McCain proves popular in Little Havana speech

[Mika]

Source: Sun Sentinel

Republican presidential candidate John McCain warned on Wednesday against the spread of socialism in Latin America and pledged to give the region renewed U.S. attention if elected.

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The Arizona senator said that "everyone should understand the connections" between Chavez, Morales and communist Cuban President Fidel Castro. "They inspire each other. They assist each other. They get ideas from each other," McCain said. "It's very disturbing."

As president, McCain said he would work on political, diplomatic and economic fronts to counter the rise of socialism, including efforts to spread free trade. Yet the United States must also stress the advantages of capitalism and democracy to win "a war of ideas" in the region, he said.

McCain had a clearly receptive audience among the Bay of Pigs veterans, who consider him a hero for the years he spent as a prisoner of war in what was then communist North Vietnam. The group's president, former CIA agent Felix Rodriguez, noted McCain's years in captivity in his introduction and said: "It's a distinct honor to have you."

Read more: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/miami/sfl-dmccain22mar22,0,2307789.story?coll=sfla-news-miami

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Lots of interesting info on CIA/terrorist collaborator Felix Rodriguez here.. http://afrocubaweb.com/felixrodriguez.htm

[BayCityProgressive]

1. Hands off Latin America you fucking Nazi

[otherlander]

2. Rodriguez

That bastard is still alive? Oh well.

[Marth]

3. Hey, McCain

STFU and go hang yourself you scum! 11 million Cubans deserve far better than the sh*t you spout out of that a**hole you call your mouth!Why don't you go take a Guantanamo vacation and "hang around"with your gusano friends? Hands off Cuba you POS...

[maxsolomon]

4. its very disturbing?

why, its almost as if they have their own countries that the US doesn't control economically or militarily! and their own minds that can understand that socialism isn't the same as stalinism!

the unmitigated gall!

HA-rumpf! time to retire, old man.

[Az_lefty]

5. create more Pinochet's???

fuck off McCain!

[Unvanguard]

6. It's good they're "disturbing."

They wouldn't be doing their job correctly if they weren't.