{"id":8089,"date":"2010-12-18T14:22:04","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T19:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8089"},"modified":"2010-12-18T14:22:04","modified_gmt":"2010-12-18T19:22:04","slug":"fidel-castro-joins-other-leftists-disappointed-with-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8089\/fidel-castro-joins-other-leftists-disappointed-with-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Fidel Castro Joins Other Leftists Disappointed With Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the Wikileaks State Department cables are ever compiled into a book, one of the chapters should contain the rise and fall of Fidel Castro\u2019s affinity for President Barack Obama.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard not to smirk when reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2010\/dec\/17\/wikileaks-fidel-castro-barack-obama\" target=\"_blank\">this article from <em>The Guardian<\/em><\/a> outlining the Cuban despot\u2019s excitement that the candidate of \u201chope\u201d and \u201cchange\u201d would take America in a leftward direction.<\/p>\n<p>Considered \u201cobsessed\u201d with Obama by U. S. diplomats stationed in Havana, Castro wrote several op-eds in a state-run newspaper praising the president for his <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB124409999530984503.html\" target=\"_blank\">speech<\/a> in Cairo, Egypt.\u00a0 The dictator also liked Obama\u2019s stance on global warming.\u00a0 That is, until The One broke the dear leader\u2019s heart at the Copenhagen Conference.\u00a0 (Apparently, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2009\/dec\/22\/copenhagen-climate-change-mark-lynas\" target=\"_blank\">wanting some concessions from China<\/a> before handing over climate reparations went too far for Latin America\u2019s oldest communist.)<\/p>\n<p>Get in line, Fidel.\u00a0 You and Che Guevara-sporting American Left will have to content yourselves \u201conly\u201d with the first critical step towards socialized medicine (Obamacare), and unprecedented nationalizations of the finance and auto industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the Wikileaks State Department cables are ever compiled into a book, one of the chapters should contain the rise and fall of Fidel Castro\u2019s affinity for President Barack Obama.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard not to smirk when reading this article from The Guardian outlining the Cuban despot\u2019s excitement that the candidate of \u201chope\u201d and \u201cchange\u201d would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,2204,2202,2203,388,2201,1655],"class_list":["post-8089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-che-guevara","tag-communist","tag-cuba","tag-fidel-castro","tag-leftist","tag-wikileaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8089"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8094,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8089\/revisions\/8094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}