Hillary Nervous About Fred Thompson

Washington, DC (TLS). In a display showing just how nervous Democrats have become over the prospects of a Fred Thompson candidacy, Hillary Clinton took a swipe at Thompson over his remarks about Cuba.

Thompson made the remarks within the context of the looming immigration compromise bill in Congress, suggesting that Fidel Castro is still sending spies into the U.S.

The U.S. Government apprehended 1000 Cuban illegal aliens last year.

Wasting no time in using Thompson's remarks to incite the ire of the Cuban-American community in Florida, Hillary grossly mischaracterized Thompson's remarks, twisting his words to suggest that the former U.S. Senator was somehow slamming Cuban-Americans.

Thompson's campaign staff quickly jumped on the mischaracterization, and wrote on the Thompson website that the Senator in no way referred to the thousands of Cuban-Americans who live in Florida. The response made it clear that nobody in the U.S. understands the danger of Fidel Castro and illegal aliens any more than the Cuban-Americans in the Miami area.

Apparently Hillary and her husband have no understanding of that danger, however.

In the early 1990s, the Clinton White House issued one of the largest welcome mats to host a visit from the Cuban Communist Dictator. In fact, Clinton rolled out the red carpet for Castro and treated him like a revered elder statesman.

Dan Rather at CBS News at the time could not resist using the Castro visit to do a major prime-time interview, treating the Communist as if he were a hero.

Perhaps the Cuban-American community in the Miami area should go back in their memories and recall the outright disgust, disdain, and outrage they felt toward Clinton and the mainstream media at the time. Clinton and others like him were severely denounced and condemned by numerous voices in the Cuban-American community, many of whom still have vivid memories of the horrors they fled under the brutal regime of a Communist bully in order to come to the U.S.

Americans should not forget that Fidel Castro is still leading Cuba and that Cuba is still very much a Communist nation.

To hear Hillary talk, perhaps we should expect a Clinton Presidency to be one in which Castro would be brought to live in the White House in his golden years and receive, free of charge, private healthcare from the best healthcare system in the world, built by U.S. capitalism.

Wouldn't THAT be an interesting counter-blow to Michael Moore's latest Commie lovefest!

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