Last week, seven members of the Congressional Black Caucus – Reps. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., Melvin Watt, D-N.C., Michael Honda, D-Calif., Laura Richardson, D-Calif., Bobby Rush, D-Ill., Marcia Fudge, D-Ohio, and Emanuel Cleaver II, D-Mo. -- returned from a visit to Cuba where they met with the dictators of Cuba, Fidel and Raul Castro.They were quite impressed with Fidel Castro, the longest reigning dictator in the world, the man who deprived an entire generation of Cubans of the most fundamental human rights. Some of their reactions:CBC Chairwoman Rep. Barbara Lee: “Former President Fidel Castro is very engaging, very energetic.”Rep. Laura Richardson: “He looked right into my eyes and said, 'How can we help you? How can we help President Obama?’”Rep. Bobby Rush: “I think that what really surprised me, but also endeared me to him was his keen sense of humor, his sense of history and his basic human qualities.”“He drank water, we drank water, nothing else was served, but that was just fine! I was, after all, in the presence of history.”“In my household, I told Castro, he is known as the ultimate survivor.”Regarding this last comment, columnist Mona Charen pithily noted: “Funny how easy it is to survive when you don't hold elections.”Charen is a conservative, but when even major liberal editorial pages hold you in contempt, you're in trouble.The Miami Herald labeled the seven members of the CBC who went to Cuba, “The Clueless Seven”The Herald’s scathing editorial continued: “If only the group had met with even one prisoner of conscience or one of the wives, mothers, daughters or sisters of the 75 independent journalists, librarians and human-rights advocates imprisoned in Cuba's ‘Black Spring’ of 2003…Or the seven could have traveled three hours from Havana to see the hunger-striking dissidents led by Jorge Luis Garcia ‘Antunez’ Perez in Placetas. Or they could have asked to see Oscar Elias Biscet, a doctor serving 25 years in prison for following the peaceful resistance of Martin Luther King Jr. … Or what of the mothers of three young men who were tried in a day and killed the next by firing squad in 2003 for trying to hijack a ferry from Havana Harbor? No passenger was hurt, but that didn't stop the Cuban government from sending a swift and terrifying message to the country's Afro-Cuban masses..more..http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=304A369A-5EEA-4BE4-8981-29BFD090EA13related stores
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