The embarrassing flight of the three hawks - By Jane Franklin

[Mika]

The embarrassing flight of the three hawks
By Jane Franklin

All three Cuban-American members of the U.S. Senate – Robert Menéndez, Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz – wish they could say truthfully that their parents “fled Castro’s Cuba”. The embarrassing reality is that their parents left Cuba while General Fulgencio Batista was running the country after the 1952 coup that overthrew an elected government and canceled an election in which Fidel Castro was running for office.

Menéndez continues to make it seem like his parents “fled communism for freedom in the United States” after the Revolution ousted Batista on January 1, 1959. He cemented this version of reality when he was running to retain his appointment as the Democratic senator from New Jersey in 2006. For instance, he told The New York Times, “To me, it was always, ‘Wow, what instigated my parents to risk it all and start all over again?’ ” “It’s called freedom,” he said. The Times and other media did not bother to mention that he was born in New York in 1954.

Menéndez rests assured that he can repeat his refrain and that most Americans, acculturated as they are, will not ask “When?” because they assume what has been implanted in their minds:
Flees Castro
Flees Castro’s Cuba
Escapes the Castros
Escapes Cuba’s communist government
Flees communism for freedom on our shores.

His parents become the oppressed victims of “Castro’s Revolution” and Menéndez takes on the mantle of a son of immigrants who found freedom in the United States that he is defending against the villainous Castro his parents fled.
For decades he has profited politically from that identity, raising prodigious campaign funds among wealthy right-wing Cuban-Americans in both New Jersey and Florida. Now this Cuban-American hawk oversees U.S. policy toward Cuba from his perch as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

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[Judi Lynn]

1. Not one but three Cuban American phony "exiles"!

They "fled" Cuba when fleeing wasn't cool.

Looks as if all three don't imagine they ever had to wonder about the truth catching up with them. Republicans don't worry about such small things as telling the truth.

Didn't know about 2 of these creeps. Very interesting.

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[MADem]

2. And of course all these guys are on board with the DREAM ACT....????

Oh, wait...they prefer that other one...the "Keep DREAMIN' suckers--I got MINE, you can't get yours!" Act!!!!

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