Time for A Change

FIDEL CASTRO TO CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS MEMBERS: 'HOW CAN WE HELP PRESIDENT OBAMA?': How's this for hope and change: U.S. officials flying to Cuba, not to interrogate prisoners at Guantanamo Bay but to meet with the Castro brothers in order to ease the 50-year tensions between the two nations. The aging, ailing, cigar-smoking icon Fidel Castro had three members of Congress visit with him today in Havana, which resulted in the bearded one asking, "How can we help President Obama?" In an effort to improve the relationship between Cuba and the U.S., Reps. Barbara Lee (D-Oakland), Bobby L. Rush (D-Ill.) and Emanuel Cleaver II (D-Mo.) were the first U.S. officials to meet with the 82-year-old former dictator since his intestinal surgery in July 2006.

I'm not going to try and romanticize or justify Castro's Cuba. But honestly - who gives a shit anymore? Castro's hostility is so...passe. We've got bigger fish to fry.