Smiling Dictators and Sneering Deans

Why can't Howard Dean keep his mouth shut? I don't mean stupid things he keeps saying (that's just because he's a moron), I'm referring to the fact that he always has a sort of half smile, half sneer when he's on camera.

I just noticed it this morning watching the video from his and Reid's press conference yesterday. Is he trying to keep his teeth dry or something? Dean's a doctor, maybe he knows something we don't.

On the smiling dictators front, check out this article posted yesterday on FoxNews.com:

"Four of the 14 Cubans intercepted at sea aboard a vintage taxi converted into a boat will be allowed to stay in the United States because they have valid immigration documents, but the others will be sent back to Cuba, U.S. officials said Thursday."

Wait a minute...I thought we opposed illegal immigration because we're all racists, why would we let these people in just because they have valid immigration papers? What kind of message does this send to potential illegal immigrants everywhere?

Not only does this article give us a great example of how immigration is supposed to work, we get the added treat of a peek inside Castro's worker's paradise:

"Diaz and his family last year won the documents in an annual lottery in Cuba for legal travel to the United States. But the communist government of President Fidel Castro refused to let the family leave."

I'm sure that's a mistake. Cuba is a free and progressive society. Fidel probably just wanted to make sure they stayed long enough to get their new government sponsored rice cooker and destroy all their old "capitalist" light bulbs.