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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He will give Guantanamo to Castro. It may not be on this visit, or even formally.
He could simply pull out all US military, then Castro simply walks in.... with Elian Gonzales in the front ranks.
Castro then rents it to Russia, China, or even Iran. They occupy it with troops, and no mater who the US president is in 2017, we’re not going to “invade” Guantanamo to get back..
More of Obama’s “legacy.”
Obama is going to demand that Cuba hand over the U.S. fugitive criminals on the island, including cop-killer Chesimard, as a pre-condition for any further U.S. favors. Obama knows that justice for American victims and their families comes before any “legacy building” for himself.
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Will Cuba finally move out of the 60’s ?
Not if Obama can help it.
Stinking dungheap on an island. Now it is just a dungheap, when Odungo is finished it will stink.
Cash for clunkers.
His “vision” for the Middle East has worked out so well ... why not FUBAR Cuba, too .... I’m sure he could manage to make it worse than it already is, probably with one speech.
***** “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” *****
I can name 2 just off the top Joe Biden and “Unfit” Kerry and I have 9 less years experience.
My Runner-ups list is considerably longer
I can’t wait till he is gone. He has indicated he is staying in DC and I imagine the jerk will be on CNN every five minutes. Yuck and double yuck.
Kasich is the president of Ohio.. Times are changing.
Expect Zer0 to apologize for Teddy Roosevelt and San Juan Hill.
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