Tigermike 3,043 Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 I brought it up a month or so ago and the idea was shot down by the dems on this board. Do you still not think that would be a good ticket for the dems? Even with this latest endorsement? Castro's tip: Clinton-Obama the winning ticketWed Aug 29, 2007 2:06AM EDT By Anthony Boadle HAVANA (Reuters) - Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro is tipping Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to team up and win the U.S. presidential election. Clinton leads Obama in the race to be the Democratic nominee for the November 2008 election, and Castro said they would make a winning combination. "The word today is that an apparently unbeatable ticket could be Hillary for president and Obama as her running mate," he wrote in an editorial column on U.S. presidents published on Tuesday by Cuba's Communist Party newspaper, Granma. At 81, Castro has outlasted nine U.S. presidents since his 1959 revolution turned Cuba into a thorn in Washington's side by building a communist society about 90 miles offshore from the United States. He said all U.S. presidential candidates seeking the "coveted" electoral college votes of Florida have had to demand a democratic government in Cuba to win the backing of the powerful Cuban exile community. Clinton and Obama, both senators, called for democratic change in Cuba last week. Castro has not appeared in public since intestinal illness forced him to hand over power to his brother Raul Castro in July last year. He has turned to writing dozens of columns and essays, but rumors that his health is worsening or that he may even be dead have swirled through the Cuban exile community in Miami in the last two weeks. Castro's only reference to U.S. President George W. Bush in his latest essay was to say that he "needed fraud" to win Florida's electoral college votes and the presidency in the fiercely contested election in 2000. Castro said former President Bill Clinton was "really kind" when he bumped into him and the two men shook hands at a U.N. summit meeting in 2000. He also praised Clinton for sending elite police to "rescue" shipwrecked Cuban boy Elian Gonzalez from the home of his Miami relatives in 2000 to end an international custody battle. But even Clinton was forced to bow to Miami politics and tighten the U.S. embargo against Cuba in 1996, using as a "pretext" the shooting down of two small planes used by exile groups to overfly Havana, Castro wrote. He said his favorite U.S. president since 1959 was Jimmy Carter, another Democrat, because he was not an "accomplice" to efforts to violently overthrow the Cuban government. Sixteen years after Dwight Eisenhower broke off diplomatic ties with Cuba, Carter restored low-level relations in 1977 when interest sections were opened in each country's capital. Castro made no mention of Republican Cold War victor Ronald Reagan, or of John F. Kennedy, whose Democratic administration launched the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion by CIA-trained Cuban exiles in 1961. One of the most dangerous moments of the Cold War came a year later when Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev faced off for 13 days over Soviet missiles that Castro allowed Moscow to place in Cuba. El Linko Fidel Castro's dream ticket? Aren't they special.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AUman43 5 Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 I honestly don't believe that HRC is electable! Obama has no experience and Edwards is bringing up the rear. (after his $400 haircut) I could be wrong as I have been so many times before. JMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tigermike 3,043 Posted September 1, 2007 Author Share Posted September 1, 2007 I honestly don't believe that HRC is electable! Obama has no experience and Edwards is bringing up the rear. (after his $400 haircut) I could be wrong as I have been so many times before. JMO. And I have heard other dems say the same thing. So who does that leave? Dennis Kucinich? At least he has been consistent. Joe Biden? Chris Dodd? NM Gov. Bill Richardson? Obama has shot his self in the foot several times by talking without a script. I think Hillary scares a lot of democrats but she seems to be pulling away from the pack. After this post no more politics for me this weekend. It's football season! WAR EAGLE!!!! BEAT THE CRAP OUT OF KANSAS STATE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasTiger 12,967 Posted September 1, 2007 Share Posted September 1, 2007 The Dream Ticket for me is Romney/Guiliani. Bring 'em on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
autiger4life 3 Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 Honestly, as a Dem, there is no dream ticket for me. Hillary can't get elected even if she is the best, her past will destroy her. Obama keeps saying dumb stuff that will hurt him, Edwards has a $400 haircut, but that isn't the problem, it is that the haircut really wasn't that great. I'd like a President who isn't afraid to spend money, but doesn't waste it(hopefully you picked up on the sarcasm of basing a precidency on a haircut, I had to make the disclaimer before ten post were made saying how dumb I was for saying a person can't be President based on their haircut) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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