On Jan 26, 2012, at 10:56 AM, Shane Mage wrote:
> From Fox News, 26/1 (on the Florida GOP "debate"):
>
> Of the four candidates, Romney, Gingrich and Rick Santorum all favor
> keeping the U.S. embargo on Cuba in place, as Santorum said, "until
> the Castros are dead."
>
> Ron Paul takes the complete opposite position. As he said in Monday
> night's debate in Tampa, he thinks anyone who supports strangling
> the Cuban people with the embargo is living in the Dark Ages.
>
> "I would do pretty much the opposite. I don't like the isolationism
> of not talking to people. I was drafted in 1962 at the height of the
> Cold War when the missiles were in Cuba. And the Cold War's over,"
> said Paul.
>
Addendum: The NYTIMES today, under the headline "Candidates scramble
to win Hispanic votes in Florida" was all about the Three Stooges and
their competition to predict the worst torments of eternal damnation
for Fidel. Not a word--not one--about Dr. Paul and his denunciation of
the embargo!
> Shane Mage
>
> "L'après-vie, c'est une auberge espagnole. L'on n'y trouve que ce
> qu'on a apporté."
>
> Bardo Thodol
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