Castro Threatens To Cancel His New York Times Subscription
Enraged over an op-ed piece in Sunday's New York Times in which Caroline Kennedy compared Barack Obama to her father, the late President John F. Kennedy, Cuban President Fidel Castro announced today that he was planning on canceling his New York Times subscription.
Citing John F. Kennedy's attempt to topple the Castro regime in the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, and recounting the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, in which Kennedy prevented the Soviets from setting up nuclear missile sites in Cuba, Castro insisted that John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama couldn't be more different than one another.
"Unlike the benevolent Barack Obama, who recently offered to meet with just about any despot he can get his hands on," Castro asserted, "John F. Kennedy was a mean-spirited individual who loathed despots, and would never have agreed to meet with any kind of despot, let alone, a despicable, miserable tyrant like me."
However, Caroline Kennedy today rejected Castro's criticism of her father and insisted that had Kennedy been alive today, he too, like Obama, would have offered to meet with Castro and would have even offered to sell him nuclear weapons.
"Please keep in mind that my father ascended to the Presidency during the Cold War," she said, "when most Americans were still mistrustful of tyrants and believed that nuclear weapons in the hands of tyrants posed a direct threat to the free world. But today the American people are a lot more sophisticated than that, and have long since dispelled such superstitious notions."
Meanwhile, Barack Obama today reacted ambivalently towards Castro's laudatory remarks.
"It's kind of cool to hear those compliments coming from Castro," Obama proclaimed at a campaign stop in Havana, Cuba today, "but why did it take a tyrant like Castro to realize just how different Jack Kennedy and I really are?" Del.icio.us I DiggIt!
Citing John F. Kennedy's attempt to topple the Castro regime in the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, and recounting the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, in which Kennedy prevented the Soviets from setting up nuclear missile sites in Cuba, Castro insisted that John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama couldn't be more different than one another.
"Unlike the benevolent Barack Obama, who recently offered to meet with just about any despot he can get his hands on," Castro asserted, "John F. Kennedy was a mean-spirited individual who loathed despots, and would never have agreed to meet with any kind of despot, let alone, a despicable, miserable tyrant like me."
However, Caroline Kennedy today rejected Castro's criticism of her father and insisted that had Kennedy been alive today, he too, like Obama, would have offered to meet with Castro and would have even offered to sell him nuclear weapons.
"Please keep in mind that my father ascended to the Presidency during the Cold War," she said, "when most Americans were still mistrustful of tyrants and believed that nuclear weapons in the hands of tyrants posed a direct threat to the free world. But today the American people are a lot more sophisticated than that, and have long since dispelled such superstitious notions."
Meanwhile, Barack Obama today reacted ambivalently towards Castro's laudatory remarks.
"It's kind of cool to hear those compliments coming from Castro," Obama proclaimed at a campaign stop in Havana, Cuba today, "but why did it take a tyrant like Castro to realize just how different Jack Kennedy and I really are?" Del.icio.us I DiggIt!
posted by Postman at
Monday, January 28, 2008
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