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Walt Handelsman is a world-class Editorial Cartoonist for The New Orleans Advocate. Among his awards, he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1997 and again in 2007.
To honer Daylight Saving Time and Marco Rubio, this is the latest gem by Mr. Handelsman. It was featured in USA Today and hundreds of other U. S. newspapers. It shows Rubio, the first-term U. S. Senator from Miami, leapfrogging over his mentor Jeb following Rubio's betrayal of Bush in the last Republican presidential debate.
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Rubio's brutal knockout of Jeb Bush in 2015 reminded me of Rocky Marciano's brutal knockout of Joe Louis in 1951, as depicted above by this classic David Jukic photo. Marciano, at age 28, was in his prime as a heavyweight boxer; Louis, at age 37, was over-the-hill. Yes, Rubio's KO of Bush was reminiscent of Marciano's KO of Louis.
From black-and-white to color, from 1951 to 2015, this photo captured young Marco Rubio's knockout of over-the-hill Jeb Bush. Rubio's scripted, memorized retort was brutal and fatal.
The KO of Bush clears the way for Marco Rubio's path to the White House.
The KO of Jeb Bush starkly refurbished Marco Rubio's substantial and pivotal support from Fox News, the mainstream media, the Tea Party, and five extremely wealthy Jewish billionaires. More than any other presidential candidate, Rubio has signaled that he is the one that can be bought-and-paid-for by special interests. It has turned out to be a pivotal, but undemocratic, ploy.
Voters are supposed to dismiss this photo. At age 26 when the now 44-year-old Marco Rubio entered the political arena in Florida, his first donation was a check from Jeb Bush. Rubio's trek from Miami-Tallahassee to the U. S. Senate was paved by Jeb Bush and from the beginning in 2011 Rubio has merely used his Senate platform to run for President, as pointed out by his hometown newspaper, The South Florida Sun-Sentinel, which suggested that he "resign" because he was "ripping off" his South Florida constituents. Letters-to-the-Editors in three South Florida newspapers, including The Miami Herald, have excoriated Rubio for betraying them by selling out to Jewish billionaires. Rubio's contemptuous response was to state repeatedly on the campaign trail that his first flight on Air Force One will be to Israel, not Miami. Regardless, Rubio's KO of Jeb Bush separates him from the Bush dynasty that greased his seat to the Senate, but Rubio firmly believes that he has garnered enough money-crazed right-wing acolytes to no longer need the Bush machine. But before this long, long presidential campaign is over, Rubio may regret throwing the still-viable Bush dynasty and some key supporters in Miami under the bus, proverbially and politically speaking. They gave Marco Rubio his very first political toy -- a leap-frogging trampoline.
All of which is a vivid reminder of the prescience and astuteness of Josefina Vidal, Cuba's Minister of North American Affairs. Vidal knows more about U.S.-Cuban relations and politics than all the pundits combined that nightly pollute U. S. cable news programs. Those pundits, mostly promoting themselves or their favorite politicians, can say anything regardless of how biased or absurd, and they'll still be back on the airways night-after-night. {Talking-head pundits save the networks from having to spend money to go out and actually cover the news}. Vidal comes from a far different perspective: Her job is to keep Cuba a sovereign nation. If she makes a major mistake in judging U.S.-Cuban relations, Revolutionary Cuba would probably become another Puerto Rico -- that is, a U. S. Territory. As I have documented earlier via reliable Spanish sources, Vidal many, many months ago predicted Rubio would be the next U. S. President.
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of Cuba's Josefina Vidal already preparing for a Rubio presidency is her opinion of what it would mean for her tenacious but vulnerable island. She discussed her thoughts about Rubio with a surprised friend, a trusted journalist, visiting from Spain. The friend asked, "Then what would a Rubio presidency mean for Cuba?" Vidal instantly replied, "It would mean the Batistianos had captured the United States government before re-capturing the Cuban government." Americans are invited to ponder that quotation and that scenario, just as they would be wise to Google data and then decide if Josefina Vidal indeed knows more about U. S. politics than all the American political pundits combined!!
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