Castro may rule Cuba

[Spinoza]

for an unprecedented 106 years claims his doctor.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/05/19/060519204148.jda4r8qu.html

>"He will live 140 years."< said Castro's doctor, Selman-Housein.

Castro began ruling Cuba at age 34. If his doctor's prognosis is accurate he will be the first dictator to rule a nation for more than 100 consecutive years. Quite an achievement.

[The Revolution]

1. 140 years ?!?

Wouldn't that be a world record for oldest human, let alone oldest dictator?

[texasleo]

4. uh-oh! you can't call him a dictator around here

lol


sorta kidding

[1620rock]

5. Doesn't it seem as if * has been in office for about 100 years?

[Faygo Kid]

2. What's that doctor's name? Seldom-Toosane?

I am willing to bet 5, even 10 bucks that Castro doesn't make it a day past 135.

[pointblank]

7. "I'll have the roast duck...with the mango salsa"

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

I love that commercial...great pic!

[Faygo Kid]

9. What commercial? Just a recent picture. Here's an older one.

When I first started practicing law. I am a simple being who has trouble understanding your ways. I am the Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer.

[kenny blankenship]

3. Let's hope he uses the next 40 years to convert his gov't

into one that can govern for the greater good with the full consent of the governed, without his editorial...uh...assistance, let's say.

Actually, let's make it the next 5 years for that conversion. Longevity has its place, but c'mon man. Dude's got to go sometime and the Cuban people have been exceedingly patient with him already.

Castro isn't a monster in my eyes, not as dictators go (that's measuring him against a low standard); but he committed a terrible crime in leading a revolution in which he made himself "the one indispensable man." (More like, 'leading a revolution, and then after it succeeds, making himself the one indispensable man) Cuba should be able to be Cuba--and with socialismo if that's what they want--without him. Castro has made that impossible. That's almost a guarantee that Cuba's socialism won't survive him: any way you slice it, it's a mistake, and betrayal by him, of his own ideals.

[Canadian_NewDemocrat]

6. yeah, i agree kenny

with some of Castro's basic princibles, but I don't like his attitude and lack of democratic-ness. yah

[acmejack]

8. Have to wonder at what point did he make that philosophical shift

Or if he even made it consciously? Or was it perhaps always his goal, his perceived self destiny, El Presidente of Cuba?

[enigma000]

10. Who cares? I'm told the dead leader of North Korea is still President

Castro can be President of Cuba for hundreds of years after he is dead.