http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN2825114320070829?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews&rpc=22&sp=true
The late Fidel Castro has issued an endorsement in the 2008 presidential campaign, Reuters reports:
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"The word today is that an apparently unbeatable ticket could be Hillary [Clinton] for president and [Barack] Obama as her running mate," he wrote in an editorial column on U.S. presidents published on Tuesday by Cuba's Communist Party newspaper, Granma.
At 81, Castro has outlasted nine U.S. presidents since his 1959 revolution turned Cuba into a thorn in Washington's side by building a communist society about 90 miles offshore from the United States.
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Well, yes, by staying in power by force, of course Castro has "outlasted" presidents who must face the voters and whose time in office is constitutionally limited. We wonder how many obituaries for Generalissimo Francisco Franco mentioned how many U.S. presidents that dictator had "outlasted."