Hi Jeffro, I know you love WP, I love WP, but WP is only (and no more than) a simple blogging platform and this is the WP's stronger point. Any soft-weak-political-generic mission or goal is not appropriate. WP is like a single tool; it's not even a sophisticated one.

I'm pretty sure WP has a main mission as a key part inside the overall Automattic's strategy.

Unfortunately, the Yoani Sanchez case is a really bad example with a strong political bias (the link to GlobalPost.com article is gone BTW). If she teaches WP's usage like the content she writes...hmmm.