The Cuban American generally votes Republican. I think it's very condescending of yet another politico coming here during crunch time writing checks that can't be cashed. Mr. Bush can take those words and blow them out of his arse. He need not have made those statements. He was preaching to choir.
Here are the facts. Cuba could be liberated tomorrow and most of us (Cubans) will remain right where we are. I'm American. I own a moderately successful business, I own property. Most of us are either very well employed or are business owners, why would we leave? We are Americans. Most of the people here feel as I do. We were received into the bosom of this great and generous land by the best and most noble people on Earth. We were permitted to establish our community here and largely maintain our sense of identity. We were allowed to be Cuban during a period of great stress for our people. My dad (as a very common example of that first wave of immigration 1959-60) was a professional with his future virtually assured in international finance, married to the daughter of one the nation's prominent businessmen. My father, an educated man 31 years of age, fluent in four languages. We had the advantage of owning homes in Miami prior to the Castro revolution and the extended family was well vested in the NYSE. My dad being too proud to accept handouts from his father-in-law took a job as a milkman with Borden's Dairy, (the only employment available to him) and worked his way to an executive position with that firm. He still sees himself as Cuban. He still lives in a predominantly Cuban community. On the other hand, my children do not speak Spanish very well, my grandchildren will probably not speak it at all. That's as it should be. It has been so in past with every wave of immigration and will always be thus. The great melting pot, America. Thats what makes us so great. Out of many, one people. E pluribus Unum.
That relic of a bye gone era in power on that insignificant island is of no consequence.
The time for America to have done what needed to be done in Cuba and elsewhere passed with the 60's. Kennedy blew it by not going with Eisenhower's plan in Cuba and Vietnam. When Kennedy and the democrats stole the 1960 election through voter fraud they put into place the worst possible scenario for America in global terms. Kennedy's asassination merely compounded the problem. Johnson should have been tried for his mishandling of Vietnam. The democrats blew the war on communism globally and it wasn't rectified until the the Reagan administration. Much too late for my former people. What ever anyone may do now is unimportant.
Cuba represents a great opportunity for American business due to the tremendous amount of infrastructure that will need to be put into place and it's natural beauty will once again make it a world class travel and leisure destination. Sadly our government's policy has allowed European and Japanese conglomorates to have a huge lead in that market. I guess what I would rather hear is that the embargo has been lifted and we can go in and take over through commerce. many of the people my age agree. The guys you see on in the mainstream liberal press are a vocal minority that largely shed a bad light on the community and on the Republican party as well.
Sorry for the lengthy response to such a short question.
