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Obama's Cuba Trip Called 'Totally Unacceptable' by Senate Dem
pjmedia ^ | 2/18/16 | Bridget Johnson

Posted on 02/18/2016 4:25:20 PM PST by SoFloFreeper

.....Obama will visit Cuba on March 21 and 22....

Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) called it "totally unacceptable for the president of the United States to reward a dictatorial regime with an historic visit when human rights abuses endure and democracy continues to be shunned."

"This will mark the first time a U.S. president is visiting a dictatorship in Latin America since Lyndon Johnson's 1968 visit to Nicaragua...Since Castro seized power, nine American Presidents - Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton, and George W. Bush - did not rush to the island to shake hands with an oppressive dictator," Menendez said. "They instead stood firmly against a regime that represses its people's freedoms and blatantly violates human rights just 90 miles from our shore."

"The president is - again - prioritizing short-term economic interests over long-term and enduring American values. He will rue this decision, just as he will ultimately rue giving a lifeline to the Ayatollah."

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TOPICS: Cuba; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: 1968; 201603; 20160321; 20160322; bobmenendez; castrocult; cuba; lbj; liberty; obamatrip; robertmenendez; tyranny
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1 posted on 02/18/2016 4:25:20 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper
God, these Dems have a short memory.


2 posted on 02/18/2016 4:26:24 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

The Castro Brothers and Che Guevara are his heroes. He will be giving Gitmo back on this trip.


3 posted on 02/18/2016 4:27:20 PM PST by Sasparilla (Hillary for Prosecution 2016)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Indicted Senator Bob Menendez.....


4 posted on 02/18/2016 4:29:21 PM PST by arl295
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To: SoFloFreeper

OBAMA is unacceptable...has been well before he was elected the first time. We warned — the fools did not listen. They got what they voted for. The list of adjectives is now just too long to post.


5 posted on 02/18/2016 4:32:05 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: SoFloFreeper

If we really wanted to, we could crush the Cuban regime and free its citizens.


6 posted on 02/18/2016 4:32:26 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Yuge 2016)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Eight years, on Democrat actually has a pair.

Could’a fooled me!


7 posted on 02/18/2016 4:34:51 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: SoFloFreeper
There is an earth saying “Only Nixon can go to China.” -Spock.
8 posted on 02/18/2016 4:35:40 PM PST by Idaho_Cowboy (Ride for the Brand. Joshua 24:15)
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To: grey_whiskers

Kerry Harkins back to better times...


9 posted on 02/18/2016 4:35:41 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

There is nothing wrong with Obama going to Cuba.

It’s his coming back to the U.S. I object to. ;-)

Maybe he will find it so much to his liking he will stay.


10 posted on 02/18/2016 4:35:44 PM PST by r_barton (We the People of the United States...)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Well, Obama had better hurry..at the rate Cubans are flooding across our open border, the island of Cuba will be empty.


11 posted on 02/18/2016 4:36:55 PM PST by patriot08 (5th generation Texan ...(girl type))
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
"Any other Caribbean island is fine, but..." /smirk
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12 posted on 02/18/2016 4:40:50 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: arl295

Child rapist Menendez at that


13 posted on 02/18/2016 4:44:23 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal (Save your wives, Save your daughters! Stop MUSLIM IMMIGRATION NOW!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

To the BOs of the world, as long as a leader is a murdering tyrant, he is still to be addressed with respect. I suspect BO wishes he had the power to murder white people at will and to hold power by killing all opponents. This is the way the psychopathic leader thinks; the hitlers, the idi Amins, the Robert Mugabes, the Stalins and the Obamas.


14 posted on 02/18/2016 4:44:50 PM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Unfortunately this piece of scum is “my” senator

Bobby never met a bribe he didn’t like


15 posted on 02/18/2016 4:49:33 PM PST by arl295
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To: SoFloFreeper

Let’s start a thread of “Obama and Cuba” songs, titles, and jokes, not necessarily in this order. And one for Bernie Sanders as well

Obama’s Song: “I’m Coming Home”
and “Home Sweet Home, Havana” (in the works)

Title for Obama’s upcoming trip” “Back Where I Belong”

The book about Cuba that Obama won’t ever read: “Black Man in Red Cuba” (circa 1972).

The Cuban people’s underground favorite song: “Jailhouse Rock” and the new one “Havana Prison Blues”

Also they like “O’Day - The Banana Boat Song” or any other song about a boat to get them the heck out of Castro’s Hell. {They’d sing “Jetliner” but they can’t afford to buy a ticket for a one-way trip to freedom}

Bernie Sander’s campaign song: “Back in the USSR”

Favorite singing group: “Simply Red” (and “Rage Against the Machine” - Marxist led).

Favorite songs: “Burning Down the (Capitalist) House” and “Something for Nothing” (and MTV)

The American people’s song: “Ain’t got no job”; about Obama and Hillary - “Liar, Liar”


16 posted on 02/18/2016 4:50:16 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: SoFloFreeper

“The president is - again - prioritizing short-term economic interests over long-term and enduring American values. He will rue this decision, just as he will ultimately rue giving a lifeline to the Ayatollah.”


17 posted on 02/18/2016 4:51:02 PM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: arl295

Indicted by Obama/Holder for being against the Iran appeasement.

The same Obama “Justice” dept that DID NOT indict Lois Lerner.


18 posted on 02/18/2016 4:52:55 PM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: arl295

Indicted by 0bamanites..


19 posted on 02/18/2016 4:56:42 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Just dropping in to say hello to a couple of old Commie buddies and visit the “Che” shrine. Rather selfish though not taking Bernie and Benghazi with him. Wonder why he is not stopping over at Venezuela for a beer summit with Maduro?


20 posted on 02/18/2016 5:01:48 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (The main Democratic presidential candidates .. two old communist revolutionaries pining for the 60s.)
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