Posted on 03/16/2016 5:46:13 PM PDT by Olog-hai
President Barack Obama will use an historic speech in Havana next week to lay out a vision of greater freedoms and more economic opportunity in Cuba, White House officials said Wednesday, offering a glimpse of how the president hopes to use his trip to encourage change on the communist island.
Obama’s speech on Tuesday at the Grand Theater of Havana will mark a moment that seemed unimaginable only a few years ago, before Obama and Cuban President Raúl Castro moved to restore relations between the two estranged countries.
Obama’s advisers said they hoped Cubans would be able to watch the speech live on television, adding that Obama sought not to dictate outcomes but create the space for Cuba to change on its own. …
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I had no idea he was president of Cuba? Poor Cuba. By the time he’s done a 50 year long embargo will seem like good times.
I’m 69 years old. If there’s a dumber individual on the face of this Earth than Obama. I have never heard him or heard of him
"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."
-- Milton Friedman
When a Marxist nation suspends itself in 1959 economically it doesn’t exactly take ‘vision’ to denote what that country should do.
This has been Obama’s MO from the beginning...take a any particular no-hoper and give a speech. The speech achieves nothing but people praise Obama and that’s all he’s interested in.
Cuba could be a good place to unload all his imported undocumented democrats.
What is so “historic” about it? The “media” call it historic every time Obama takes a ..... or eats an ice cream cone. Historic is going to be when we finally throw him out of the White House on his ass in January.
The Cuban commies wouldn’t put up with it if an American went there and tried to give a speech.
A Chicago Community Agitator laying out Cuba’s vision for them. ROTFL! Cuba has really gone down hill.
If he kisses Fidel on the lips, wake me up.
Otherwise, maybe he will decide to just stay down there. Hey Barry, check out the beach by Gitmo. The sharks down there love commie bastids.
Let the first debater challenge his opponent to kill himself and that would leave him as the master debater.
Oops! Wrong thread!
I am certain that Baraq Hussein Obama’s vision is that Cuba will submit to Islam
The “media” call it historic
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Well, of course they mean hysteric.
Including all the Feminine connotations.
Hey Bambi!
Here’s a list for you, in case anybody gives a damn about your “vision for Cuba”:
Freedom of Speech and the Press,
Release of Political Prisoners,
Freedom of Religion,
Open and Free Elections,
...oh....and while you’re at it....how about reasserting those rights for Americans?
No; he does not require that of communist states. Only ones that allow free exercise of religion for Christians and Jews.
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