The Danny Glover standard

New York Post ^ | 12/27/2014 | Post Editorial Board

[NJRighty]

Alice Walker is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who’s made her moral case against the Cuban embargo scathingly clear.

In a letter to then-President Bill Clinton, she said, “Even if you despise Fidel and even if the Cubans should not have shot down the planes violating their air space. the embargo is wrong because it punishes people for being who they are.”

As it happens, we have sympathy for the argument that opening up regimes to the world may well do more to fight oppression than boycotts and embargoes. But when it comes to Alice Walker, the same woman who has argued passionately against the embargo on Cuba supports similar attempts to isolate the Jewish state.

[a fool in paradise]

The people who opposed the embargoes against Castro and Saddam are the first to call for embargoes instead of going to war.

[ThunderSleeps]

...the embargo is wrong because it punishes people for being who they are.

Hey lady, think rapists, pedophiles, murderers, fascists, dictators... Guess "boys will be boys" and we should just let them all be who they are too, eh? {snort} Moral relativism again...

[SunkenCiv]

• Rand Paul's Cluelessness on Cuba
• Does Rand Paul Even Understand What "Isolationism" Is?
• Rand Paul: Rubio's Cuba remarks 'rude'
• Without Cruz, there would be no opposition to President Obama (With 2016 poll to FReep)
• McConnell: I'm on Team Rubio in regard to Cuba
• What on earth is Rand Paul thinking in taking Obama's side against Rubio on Cuba?
• LISTEN to Marco Rubio's fantastic interview with Mark Levin on Cuba
• Obama Lies to Cubans, and Exposes His Real Purpose
• Rand Paul Rand-splains Cuba to Marco Rubio [Sides with Obama over Rubio]
• Rand Paul Breaks With Rubio and Bush Over Cuba
• Rand Paul backs Obama on Cuba
• Paul: Trade With Cuba 'Probably a Good Idea'

[BatGuano]

Glover is the turd in the punch bowl. Who cares what he has rattling around in his head?

[DHerion]

But they supported the embargo of South Africa and the people suffered....

[frog in a pot]

she said, “Even if you despise Fidel...the embargo is wrong because it punishes people..."

That is just her cover story.
Among many other things, she was an enthusiastic supporter of Che Guevara and argued he was a wonderful "role model".
It is entirely more likely she, like Glover, admires Havana’s Communist regime.

[SJackson]

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[Dqban22]

POPE FRANCIS SHARE OBAMA’S VALUES

After more than 55 years of violations of their human rights, is inconceivable that once again the Cuban people is betrayed by those most called to defend and demand their right to freedom and the respect for their human dignity.

“During those years, with the purpose of forcing us to abandon our religious beliefs and to demoralize us, the Cuban Communist indoctrinators repeatedly used the statements made by some representatives of the American Christian churches. Every time a pamphlet was published in U.S., every time a clergyman would write an article in support of Castro’s dictatorship, a translation would be given to us, and that was far worse for the Christian political prisoners than the beatings or the hunger. Incomprehensible to us, while we waited for the embrace of solidarity from our brothers in Christ, those who were embraced were our tormentors.” Armando Valladares

Pope Francis negotiated and blessed a Faustian accord in which an apprentice of tyrant came to the rescue of the regimen of a genocide tyrant throwing under bus and condemning the Cuban people to eternal damnation. By this accord, the American taxpayers will keep afloat the Cuban government assuming the financing the Stalinist regime.