Elian Gonzalez saga could haunt Obama (Politico)

David Paul Kuhn Tue Jun 24, 5:43 AM ET Eight years after the furor over the repatriation of Elian Gonzalez to Cuba possibly cost Al Gore the state of Florida in his 537-vote loss to George W. Bush, the international custody saga has returned to haunt another Democratic presidential nominee: Barack Obama. Having two top advisers who played key roles in the episode — Greg Craig, who represented Gonzalez's father in Cuba, and Eric Holder, then a Clinton administration deputy attorney general when federal agents stormed the Miami home of Gonzalez’s relatives to remove the then-6-year-old and return him to Cuba — Obama now finds himself on the wrong side of an emotional issue in a battleground state. The wound reopened again last week after Gonzalez returned to the headlines in South Florida following a report in a Cuban communist... [read full story]