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Posted on 11/26/2016 9:38:44 AM PST by mandaladon
President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday greeted the news that Fidel Castro had died by denouncing Cuba’s longtime leader as a “brutal dictator” with a legacy of bloodshed. Trump, who vowed to help the island nation’s people achieve freedom and prosperity, did not explicitly repeat campaign-trail promises to roll back President Obama’s historic outreach to the island nation.
The entrepreneur’s reaction could scarcely have been more different than the sitting commander in chief’s response. Obama declared that now was the time to “extend a hand of friendship to the Cuban people” and largely sanitized deep Cold War-era criticisms of Castro’s record on human rights and economic freedom.
“We know that this moment fills Cubans — in Cuba and in the United States — with powerful emotions, recalling the countless ways in which Fidel Castro altered the course of individual lives, families, and of the Cuban nation,” the president said. “History will record and judge the enormous impact of this singular figure on the people and world around him.”
Trump, whose initial reaction to the news was the four-word tweet “Fidel Castro is dead!” took a far sharper tone in a written statement later issued by his transition team.
“Today, the world marks the passing of a brutal dictator who oppressed his own people for nearly six decades,” Trump said. “Fidel Castro’s legacy is one of firing squads, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and the denial of fundamental human rights.”
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And, Yahoo News still referring to Trump as ‘entrepreneur’, but Zero as “sitting Commander in Chief”.
No double standard there, certainly...
Obama took the “softer” approach? But the media have been telling us that TRUMP “has a soft spot for dictators.”
“I bet Obama would love to go the funeral and talk about himself.”
Bump!
Castro will never, ever get out of there.
Remind Fidel to bring his Ove-Gloves.
It's darn hot down there!
The contrast could not be more stark.
0bama wants to be Castro.
Obama is proud he got to Kiss Fidel’s butt before he died
Trump tells the truth; Obama lies.
If he travels to Cuba, it’s one less day to be pardoning felons.
Nor throwing people in prison who disagreed with him. Or lining them up against a wall and shooting them. And their families.
But hey, why should we get in their way of a good story?
bammy and the fake pope both are sad that one of their own is gone now.
Trump, who is called a dictator wannabe, criticizes Castro’s dictatorship. Obama, who is considered a protector of democracy, is ambivalent towards Castro’s abuse of power.
If Obama didn’t have packing to do he would be down in Havana falating the corpse with a line of commie wannabes waiting in line behind him.
Not at all surprised that our own dictator-in-chief evinced a softer, almost conciliatory tone. Hope to dance at his funeral, too. Soon.
I have not seen much comment on Obama’s final Thanksgiving Proclamation. This so-called devout Christian never mentions God wants.
When was Pope Ratzinger’s visit to Cuba?
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