Clinton’s Cuban “Legacy” Sticky-Bomb Has Attached Itself To Hussein - With Video
I know you must be wondering why I touch on the whole Cuban-American aspect of this presidential election. Aside from a [personal] interest, I find it important in this respect, other than a voting block …
Cuba is in a state of pre-transition with the stand-down of Fidel Castro, and the handing-over to his brother Raul Castro. What happens within Cuba over the next presidential administration cannot be discounted. I have always felt we poorly and sorely missed a grand opportunity when the USSR fell, to become strong allies with a new Russia … I know it would not have been easy, but it would have grown. The same can be said for a Cuba that may find itself on the brink of democracy after decades of a totalitarian communist rule. Who is in the Oval Office if/when that should happen is very important to the small country of Cuba’s survival and success should they find themselves able to throw-off the shackles. And if a socialist/Marxist person is sitting in our White House, that freedom movement within Cuba could be very short lived. Especially with the nut-job Chavez in Venezuela.
Among many people of questionable political lineage that are currently working for Hussien’s campaign for power, there are those from the Clinton years that left behind, without challenge or question, those ‘questionable’ times. Two are Greg Craig and Eric Holder … who were key players in the whole Elian Gonzalez fiasco.
This was NOT a minor thing to the Cuban-American community. They saw the semi-orphaned little boy as a cause for hope in this new country his mother had died trying to bring him to. He was adjusting beautifully, and that hope for his bright future came crashing down that night Clinton had Janet Reno charge the house with arms, and physically remove the little boy to be returned to the communist country his mother had died fleeing from. Again, this is not a minor event to the Cuban-American community. This was an act of reproach to the C-A community by the democrat administration who only used the child as a political pawn with the hated Castro.
To hear this man (the Cuban translator hired by CBS) tell the background on the interview with the boy’s father with CBS’s Dan Rather is quite telling of exactly how the MSM spins and crafts their delivery and the information to the viewer … And how the Clinton administration, in marriage with Rather and CBS, manipulated the public on this very messy episode.
Open Letter to Florida Senator Bill Nelson, New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez and Miami Mayor Manny Díaz
As representatives of Cuban American exile organizations, we reach out to you as our friend and elected representative to bring your attention to a situation that is of profound concern to us. We are deeply troubled by the continued presence of senior adviser Greg Craig and vice presidential screener Eric Holder on Senator Barack Obama’s campaign. That one of these men is advising Barack Obama on foreign policy issues and one is helping select his vice presidential running mate is a great offense to the Cuban American community.
As you well know, both these men played prominent roles in what we consider a very dark page in the history of the Cuban exile community - the forced return of Elian Gonzalez to the communist island to live in tyranny.
Just a few days ago, we saw the painful image of a now l4 year old Elian Gonzalez joining Cuba’s Communist Youth. It was just eight years ago the same child was forcibly taken from his new home in Miami and sent back to Cuba. While Elian’s mother gave her life fleeing Castro’s oppressive regime to bring her child to freedom in America, her ultimate sacrifice turned out to be in vain.
Eric Holder defended and played a role in Elian’s seizure by the Justice Department, and the unnecessary use of brute force by armed government agents, to send the child back to the country his mother had tried so hard for them to escape from.
Greg Craig is equally, if not more, culpable. Although he might have been officially hired by a church group to represent Elian’s father, Greg Craig was actually benefitting Fidel Castro and his regime.
Given the relationship of Greg Craig with the Castro regime and his advisory role with Senator Obama, it is not surprising that Senator Obama would propose meeting without preconditions with Raul Castro, another affront to the Cuban-American community.
What is most concerning is that Holder and Craig remain on Obama’s team, even after he was informed of their involvement in the Elian Gonzalez case. It is cause for indignation that these men sit so closely to a presidential contender while our families, friends and neighbors 90 miles to the South are held captive by a tyrannical regime.
Had it not been for the actions of these two men, lending themselves as instruments to Fidel Castro, Elian could today be enjoying the freedom his mother died to provide for him.
You know only too well, how divisive and hurtful the Elian experience was for the Cuban-American community. You also know that it demonstrates a shocking level of political insensitivity towards the Cuban American community for Senator Obama to have these two men play such important roles in his campaign. Taking into consideration Senator Obama’s lack of experience and knowledge of foreign policy, particularly as it relates to Latin America and Cuba, the role of advisors becomes that much more important. That those advisors would be of the ilk of Greg Craig and Eric Holder is unacceptable.
We look upon you to speak for us and carry our message. We ask that you condition your support of Senator Obama and any activities on behalf of his campaign on Senator Obama, immediately severing ties with Eric Holder and Greg Craig.
When asked recently whether Elian should have been deported to Cuba, Senator Obama brushed the ordeal off as being in the past, stating “that was eight years ago and obviously it was a wrenching situation for the families involved. But I’m running for president in 2008… ” Sadly, Elian Gonzalez is not the past. His mother’s sacrifice is not the past. The millions of people who still today live under an oppressive government that daily violates their human rights, is not the past. We fight for Cuba’s freedom today and every day. The fight for freedom for the Cuban people is for us the here and now, part of our daily lives.
We ask you to step forward and demonstrate the respect you have always shown us, the respect that Senator Obama has neglected to show our community and the rest of the country. It is our hope that Senator Obama would show you more respect and deference than he has shown our community until now. He would be well served to take your advice and not that of Eric Holder and Greg Craig. It is our sincere hope that you will counsel him to immediately ask for the resignations of Eric Holder and Greg Craig.
Miami, Florida
July 8, 2008
(The signers of the letter include leaders of the Bay of Pigs Brigade 2506, MAR por Cuba, The Cuban Liberty Council, and Unidad Cubana.)
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(h/t Babalu)
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Sticky bomb, indeed! Leave it in place …
July 11th, 2008 at 1:43 amHolder has quite a few more problems than this… the 140 pardons Clinton handed out the day before leaving office for starters. They included Marc Rich, the 16 Puerto Rican FALN terrorists, Susan Rosenberg of the Weather Underground, etc., etc…..
Now there’s more ‘change’ we can see through.
Don’t know why the RNC isn’t blasting the asshole.
July 11th, 2008 at 6:32 am