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?
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