By Andrew J. Rodríguez, Miami *
Castro & Obama

All I wish to express, as a former Cuban exile, is that
Barack Obama and  Fidel Castro share many personality traits, ie:
  
Both were abandoned by their fathers at an early age.
 
Both are charming, eloquent lawyers that say exactly what
people want to  hear at the right time and place.
 
One never led the nation to suspect he was a communist at
heart, the other  doesn´t mention the word socialism when in reality this is exactly what his agenda stands for.
 
Neither Obama nor Fidel ever held a real job either in
government or in  private enterprise for they think of themselves as
demigods unworthy of soiling  their hands when their destiny
is much larger than their own realities.
 
Both were virtually unknown until they began to use the
word "change" as  their main political motto.
 
Both have egos as tall as the twin towers, yet they manage
to present  themselves humbly, one in soiled military fatigues and the
other sweating and with  an undone tie.
 
Both have the unique ability to distort truth and lies as
if they were the  same.
 
Both have the ability to hypnotize the ignorant and fool
the wishful thinker  and to divide a nation in classes (divide and you shall
win). In Fidel's  case he divided the rich against the poor, the illiterate
against the educated  and the black against the white. In Obama's case even
if by omission, he's  de-facto dividing the races already.
 
Another resemblance between Obama and Fidel and one that
shall never be  forgotten is that the American media supported the
"Twentieth Century Latin  American Liberator" (Time Magazine) with the same
degree of irresponsibility  devoted to Barack Obama today.
 
And lastly I'll use the words of Jorge Santayana to finish my case in point:
"Those who can't remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
 
And in the words of Sir Winston Churchill: "The  inherent vice of Capitalism
is the unequal distribution of blessings, the inherent vice of Socialism is
the equal distribution of misery."
 
 GOD SAVE AMERICA!
 
* Autor of "Adios, Havana, a memoir ".

September 9, 2008
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