Posted on 04/26/2009 3:42:39 AM PDT by Scanian
So what did President Obama get in return for the most sweeping shift in US policy toward Cuba in nearly half a century? A public kick in the pants from Fidel Castro.
The ailing despot left no doubt about who runs things in Havana -- and it isn't his brother, Raul, Cuba's president.
After Raul declared he was "willing" to discuss issues like human rights and political prisoners with Obama, Fidel responded with an essay on a state-controlled Web site that said, essentially, not so fast.
And, he predicted, Obama will wind up on the "path [to] sure failure, like all of his predecessors."
Thanks for nothing, in other words, for lifting restrictions on Cuban-Americans' ability to send their families cash. That's more than Cuba has gotten from any US president since Dwight Eisenhower.
Which is just what Obama should have expected, after making those gestures without demanding anything of Castro.
He probably was heartened, though, by Fidel's having asked a group of bootlicking US House members what he could do to "help President Obama."
Well, here's an idea from Rep. Peter King -- most definitely not a bootlicker.
The Long Island Republican has reintroduced legislation demanding the extradition of 70 US criminals -- including cop-killers, terrorists and airplane hijackers -- who have won political asylum in Cuba.
Two of them are of particular concern to New York-area residents:
* Joanne Chesimard, a Black Liberation Army terrorist who in 1973 took part in a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike that left one state trooper dead and seriously wounded another. She escaped from a maximum-security prison and eventually surfaced in Havana -- where she remains free today.
* William Morales, chief bomb-maker for the Puerto Rican terrorist group FALN, which staged scores of bombings, some deadly, throughout New York City.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
And it isn't Baracko either.
Yes! But since they're probably the off-shore agents of Bambi (especially Chesimard and a lot of the other violent black leftist radicals who went to Cuba), I guess this isn't going to happen any time soon.
Read to the end of the article. The writer still thinks Obama hung the moon. Just pitiful.
Since my mom came here from Cuba, I love it when the media slaps Castro around. Even if Obama comes out looking better than he should.
I still don’t get why any American would send any money to Cuba. It all ends up in Fidel’s pocket!
Remember Jimmy Carter and the ‘Refugees’ we got in the late 1970’s, Castro cleaned out his jails and set us his criminal class, Hudson County was a fun place after that.
Bend over America here it come again.
Isn’t Jug Ears wonderful...
“I still don’t get why any American would send any money to Cuba. It all ends up in Fidel’s pocket!”
A lot of Cubans living in the US don’t have political awareness. They are narrowly focused on “my sister” “my uncle” and want to send the money so that their relative(s) can buy a TV or a pair of shoes in the state-run store that takes only dollars. (The other stores, for the “people”, that accept Cuban pesos, are largely empty and the goods are rationed.)
They don’t see the connection between cause and effect — that buying your sister a TV help s keep Castro in power.If Cubans who live heere would stop remittances to Cuba for just 6 months, the entire counry would cave in — as it is now, the country is at its lowest point ever — even the special stores for diplomats don’t have coffee — you cannot buy it for any price. (The “people” have been drinking chicory combined with who knows what for decades).
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