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Why? Most liberals I know like Castro quite a lot. They like the way his government takes good care of the people. No one in Cuba has to worry about health care, and the education system over there is actually too bad.
Castro has the same "from those according to their abilities, to those according to their needs" that the ACORN people here including Obama and Clintons believes in. The government can decide better than the individuals -- all that.
So what difference do you see between Obama and Castro -- apart from the dictator thing - but the Cubans do elect Castro.
I am a Liberal and have never met one who said that they like Castro. The Liberals I know work and pay taxes. I don't know anyone looking for a government handhout or someone that is capable of working but too lazy to do so. I know college professors, doctors, lawyers and business owners who voted for Obama. You can quit stereo-typing now. It is posts like yours that alienate people and turn them off. Keep up the good work, you'll get a few more votes for Obama in 2010.
Stupid post. If people of one party don't like other people having fund raisers for the competing party, it is up to them to convince the fund raising people to come over to their side.
As a registered repub, I have no problem with people trying to raise funds for the party of their choice. It is called Freedom of Choice. it is the American way.
Location: On the "Left Coast", somewhere in "the Land of Fruits & Nuts"
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Left or Right, when folks out here on the west coast mention "immigration", they're likely talking about hispanic immigrants, mostly from nearby Mexico. But unlike in Florida, the majority of the hispanic immigrants here are generally much more "low-key", especially politically.
So whenever I hear someone in Cali complaining about the problems with "immigrants", I'm thinking, "OMG, you should see what all that's like in Miami, where the Cuban immigrants there are way more organized, "vocal", and deadly serious about their politics!"
Of course the irony of it is, that so many of the most militant anti-Castro "hard-liners" live way better now, than they probably ever did (or will) in Cuba.
I am a Liberal and have never met one who said that they like Castro. The Liberals I know work and pay taxes. I don't know anyone looking for a government handhout or someone that is capable of working but too lazy to do so. I know college professors, doctors, lawyers and business owners who voted for Obama. You can quit stereo-typing now. It is posts like yours that alienate people and turn them off. Keep up the good work, you'll get a few more votes for Obama in 2010.
What changed? They political orientation of Cuban Americans is simply shifting as the younger generations vote Democrat. As a matter of fact MOST Cuban Americans under 44 voted Democrat. The older Cubans spent their lives supporting republicans hoping they would arrange an attack on Castro's Cuba, but since that never happened, the younger ones decided to vote about Americans issues as opposed to continue voting for purely Cuban issues. After all the younger ones were born in USA.
PLUS, the founder of the Cuban American National Foundation, Jorge Mas Canosa, died in 1997 or 1998, and the CANF broke up within a couple years after his death. CANF was a very rich and powerful PAC. Jorge Mas Canosa apparently "ran: the Cuban American exile group in Miami up until his death. The woman quoted in the OP article, Ninoska, was a high level Cuban exile in the CANF, one of a number of them who left the Cuban American National Foundation after Mas Canosa died. His son took over the PAC and the old exiles didn't like the way the son was running things.
I think the fact that Gloria Estefan had the fun raiser speaks volumes about the changes in Miami.
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