Obama meets Miami Cubans on level ground

[billyoc]

T he candidate did not wear a guayabera. He did not endlessly stroke the Cuban ego. And he did not pretend to know everything.

Barack Obama stood Friday beneath the banner of the Cuban American National Foundation and delivered an address notable not just for what it contained, but for what it did not.

''I won't pretend to know everything about Cuba,'' Obama said at the beginning of a speech that touched on the island and the United States' policy throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.

Later, with a smile, he added: ``The easy thing to do for an American politician is to come down to Miami, talk tough and go back to Washington and nothing changes.''

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/ana_menendez/story/545950.html


Unfortunately, the Christian Phalangists have managed to get one of their homophobic ballot initiatives on the ballot in Florida this year, or we might have really put it into play.

[CitizenLeft]

1. no conceding FL yet...

The http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2008/Obama/Maps/May11.html"> lastest polls - admittedly 3 weeks old, and the only ones I've seen - have McCain up by ONE in Florida. Time will tell how close it really gets, but don't give up yet!

[Cha]

2. I absolutely love it that Obama is trying

to reach all Americans and not dissing anyone. He even graciously says hilary's statement was "careless". But, that is endemic of all her statements.

[Zhade]

3. Watch out for CANF, Obama - they have documented terrorists in their midst.

Very right-wing.

[BeyondGeography]

4. Great piece

For once, a politician came to Miami and spoke to and about Cuban Americans as if they comprised a diverse community of thinking adults, instead of a single-celled organism.

K&R