Obama & Fidel

Fidel Castro praised Barack Obama today as a smarter and less warlike than John McCain, but stopped short of endorsing either US presidential candidate.

Cuba's former president said he delayed weighing in until the US Election Day so that "no one would  have time to say I wrote something that could be utilized by the candidates in their campaigns."

"Without a doubt, Obama is more intelligent, cultured and levelheaded than his Republican adversary," Castro said. "McCain is old, bellicose, uncultured, of little intelligence and not healthy."