[NYTr] Another Too-Credulous Look at Obama's Cuba Flirtations

[All the News That Doesn't Fit]

[It's true we all crave those little crumbs of hope these days, but...
"Envisioning the world as it could be?" Sounds like Alvaro Fernandex is
hoping to find another Robert F. Kennedy, who wasn't nearly as
wonderful, either, as we're led to believe nearly 40 years after his
death. (RFK's famous quote is "Some [people] see things as they are, and
ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask, 'why not?'"
Fernandez hopes he's "wowed" by Obama in Miami. He should read Circles
Robinson before attending Obama's grand performance; if he's old enough
he may realize he's seen it all before. Obama isn't all that black, but
he really is slick. -NY Transfer]


Progreso Weekly - Aug 23, 2007
http://progreso-weekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=112&Itemid=1

Al’s Loupe

Envisioning the world as it could be...

By Alvaro F. Fernandez

Barack Obama is too young. He is too black. His name sounds like Osama.

His inexperience has shown in the debates -- Hillary has schooled him.

Obama, others say, is not ready to be president of the United States.
Is anybody ever ready to be president? There’s another factor: It will
be 2009, when most of the new president’s time will be spent cleaning
up the mess left behind by the other guy…

Does anyone really want to be president of this country when George W.
Bush leaves? [And, one might ask, if so, what's wrong with that
person? -NY Transfer]

Barack Obama will be in Miami this Saturday (August 25). He will be
addressing a group of 2,000-plus persons at Miami Dade Auditorium.
During his speech he will touch a subject most every other candidate
refuses to even get close to. He will state that the current Cuba
policy highlighted by family separation, and made even more stringent
by the Bush Administration in June 2004, is wrong.

In my opinion, it is a good and gutsy political move by Senator Obama.
And in Miami, it may set him apart from the other candidates opening
the door to Cuban American voters disheartened by Bush Cuba travel
policies. It may encourage Cubans, now U.S. citizens living in Miami,
who arrived after 1990 and who have not registered to vote to do so.
Even when registered, many have never voted.

Sure, it’s a bold political move. Hopefully it pays off for him.

But it’s much more. It’s also the right and moral thing to do.

I am flabbergasted that more people do not hold the candidates to the
test by asking a simple question: Are you for division of families as
U.S. policy?

I cannot understand how anyone can vote for a candidate who favors this.

It’s one of the many reasons I like Barack Obama. And let me emphasize
that I am not saying I will be voting for Barack Obama. I have yet to
decide who I will vote for... And there’s still the question of Al Gore
I wrote about earlier this month.

But the fact that Obama has made and faced his mistakes along the way,
and has shown the courage to go against the grain as in the Cuba issue,
only makes him a more attractive candidate in my eyes. Surely, Hillary
Clinton has had almost all perfect answers during the debates -- that
bothers me. It shows she learns quickly -- everything her handlers are
feeding her. I would really like to know, at least once, what she
really feels.

I also like Obama’s mistakes because it demonstrates this guy is
willing to take chances. He looks like the type who will take a leap
forward and try to envision the world as it could be. 

I plan to go listen to Obama on Saturday. Here’s hoping the young guy
with the winning smile who’s too black, too young and inexperienced
wows me. I’ll let you know next week.