They probably told Baraq it's a swell place.
Posted on 11/08/2013 5:53:25 PM PST by jazusamo
President Obama told a group of donors at a high-dollar Miami fundraiser that the United States needed to be "creative and thoughtful" as it continued to update its policies towards Cuba.
"We've started to see changes on the island," Obama told the crowd, which included Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) and Sen. Michael Bennett (D-Colo.).
The fundraiser — with tickets that ranged between $2,500 and $32,400 — was held at the Miami home of Jeorge Mas, the chairman of the Cuban American National Foundation. The non-profit group dedicated to restoring democracy on the island is one of the most influential Cuban exile lobbying groups in the U.S. The president has loosened restrictions on travel to the communist nation, allowing Cuban-Americans to make unlimited trips and send unlimited amounts of money to family members.
In 2011, the White House said it would permit students seeking academic credit and churches making religious trips to visit the island.
Additionally, the administration expanded the number of U.S. airports permitted to offer charter service to the island and allowed so-called "purposeful travel" via a licensing process intended to weed out pleasure trips.
It was on one of those permits that performers and Obama donors Jay-Z and Beyonce traveled to Cuba for on their fifth wedding anniversary earlier this year.
The White House drew criticism over a Jay Z song that bragged about the trip and included the lyrics "boy from the hood but got White House clearance." The lyrics also say Obama told him "chill, you gonna get me impeached."
The White House denied a role in helping the artists obtain permits.
Secretary of State John Kerry has long been critical of the 50-year old embargo of the island nation. in 2009, he proposed a bill to remove the travel ban entirely, saying the policy "actually furnished the Castro regime with an all-purpose excuse to draw attention away from its many shortcomings."
The fundraiser was the second of three the president will attend while in Miami. The first, a $32,400 per plate sit-down for about 30 individuals, was held at the home of personal injury lawyer Ralph Patino and benefited the Democratic National Committee. The final event will be held a dinner hosted by Leslie Miller Saiontz, whose family owns home construction company Lennar. It, like the event at the Mas residence, will benefit Senate Democrats.
0bama had best check out things that are happening in Cuba before he makes these statements.
There is only ONE WAY to deal with the Castros......think Nicolae Ceausescu! Sooner the better!
my three year old grand daughter has figured out more than obama ever will
LOL... and you know what I’m thinkin.
Translation: I’m going to get bent over and done dry by another dictator. Then I’m going to blame it on the republicans.
Yep, of course now 0bama is showing his support for these commies but I guess it’s not surprising.
Hussein wants to surrender to Cuba now?
Wasn’t switching sides in the WOT enough for that traitorous sob?
i wonder how many tens of millions it will cost us when the obamas do a beach swim vacations in cuba it will go down in history as Bay of Pigs II
Translated to English: “Now that those wimps Boehner and McConnell have bent over, I’m getting out the checkbook and buying the c`rads sumpin’ nice!”
Fiddling around with Cuba while Rome burns.
What an idiot.
They probably told Baraq it's a swell place.
You got that right, don’t know whether idiot or imbecile is lower on the scale but he’s the lower.
Yep, that pretty wells sums up 0bama’s knowledge of foreign relations...Go with the bling.
The changes on the island of Cuba:
Cuba looks just like America now!
In other words, he’s an enemy of America who likes commies...at least for now.
the american public knows more about what is happening in cuba than that jacka** . he’s clueless of course
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They already HAVE democracy on the island..
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Spoken like a true doper, Soetero.
Thanks jazusamo.
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