Chicago’s Mayor Rahm Emanuel, a close pal of Barack Obama and the Clintons, got upset on Thursday when a journalist for Politico revealed that he is taking his family to Cuba during the holidays.
“You take your young people on fascinating trips around the world, headed these holidays to Cuba. Why?” POLITICO’s senior White House correspondent Mike Allen asked Emanuel.
“Well, first of all, thanks for telling everybody what I’m going to do with my family. You had a private conversation with me and now you decide to make that public. I really don’t appreciate that, for one, I really don’t,”Emanuel said.
It seems that the mayor of Chicago wanted to keep his vacation in Cuba a secret.
His excuse for taking his kids to a totalitarian state where tourists enjoy benefits that are denied to the local population was that “They get to be exposed to other cultures, other parts of the world, and one of the things that we want is for our children to know that the world has people of different faiths, different backgrounds, with different ways of living and coping with similar situations.”
What a lame excuse. I am sure he will spend his time in Cuba staying at a five star hotel and visiting only those sites where the regime tourist guides take them.
THis is the video of the exchange between Emanuel and Politico’s Mike Allen
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