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Fidel Castro breaks silence to praise Obama
Reuters ^ | Jan. 22, 2009 | Jeff Franks

Posted on 01/21/2009 11:59:06 PM PST by FocusNexus

Cuba's Fidel Castro praised U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday for his "noble intentions" but said in his first opinion column in five weeks that the new American leader had many questions to answer.

He spoke of his admiration for Obama...

Castro's column, published on state-run Internet site www.cubadebate.cu, came out a few hours after his younger brother, President Raul Castro, denied rumors that Fidel Castro's health was worsening.

(Excerpt) Read more at uk.reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Cuba; Extended News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: castro; commievote; communists; cuba; dictators; obama; praise
Birds of a feather...
1 posted on 01/21/2009 11:59:08 PM PST by FocusNexus
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To: FocusNexus
Fidel Castro breaks silence to praise Obama

From the grave?

2 posted on 01/22/2009 12:05:38 AM PST by SIDENET ("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
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To: SIDENET

I think he is still alive — these evil people keep on living, just remember the Ayatollah of Iran, I forgot his name.


3 posted on 01/22/2009 12:08:12 AM PST by FocusNexus ("Good and evil are present in this world, and between the two there can be no compromise." GW Bush)
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To: FocusNexus

If Obama pans out the way we fear, he will become Fidelito Minimo.


4 posted on 01/22/2009 12:21:44 AM PST by DoughtyOne (D1: Home of the golden tag line: If we are all equal, why was 01/20/09 a profound day in history?)
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To: FocusNexus

The dead one, Khomeini?


5 posted on 01/22/2009 12:23:19 AM PST by piasa
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“The dead one, Khomeini?”

Yes, that’s the one. The Shah wanted to bring Iran into the 20th century and Khomeini pushed it back into the stone ages, giving rise to the resurgence of radical Islam, which is responsible for today’s terrorism.

We can thank our Jimmy Carter for it too.


6 posted on 01/22/2009 12:29:18 AM PST by FocusNexus ("Good and evil are present in this world, and between the two there can be no compromise." GW Bush)
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Its depressing to think that Fidel outlasted our efforts to see his communist regime removed from Cuba before a Marxist President was elected in the US.


7 posted on 01/22/2009 6:16:03 AM PST by politicalmerc (NObama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
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To: SIDENET

yeah, who performed the “augury”?


8 posted on 01/22/2009 6:17:13 AM PST by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
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