Comments on: Reaction to Fidel Castro’s Resignation http://politicsanew.com/2008/02/19/reaction-to-fidel-castros-resignation/ Opinion and Commentary of Over 500 Women Political Bloggers Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:43:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Presidential election 2008 |Republicans Vs. Democrats » Reaction to Fidel Castro’s Resignation http://politicsanew.com/2008/02/19/reaction-to-fidel-castros-resignation/comment-page-1/#comment-2823 Presidential election 2008 |Republicans Vs. Democrats » Reaction to Fidel Castro’s Resignation Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:10:47 +0000 http://politicsanew.com/2008/02/19/reaction-to-fidel-castros-resignation/#comment-2823 [...] Andrew Tyndall wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptHillary Rodham Clinton, DN.Y.: The new leadership in Cuba will face a stark choice—continue with the failed policies of the past that have stifled democratic freedoms and stunted economic growth—or take a historic step to bring Cuba … Read the rest of this great post here Posted by [...] [...] Andrew Tyndall wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptHillary Rodham Clinton, DN.Y.: The new leadership in Cuba will face a stark choice—continue with the failed policies of the past that have stifled democratic freedoms and stunted economic growth—or take a historic step to bring Cuba … Read the rest of this great post here Posted by [...]

]]> By: John Goodrich http://politicsanew.com/2008/02/19/reaction-to-fidel-castros-resignation/comment-page-1/#comment-2793 John Goodrich Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:41:00 +0000 http://politicsanew.com/2008/02/19/reaction-to-fidel-castros-resignation/#comment-2793 Let me add this about Cuba; say what you will about it but remember this: there is or was a billboard up in a main square in Havana that read (s): "In the world today millions of children sleep in the streets. NOT ONE IS CUBAN. Consider that every year in the Third World some 12 million people die of starvation, tens of millions die from preventable and curable disease and roughly half the world barely exists on $1-2.00 a day. None of this happens to anyone in Cuba. So how appropriate is talk of so-called "freedom and democracy" in Cuba in light of those facts? Let me add this about Cuba; say what you will about it but remember this:
there is or was a billboard up in a main square in Havana that read (s):

“In the world today millions of children sleep in the streets.
NOT ONE IS CUBAN.

Consider that every year in the Third World some 12 million people die of starvation, tens of millions die from preventable and curable disease and roughly half the world barely exists on $1-2.00 a day.

None of this happens to anyone in Cuba.

So how appropriate is talk of so-called “freedom and democracy” in Cuba in light of those facts?

]]> By: John Goodrich http://politicsanew.com/2008/02/19/reaction-to-fidel-castros-resignation/comment-page-1/#comment-2791 John Goodrich Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:33:37 +0000 http://politicsanew.com/2008/02/19/reaction-to-fidel-castros-resignation/#comment-2791 It is the height of hypocrisy for just about any citizen of the U.S. including George Bush to talk about "free and fair elections in Cuba. I would guess that 99% of the people in the United States know absolutely nothing about the Cuban electoral system which is called "Poder Popular" roughly translated as People's Power in which NO political parties are allowed to run candidates and that includes the PCC (Cuban Communist Party. No campaigning is allowed, no campaign financing corrupts the electoral process and at the grass-roots Municipal Assembly level it is the voters in each district and not a political party who nominates their candidates for representative. Want to know more? Google "Cuban electoral system" and do some serious reading. Then compare what is sold to us as democracy and compare it to "Poder Popular" Even with Fidel and Raul soon gone from the scene, Cubans will not want to swap Poder Popular for the far less democratic system we have. Yes, they only allow the PCC and no other party and in that way preserve their socialist economy which is under siege but consider the very few differences in the Democrats and Republicans when it comes to preserving and expanding capitalism and preventing the rise of socialism in the U.S.A.. We can no more change OUR corrupt and inequitable, have and have-not economic form than can the Cubans go back to that form. I It is the height of hypocrisy for just about any citizen of the U.S. including George Bush to talk about “free and fair elections in Cuba.
I would guess that 99% of the people in the United States know absolutely nothing about the Cuban electoral system which is called “Poder Popular” roughly translated as People’s Power in which NO political parties are allowed to run candidates and that includes the PCC (Cuban Communist Party. No campaigning is allowed, no campaign financing corrupts the electoral process and at the grass-roots Municipal Assembly level it is the voters in each district and not a political party who nominates their candidates for representative.

Want to know more? Google “Cuban electoral system” and do some serious reading.
Then compare what is sold to us as democracy and compare it to “Poder Popular”

Even with Fidel and Raul soon gone from the scene, Cubans will not want to swap Poder Popular for the far less democratic system we have.

Yes, they only allow the PCC and no other party and in that way preserve their socialist economy which is under siege but consider the very few differences in the Democrats and Republicans when it comes to preserving and expanding capitalism and preventing the rise of socialism in the U.S.A..

We can no more change OUR corrupt and inequitable, have and have-not economic form than can the Cubans go back to that form.

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