Hillary’s Presidential Hopes Head South

(FiniteTimes.com) – It’s noon. The men rest under trees near the Havana sugar factory where they work, barely looking up as a dusty cloud approaches on the dirt-packed road.

“Here she come again, Juan,” one of the men sleepily says.

“Si,” replies Juan as Hillary Clinton and her small entourage tear into the factory parking lot. She’s in the middle of a whirlwind campaign of the Caribbean nation of Cuba, three quick days to get her message out to the Cuban voters.

“This man, Raul Castro, has wanted to be dictator since he was in kindergarten. Half the stuff he says? Stolen from Stalin,” Hillary tells the small crowd, her voice worn to a rough edge from months on the campaign trail. “Can we support someone better than him?”

“Si we can, if we don’t mind lifelong imprisonment,” came a half-hearted reply from the crowd.

“No Pedro, the answer is si we WILL. Si we WILL! Si we WILL!” Clinton chants.

Political watchers in Cuba don’t quite know what to make of the American’s campaign.

“Fidel just said he was stepping down. Is she running for president of Cuba?” Havana City College political science professor Ricki Esteban asks. “When she claims she’s had 35 years of experience as a revolutionary, it certainly seems so.”

Many in America feel the answer is much closer to home.

“She needs every delegate she can get, and 11-12 million Cubans… that’s a lot of delegates,” says MSNBC political analyst Franklin Shaw. “Her strategy has really come down to statehood for Cuba, it’s that simple. Pull in Cuba and Florida will become much stronger for Clinton in the event that they re-do their primary. Pretty soon Hillary’s only down 400-500 in delegates that she needs to make up before the Denver convention, and it’s a virtual tie.”

For now, Hillary is putting in the hours and hitting stops throughout the island nation. As her entourage pulls out of the Havana sugar factory, she leaves behind a few bumper stickers, and a little hope.

“She say she going to put Elian Gonzalez on the ticket. What the hell, I vote for her, eh Juan?” one of the men says.

“Si,” replies Juan.

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