FIDEL RALLYING FOR OBAMA

Barack Obama's "retreat" to Martha's Vineyard may be just that - a retreat from battle with the American people. The Community Org in Chief is NOT following the playbook (Rule #8 says, "Keep the Pressure On"). When the COC retreats, it means rule #8 in failing him.

That's why I don't think it's any coincidence that as Obama's playbook is betraying him, Fidel Castro is coming out in support of him with an op-ed. However, like New York Gov. David Paterson PLAYING THE RACE CARD for himself and Obama (unsolicited), my guess is Castro's unsolicited support is probably not all that welcome either (at least politically if not in spirit).

REUTERS quoted Castro as saying,

"....the extreme right hates him for being African-American and fights what the president does to improve the deteriorated image of that country,"

I don't know about you but when someone like Fidel Castro calls someone a right wing extremist, he's likely including Arlen Specter in the mix. Castro referring to the extreme right in a derisive way is a double negative for the right, which is a positive.

Or how about this quote from one of the world's biggest 'human' racists:

"I don't have the slightest doubt that the racist right will do everything possible to wear him (Obama) down, blocking his program to get him out of the game one way or another, at the least political cost."

I wonder how this is playing in the Cuban communities of South Florida that fled this brutally racist dictator.

An old saying is coming to mind.

"Relationships matter."

h/t to DRUDGE