Bush calling the kettle black?

So Fidel officially steps down today and passes the torch to his brother. This looks awfully familiar, sort of like the family Bush in the US? Ok, so we missed an 8 year interlude that brought us the Clintons from Arkansas. At least at the end of that run we were in pretty good financial shape and hadn't pissed off the rest of the planet. If you are a Cuban this will be Fidel lite. A kinder, more media friendly regime.

Bush promptly started spewing his usual blather. From the media- President Bush said Tuesday that the resignation of Fidel Castro “ought to be a period of democratic transition” for Cuba, and that the country must hold free and fair elections to pick a successor after half a century of Communist rule.

“And I mean free and I mean fair,” Mr. Bush added, “not these kind of staged elections that the Castro brothers try to foist off as true democracy.”

Ahem. You mean like in Florida? Not that I really care that Al Gore lost but there was something awfully fishy about those "free and fair elections". And weren't there a couple of other brothers involved there? If you ask me Dubya has been reading Fidel's playbook.

I am thinking in this election year, after 8 years of Bushism that in America there “ought to be a period of democratic transition”.