This election season, forget Mac, it's Fidel that's back. At least that's the impression one gets from Portia Siegelbaum.
Here's an excerpt from the Havana-based CBSNews.com producer's January 21 story, "Will Fidel Castro Be Back?":
The results aren't in yet, but most Cubans agree; the most famous candidate in Sunday's parliamentary election - Fidel Castro - has won overwhelmingly.
If that is true, and there is little reason to doubt it, the Cuban leader sidelined by emergency intestinal surgery nearly 18 months ago is now eligible for election to the Council of State, which in turn elects the nation's president from among its members.
It's the biggest question in Cuba: Will Fidel Castro return - if not as before, at least in title? Or, will his younger brother, First Vice President Raul Castro, who "temporarily" assumed the presidency as provided for by the Cuban Constitution, officially fill the post?
I don't know about you, but the suspense is killing me.
To be fair to Siegelbaum, she's not the only journalist caught up in reporting Cuban elections as though they were actually free and fair contests. She could raise a mojito toast celebrating Fidel's victory with Marc Frank of the Financial Times.
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I demand a recount! Was
January 21, 2008 - 14:51 ET by fitzfongI demand a recount! Was there voter suppression? Send down Ramsey Clark or Mark Geragos or John Edwards...whoever typically handles that stuff...to get to the bottom of this.
LOL fitz... Let's throw
January 21, 2008 - 14:55 ET by bigtimerLOL fitz...
Let's throw in Carter in your wonderful mix too...(I loved good ol' pure leftist Ramsey Clark)
Yeah, maybe Albright can go
January 21, 2008 - 15:02 ET by fitzfongYeah, maybe Albright can go down there with another Michael Jordan-signed basketball. Worked like a charm last time.
No suspense killing me just Castro murdering people
January 21, 2008 - 15:00 ET by Lame CherryLiberals always are the first to promote "elections" like Jimmy Carter promotes every dictator on the planet. The only mistake Robert Mugabe of Rhodesia made was not to have Jimmy Carter flown in to certify his communist election was free and fair too.
Castro is a centralized minion of the globalist shearing machine. He is a mass murderer in the dope operations he runs, launders money and murders people through in the South American communist rebel movement.
He is kept in power as Cuba is the clearing house for running forged passports for Islamocommunist terrorists coming to the New World, money laundering and dope trans shipment staging areas. All of that money then filters by the billions into the Rockefeller and Rothschild banking syndicate in the United States. The IRS looks the other way as the CIA Plamers put it all under the umbrella of national security.
What is most bothersome in this is Castro only exists because of these robber baron globalists using him as their syphon man. Good border agents, FBI and CIA operatives risk their lives and think they are doing a job protecting America and then they find out the money is going to Rockefeller banks and Bill Clinton with Roger are snorting up a kilo of coke a week while playing with whores in downtown Little Rock.
I will be surprised if Castro ever dies officially. They will simply stuff him, put him into a computerized program and he will give speeches until he is 500 years old.
The reason the MSM loves Castro is they are told to love him or they will loose their jobs as their cartel bosses love Castro as he makes Chavez possible so these robbers can now bilk the entire Venezuelan people of their oil revenue.
Hey have to do something as George Bush took Saddam's bank roll from them.
ANDY GARCIA FOR PRESIDENT OF CUBA!
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