10/21/2004 04:32:09 PM|||Nathan Moore|||

Too bad it wasn't worse. I sure hope that state run health care system works out well. Oh wait, it will - dictators get preferential treatment.

The play by play is nice. The complete fall here, and the freeze frame here.

The article by the AP is rather poor in taste. All news organizations should make it a policy to refuse to call dictators by democratic titles. Fidel Castro is no more the President of Cuba than Mickey Mouse. He is the ruler of Cuba - or the dictator. The article notes that he has designated his brother as his "successor". What, no successor election? Perhaps the brother will only win with 97.8% of the vote.

The Bush administration response is awesome.

When asked whether the United States wished Fidel Castro a speedy recovery, Richard Boucher of the State Department responded, "The Bush administration has little concern in Castro's health". Nicely put. Neither do the people of Cuba.

UPDATE I've gotten some reader feedback saying I'm mean. I'm not mean - I just like to see dictators fall.

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