Obama's "Castro" moment?

[HenryBHough]

A little history that is no longer taught in American Indoctrination Centers:

In January, 1959, Castro's "insurgents" installed Manuel Urrutia Lleó as Cuba's new president. He named Law professor José Miró Cardona Prime Minister as a sort of place-holder. In a month, in February, 1959, Miró resigned and on February 16, 1959, and Castro was sworn in as Prime Minister of Cuba.

At that time Castro declared himself to be against communism: "I don't agree with communism. We are democracy. We are against all kinds of dictators... That is why we oppose communism."

Of course he didn't swear that on a Bible - for reasons nobody fully grasped at the time (sound familiar?). So that same Castro, in May, 1961, declared Cuba a socialist country. He held back on admitting himself a Marxist-Leninist until December 1961. That was his grand moment. It wasn't also necessary, then, to also be Muslim to score big so he saved all the effort conversion might have taken..

So the question, will Our Kenyan President out Himself before his legitimate (?) term expires or will he ape Castro and speak out honestly, perhaps for the first time in his life, only after that?

 

[Moonglow]

 

[Pogo]

Oh. I thought you were gonna say O'bama finally learned how to throw a baseball.

Shoulda known.

 

[waltky]

What's happenin' with the beardly one?...

Fidel Castro rumors sweep Internet, but no sign in Cuba
Jan 9,`15 -- Social media around the world have been flooded with rumors of Fidel Castro's death, but there was no sign Friday that the reports were true, even if the 88-year-old former Cuban leader has not been seen in public for months.

Similar speculation has swept across Cuban expatriate communities repeatedly over the decades, particularly after a serious illness forced him to step down from duties as president in 2006, handing over leadership to his younger brother Raul. The new wave was prompted in part by Fidel Castro's failure to comment after the U.S. and Cuba declared on Dec. 17 that they would move to restore full diplomatic relations broken a half century ago.

The chatter appeared to pick up when some media noted Thursday that Castro had not been seen in public in a year. He last appeared on Jan. 8, 2014, at an art exhibition in Havana, ending nine months out of public view. The most recent official photographs of Castro came out of a private meeting with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Aug. 21. He was also photographed with the Chinese and Russian presidents in July. Castro was last heard from on Oct. 18, when he published an editorial about Ebola.

By Friday, Cuba-related Twitter accounts were ablaze with speculation, fueled in large part by reports on news websites such as Diario de Cuba and Diario las Americas that Cuba had scheduled a news conference, possibly to discuss Castro's health. The rumors were further stoked when respected Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera reported on its website that Castro had died. It quickly pulled the report back, however. Cuban officials told news media in Havana that no press conference had been called, and there were no obvious signs of official preparations for mourning.

News from The Associated Press