Wednesday, June 30, 2004
The Wisdom of George
Again, to prove George W. Bush's political savvy, there's this report from CBS News Producer Portia Siegelbaum:0 comments
CBS News: Cuban-Americans Caught In The Middle of Bush v. Castro
To think that we'd live to see Karl Rove allow his man to piss all over the shoes of arguably one of the two strongest, most monolithic Republican voting blocs alive is absolutely astonishing to me.
On Monday, the talk at Miami International airport was bitter - all about the pending implementation of the new travel restrictions.
The restrictions are intended to hasten the collapse of the [Fidel] Castro regime, but airport employees in Miami were not discussing the long-awaited collapse of communism on the island.
Skycaps and other airport workers were only talking of possible layoffs brought about by a sharp cut in the number of travelers going To Cuba. Some ironically dubbed George Bush “Jorge Castro,” saying he was worse than Fidel Castro.
So it was no surprise that on Tuesday - the day before the new rules were to take effect - Cuban-Americans waving plane tickets jammed MIA’s Terminal E. They argued with officials who refused to let them board charter planes for the hop across the Florida Straits.
The news media reported anxious men and women yelling, “Yes we can…Freedom…We want to travel.”
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Maria Hernandez, a Miami registered nurse, was one of the hundreds waiting to leave Havana on Tuesday afternoon. She’d flown in on Friday for one last visit to “family”, in her case aunts and cousins. The new regulations will only permit Cuban-Americans to visit immediate family members.
“I’m sorry Mr. President,” she told CBS News, “but you can’t tell me who is my family. I’m a Cuban and all these people are my family.”
Hernandez has been a Bush supporter in the past but now she’s not sure. “I don’t want to break the law, but I have to see my family and friends.”
Hernandez is one of many Cuban-Americans who hint that the newest Bush initiatives on Cuba, intended to garner votes in the November presidential election, may backfire.
Such political stupidity.
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