Below is part of a transcript from the Hannity and Colmes show. I was reading through it and found an interesting part in which former speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, mentions fidel castro. Do the right words come out of his mouth because he is a politician or does he really get it ?? You decide !! GINGRICH: I think Senator Obama is an authentic voice of the left. I think meeting with Fidel Castro makes perfect sense if you come from the American left because the American left fears the U.S. military. They fear the CIA. They fear the American government. They never fear our enemies. It would make perfect sense for him to openly announce he will visit with virtually any dictator in the planet who would be willing to have him.
COLMES: The American left never fears our enemies but fears the American government. I thought it was the conservatives, the Goldwater conservatives who spoke out against the government. It was Ronald Reagan who said one of the great lies is, "I'm from the government, I'm here to help you."
I thought it was conservatives to heard the government but to say those on the left don't fear our enemies and don't want to protect this country which is what you seem to be implying is just inaccurate.
GINGRICH: I just suggested that it made perfect sense for Senator Obama given his base of his support on the left to feel comfortable going to see Fidel Castro. There is this wonderfully romantic notion on the part of people who never look in Fidel's prisons, never look what he does to poets and never look at what he does to people in democracy. Never look at what happens with people who flee the country. My daughter lives in Key Biscayne and was telling me over the weekend that they routinely have people land from Cuba trying to flee terror.
It's just interesting that on the American left somehow Castro is a romantic.
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