Posted on 04/14/2015 3:39:21 PM PDT by lee martell
Barack Obama's time as a sitting American President is running out. If he plans to do something big and bold, now, or within the next 19 months will be time to do it. We already see that he has softened the borders, in definition and in purpose. There are tens of thousands of illegal aliens pouring in across the southern borders of our country, day after day, week after frustrating week.
Operation Choke Point quietly continues to convince banks to refuse the accounts of gun stores, resulting in these stores being shut down. Lois Lerner is still free to walk the streets, maybe call the White House with helpful advice against Tea Party groups. Obama ignores the rights of individual states to have some say in how many immigrants enter their state lines. Everyone knows that a large percentage of these undocumented, unvetted, unskilled and unvaccinated people will end up on public assistance , funded generously by the American taxpayers. Obama has remained determined to close down the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp in Caimanera, Cuba, without regard to any after effects or societal costs. He has shown himself to be a very poor negotiator for the U.S., while being an enthusiastic booster of all thing Cuban or Castro related.
Is it beyond the pale to imagine it (before he does)? Is it possible that we could awake one morning, turn on Free Republic or Drudge, only to discover that overnight, by Presidential Decree, Obama has made Cuba into a state or territory of the United States? This done in a way that ignores Congress completely, something already not out of the ordinary for him. Obama could say he wanted to welcome Cuba into the 21st Century vs leaving them to lurk in the Cold War Darkness of the past. He though businesses would 'welcome the opportunity' to spread the influence of Amercian business into this tropical country. The Castro Brothers may approve of this if it meant having the Americans shower them with billions of guilty-privledge Dollars to build infrastructure and update their financial market. If Cuba became a state or territory of the United States, that would make it very easy for Obama to empty that prison and transfer all remaining inmates to other facilities across the continent. Talk Radio and Fox would explode with fury (maybe), but with Congress so ready to roll over and play dead, nothing but bloviating will actually be done. A week or two after this 'constitutional crime', you will find Boehner and McCain trying to justify it for the time being.
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I’d rather see the Philippines. Industrious, warm and they speak English.
This is from a parody site, right?
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51, that makes 6 more to get to 57.
It’s not up to him. Thank God!
Didn’t we go down that road once before? Remember the Maine.
Please don’t repeat this theory anywhere else. :-)
BAMBABOY decides????????????? since when does he decide to do this....
We are a Nation of Laws and the first one should be for some elected people to grow some balls and start to impeach this idiot from Kenya!!!!!!!!!!
The Onion?
There was a time when the prospect of bypassing Congress on matters such as this was unimaginable, even laughable.
Not in a fundamentally transformed America it’s not.
With a Russian base there? I don’t think so. It’s all about communism.
I hope it remains fiction, but with Obama, who could be sure? Notice how he just decided today, without any open debate that Cuba would be ‘removed’ from the list of terrorist supporting states. I think they were also on the list because of the many political prisoners still locked up in Cuba with no representation or due process. He is very wasteful with our money and quickly obligates America to a new cause without any full and open discussion. Another example: We have spent close to One Billion Dollars on Ebola Centers in Liberia. Almost none of the centers has ever been used, as they were erected too late after the disease had run its course.
If Obama is a Marxist or leftist who hates America, then he probably isn't going to do the kind of thing that Marxists and leftists have been attacking America for his whole life (i.e. running smaller Latin American countries).
And while Obama does or did want to close Guantanamo, the fact that six years on he hasn't done it, suggests that he's it's not really that high on his list of priorities.
Governor Castro?
Could that be just another part of the ‘flexibility’ Obama promised Putin in 2007?
No. The US has actually tried to take over Cuba several times. Prior to the US Civil War, several Southern US “adventurers” went there to attempt to either take it over by force, or get the Spanish government (Cuba was under Spain until 1898) to sell it because they wanted to use it as an outpost for the expansion of slavery and make it another slave state in order to build their bloc. The Spanish ambassador said he’d rather see the island sink into the sea, and they didn’t get very far.
Then, of course, we occupied Cuba for ten years after the Spanish American War. We left peacefully, however.
Castro would certainly not be interested in letting the US take over Cuba...what Obama really wants is for Castro and Communism to take over the US.
Oh good grief.
No.
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