Racist NYC Pol Heads to Cuba

What is it with these Democrats sucking up to Fidel Castro and Communist dictators?

Granted, this buffoon Charles Barron is on the outer fringes of the party and has long been an embarrassment to patriotic Democrats, if indeed there are many left.

At least one American politician is sorry to see Fidel Castro go.

City Councilman Charles Barron said yesterday Cubans get some of the best health care in the world and he wants to study their system.

Again with the Cuban healthcare system. Where exactly did this myth begin that this repressive island prison has quality healthcare? These people are driving 1950s automobiles, there's food rationing, nobody except the elite have any money and we're supposed to believe they have quality healthcare?

Please.

Barron leaves today for a nine-day tour of the communist island nation, where last week Castro - after 49 years at the helm - announced he would step down.

The Democratic Brooklyn councilman is going with a group of students from the City University's Center for Worker Education, and will also tour educational facilities.

Barron told The Post he has a special fondness for Castro because of the Cuban leader's efforts to help several African nations, particularly Angola, in their march toward independence decades ago.

"I think we should lift the embargo and normalize relations with Cuba," said Barron, a former Black Panther Party member. He said the economic embargo was hurting Cuban citizens.

Barron's support for Castro isn't the first time the outspoken lawmaker has embraced an international political outcast.

Five years ago, Barron hosted a City Hall reception for Robert Mugabe, the dictatorial president of Zimbabwe, an event most council members boycotted.

Critics said Barron had ignored international outrage over Mugabe's brutal and economically repressive regime.

He hasn't ignored it. Mugabe is a racist Communist thug. He and Barron are soulmates.

Update: Thanks to Monica at Babalu Blog for the link. She helpfully provides this link noting the ruinous state of Cuba's healthcare system.