Castro’s Lawyer? Now Obama’s Lawyer
SENSING A PATTERN HERE
Gregory B. Craig, a well-known Washington lawyer who quarterbacked President Bill Clinton’s impeachment defense, has been chosen White House counsel by President-elect Barack Obama, according to Democratic officials. His selection adds to the surprisingly large number of Clinton White House veterans who are at the top of the Obama roster.
He also was senior adviser on defense, foreign policy and national security to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.). Craig, who had been friends with Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham at Yale Law School, was recruited for the impeachment job by John Podesta…
Among Craig’s other high-profile cases: successfully representing Elian Gonzalez’ father, a Cuban, in his efforts to regain custody of his son;
and sucessfully representing Fidel Castro, a Cuban, in his efforts to regain custody of his stray chattel slave-boy;
and representing U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan in connection during the Volcker Commission’s investigation of the Oil-for-Food Program at the United Nations.
That’s SADDAM OBAMA HUSSEIN’S Oil-for-Food Program, Politico. Don’t make me keep fixing your work.
Apologists for Castro told us repeatedly that returning Elian to the island prison his mother paddled him out of would somehow lead to a better, more normal relationsip between the U.S. and Castro.
What has happened since then?
Amnesty International reports that in the second half of last year, just after Elian’s return, repression in Cuba actually increased dramatically.
A statement issued by the left-leaning human rights organization this past January put it bluntly: “The increasing number of people jailed for peacefully exercising their rights to freedom of expression clearly demonstrates the level to which the government will go in order to weaken the political opposition and suppress dissidents.”
Who has Fidel been targeting? Trade unionists, journalists and other political dissidents.
Limousine liberals never learn.
Ted Koppel told us that after the pope’s visit to Cuba we were witnessing a new Castro.
Gregory Craig suggested returning Elian would usher in a new era of reconciliation between the U.S. and Cuba. Craig was the de facto attorney for Castro in the U.S. who spearheaded the effort to return Elian.
After attending anti-law school with the Clintons, Craig was Ted Kennedy’s National Security advisor–yes, there really is such a position! After all, they didn’t say which nation.
In those desperate years, being Ted Kennedy’s National Security preventer consisted of breaking the hundred-dollar bills into quarters so Ted could use the pay-phone outside Hyannis Drug & Liquor to call the Kremlin and offer his services in undermining Ronald Reagan.
You can almost understand Ted going limp on Communists and Terrorists after they murdered his brothers. But Craig has no such excuse. He just seems to like them.
That’s quite a record; helping Uncle Ted paint the Kremlin even redder, throwing Sandanistas in the gears of fledgling democracies, assisting CEOs pawing their way through the secretarial pool, coming to the aid of dictators who have misplaced their human property and defending international bureaucrats taking bribes from ruthless tyrants.
It looks like Jimmy Carter’s second term will be staffed by Bill Clinton’s third-termers. Is there a dictator these guys haven’t pimped for? They mean so well–yet always end up on the page as terrorists, thugs, dictators, criminals and bullies. It’s one of life’s little mysteries.
Craig Greg may be on the fast-track to the Supreme Court–he’s already got the whole Justice Taney-Dred Scot-”Return the Runaway Slaves!”-thing down. He’s like a reverse engineer on the Cuban Underground Railroad. He’s Fidel Castro’s railroad dick and proud of it.
Insert your own bad joke here.
Obama did.
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