Americans don’t want Dr. Government

Carlos Eire: Yes, they stole everything from anyone who has left the island. They stripped me down to my calzoncillos when I left, to...
asombra: We don’t even need to talk about stolen art or other luxury items. EVERYBODY who left Cuba for exile was robbed, because...
asombra: Yeah, well, I’m sure he’s just an intransigent, ultra-right-wing extremist pining away for imperial China. You know,...
Rayarena: I understand that much of the art was sold off through famous auction houses like Sotheby’s and Christies, and off...
OmarD: From what I’ve heard over the years, there is enough looted Cuban art, jewelry, and antiquities to hold a whole series of...

By Ziva Sahl, on July 27, 2009, at 12:31 pm

H/T: Melek

Squires

July 27th, 2009 at 1:56 PM

My father, a Vietnam veteran pushing 60 who left NJ for SC to escape the insane taxation of the former after an early retirement, was and still is a big Obama supporter. Throughout the campaign he stood stubbornly blind to my insistence that Obama was a Marxist who would drag this country into a hole and establish a power differential with the government firmly on top.

Maybe this "die with dignity" clause will finally wake him up, although after a life of blind Party loyalty, I doubt it. It is amazing how someone who has lived through so much, and risen so far from his beginnings (as a poor farm boy) can remain so goddamn oblivious.
Honey

July 27th, 2009 at 9:47 PM

Rest assured, he's not the only one, Squires.