Fidel Castro's death - the Left of the world reveal themselves. - Granite Grok

Fidel Castro’s death – the Left of the world reveal themselves.

fidel-castroThe differences are clear and stark from what we’re seeing from around the world.  I am surprised, however, that Obama’s statement was just full on drool-inducing affirmation of the murderer’s life, given how he has embraced folks like the late Hugo Chavez (outright Socialist leader of Venezuela) and other tin-pot despots that normally are our sworn enemies even as he slighted our traditional allies.

At this time of Fidel Castro’s passing, we extend a hand of friendship to the Cuban people. We know that this moment fills Cubans – in Cuba and in the United States – with powerful emotions, recalling the countless ways in which Fidel Castro altered the course of individual lives, families, and of the Cuban nation. History will record and judge the enormous impact of this singular figure on the people and world around him.

My, doesn’t it sound like a good man gone before (at 90??) Obama’s time? But first, Trump’s statement (both full statements after the jump, emphasis mine):

Today, the world marks the passing of a brutal dictator who oppressed his own people for nearly six decades. Fidel Castro’s legacy is one of firing squads, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and the denial of fundamental human rights.

He was a dictator – during the “revolution” but afterwards as well. Nothing of the like from Obama – who would have guessed?  Trump continues:

While Cuba remains a totalitarian island, it is my hope that today marks a move away from the horrors endured for too long, and toward a future in which the wonderful Cuban people finally live in the freedom they so richly deserve. Though the tragedies, deaths and pain caused by Fidel Castro cannot be erased, our administration will do all it can to ensure the Cuban people can finally begin their journey toward prosperity and liberty. I join the many Cuban Americans who supported me so greatly in the presidential campaign, including the Brigade 2506 Veterans Association that endorsed me, with the hope of one day soon seeing a free Cuba.

Obama’s in full, and makes NO mention of the despotic iron-handed rule of the Cuban people:

At this time of Fidel Castro’s passing, we extend a hand of friendship to the Cuban people. We know that this moment fills Cubans – in Cuba and in the United States – with powerful emotions, recalling the countless ways in which Fidel Castro altered the course of individual lives, families, and of the Cuban nation. History will record and judge the enormous impact of this singular figure on the people and world around him.

For nearly six decades, the relationship between the United States and Cuba was marked by discord and profound political disagreements. During my presidency, we have worked hard to put the past behind us, pursuing a future in which the relationship between our two countries is defined not by our differences but by the many things that we share as neighbors and friends – bonds of family, culture, commerce, and common humanity. This engagement includes the contributions of Cuban Americans, who have done so much for our country and who care deeply about their loved ones in Cuba.

Today, we offer condolences to Fidel Castro’s family, and our thoughts and prayers are with the Cuban people. In the days ahead, they will recall the past and also look to the future. As they do, the Cuban people must know that they have a friend and partner in the United States of America.

But then again, Obama and his network of Commies and Socialists probably think “if ONLY we were like that!”. (H/T: The Corner)

An amalgam of others statements and comments thereof:

Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada (often mentioned as a young Obama in outlook):

“It is with deep sorrow that I learned today of the death of Cuba’s longest serving President. Fidel Castro was a larger than life leader who served his people for almost half a century. A legendary revolutionary and orator, Mr. Castro made significant improvements to the education and healthcare of his island nation. “While a controversial figure, both Mr. Castro’s supporters and detractors recognized his tremendous dedication and love for the Cuban people who had a deep and lasting affection for “el Comandante”. “I know my father was very proud to call him a friend and I had the opportunity to meet Fidel when my father passed away. It was also a real honour to meet his three sons and his brother President Raúl Castro during my recent visit to Cuba. “On behalf of all Canadians, Sophie and I offer our deepest condolences to the family, friends and many, many supporters of Mr. Castro. We join the people of Cuba today in mourning the loss of this remarkable leader.”

Served?  With a bullwhip, perhaps.  And it is obvious that Trudeaux never really got past the veneer that foreigners were supposed to see.  And if you have to call the leader of your country “Commander”, didn’t he think it through what that implies?  Certainly a lot of his countrymen don’t agree.

A critique of Cuba under Castro here.  More facts about Cuba from the Washington Post:

If this were a just world, 13 facts would be etched on Castro’s tombstone and highlighted in every obituary, as bullet points — a fitting metaphor for someone who used firing squads to murder thousands of his own people.

  • He turned Cuba into a colony of the Soviet Union and nearly caused a nuclear holocaust.
  • He sponsored terrorism wherever he could and allied himself with many of the worst dictators on earth.
  • He was responsible for so many thousands of executions and disappearances in Cuba that a precise number is hard to reckon.
  • He brooked no dissent and built concentration camps and prisons at an unprecedented rate, filling them to capacity, incarcerating a higher percentage of his own people than most other modern dictators, including Stalin.
  • He condoned and encouraged torture and extrajudicial killings.
  • He forced nearly 20 percent of his people into exile, and prompted thousands to meet their deaths at sea, unseen and uncounted, while fleeing from him in crude vessels.
  • He claimed all property for himself and his henchmen, strangled food production and impoverished the vast majority of his people.
  • He outlawed private enterprise and labor unions, wiped out Cuba’s large middle class and turned Cubans into slaves of the state.
  • He persecuted gay people and tried to eradicate religion.

And yet Obama and Trudeau are all happy talk about him?  And they aren’t the only ones:  first up, the “Rev.” Jesse:

And from the now second-worst President EVAH! – the peanut farmer Jimmy Carter:

And no list would be complete without John “Lurch” (or Live Shot as Howie Carr calls him) Kerry blithering on:

We extend our condolences to the Cuban people today as they mourn the passing of Fidel Castro. Over more than half a century, he played an outsized role in their lives, and he influenced the direction of regional, even global affairs.

How about their DEATHS, Lurch?  Or the abject poverty he drove that island nation into?  What, no mention of the fiscal support by first the Soviets and then Venezuela in order to keep up appearances?

As our two countries continue to move forward on the process of normalization — restoring the economic, diplomatic and cultural ties severed by a troubled past — we do so in a spirit of friendship and with an earnest desire not to ignore history but to write a new and better future for our two peoples.

The United States reaffirms its support for deepening our engagement with the Cuban people now and in coming years.”

A bunch more from The Corner (that covered this hard) – read and weep the pedestal that these folks built for an absolute totalitarian:

Freedom?  Ask the ladies in white what the Castro version of Freedom was.

Similar thoughts here.  More on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/DavidCShipley/status/802507733056495616

https://twitter.com/RaheemKassam/status/802516753339269120

Newsbusters, who studies the media, shows us how sympathetic our Left leaning MSM was to this Communist:

  • Andrea Mitchell: that Castro “gave his people better health care and education.”
  • Jim Avila: “even Castro’s critics praised his advances in health care and in education.”
  • Martin Savidge: “many saw positives, education and health care for all, racial integration.”
  • Brian Williams: “You see the medicine system they are very proud of.”
  • Jim Avila: “…was considered, even to this day, the George Washington of his country among those who remain in Cuba.”
  • Chris Matthews:“a romantic figure when he came into power” and “we rooted like mad for the guy”

What, no tingle?

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