I lived in Miami once and found those “liberal” people to be the most anti-Cuban, anti-Spanish, people that I ever met through my broad travels thru the United States. They are pro-Castro because they can not believe that the “inferior” Catholic, Spanish culture actually had constructed progressive, attractive, relatively well-off societies in Latin America, such as pre-Castro Cuba or pre-Chavez Venezuela. Such success is only for Northern Europeans. Cuban-American success is Miami is a bitter pill for them to swallow. The old black legend of England against all things Spanish continues to have vitality.

My hat off to Henry Gomez. Continue to study, research, and speak out, it is our best defense and the way we can best serve the future of the American nation. I will vote for McCain-Palin, and let The Miami Herald cry.

I’d say to him, “hang in there.” If older Cubans hate BOTH the Castro regime and Cuba itself, what’s left to be Cuban about?

Latinos bring great enrichment to every aspect of American life. Even in spite of the deep bigotry against them.

The pre-Castro history of Cuba can’t possibly have been all that bad. I don’t claim expertise on the subject, but I’d guarantee there was plenty of good there to take pride in.

I’ve lived in Mexico now for 14 years. I’ve come into a deep love of country – two of them. Mine, the U.S., and the one which accepted me, Mexico, as a foreign resident with such graciousness and generosity of spirit.

Neither nation is perfect. Try to imagine how little I care! I love them BOTH, anyway!

I don’t know Cubanos much, but I’d give dollars to donuts they’re very much like the Mexicanos.

Tell your grandparents that there IS beauty in being a Cubano who dislikes the present regime, but who loves Cuba, warts and all.

Tell them that there is no shame in a U.S. president talking to the bastards running Cuba. The shame will be on the regime, who won’t be able to respond rationally – for all the world to see.

Obama wants to bring democracy back to Cuba. Can any Cuban say they don’t deserve it? There can be no guarantees from his policies – no policies ever come with guarantees of success. But if anyone can do it, it would be Obama.

He means it when he says, “Si! Se puede!”

One thing is for sure, though. The “talk tough, but don’t talk to THEM” policy has given Cubanos a consistent result of – nothing. We now know what won’t work. It’s time to look for something that does.

The Republicans have had years to make their “no-talks” policy accomplish something. Meanwhile, things only got worse.

And now, Cuba and Venezuela are chumming up, based almost exclusively on one shared platform: hatred of the United States. Is HATE a reason for an alliance?

How can changing gears on talking to Castro’s regime possibly be worse than that? It might easily fail – in fact it probably would fail. But it would enhance the prestige of the U.S., because at least they TRIED. And it would show the Castro regime as the oafs that they are.

There was a point in history when Cuba could have been made a state. We didn’t take the opportunity. Maybe we should have. It might have avoided decades of oppression.

Cubanos, you are, most of you, very fine people. Let Obama be your choice for president. You can do worse, but you can’t find a better choice anywhere.

And know that OTHER people know that being a Cubano is something essentially good and worthwhile. I’m white, elderly and disabled. I’m for Obama, and a large part of it is because he would NOT ignore Cuba or Latin America, as the GOP has done. He has a vision to unite the Americas in democracy and prosperity. Even Hillary Clinton’s broadest visions don’t match his.

In today’s evil and volatile world, we need every democracy we can get in order to oppose the forces lined up against human liberty. We can’t afford to ignore a single American democracy. Cuba deserves one, too.

Obama is able to be a president who works “outside of the box” of traditional D.C. politics. That means he will actually be able to get things DONE for us all! Sen. Clinton would be hamstrung, because she’s part of the old system. He isn’t.

Doesn’t that merit a vote of confidence in Obama from Latinos?

Vaya con Dios, Cubanos!

McCain has one great virtue as a candidate. He understands there is a war on and we must win it. The others, including Harold Stassen wannabe Nader, do not understand the world they live in, and their proposals are futile, false, and dangerous.

I know you are going to love every bit of the dilema of having to vote for either Senator Obama, Senator Clinton, Citizen Nadar, or your RINO candidate, Senator McCain.

[snicker]

CAMBIO … en la Yuma!

How nice of you to show up here. We’ll be seeing what’s what in November. Have fun until then.

I was born and raised in Miami, the son of Cuban immigrants. My father was a card-carrying member of the Grand Ole Party (I still remember letters “signed” by President Gerald Ford arriving at our house addressed to my dad) and virtually all of my family was virulently anti-Castro and, I later learned, profoundly anti-Cuba.

I was taught to hate all that is Cuba and yearn for a Cuba that ceased to exist years before I was born. I bought into this nihilist brand of self-hate, this profound and paradoxical contempt of self. Although masked by bombastic and narcissitic rhetoric, it is the same self-loathing found so commonly in other client cultures.

The only choice left for most “Cubans” reared in Miami is either abdication to this self-emasculation of self-identity vis-a-vis blind and deaft and completely mute lambs following others to social slaughter OR deeply painful feelings of conflict and confusion. That is, those are the choices for those who choose to stay in Miami either physically or emotionally.

The “Cubans” that leave Miami – physically and/or emotionally – are one step closer to returning to Cuba herself even if one or all have never actually experienced Cuba in a first-hand, physically sense.

This shift, this inevitable, inexorable reversion to what is in one’s DNA, in one’s blood, in one’s sinews, in one’s essence is what all right-wing “Cubans” must prepare themselves to accept. Whether old or young, abuelo viejo o padre recien, all neoconservative “Cubans” must realize that sooner or later, all Cubans will return to Cuba in either the physical or at least the spiritual sense regardless of what the “Cubans” try to do to stop them.

CAMBIO … en la Yuma!