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McCain blasts Obama's offer to meet Cuban leader
Miami Herald ^ | 02/23/08 | LESLEY CLARK

Posted on 02/23/2008 10:45:56 AM PST by OnRiver

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To: OnRiver

That Turd World country is the communist utopia that the DNC has been pointing our Country to for 50 years. Free healthcare right til the bullet enters your chest.

Pray for W and Our Troops


21 posted on 02/23/2008 11:36:08 AM PST by bray (Go InSain)
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To: OnRiver
Like the self-delusioned Jimmy Carter—cheered by an inner circle of ambitious rump swabs—Obama believes he can affect totalitarian hardliners with his “irresistible” personality. Castro and the tyrants of the world are impervious to such phony personas. They employed the same thespianism in their own rise to power.
22 posted on 02/23/2008 11:42:31 AM PST by Brad from Tennessee ("A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.")
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To: OnRiver
...testing out a potential fall campaign strategy to cast the Democratic presidential candidate as too inexperienced for the world stage

Ah. So this is an editorial? Or the reporter is a psychic?

This sort of "news" just drives me buggy. Is it possible that John McCain actually believes this? Then why not say, "expressing his conviction that...." Oh but, you say, that isn't reporting? That's editorializing?

Well, so's this.

How about just reporting, "John McCain said...."

Grrrr. No, they're so smart and cynical, have to cast everything as reflecting their cynicism and de-fanging the Republican's on-target remarks.

23 posted on 02/23/2008 11:46:04 AM PST by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: OnRiver

Wasn’t it John McCain who led the push to normalize relations with the communist dictators of Vietnam? You know, those guys who killed and tortured American POWs.


24 posted on 02/23/2008 11:51:35 AM PST by e-male
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To: OnRiver

(see my tagline)

Say “no” to the Castro brothers, too!!


25 posted on 02/23/2008 11:55:18 AM PST by txrangerette (Just say "no" to the Obama Cult and the Clinton Machine!!)
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To: e-male

Being there and knowing some of those guys the answer is yes. Seems like we did that in all the wars we ever fought.


26 posted on 02/23/2008 11:56:16 AM PST by OnRiver (Who is a conservative really...)
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To: OnRiver

It seems hypocritical for McCain to be blasting Obama now considering:

From the Boston Globe, June 21, 2003
“Together, McCain and Kerry then led the effort to normalize relations with Vietnam. “The work John Kerry and John McCain did” is “truly one of the most extraordinary events we have had in the last 50 years,” says Edward M. Kennedy, who has served in the Senate since 1962.”

I guess if Castro beat us in a war and held McCain in a camp for 5 years, McCain would be more forgiving.


27 posted on 02/23/2008 12:01:45 PM PST by e-male
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To: OnRiver

Obama will lose Miami Dade by double digits. There goes Florida! :-)


28 posted on 02/23/2008 12:27:41 PM PST by Norman Bates (Freepmail me to be part of the McCain List!)
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To: TitansAFC; meandog; onyx; MARTIAL MONK; Kuksool; freespirited; Salvation; furquhart; mossyoaks; ...
The McCain List.
Common sense conservatism

29 posted on 02/23/2008 12:28:29 PM PST by Norman Bates (Freepmail me to be part of the McCain List!)
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To: e-male

cheap shot from a bleedless key board warrior...like I said we have always made agreements with our enemies after wars....cuba is not after its on on going .


30 posted on 02/23/2008 12:32:47 PM PST by OnRiver (Who is a conservative really...)
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To: Norman Bates

yes and these deadenders don’t know how important that is when you will have the state that was the major battleground of both parties and rich in electorals means... they make dumb ass comparsons with Vietnam and Cuba as if they knew anything about either.


31 posted on 02/23/2008 12:35:22 PM PST by OnRiver (Who is a conservative really...)
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To: OnRiver

Obama has a dangerous level of hubris, ironically the very thing Bush is perhaps most often attacked for. And yet he is the candidate of “change”...


32 posted on 02/23/2008 12:36:07 PM PST by Young Scholar
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To: Young Scholar

believe me That will CHANGE


33 posted on 02/23/2008 12:40:57 PM PST by OnRiver (Who is a conservative really...)
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To: OnRiver

It would seem to me that it is McCain who is taking a cheap shot at Obama on this to score points with the Cuban community. It would be different if Mccain held China up to the same standard as Cuba. Is it naive of McCain to welcome China into the WTO and give the ChiComs a pass on human rights? Who is the greater security threat to the US, Cuba or China?


34 posted on 02/23/2008 12:49:27 PM PST by e-male
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To: e-male

this isn’t a history lesson its politics so unless you just got off a turnip truck the votes in Florida are very real and important and Cuba is within swiming distance of the US. If you read all the post today on Fla. and see how McCAIN IS WAY AHEAD THERE ETC. ETC. THEN YOU WIL UNDERSTAND ITS politics as the Topic suggest. The world ain’t fair....JFK


35 posted on 02/23/2008 12:59:24 PM PST by OnRiver (Who is a conservative really...)
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To: OnRiver

Obama’s foreign policy will amount to a room full of Muslims asking for help to get rid of Israel!


36 posted on 02/23/2008 1:07:15 PM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: OnRiver

McCain couldn’t hold the jock of Kennedy, Nixon or Reagan on meeting communist leaders.


37 posted on 02/23/2008 1:11:59 PM PST by ex-snook ("Above all things, truth beareth away the victory.")
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To: FormerACLUmember
The last “feel good” democrat was the Worst President in American History: Jimmy Carter.

The second verse, same as the first.

Lack of common sense on an individual level has brought us to this sadly enough.

Personally, I don't feel so good about it.

38 posted on 02/23/2008 1:17:21 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: OnRiver

This is wonderful, let him and his wife go wild, just sit back and watch the show. We or the real media don’t have to dig for stuff they’ll bring it out themselves.


39 posted on 02/23/2008 1:25:07 PM PST by ronnie raygun (Id rather be hunting with dick than driving with ted)
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To: jbwbubba
Obamalama wants to meet with Cuba, Iran and everyother dictatorship without conditions, but still refuses to go on Fox News.

Obama has his diplomatic priorities in place.

40 posted on 02/23/2008 1:26:20 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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