[Cincinatus' Wife]

Capitalism's on the sly in Cuba--[Excerpt] By way of explanation for his illicit trade, he holds up his right hand and says, "Look at this." His thumb and two adjacent fingers are missing. Six years ago, Miguel caught his wrist in the bakery mixer, badly mangling it. A month later, his fingers were amputated because he could not afford the three pills needed daily to induce circulation. They cost $1 apiece, and, at the time, he was paid in bread -- six loaves a day. [End Excerpt]

Jeff Jacoby's three part series on Cuba "A walk in Havana" - "Keeping hope, conscience alive in Cuba" - "The US embargo and Cuba's future"--[Excerpt] And make no mistake: Doing business with Cuba means doing business with Castro. There is no private property in Cuba, no private enterprise, no private employers. Foreign investors must deal with the government. They cannot hire Cuban workers directly; a government agency chooses their workers for them. The investors pay Castro - in hard currency - for each worker; Castro in turn pays the workers a fraction of that amount - in all-but-worthless pesos.

So long as Cuba's dictator maintains his stranglehold on every aspect of Cuban life, ending the embargo would be counterproductive. It would do nothing to end the far more restrictive embargo that Castro imposes on the Cuban nation. It would give him the propaganda victory and the US dollars he craves, but it would do little to bring liberty or hope to ordinary Cuban citizens.

Every president since JFK has extended the Cuban embargo; to lift it in exchange for nothing - no free elections, no civil liberties - would be a betrayal of the very people we want to help. ''Tiende tu mano a Cuba,'' says Paya when I ask what he thinks of American policy, ''pero primero pide que le desaten las manos a los cubanos.'' Extend your hands to Cuba - but first unshackle ours.[End Excerpt]

The price of milk (and sex) in Cuba

Al Neuharth: Why is China OK, but Cuba 'enemy'?

Showdown over U.S. Cuba policy nears(President Bush, Otto Reich and Sally Grooms Cowal)

Dismantling sought of Cuban embargo - on ''a collision course'' with the White House

[Jethro Tull]

Maybe he'll build the bearded, cigar chomping, flea infested maggot a house?

[CasearianDaoist]

How low we have come as a country. The socialists feel so confident that they may openly do this. Where are we headed?

[foghorn]

The Sanctimonious Jimmy Carter

[Clara Lou]

When I think of Jimmy Carter, I feel utter disdain. I wish he would just shut up and disappear.

[Cable225]

''As you probably would remember, when I was president, I departed from my predecessors and unfortunately my successors, in lifting all travel restraints on American citizens to go to Cuba almost immediately when I was president within a few weeks,'' Carter said.

Every time Jimmy Peanuts opens his mouth, I remember another reason I voted for Ford.

[TLBSHOW]

Let the commie CARTER SAY THERE

[putupon]

I hope he doesn't come back.

[M Kehoe]

Ah, Jimmah Cahter, Mr. Malaize, going to see his buddy. Nothing unusual here. Time to move on.

Maybe Jimmy will take his buddy Dan Rathernot with him.

On another note, when is Fidel going to die? Old age, a stroke, or cancer. No, I prefer lead poisoning and soon.

5.56mm

[isthisnickcool]

He gave away the canal zone. What a dunce.

From that point on it was all down hill.

His brother took a leak on the grass, but Jimmah continues to piss on all of us.

Never trust a man who's eyebrows do strange things when they speak.

[GeronL]

Look what good we've done in China, they threaten to nuke us at every turn... don't we love communist dictators?

[Landru]

What an excellent place for the bumbling imbecile to go.

Now; to find a way to keep him there.

[Landru]

eh, Mudboy?
That place makes the *perfect* repository for America's washed-up Leftist pols & has-been socialist *entertainers* now, doesn't it?

...& here you wanted to get rid of Fidel; geshhhh.

:o)

[RedWhiteBlue]

Oh, great. Hugo Chavez is going to have a field day playing this one up.

[MistrX]

Maybe Jimmy can build a few nice three bedroom, two bath ranch-style houses in Gitmo for our Taliban friends.

[boris]

Carter is on a frantic, unseemly quest to get the Nobel Peace Prize before he departs for Hell.

Sometimes I wish they'd give it to him, on condition that he SHUT UP and GO AWAY.

--Boris

[chainsaw]

You will have to excuse Jimmy Carter, he has been senile sense he was elected.

[Cyber Liberty]

I'm wondering if he'll offer Castro some nuclear power plants in exchange for a photo session, like he did with the North Koreans?

[ServesURight]

A lot of FReepers feel in the Clinton vs Carter debates that Clinton easily was the worser president of the two. Not so.

In many ways Carter's inept administration set the precedents of the problems we have now: The never-ending war in the Middle East, 09/11, U.S. appeasement to foreign globalists, and a perceived weakness of the U.S. by our enemies. Not to mention the creation of unconstitutional, money-wasting domestic departments such as the Education, HUD, and NEA.

Clinton may have been immoral and evil, but he was so in a competent way. Carter, the man truly had peanuts for a brain, if it wasn't for him there probably would never had been a Clinton.

[Walkin Man]

I bet ole Jimmy will feel right at home in that communist hellhole.

[lavaroise]

What idiot ever coined "the naive but honest Carter".