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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: greenspirit who wrote (16708)	4/9/2000 1:20:00 PM
From: haqihana	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Michael, WELL SAID!! As usual. ~H~

To: greenspirit who wrote (16708)	4/9/2000 9:16:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769667

I don't think we should pretend to ourselves that concern for the "freedom" of Elian Gonzalez has anything to do with the case. It doesn't. Imagine that the boy were from Haiti, or for that matter from a poor family from the Philippines. Would we hesitate for a moment before sending him back? Absolutely not. Would we be sending him back to a future one scrap better than what he would face in Cuba? Absolutely not. The boy is nothing but a pawn in a political struggle between the unsavory thugs of Castro and the equally unsavory thugs of Miami's Cuban community, which is dominated to this day by the same mob that ran Cuba into the ground under Batista and left the door wide open for Castro. The election between George W and Al Gore will be a seminal event in American history if you ask me. I'd like to believe this, but I don't. Both of these guys are 100% political animals from 100% political families, and I don't believe for a minute that either will move to seriously clip federal influence. That influence will change direction to some extent, but it will not cease to exist or operate. I expect to sit this election out; a chickenshit move, for sure, but I have a strong visceral dislike for both of these guys, and the prospect of voting for someone I dislike is worse than the prospect of not voting. I think they're both phonies and hypocrites, and I think both are concerned solely with power. I don't think either gives a damn about the issues and positions they proclaim, except as vehicles to get them into the top chair. As I said before on this thread, I think the country is strong enough to survive either. But neither of them is going to bring salvation, of that I'm quite sure.