Posted on 02/12/2002 9:14:29 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
HAVANA - Singer Carole King recently accompanied a delegation of U.S. representative from California to Cuba for a dinner with Fidel Castro.
The visit was meant to warm relations between the two countries.
King serenaded Castro with "You've Got A Friend" and a new song, "Love Makes the World." King says her songs were a message she wanted to bring there. She says her life and her work are all about communication and she wants to set an example of good will.
Carole King is best known for her 1971 album "Tapestry" that had the hit single "It's Too Late."
Singer Carole King, right, speaks with Cuban singer Carlos Varela, cantante cubano, in Havana Monday Feb. 11, 2002. King serenaded Fidel Castro with "You've Got a Friend" at a weekend dinner, and U.S. representatives from California shared wines from Napa and Sonoma, part of the latest effort to change U.S. policy toward Cuba. (AP Photo/Cristobal Herrera)
Did she congratulate him on his forced isolation of AIDS patients?
Did Fidel make Ms. King eat her words?
"Whoa noooaoooooo...."
I bet she protested Vietnam in the 60's and smoked lots of weed and wore beads and flowers in her hair.
Am I right?
I've got a better idea. Use your efforts to change Cuba's policy in Cuba, unless you consider communism superior.
[Excerpted from Hillary Clinton and the Radical Left That is both the ethical core and psychological heart of what it means to be a part of the left. That is where the gratification comes from. To see yourself as a social redeemer. To feel anointed. In other words: To be progressive is itself the most satisfying narcissism.
That is why it is of little concern to them that their socialist schemes have run aground, burying millions of human beings in their wake. That is why they don't care that their panaceas have caused more human suffering than all the injustices they have ever challenged. That is why they never learn from their "mistakes." That is why the continuance of Them is more important than any truth.
If you were active in the so-called "peace" movement or in the radical wing of the civil rights causes, why would you tell the truth? Why would you tell people that no, you weren't really a "peace activist," except in the sense that you were against America's war. Why would you draw attention to the fact that while you called yourselves "peace activists," you didn't oppose the Communists' war, and were gratified when America's enemies won?
What you were really against was not war at all, but American "imperialism" and American capitalism. What you truly hated was America's democracy, which you knew to be a "sham" because it was controlled by money in the end. That's why you wanted to "Bring the Troops Home," as your slogan said. Because if America's troops came home, America would lose and the Communists would win. And the progressive future would be one step closer. [End Excerpt]
Truly awful.
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