Called pandering.
We don't think so. Pandering is pretty much defined as saying you'll do something for someone when not having the slightest intention of carrying through. Bush gererally, and I think, always keeps his word if at all possible.
It's not "cynical" at all to call this pandering. Even when the old boy goes to the big gulag in the sky, I don't see Cuba returning to it's former "semi-colonial" status under the U.S. (yeah, I know how that phrase sounds, but it's the best I can do right now). I think Cuba's decision to stop using U.S. dollars has a lot to do with post-Castro thinking... the Europeans and the Mexicans are the foreign players in Cuba who count. The Miamai guys, I'm afraid, are SOL.