03-11-2008, 02:37 PM
Another point: Keep in mind the electoral significance of Florida and its Cuban/anti-Castro voters over the past 45 years.
Absent the Castro issue -- not so much.
As The Beard fades to black, note how the second generation of gusanos distance themselves from the political passions of their forebears and replace anti-Castro political motivations with contemporary economic and social agendas.
Alpha 66 is more like Alpha 86 today. Off to the nursing camps, amigos.
Absent the Castro issue -- not so much.
As The Beard fades to black, note how the second generation of gusanos distance themselves from the political passions of their forebears and replace anti-Castro political motivations with contemporary economic and social agendas.
Alpha 66 is more like Alpha 86 today. Off to the nursing camps, amigos.
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene