The Cuban-American leap year

To politicians, Cuban-Americans must seem a lot like leap years. They only exist once every four years. And even then, they only restate the failed policy that older, right-wing Cubans want to hear.

Republican presidential candidate John McCain stumped in Miami's Cuban-American community Wednesday morning as a contentious immigration debate lurched forward in Washington.

McCain gave interviews to two Spanish-language radio stations and visited the Bay of Pigs Museum, where the former Vietnam prisoner of war put his arms around elderly Cuban-American veterans and called them ``comrades.''

I wonder if McCain knows that the word comrade, like the phrase "patria o muerte, venceremos," also brings back negative memories to children of Communism.

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