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“Felicidades!” Translation, “congratulations!” Or, as some have inferred, Castro called the Obama health care success a “miracle” (milagro).

With a wink and nod northward to our President, “felicidades” was one word used by dictator Fidel Castro to praise President Barack Obama’s successful implementation of his new national health care program.

“We consider health reform to have been an important battle and a success of his government,” Castro said in an editorial that further chided the U.S. for taking “an incredible 234 years after the Declaration of Independence” to do so.

Castro further said that medical services for all Cubans was “something that Cuba was able to do half a century ago.”

What does the praise of Castro really mean to us? What does it tell us, if anything?

Obama’s Global Appeal, Expanding

Barack Obama has spent considerable time and effort developing his global appeal. It started with the great “apology tour” that found the President apologizing to Europeans for the mistakes America has made.
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Post Syndicated from Alan Caruba

“Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There never was a democracy that did not commit suicide.” — John Adams (1835-1826)

There is no question in my mind that I have lived long enough to see everything the nation once stood for in our own eyes and in the eyes of the world begin to disintegrate and fail.

John Adams, for those who slept through history class, was America’s second president, and one of the Founders who participated in the writing of our Constitution. If you worry about deals made behind closed doors, you are herewith reminded that the Constitution was written behind closed doors. Though the room in Philadelphia had its share of lawyers, the man who presided over the process was a soldier and farmer called George Washington. Others included farmers, physicians, and even clergymen.

Along with Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, the sharpest mind among them was that of John Adams. After the ratification of the Constitution, he warned that “a Constitution of government once changed from freedom can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.”

Freedom Lost

The healthcare bill is freedom lost forever. I hope I am wrong, but I now doubt it will be repealed, nullified by the states, or reversed by the Supreme Court. While it is true that most constitutional scholars believe it is unconstitutional, taking and twisting the Commerce clause beyond recognition, I believe the damage has been done.
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We live in an era of images and sound bite development and delivery has become the norm in communication.

Since Roe -v- Wade, we have been learning to spin logic and decorate our positions in ways that heretofore our mother’s would have called deceit or lying, to put it bluntly. Motivations, words, phrases and presentations are carefully calculated by Washington but in the end their intent is to deceive.

iVoteAmerica is of the opinion that we have entered what we will call, like Orwell, “The Era of Universal Deceit.”

“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” – George Orwell

In a very short period of time President Barack Obama and his legions of mesmerized progressives will vote on a piece of legislation that is arguably the most significant government intrusion into our personal lives to ever take place in our history.

The revolutionay act of truth-telling is now considered out of the mainstream. One can only wonder whether we have lost the ability to distinguish truth from lies and trust from deceit.