Posted on 12/17/2014 3:08:43 PM PST by jazusamo
Former President Kennedy would approve of President Obama's decision to roll back trade and travel restrictions on Cuba, the White House argued Wednesday.
"I do think that even President Kennedy would acknowledge that after more than 50 years of a policy of isolation [which] didn't bring about the desired result … change was needed," White House press secretary Josh Earnest said.
President Obama announced earlier in the day that the administration would ease travel restrictions to the country, as well as restrictions on exports to Cuba. The government is also allowing U.S. financial and telecommunications firms to establish more of a foothold in Cuba. They are the most significant changes to U.S.-Cuba policy since 1962, when Kennedy extended a trade embargo in reaction to Fidel Castro's alignment with the Soviet Union. Kennedy extended those restrictions to include a travel ban in 1963, following the Cuban missile crisis.
Earnest said Kennedy was someone who "did believe in the value of openness and engagement and in the value of empowering local populations to take greater control over their economic and political situation."
"So, it does strike me that, while the president is changing a policy that President Kennedy originally put in place, that the philosophy that the president is pursuing and the values that the president is pursuing is entirely consistent with the kinds of values that President Kennedy championed throughout his life," Earnest said.
My wife says this is to punish Louisiana for voting Landreau out of office. Cuban sugar will wipe out Louisiana’s sugar industry.
The use of Hopium, frequently its use at the White Hut still is.
JFK=Just F'in Kiddin'
A lot of dead democrats do.
Obama isn't happy, till you are not happy!
Not to minimize this, but the President can only go so far, establishing an embassy, loosening some travel restrictions, allowing those limited travellers permitted to go to Cuba to bring back a certain dollar value in merchandise, without Congress repealing things like Helms-Burton.
From what I can tell the full embargo isn’t being lifted, and can’t be lifted, without act of Congress.
Lots of things can’t be done without congress’ approval. I don’t think Obama cares.
Weren't we there in the 50's?
“Bay of Pigs”
Sure....I see the similarity.....
LOL, killed a lot of minimum wage jobs would be more like it.
Good graphic none the less.
Uncle Bungle will say anything says everyone else.
If JFK lived, he would have conformed as his party conform as it radicalized during the seventies and eighties. He would be like Bill Clinton at all their events. They would have rolled him in as star power to endorse their latest freak of a presidential candidate.
Black nobodies will proclaim that ‘MLK” himself would agree with such and such an idea..._________ (fill in the blank). Coincidentally it's always some idea they're pushing.
Muslims use this trick too... except they say 'Allah' would agree with them.
Once you see the pattern you'll see it everywhere when blacks want you to agree with them. It's sooooooo stupid...
We had men there since the mid 1940s, but putting in some special operators, or a few hundred green berets is not getting us involved in a war, not then, and not today, JFK’s sending in 16,000 troops and having their President assassinated, did that.
That’s wouldn’t be the same JFK who once promised that the United States would “support *any* friend” and “oppose *any* foe”?
Miami Cubans: Deal is ‘the ultimate bailout’
In the Little Havana neighborhood — the unofficial political heart of this city, where more than half the population, 54%, is of Cuban descent —hardliners protested with signs decrying Obama’s move and chanting, “Traitor, traitor.”
Carlos Munoz, a retired veterinarian who left Cuba in 1970, was among a group outside the well-known Cuban restaurant Versailles that was heated in opposition and disappointed by the historic move. Munoz said he felt betrayed by Obama’s actions.
http://www.wtsp.com/story/news/local/florida/2014/12/17/cuban-americans-react/20545585/
“We’ve been in the fight for Cuban independence for over 50 years, and we just got back-stabbed,” said Munoz, 78.
Quite frankly, I don’t give a damn what JFK would think if he were still alive.
What I care about is that this loon in the White House is being allowed to ruin my country and the leadership of the GOP isn’t doing a damn thing to stop this insanity.
But, as long as we are talking about what other “real” presidents might think of things going on today, I suspect that President Thomas Jefferson would have already had the traitors in DC hanged for their crimes. I also think that President Abraham Lincoln would be reconsidering some of the choices he himself had made.
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