But Cuba! Remember Cuba? I done what 40 years of US policy has failed to accomplish: I got to be the President while the leader of that adorably impoverished boutique dictatorship finally started to kick it. I mean, it's not as if other administrations didn't try. I think the CIA failed to off him upwards of 600 times, which makes you wonder why nobody ever realized that the CIA's intelligence has always been pretty much pure shit. I should make a mental note of that. Wait, what am I making a mental note of? I forgot. Wait. Hmmmm. I like cervezas.
Anyhoo, after decades of trying to kill off a guy who looks like he could have played back up tambourine in the Grateful Dead, American policy towards Castro can be summed up in this sentence, "Pout Until He Croaks." What did Bill Clinton do about Castro? Did he pray to Jesus that Fidel would get the ass plague? Nope – that was ME! Castro's illness has reinforced my faith, and now I hope the Lord and me are on a roll. Next up, help a brutha out with the polls, yo J.C.?
http://www.whitehouse.org/news/2006/080406.asp