How many presidents has Fidel Castro seen buried so far and sitting presidents come and go? Yeah, thought so. Now Bunnypants wants to be "tuff on fidel". Or is it really, play a Rove Strategy game to try and win votes in Florida
Miriam Verdura could hardly wait to visit family in her native Cuba next month, her second trip since immigrating to southern Florida in 1999. But the Bush administration has dashed her plans with restrictions that start next Wednesday.
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Because she last visited in 2002, Ms. Verdura will be ineligible to return until next year.
"Bush's priority should first of all be to not keep Cuban families apart, because we suffer a lot," she said.
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"People are crying, saying, 'Please, can't you put me on a plane?' " Tessie Aral, vice president and chief executive of ABC Charters, said. "One said, 'I have to go because my mother is dying.' They can't wait another three years."
The measures are part of a broader plan that President Bush announced last month to be tougher on President Fidel Castro and speed a transition to democracy in Cuba. Democrats and even some Republicans say the election year crackdown is a nakedly political move to bolster Mr. Bush's support among Cuban-Americans in southern Florida, a crucial segment of his base in this swing state.
Imagine that, a 'nakedly political move' by the Mayberry Machiavelli's. I'd be amazed if this embargo and sanctions stuff were to miraculously restore Jeffersonian Democracy to Cuba by say, November. It sure seems that it might have been a tactic that might have worked in some other country, like...well, you know.
Oh, we were doing it and gave up? Wonder why...maybe we just wanted to make Freedom Secure, like Preznit WarOn HardOn is you know, not a wholly owned and operated subsidiary of CheneyBurton, Inc.
