re: Rand Paul backs Obama on Cuba

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This is where I differ with Rand because I don't give a damn whether another country is communist. That's their business.

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The people didnt want to be Communist. This wasnt some rising up of the people to install a communist state. There were multiple groups fighting against Batista and the Cuban Government in the revolution. Many of them were not socialist or communist. When they finally won and forced Batista out, the first president and the first prime minister were lawyers who were pro-business liberals. But Fidel was in control of the military and eventually kicked them out. But he still denied being a communist or a socialist. The revolutionaries took control on January 1 1959, Castro first admitted he wanted a socialist government in April of 1961. It took him two and a half years to even admit that to the people. Everyone who had any money fled Cuba. The poor supported him because he gave them stuff and because they had no choice. What has happened in Cuba over the last 50 years is not what the Cuban people wanted. Some of you people need to read a book sometime.