Cuba, Mexico & Obama vs. America

Obama sees himself as a citizen of the world and probably as a world god-king like Elvis, Michael Jackson and that delusional Lord Jim, Bill Clinton. But he consciously senses to himself that his conversation and congress as president is with only parts of America. To the parts below the Mason-Dixon Line, he dictates. To the parts east of Tahoe and above the Rio Grande, he dictates. To those rubes and rednecks in Alaska he doesn’t speak at all.

Surely, before he goes on vacation to a safe house in Martha’s Vineyard this summer, Rahm Emanuel will rig something up for him out there in the despised death-crypts of the heartland; an official college ceremony in Nebraska or Idaho, maybe, which is always a quick in and out; a photo-op in the Grand Canyon, like last year, or maybe doing something like pretending to admire a NASCAR stock car and quipping with the driver about engines. (Does he even know how to drive? Did he ever own a car?)

But he is alienated and afraid with these people. We up here and certainly Obama where he was were taught that these people were flawed. And it was our purpose to repair them and their purpose to be repaired by us. Worked OK for a while, until they started making money. He not only does not like these people, but like his friends in the Martha’s Vineyard comfort zone — a half day’s sail from where I grew up — he thinks they are boorish. He thinks they are stupid. He thinks they are dangerous and underdeveloped. They are not impressed that he was the editor of the Harvard Law Review. It is nerve-racking. They do not even like lawyers. And increasingly, they do not like Obama.

As Calderón clicks glasses with Obama at the White House and condemns America to a fawning, coward’s Congress of mooncalves, jabbernowls and Easter Peeps, the AP reports that Cuban lawmakers have passed a resolution denouncing Arizona’s new immigration law as “racist and xenophobic,” recalling an old dispute in the process: the argument that the United States’ purchase of Arizona from Mexico in the 19th century was tantamount to theft. The tightly controlled, communist-run island has long been criticized for its human-rights record, which includes the jailing of 200 political prisoners, the banning of a free press and the outlawing of opposition political parties.

Cuban citizens are required to carry identification with them wherever they go, and can be stopped by police and sent home if they are found in a part of the island where they don’t belong.

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