I love an election. (The late Benny Hill, in Chinese persona, made a career out of that sentence). And there’s loads of elections just around the corner.

First though you need to work out who is going to stand. And the American bandwagon keeps on rollin’. Now its the turn of Utah to vote. So Ted Cruz decided to use this poster of Madame Trump. To ‘offend’ those straight-laced, bible-bashin’ Mormons. A spokesperson in Utah stated that: “within the Latter Day Saints there is deep opposition to pornography”. I’m willing to bet that opposition isn’t quite so strong within the male, 14-25 group of ‘saints’. But this is how low Ted Cruz, Trump’s opponent for the Republican votes, is prepared to stoop in his quest to discredit his nemesis. And he’s spent $63million in the last 2 months trying to do so.

Meanwhile, incumbent Prez, Obama, is in Cuba watching baseball matches with Catro’s brother. The new Castro. And Obama’s message was interesting. A little parochial, some might think.

He told the Cubans that ‘they’ve come a long way’, that basically ‘they’re doin’ fine’, but need to work out more in the way of democracy and free speech before being fully acceptable by their (very very big) brother to the north. ‘We’re all Americans!’ shouted Barak.

Actually, you’re an American, they’re Cubans. They can do what the fuck they want. They don’t need to become a cut-out mini-me of the US of A just to get the approval of a President that no-one likes any more and didn’t think much of in the first place. They don’t need to emulate American values (free speech, McDonalds, democracy, obesity, pornographic political campaigning…) to be a proper nation. Even a nation that America will befriend. ‘There’s human rights issues’, Barak stated too. As if this is some stumbling block to… to what??

Nations can do as they please. Even if its the antithesis of our values. America has, to my knowledge, an embassy in Saudi Arabia, don’t they? In China? Russia? Why doesn’t he tell those lovely nations how to run themselves along American lines?

Cuba is a communist country. Whether you agree with communism or not, its of no concern, its what Cuba is. It doesn’t need to become Puerto Rico, a playground for American tourists. Nor does it need approval from patronising Americans. Just their trade.

Happy Wednesday

A xxxx