Diane Watson's Wonderful Cuba

Representative Diane Watson, a Democrat representing California's 33rd district, recently held a town hall where she extolled the virtues of Cuba, the Cuban health care system, Fidel Castro, and even the Cuban Revolution itself. At one point she called Fidel Castro "one of the brightest leaders I have ever met." Cuba must be a wonderful place. So wonderful that people by the hundreds or perhaps thousands are willing to strap enough inner tubes to a 1955 Ford pickup to make it barely float and then set out across nearly 100 miles of open, shark infested waters knowing they have little chance of survival in search of something - a better life. Now I don't know about you but those people don't sound like they are happy or satisfied with their situation. They sound desperate much like the immigrants who attempt to walk across the Arizona desert in the middle of July. Yeah, Cuba must be a wonderful place. I'll have to visit this wonderful place along with the other wonderful places in the world like Iran, North Korea, the Pashtun region of Pakistan. I am sure we will find some more bright leaders in those places too.