Posted on 08/14/2015 4:37:59 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: They are all excited in the Drive-By Media. The American flag was raised today over the American embassy in Havana, Cuba. Such a great day for the Drive-Bys, such a great day for the American left, and such a great day for Fidel Castro. Victory for Fidel Castro is considered victory for the American media. Here is a media montage of how it all went down...
MATT LAUER: (b-roll noise) For the first time in 54 years an American flag will be raised at the US Embassy in Havana!
SAVANNAH GUTHRIE: Now to the historic moment that is set to unfold in Cuba!
BECKY QUICK: A historic day for Cuba and the United States!
MARGARET BRENNAN: (outdoor noise) A Cold War standoff will end here in Havana when the Stars and Stripes fly once again on the island.
ROBIN ROBERTS: The historic raising of the American flag...
MICHAELA PEREIRA: It's a historic day for Cuban-American relations!
CHRIS CUOMO: Jake Tapper in Havana this morning! Buenos Dias, Senor Jackito! Pasa bien!
JAKE TAPPER: (outdoor noise) Buenos Dias, Christopher! It's going to be great!
RUSH: Yes, sir, folks, it is. Because in due course we'll have access to that wonderful, superior Cuban health care system that has only been available to the elite and the precious few, such as Michael Moore and Sean Penn and, well, maybe some others. But now we're all gonna be able to at some point. We don't, at this moment, have travel freedom, entire travel freedom. It's only a matter of time.
Somebody sent me a note today, but who's gonna be the first to do what. I'll be the photo-op that everybody's waiting for -- and I'm a not kidding about this. Somebody in this delegation. Somebody in the American delegation is gonna go out there and grab a Havana cigar and light it up, and that's gonna be a huge photo-op. I mean, that's a big deal here, folks, for a lot of people. You may not know this, but a lot of elites smoke cigars, and a lot of elites want Cuban cigars.
Legally, you can't get them, but now you can if you can get there. It's a limited amount of money that you're allowed to spend on Havana cigars. I think $100 is the max, which, for a good cigar, you'll get four of them and then you gotta hope they're all made well. They're not much anymore, but that will be a big photo-op is whoever, whenever lights up in celebration, of course, and it'll be pretty big, Havana cigar. John Kerry, Lurch was there and brought up Vietnam. He made his speech at the grand ceremony where the American flag was raised over our embassy in Cuba, and John Kerry talked about Vietnam. You know, he served there, so that may be why.
KERRY: Last week I was in Hanoi to mark the 20th anniversary of normalization of relations between the United States and Vietnam. Think about that. A long and terrible war that inflicted indelible scars on body and mind followed by two decades of mutual healing followed by another two decades of diplomatic and commercial engagement. All that time through reconciliation, through normalization, Cuban-American relations remained locked in the past.
RUSH: That's right. But that was before Barack Hussein O was elected president and then began traveling around the world pointing to all the places the United States has been guilty of something -- guilty of oppression, guilty of theft, guilty of assuming to know what's best for this country or that country. You know, liberalism is a strange thing. When you look at it domestically, these same people will tell us they know everything about how we ought to live.
And if we refuse to live our lives the way they want us to, then they will take over and make us conform and live our lives the way they want us to. Now, you take it internationally. The United States has been a beacon for freedom and has attempted to liberate and succeeded in liberating tens of millions of people over the years from bondage, liberated people to freedom. We have not conquered. And yet the very same liberals who are hell-bent on telling every American how to live.
Somehow when the United States attempts to spread the notions of democracy and freedom around the world, the American left say, "Who are we to tell people how to live? What right do we have to enforce our ways and force our ways on them!" They have no compunction whatsoever when it comes to imposing their beliefs on all of us in this country, but when it happens internationally... And of course when they impose things on people, it results in people losing a little freedom here or a little freedom there.
And before long, a lot of freedom is lost as you add it up. Traditionally, America has liberated people from oppression all over the world and seen to it that freedom and economic advancement has been the story of the day. By the way, there's an interesting story I've got it somewhere here in the Stack. I should have put it at the top. I'm not gonna try to fumbling through the papers now, but it is essentially about... Let me see if I remember this.
In the late 1800s, 14% of the population did not live in poverty, in this country. Something like 80% of the population was in poverty in this country in the late 1800s. And the story today is just the exact opposite, of course. This is a left-wing publication writing this, applauding it, and they're not even cognizant of the fact why it happened. You know, what has enabled people to escape poverty? Herbert Meyer used to be in the Reagan administration.
A couple, three years ago wrote a piece say the most transformative thing that's happened in his lifetime has been the number of people in the world -- the percentages of people in the world -- who have escaped poverty. In fact, his story, the one that got all this going, is we interviewed him for the Limbaugh Letter. He was pointing out statistics that indicated that you had to look long and hard to find genuine poverty in the world today. We've had such a successful effort to elevate people from poverty.
...Lurch was there and talked about Viet Nam...
Corporal Archie Miller of Portsmouth, Ohio was finally ordered home when he received his 5th Purple Heart in 1945. While actually in battle, under enemy fire, and fighting aggressively unlike John Kerry, Miller was wounded 2 times by sniper fire, 2 times by mortar fire, and was last wounded by a Japanese hand grenade.
His wife said he was too tough to die.
(NY Times 08/03/45)
It is embarrassing to even mention Lurch in the same context as this brave man.
I don’t want the Dems to go under just yet,it’s too soon. Give them some hope until about Xmas or New Years....then it’s party time!
Somebody should ask Hillary while on camera; “How low can you go?”
The dems are going to nominate Biden, and I’m very much afraid that might be a problem for us.
Biden’s done an excellent job of supporting Obama without getting any of the bad Obama juju on him, I think.
And we’ll hear nothing but Beau, Beau, Beau (may he rest in peace) from now until next November.
Be afraid....be very afraid, Hillary may have gotten to the 453rd cut a little too soon.
John Kerry, Lurch was there and brought up Vietnam.
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Somebody recently told me that Kerry was in Viet Nam, I didn’t personally see him there but had I known about it, I might have voted for him.
He he he he he.
Perfect
Let that bird brain Biden run.The “Stand up Chuck!” ads will be devastating.
I wish I could think that, but what I keep saying is Biden is going to pass the “cares about people like me” test, tell me if we nominated Jeb! (heaven forfend) and the dims nominated Biden - who do you think would win?
Lurch isn’t fit to be urinated on by Corporal Miller.
The dems are going to nominate Biden,Well duh. Who do you think is uncovering the Hillary cover up?
Nothing will happen to her here. But she will rot in hell for all she's done.
“I wish I could think that, but what I keep saying is Biden is going to pass the “cares about people like me” test, tell me if we nominated Jeb! (heaven forfend) and the dims nominated Biden - who do you think would win?”
Biden has never been much of a campaigner, outside of his first Senate race in a heavily Democrat state. What worries me is that Obama will use all the power of the presidency, the NSA, the FBI, the Socialist Insecurity Administration, race riots, as much of the media (substantial) that he has control over, to get Biden elected.
It could well be enough to cement an Obamanism dynasty.
The big concern is both Biden and Bernie!
Getting the popcorn ready for the Trump-Biden debate :-)
If Biden decides to run, I’ll have to walk out on the balcony and let loose a couple from the old double barrel to celebrate.
Regardless of who runs on the Dems side, they are going down, down, down.
A lot of folks forget (or never knew) that SlowJoe was Harry Reid before there was Harry Reid. A vicious Dem partisan who ruled the senate.
Seems like Kerry-Heinz is always in some foreign capital betraying the US.
“Regardless of who runs on the Dems side, they are going down, down, down.”
If that happens, it will be just like the day when
Ronald Reagan was elected President.
But, one can never underestimate the degree to which the electorate has been indoctrinated by the left; a large percentage of the will vote Dem/Communist no matter what.
IMHO
“...Lurch was there and talked about Viet Nam...”
Did you know he served in Viet Nam?
:-)
IMHO
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