Posted on 12/19/2014 6:21:19 AM PST by NKP_Vet
The Babalu Blog, the go to site for news on Cuba, predicted the papal involvement in the “normalization” of relations with Cuba announced yesterday by Obama: We’re not clairvoyants or prophets. We just deal with the facts. Eleven months ago, when Secretary of State John Kerry visited the Vatican, a Babalu post asked: “Will Pope Francis Bring About the Release of Alan Gross?” Here’s a quote from that post: How’s this for a scenario?: Pope Francis gets Alan Gross freed in exchange for the four Castro spies, and, on top of that, orchestrates the restoration of US/Castro diplomatic ties, along with the lifting of the embargo. And it will all make Obama look so righteous and compassionate rather than weak, all because of the glow lent to the whole deal by Pope Francis’s halo. Such speculation is not far-fetched. Well, guess what? Unfortunately, today’s events have proven that such speculation was in fact correct. Yeah. The “embargo” has not been lifted yet…. but the current occupant of the White House has turned the circumventing of congress into a rare art form. Just wait. Hate to say “I told you so.” Those moments always involve a most exquisite and intolerable kind of pain.
Go here to read the rest. The idiocy of the US embracing a broke, geriatric Communist dictatorship, one of the most oppressive and odious regimes on the planet, should be obvious and the Babalu Blog spells it out: All major news outlets are reporting that Alan Gross has been released from prison with few details, except for that bastion of communist propaganda that is CNN: Washington (CNN) — U.S. contractor Alan Gross, held by the Cuban government since 2009, was freed Wednesday as part of a landmark deal with Cuba that paves the way for a major overhaul in U.S. policy toward the island, senior administration officials tell CNN. President Obama is expected to announce Gross’ release at noon. Gross’ “humanitarian” release by Cuba was accompanied by a separate spy swap, the officials said. Cuba also freed a U.S. intelligence source who has been jailed in Cuba for more than 20 years, although authorities did not identify that person for security reasons. The U.S. released three Cuban intelligence agents convicted of espionage in 2001. So the Obama administration traded 3 spies implicated in the murder of US citizens for a humanitarian worker and an “unknown” intelligence source. Because bowing to communists and terrorists is what Obama and his cohorts do best. This is a major setback for the opposition and dissident movements in Cuba. The Obama administration, by making this “deal”, has confirmed that they are OK with the repression, brutality, incarceration, and murder the castro regime foists upon the opposition. And I will once again say what I have been saying since day one of this farce of a presidential administration, for the record: faced with the fact that he is, by far, the worst President this nation has ever seen, and with no true positive legacy, Obama is relying on the low hanging fruit of the Cuban embargo to placate the left. Look for President Executive Action to undermine codified US Cuba policy.
The involvement of Pope Francis in this dimwitted diplomacy is disheartening and unsurprising. When the Cuban people regain their liberty they will recall their friends and enemies. PopeWatch fears that Pope Francis will be rightfully placed in the latter category.
Anyone think you will ever heard one word from this pope about Obama and his attack on religious freedom in the United States? On Obama forcing Catholic employers to provide abortion coverage? On Obama forcing homosexual "marriage" on this country by telling his racist, worthless Att Gen to not enforce the law of the land Defense of Marriage Act. Absolutely not, you will never hear him criticize another leftist. Now if Obama were a conservative republican the pope would have already called for his impeachment.
Hey Bobalu, you alright?
Or even worse, Francis would call that conservative a, "Pharisee"; his favorite insult.
This Pope put the Marxist Liberation Theologians in power.
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