I'm so sick of the radical Miami Cubans!

[trumad]

They're all huffy because Mike jumped on thier Batista loving asses and had the audacity to say that Elian should be sent back to his Dad.

Exiles strike back at Moore's writings

BY GAIL EPSTEIN NIEVES

[e-mail]

Weeks after Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 became a controversial blockbuster in the United States, the film and its maker are generating a new wave of attention -- this time from Cubans on both sides of the Florida Straits.

In Cuba, where leader Fidel Castro is in a heightened war of words with President Bush, bootlegged copies of Moore's Bush-bashing documentary were shown to packed cinemas for a week, and the film was aired on state-run television July 29.

In Miami and elsewhere, Cuban Americans who support Bush are vilifying Moore on Spanish-language radio, the Internet and in e-mails.

Their objection, beyond the new film: inflammatory pieces Moore wrote about Cuban exiles in 1997 and 2000 in which he called them ''Batista supporters'' and ''wimps'' who were wrong not to immediately send home child-boater Elián González.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/9332301.htm?ERIGHTS=-5973615030928644049miami::[e-mail]&KRD_RM=3pjmlsmkqrkrsnjjjjjjjjkjsj|b|Y

[Coventina]

1. Those wackos can go Cheney themselves

Cuba was run by a gang of THUGS before Castro.
Now, I am NOT a Castro supporter, but what he overthrew was NO BETTER than he for sure!!!!!!

After all, a contented, well-governed populace does NOT rise up in revolution.

I can't wait for all those grumpy old men to die.

[skypilot]

2. Someone once made an interesting point...

...about the whole Elian thing. I don't remember where I read it but the person stated that if it had been Elian's father that'd died on that boat trying to reach America and his mother was alive in Cuba pleading to have Elian back we'd probably have heard a lot less about this story because there probably would not have been much of a story. What are the chances that we'd have even entertained the thought of not giving a child back to his mother?

[calico1]

3. They need to get over Elian already!

The boy does not belong to the Cuban exiles. He belongs with family, regardless of where the family is. There was absolutely no evidence that the father mistreated or neglected him. All they (exiles) wanted Elian for was for use as a political tool. I think the whole thing was disgusting. Its bad enough he saw his mother die. They thought nothing of ripping him from the only parent he's got left so they could show up Castro. Disgusting.

[Ganja Ninja]

4. I hear ya.

There's a reason the Cubans ran these people out. Not all but some (mostly rich) Cubans that have come here are pushy and obnoxious. They are basically the Cuban version of republicans. They ought not be setting policy for us. We ought be be setting our Cuban policy based on what's good for America not on what a bunch of exiles want. What's good for America is a Cuba that isn't an economic basket case. The day Castro dies we are going to have another million or more people show up here wanting in.

[Jacobin]

5. It's scary to think they want to go run Cuba

These Battista's scare me WAY more than Fidel does.

[readmylips]

6. Cuba was the last slave island in the carib...

I'm not a Castro supporter but he did two good things for the people of Cuba; 1) integrated the society, 2) gave society free health care.

Most Cubans in Florida are the white people who were the elite during the Batista regime. Black Cubans lived in separate provinces of Cuba and only lived to serve the whites. After the white elites ran off to Miami, Castro integrated the society.

Lots of Miami people travel to Cuba to take advantage of the free health care in Cuba. Even rich Florida Cubans travel there to take advantage of Cuba's cheap plastic surgery. Cubans are not complaining because bush is not getting rid of castro. They are complaining because by mistake bush closed down their luxury loophole....and by
misspeak, bush called Cuban women whores.