[Publius]

Seen in Havana, a government billboard with the words "Socialism or death!" in large type. Printed beneath it in black spray paint: "What's the difference?"

[Mark]

Let's see now. A few decades ago a Demoncrat U.S. president arranged for many lunatics and criminals to float onto our shores from that fine resort. Now we can ship similar groups to Cuba? Sounds fair to me.

[Cincinatus]

Cuba was always something I'd been taught to fear," said Phend, a senior communications major at Goshen College in Indiana.

Coming soon as anchor-person at a liberally biased network near you.

[cardinal4]

"Sometimes I wish I could talk to George Bush about Cuba and say, `Look, dude. These people aren't evil. What's your problem?'" Phend said.

I dont blame her for her sickening liberal bias nor her shocking naivete. I blame the teachers at Goshen University for creating this communist sympathizer.

[dead]

"Cuba was always something I'd been taught to fear," said Phend, a senior communications major at Goshen College in Indiana.

What a load of crap!

I'd bet she hasn't spent one minute of her life learning the very real reasons she should fear the communism of Cuba and elsewhere.

The 100 million + killed this century by this evil ideology don't teach history. The supporters of their murderers do.

[bassmaner]

Will someone please tell these "educated" morons what a "Potemkin Village" is?

[KC_Conspirator]

During their one-week visit, Pekny and his classmates plan to study such things as Cuban agriculture, the impact on Nebraska farmers should the U.S. trade embargo be lifted, and the mechanical magic that keeps 1950s-vintage American cars on Cuban roads.

"The Cuban mechanics are practically gods," said Drake University philosophy professor Jonathan Torgerson, who has taken groups from Des Moines to Cuba every year since 1996.

I about choked on my coffee when I heard these little brainwashed morons! The reason they still have 1950's cars is because they whole country has been stuck in the 1950's you idiot! Maybe these little buffoons should ask themself why millions of people are still trying to LEAVE that country!

[bmwcyle]

How many students get to see the dead bodies of Castro?

[B. Rabbit]

"I think universities around the United States are seeing this as a good site to give students the opportunity to look at a lot of issues at once," Peggy Blumenthal said. "To look at the issue of Cuba, per se, is to look at a communist system compared to a capitalist system, as well as the opportunity to look at transition issues" facing a developing nation.

Developing nation? Developing into what? Are they allowing cars from the 60s now?

[Lizavetta]

10 to one these students are still being subsidized by their mommies and daddies.

[Southack]

""Sometimes I wish I could talk to George Bush about Cuba and say, `Look, dude. These people aren't evil. What's your problem?'" Phend said."

And yet, she wouldn't say the same thing to Clinton, even though he kept in place the self-same embargo against which she rails.

You've got to love the way Lefties use every concievable criticism against their opponents. Oh sure, blame Bush for an embargo started by Democratic Party President Kennedy, continued by Noble Peace Prize winning President Carter, and furthered by her idol President Clinton. Yup, blame Bush.

That's the liberal "logic". IF something is wrong, anything, then it is the Republicans' fault.

Forget that the emabrgo is in place due to Castro's confiscation of American businesses as well as the personal property of Americans in Cuba. Forget that the embargo is meant to punish Cuba's torture of Africans in Cuba's Algerian war. Forget that the embargo halts the rewarding of Cuba's political Apartheid (Blacks aren't permitted to be in high positions of power in Cuba). Forget that the embargo is a PEACEFUL way to punish the nation that supplied its own tanks and soldiers for the Arab invasion of Israel in 1973. Forget that Cuba trains Palestinians in the making of explosives to this very day.

Yup, you've got to forget all of that, and then you have to ignore all of the Democratic Party Presidents who first initiated and later continued the embargo against Cuba, all so that such idiotic young minds can blame Bush.

Classic.

[LiteKeeper]

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[Loyalist]

The nephew of the priest in whose parish I grew up died a few weeks ago in Cuba, so the Cuban authorities say, when he fell out of a taxi in Havana.

He was an international relations major who had just defended his honours thesis at Venceremos University. His thesis was on the subject of human rights, if I recall correctly.

In one of life's strange ironies, his uncle had just finished angering his parish with three weeks of sermons praising Fidel Castro's regime as a veritable Kingdom of Heaven on Earth.