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malaise

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Mon Nov 28, 2016, 10:47 AM Nov 2016

Class is class - Jimmy Carter remembers Fidel Castro fondly [View all]

http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2016/11/26/jimmy-carter-remembers-fidel-castro-fondly/
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Former President Jimmy Carter had kind words for Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, who died Friday, saying in a statement he and his wife “remember fondly our visits with him in Cuba and his love of his country.”

Castro, who was 90, was long a scourge of the U.S. who brought the Cold War to America’s doorstep. But he and Carter, a Georgia native, had warmer relations.

Carter took a step to normalize relations between the two nations during his presidency, and the two shared several visits, including a 2011 journey where Castro called Carter a “friend.”

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I loved Fidel and love Jimmy Carter
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Castro's legacy and the envy of many nations: social care in Cuba malaise Nov 2016 #1
I agree heaven05 Nov 2016 #2
Bump malaise Nov 2016 #3
Dictators can accomplish a lot oberliner Nov 2016 #4
We do that here too but because no one goes to prison, that makes it okay. tenderfoot Nov 2016 #5
People marched up and down 5th Avenue protesting Donald Trump oberliner Nov 2016 #8
Bingo. How is this any different than the idolization of Trump or Putin? LittleBlue Nov 2016 #15
Some kinds never liked Jimmy Carter in the first place. They can't lose what they didn't have. n/t Judi Lynn Nov 2016 #18
I have enormous respect for Carter. cwydro Nov 2016 #23
I'm ashamed of Jimmy Carter being registered to the party I'm registered to. ericson00 Nov 2016 #6
The most undemocratic and tyrannical regimes in our hemisphere were put in power malaise Nov 2016 #9
for the most part, they were better than the ones put in place by anti-US interests ericson00 Nov 2016 #12
It was not for your government to choose for others malaise Nov 2016 #13
the world is always going to have wannabe superpowers. Better America than other past aspirants ericson00 Nov 2016 #14
What about the USSR's record? ronnie624 Nov 2016 #16
Great Purge, Holodomor, gulags, ... ericson00 Nov 2016 #17
Carter never was a second rate red-baiter. rug Nov 2016 #7
That's why special interests still hate him malaise Nov 2016 #10
Castro's fifty year rule proved his commitment to pluralism and democracy. AngryAmish Nov 2016 #11
Did you ever go berserk over US puppet dictator Stroessner in Paraguay's 35 years ruling? Judi Lynn Nov 2016 #19
Not to mention burrowowl Nov 2016 #21
? AngryAmish Nov 2016 #22
How many people are posting anti-Trump comments on this website? brooklynite Nov 2016 #20
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