cause, the result is still the same.
Elian Gonzalez’s father had every right to take him back to Cuba.
Parental rights trump politics and political rights every time in my book.
Children in Cuba belong to the state.
There are no parental rights in Cuba.
Elain's father had to do what the communist dictator asked or he would have been severely punished.
Elian did not go back to be with his father, he went back to be a political pawn for Castro.
I gained a lot of respect for Cuban Americans during the Elián González saga. I doubt many of them voted for the Chosen One. They will survive this little slap in the face. Hopefully some day they can go back to a free Cuba and we can vacation there again.
More of the same......in fact WORSE than more of the same....it is more of the same DOUBLED
MAN------------DID OBAMA EVER LIE BIG TIME when he said "change was coming"...hell, heis pulling ALL OF THE CORRUPT OLD DIRTY OLDTIMERS BACK TO DC...the BEEN THERE DONE THAT DIRTY CABAL!!!!
Yeah right, SOME CHANGE HUSSEIN! not!
All of the dirty boys are coming back to town to play.
Why?
Is OBAMA so inexperienced and scared that he needs to bring back the old way of doing things in DC? (You know.....bring back all the corruption; lots of people who don't mind cheating and lying and distorting the truth in order to cover his tracks?)
What a boobhead Obama is ALREADY showing himself to be.....wonder if there is even ONE TRUTHFUL thing going on in his brain.
Back to the Future part DUE! The only thing different from the Clinton White house to the Obama White House is interns and B.Js. And i am not sure about the last one.
| He's not my President, I voted for Sarah! |
The liberals want to pull the troops out of Iraq fighting the terrorists - and put them on US soil fighting freedom-loving Americans.
As I recall, Elian’s father came to the U.S. to take him home. Couldn’t he sought asylum for himself and Elian is he so wished?
I can understand requiring the father to come get him, but if a fit, sole, parent wants to take his kid to Cuba, Zimbabwe, Iran, Somalia or wherever, that is his right.
I honestly never got the idea that Elian’s Dad would have wanted Elian to stay here, if not for intimidation from Castro, though I don’t doubt such intimidation would have taken place.
First of all, all he knew was Cuba, so in his mind it might have been the best place to raise him, considering all the anti-American propaganda he must have heard in his lifetime.
Besides that, most parents would rather be with their kids, than have them raised by others in a better place.
Would you be in favor of sending commando raids into Cuba, to “rescue” children, against the will of their parents, and bring them to America?
Thank you Miami Cuban American community.
Happy now?
You are so right. This topic is way above your pay grade.
Yes, if he wanted his relatives being watched by Casto killed. That was his inattentive.
Would you be in favor of sending commando raids into Cuba, to “rescue” children, against the will of their parents, and bring them to America?
Elian had two parents.
His Mother who brought him to this country and Castro.
The will of his only free parent was that he stay in the USA.
It seems to be you that approves of "sending commando raids" to “rescue” children:
Thanks.
: >)
Elian's FATHER was KEPT AWAY from anyone and everyone who would be capable of talking to him about asylunm.
They would not even let SENATOR SMITH ( REPUBLICAN)in the gates at Andrews AFB to see ELian's father or step-mother.
It is AMERICAN LAW that one here can seek asylum and GREG CRAIG and KLINTON and RENO and ERIC HOLDER and the entire DIRTBAG cabal MADE SURE NO ONE WAS ABLE TO MAKE THE OFFER!!!!
Even at Greg Craig'sa house party to show off ELIAN they made SURE the no one would make any OFFERS of asylum.
IT WAS A SICK SICK AFFAIR.....let's just FORGET that ELIAN's MOTHER lost her life trying to get her son to FREEDOM!
True the chumps that voted for obama have no idea obama has put clintons old pick pocket crew back in business shows just how dumb obama is.
There was a liberal nun (maybe president of a Catholic college in Florida) who was all for Elian going back until she met with his grandmothers and saw the fear in their eyes.
Change—as in change your calendars back 16 years.
Yeah, but the ultimate irony is that Cuba might have more capitalism in it than America by the time Elian enters the workforce. Sheesh
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