I got a good chuckle out of this story from the Boston Herald.
Cubans in Miami are steaming mad at former Gov. Mitt Romney for shooting his mouth off in stumbling Spanish, mispronouncing names and erroneously associating a notorious Fidel Castro-spewed Communist catch phrase with freedom fighters.
liberty-seeking Cubans by Politicians in South Florida have lashed out at the former Massachusetts governor and 2008 presidential hopeful for describing the socialist saying “Patria o muerte, venceremos” as “inspiring” and for claimingthe phrase was swiped from leftist admirers of Castro.
The phrase, which means “Fatherland or death, we shall overcome,” was bellowed as a political speech sign-off by the dictator for decades.
Yikes, Mitt. I know you've got the tendency to be a little bit of a gas-head when it comes to this stuff, so its hard to get angry with you, but really, if you're looking to court Cubans, quoting the guy who inspired them to come here in the first place... is probably a crappy idea.
Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom said of the flap: “The point is, the phrase belongs to liberators, not oppressors. It doesn’t belong to Fidel Castro. It doesn’t belong to Hugo Chavez. It belongs to a free Cuba.”
Eric.... SHUT UP already! GOD! Why not just make some sort of simple, half hearted apology and call it a day after promising never to do it again? Simple as that. Save me the crap on the liberdad or whatever of Cuba and whatever. The problem with the Romney team thus far is that everything short of going to the bathroom requires the Gettysburg Address. "Ladies and Gentleman, four squares of toilet paper ago, which by the way was made by some of the loveliest, nicest, most hard working people in Minnesota, which is the heartland of this great nation and the very soul of every blah blah blah". Apologize and leave it at that. That sort of stuff looks fake. Stop doing it. Just a word of advice from a cranky smear merchant.
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