Posted on 03/23/2016 2:42:42 AM PDT by fulltlt
(CNN)President Barack Obama called for the U.S. embargo against Cuba to be lifted and for Cubans themselves to embrace change in a historic address from Havana.
"It's time to lift the embargo," Obama told Cuban officials and dignitaries gathered at the Grad Teatro de la Havana Alicia Alonso, including President Raul Castro. "But even if we lifted the embargo tomorrow, Cubans would not realize their potential without continued change here in Cuba."
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He also said that people should be able "to organize and to criticize their government and to protest peacefully," and that they should not be arrested for doing so.
"Not everyone agrees with me on this," Obama said, "but I believe those human rights are universal. I believe they are the rights of the American people, the Cuban people and people around the world."
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I thought he said castro fought for the same things we did during the revolution.
and some other nonsense.
CNN left that out.
that’s why there will likely be a volatile revolution, because the alphabets and CNN are like four Pravdas working day and night.
Hey, Cuba! You can keep B-HO. (Just return our plane.)
Wonder what he means... change as in get more socialist again?
But but wait.....I thought communism was uplifting. Creating great sameness utopia with opportunity for all. Little Cuomo says that Cuba has got it right. We are the ones with the oppressive Republic.
Since he lies as easily as the devil himself, who knows what he means?
I’ve lost count of the lies and deception these terrible 7 years and 2 months.
And it fits.
Cuba libre...indeed!
This is the same ESPN that has swooped in to silence it's announcers for dissent from liberal bias at the network.
I want change (shutdown of Marxist-socialist operatives here) and freedom (from IRS, EPA, DOE, NEA, NAFTA, TPP, UN), too!
Islam, Communism and globalist elitism. The Evil Triad. Everyone is treated equally because everyone is a slave.
I say lift the embargo so Castro and his useful idiots can no longer hide behind it.
OBAMA EXTREME SARCASM
Obama Atones for America’s Sins in Cuba
Frontpagemagazine ^ | March 23, 2016 | Paul Kengor
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3412603/posts
.... Palm Sunday 2016, Barack Hussein Obama, political redeemer of the secular left, arrived in communist Cuba aboard Air Force One. It is an island once rich in the faith, only to be annihilated by Fidel and Raul Castro and their war on religion.
“Heaven… right here in front of me,” was how Thomas Merton, the atheist-communist who became a devout Catholic monk, once described pre-Castro’s Cuba. “Every morning… I could find my way quickly to any one of a dozen churches as old as the seventeenth century. Almost as soon as I went in the door I could receive Communion, if I wished… and every fifteen or twenty minutes a new Mass was starting at a different altar…. Everywhere I turned, there was someone ready to feed me with the infinite strength of the Christ Who loved me.”
That was the wondrous, pious Cuba the Castro brothers destroyed. And it is the Castro boys that Barack Obama, product of a pro-communist/pro-Castro mother and father and a literal Communist Party USA mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, is eager to embrace — and to forgive. Really, I’m sure that in his heart of hearts, Barack agrees with the Castros that America is the side that needs to be forgiven. America is the aggressor, the sinner that stands in need of reparation.
That being the case, I’m equally sure that Obama felt no shame when Raul Castro snubbed him by not showing up to greet him when his plane landed — literally as 50 Cuban dissidents were arrested by the totalitarian state’s police goons. It was a humiliation, a disgrace, but a humiliation and disgrace that Obama, America’s president of fundamental transformation, no doubt felt was deserved.
One modern Pharisee who rebuked Obama for this embarrassment is Donald Trump. Mercifully taking a break from torching Republicans as liars, losers, idiots, morons, and chokers, and from encouraging his own disciples to “knock the hell” and “knock the crap out” of dissenters at his rallies, Trump justly slammed Obama for the Castro slight.
“Wow, President Obama just landed in Cuba, a big deal, and Raul Castro wasn’t even there to greet him,” Trump tweeted shortly before Obama blithely strolled inside the glorious Havana cathedral that the Castros have controlled for over half a century. “He [Raul] greeted Pope and others. No respect.”
It was the best Tweet from the Tweet-master/insult-master in months. No one can sling it like Donald Trump. And he wasn’t finished.
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