The "essential facts" are that Marco Rubio: Son of Cuban Emigres is not as compelling a story as Marco Rubio: Son of Cuban Exiles - Esquire
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From Esquire Oct 21to Rubio:
Your parents were not "exiled" from their home country. They did not leave because they "did not want to live under communism." Communism was still almost three years away. They came here because a much more conventional crook was pillaging the place, which is why there came to be a revolution in the first place. That they tried to return to Cuba is irrelevant to the discussion. They stayed here, apparently, because they made the not unreasonable decision that they were better off where they were. These are the "essential facts" of the story.
And are we to believe that, throughout his entire growing up, Rubio's parents got the year of their arrival in America wrong? That they didn't remember exactly which dictator it was that they fled? That they mixed up Batista and Castro? And that Rubio, in his lickety-split rise to national prominence, never bothered to check? Unless his parents were deliberately lying to him, a possibility even in the closest families, the explanation in his statement doesn't make any sense. And, even if they were, Rubio is awfully incurious about it, even including in his official Senate biography the tale of his family's flight from the Communism that hadn't yet arrived in Cuba.
5 comments:
The problem with voters is complacency about lies told by officials. If one says so many lies to get elected what will they do in office with power.
Here is Marco Rubio, the darling of Republican hopes, promoted by Fox news, burdened by a number of questions about his political life.
The latest issues is his promotion of exile as opposed to the reality of emigrant. Other issues include the Century Bank home loans and value of his home, the use of the Florida Republican party credit card charges that have never been explained, the foreclosure notice on Rubio's and currently under a cloud roommate, Rep. David Rivera's condo in the state capital, his being hired and salary at FIU without going through normal vetting.
The pattern appears that Marco Rubio has a sleazy history of personal gain at any cost. We need our representatives to look out for our interests, not theirs.
His parents wanted for their chil'en what they could not achieve for themselves in cuba '55. That being a favorable place among the spoils of corrupted political system. Marco has honored them well in miami today.
Rubio is just another politician from Miami who tells lies to get elected.
Sarnoff claiming his grandfather founded RCA? Another whopper.
Playing devil's advocate here...but having left the country on a certain date does not preclude the possibility that one could be exiled at a later date. Rubio's parents were certainly not welcome back after the rise of communism. This would make them exiles. Just sayin'...
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