Obama campaign in the Cuban-American community: If at first you don't succeed...

Bob Menendez, the Cuban-American senator from New Jersey, will campaign tomorrow in Miami-Dade on behalf of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, who is winning the Hispanic vote in every battleground state except Florida.

Menendez is slated to join state Rep. Luis Garcia at the Little Havana Activities and Nutrition Center, hold a town hall meeting at Florida International University, and drop by a phone bank in Kendall.

For a Democrat, Obama has been unusually aggressive in the Republican-leaning Cuban American community. In a high-profile speech at Miami-Dade County Auditorium and an appearance before the Cuban-American National Foundation at a downtown Miami hotel, he has called for reversing President Bush's policies and allowing Cuban-Americans to freely visit and send money to their relatives on the island.

Speaking of which, Bush will also be in Miami Friday. He's slated to headline a fundraiser to benefit congressional candidates nationwide and to meet privately with Cuban-American leaders.

Comments

[Chris]

Markets Reflect an Obama Presidency
Stock markets are a reflection of the future, at least the future as viewed in the present by many, many participants of all sorts from the small individual investor to large mutual funds. Over the course of the later stages of the United States presidential campaign Senator Obama has consistently held the lead, sometimes by a sizable margin, such as now, sometimes less, such as just after the Republican Convention. But he has led throughout the course of the progress of this credit crisis.

I believe that it is no coincidence that in this global economy there is a crisis of confidence in a leftist United States government led by Obama in the presidency and a liberal Democratic Congress. This has been underlying the markets for some time, but is feeding on itself now. There is fear of this stronghold of capitalism tempered with democracy moving so far to the left that it can no longer lead in this global economy.

The United States is still by far the world's largest economy and our leadership matters. Our greatest strength is our people, our hard-working, dedicated people. We need the strong, sound, wise, intelligent, tough, persevering guidance of Senator McCain. McCain can and will work on a bipartisan way with the Democratic Congress to get things done, the right things. He will also use his veto power to avoid the wrong things.

On the other hand, Obama is not only very much a leftist of long standing, but he has many troubling relationships in Chicago and is very inexperienced and simply lacks the depth of McCain.

Remember, the stock market is a leading indicator and my view is that it is telling us not only here, but around the world, that Obama is a poor choice for the presidency in 2008.

John E. Wade II

Please visit www.honestjohnwade.com for interesting political insight and book reviews of all the candidates' biographies.

[Viva Cuba Libre]

This is good news. Nobama will be in the Cuban community, my community, stumping for votes, which merely means he'll get a warm reception from 30 or so Castro agents but absolutely zero traction from the rest of the community on election day.

By the way, in south florida, Bob Menendez has about as much legitimacy as a good Cuban politician as Bob Barker. Less, actually.

[You Boss]

Note to journalist: President visiting South Florida trumps candidate visiting south florida. You buried your lead because your leftist leanings are showing again.

[Raulie]

where is Raul Martinez in all this? Why hasnt he come out on behalf of Obama the way he came out in support of Hillary Clinton. I smell Cuban racism.

[Jen]

Raulie: at least Hillary was a legitimate candidate. OBAMA has no training, no experience, no accomplishments and he has far TOO many friends who hate America.
That is why he will lose.