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Castro: US president should be a robot

Ninety per cent of voters would back the robot, says former Cuban leader.

By Roberto Barros Published 09 January 2012 19:16

In his weekly "Reflections of Fidel" column, former Cuban leader Fidel Castro said a robot would be the best candidate for the upcoming US election.

In the column, titled "The best president for the United States", Castro writes:

Is it not obvious that worst of all is the absence in the White House of a robot capable of governing the United States and preventing a war to end the life of our species?

He also criticised Obama, describing him as "a good orator, for who in his desperate attempt for reelection, the dreams of [Martin] Luther King are further away in light years than the closest habitable planet [to earth]."

"Even worse," he continued, "are any of the presidential Republican candidates , or a leader of the Tea Party, [who] carries more nuclear weapons on his back than ideas of peace in his head."

Castro concluded by saying he is "sure that 90 per cent of registered Americans, especially hispanics, blacks, and the now impoverished middle class, would vote for the robot".

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17 comments

Wed, 2012-05-23 14:15 — M. E. (not verified)

Russia was lagging behind the most developed industrial countries when Lenin etc. came to power and these countries put the Soviet Union under a pressure that made a constructive development impossible. Which country, during the war against Franco, split the Left elected by the Spaniards? The Soviet Union. While nations like Britain and France did nothing for the democrats in Spain. Franco's victory and the murders that followed served Stalin, the Soviet Union and the Right in nations like Britain and France, because they needn't worry anymore about the challenge posed by the Spanish Left. Then came the cold war that cemented the Soviet Union's dominating, destructive role that was efficiently used to strangle the Left in the East as well as in the West. These nations ruled by the Right (Britain, France, the US), or - simply - THE RIGHT, succeeded in influencing and exploiting the Soviet Union according to the ideological, dogmatic and totalitarian goals of the Right. And if Hitler hadn't gone to war, Ford etc. would have remained in the German economy. Now the cold war is over - a chance for humanity and the Left.

Sun, 2012-04-15 15:57 — rain (not verified)

Why do people always flee from Socialist dystopias, but never to Socialist Utopias?

Fri, 2012-05-04 04:04 — John Cheese (not verified)

@andyb: Castro can buy from anyone if he wants... not an excuse...

Mon, 2012-01-09 23:21 — Capitalist and Proud (not verified)

In America you can live the American dream. In Cuba you to live Castro's Dream.

Only nasty people would give the comments from this guy any publicity.

Tue, 2012-01-10 00:00 — John Cheese (not verified)

@adeel: No retail items on the shelves on the island- how's that for relativity?

Tue, 2012-01-10 10:15 — Nixon is Lord (not verified)

Nothing is free-you pay for it through taxes.
Without the money sent from abroad, the Cubans would be even worse off. It's a retro Socialist Disneyland with the death penalty.
But why not a robot as head of state-it couldn't be any worse than what the Cubans have.