Obama Calls for Easing Cuba Embargo. Really? How unexpected is that? Here are some tidbits:
Obama’s campaign said Monday that, if elected, the Illinois senator would lift restrictions imposed by the Bush administration and allow Cuban-Americans to visit their relatives more frequently, as well as ease limits on the amount of money they can send to their families.
And:
The Cuban-exile vote is considered key to winning Florida, and top presidential candidates have generally followed the recommendations of the community’s most hard-line and vocal leaders, who support a full embargo against Fidel Castro’s government. Castro, 80, is in poor health and turned over temporary power last year to his brother Raul. [My emphasis. The writer forgot to include “intransigent dinosaur” in that sentence.]
And:
Joe Garcia, the group’s chairman, praised Obama’s proposal.
“It shows courage, and it shows commitment to move beyond the status-quo politics of rhetoric, which is all the Cuban-American community has received from any party for the last half century,” said Garcia, a former head of the Cuban-American Foundation, a leading exile group.
None of the other top presidential candidates have sought to ease the restrictions.
Blah. Blah. Blah. La misma mierda.
Update #1: Here’s a response from Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen:
“It’s sadly interesting that some who had spoken so passionately and loudly in favor of a strong and international full embargo against the horrible apartheid government in South Africa and the despotic military junta in Haiti now wish to economically engage with the brutal Castro communist regime. Are the Cuban people less deserving of freedom, human rights and equality?”
Update #2: An excellent editorial in Investor’s Business Daily regarding Barack Hussein Obama’s naive Cuba policy. Give it a read.
Pndering of cuban americans from the democrats? Oh say it isnt soooo..
hey, wasnt it a democrat big whig here in Florida that said last week democrats didnt give a shit about Cuba?
The very same Joe Garcia…
Why did you take out the reference to the “intransigent dinosaurs,” George?
Personally, I’m in favor of lifting the embargo as well. I say we send the Maryland National Guard to Gitmo, open up them gates, and march to Havana. We could have the island free by lunchtime. Then we drop the embargo and send relief supplies.
And Gloria Estefan. And Carlos Santana.
HUGE party by the weekend!
~~JD~~
Jesus, Mary and Joseph. Rick, you’re as dense as lead. I didn’t remove the line because the line was never in the article. I intended it as a throw-away line, a little sarcastic aside on my part, a little humor, directed at folks like you who can’t enough of bashing us.
The “people-to-people contact” policy for bringing democracy to Cuba is brilliant. I advocated it in 1977 and look how close we are to bring freedom and democracy to Cuba as a result. Just read about it in my book “Not so Secret Missions to Cuba.” That’s how we were going to end apartheid in South Africa, by sending millions of African Americans like Obama to visit that country, but all they did was protest in front of the South African embassy in Washington, D.C. My next genius plan is to bring about peace in the Middle East by having people-to-people contact with Hamas. I will volunteer myself and Marx Lesnik, who recently received an award from the Cuban government. I am sure that we will have a booming success!
Travel to Cuba if you are Cuban descent but stay only with family and not the hotels. But traveler beware! Sell Cuba whatever they want non military but pay cash please. Don’t stick the US taxpayer again. But all this is soon to be moot as the Cuban government is flat busted.
Vote for Obama, the next Jimmy Carter, but black!
What can you expect from El Baracko Bama
I thought Curley was supposed to help out his fellow democrat and advise him properly on Cuba issues. Maybe Curley is working for the Clintons and throwing Obama under the bus.
Obama should send wife Michelle down to Havana — that sister sure knows how to run her house, she shoul’ set ’em all straight down there, y’all see.
Be done in no time.
…And Jewbana, if you’re right, then Billary’s blacks have gone from the back of the bus, to driving the bus, to … under the bus. Hhmmm. You’re probably on to something, because this advice is sure to sink Obama; then again, what does he know?? It all looks so…. Clintonian, doesn’t it?
Obama, call your Secret Service detail.
“Travel to Cuba if you are Cuban descent but stay only with family and not the hotels. But traveler beware! Sell Cuba whatever they want non military but pay cash please. Don’t stick the US taxpayer again. But all this is soon to be moot as the Cuban government is flat busted.”
Once again my neighbor in nearby Maryland, Tomas Estrada-Palma gets it right from a business point.
“I say we send the Maryland National Guard to Gitmo, open up them gates, and march to Havana. We could have the island free by lunchtime. Then we drop the embargo and send relief supplies.”
John D. Long you remind me of a funny story from some years ago.
Many twenty and thirty something singles from the Philadelphia area get together in groups of 8 or 10 and rent houses at “The Jersey Shore” to drink raise hell and hope to get lucky on weekends and a week or two each Summer.
In 1979 a group of us wimpy accountants rented a house in Avalon, NJ. It was a side by side house.
Next door to us a group included about 6 or so Philadelphia Policemen. At that time Frank Rizzo, the former Philly Police Commissioner and Mayor said something along the lines of: “The Philadelphia Police are so tough that they could invade Cuba and win.”
That was all these guys needed to hear. The next weekend they had t-shirts that read:
“Philadelphia Police Department Cuba Invasion Team”.
Somehow they learned I was interested I Cuba and I got named honorary historian or something. That meant I had to get a map and tell them what Cuban history I knew.
Somewhere I must have an old picture of that motley crew.
Thanks John for the memory jogger.
Jack, I have one word to describe how easy it would be to take down this crime family that’s run Cuba for 50 years: Grenada.
I think if those commies got up close and personal with one of our Marines, they’d piss their panties.