So does anyone think anything tangible will come of this? The news was showing a lot of Cubans saying positive things though it seems they were more excited about the free Rolling Stones concert. An interesting side note was all the beautiful young women saying they wanted to marry an American so they can get off of the island. American tourists are going to have to beat off the ladies with a stick.
There's this, and also a major league baseball team (if you can call the Rays that) will be playing an exhibition game in Havana. When can I buy a Cuban at my local tobacco shop? That's when we will truly have a successful policy. In the mean time, this kind of outreach is a step in the right direction.
Not until Congress votes to end the embargo which is something Republicans have vowed never to do because... Obama.
Obama is reaching out to Cuba - so what? Nixon reached out to China back in the day - so what? So listen - China supplies Walmart with....everything that Jimmy Bob needs to get his fishing equipment at a discount price. My point? It's all about the green, folks. Obama gets Cuba to open up and everyone benefits. That's his job when you get right down to it. I find zero fault with Obama connecting with Cuba.
If not for the cluster fuck that this election has turned into, I imagine the GOP would've been having more fits over this and saying this is more proof that Obama is a pinko commie.
Actually the House and Senate are behind closed doors trying to cut off air transport to Cuba so Obama will have to build a raft out of some barrels and an old Chevy to get back.
Actually this would be proof he is an anti-commie pinko since he is trying to phase out communism via trading with them and starting an economic/political dialouge.
That's a clear and level headed analysis. In short, it has nothing in common with the inner workings of the Republican party.
Has the Republican party addressed this? Unless they can bring something to the table to make it better (or a better idea entirely) or prove why it's a bad idea, they should work on their own problems.
Hello, Obamacare here - could you ask them to follow the same logic before trying to repeal me? Kthnxbai.
Seems from my reading that Cuba is opening up for business. There are an enormous number of businesspeople on the visiting delegation.
The prison country seized decades ago by armed militarists? Yeah, I heard they opened the gates of Cuba Prison. E.g. "Cubans make an average of $18 a month, and a passport will cost the average Cuban five months' salary." Except some people still can't leave or they will be murdered: 'those deemed necessary to the Cuba socialist revolution — professionals such as doctors, scientists and engineers — can be prevented from departing.' But I read they use a very broad meaning of "deemed necessary" (e.g. a blogger of all things) couldn't leave either. Yoani Sanchez is a well-known Cuban blogger who has been denied an exit visa 19 times (thanks to the "national security" clause). I understand that doctors must be kept in the country at gunpoint -country would be fucked if they allowed such people that wanted to leave to sell out to capitalistsas. Obama and Castro are two of a kind: hope and change (but not really, just for the gullible suckas who drink propaganda). Good stuff, good stuff.
At $18 per month average income, sex tourism is going to inject a ton of money into the economy. The next Thailand?
If there was a drinking game where you took a shot every time the media used the word "historic" when talking about Obama and Cuba...you'd be dead in three minutes.
Those days are pretty much gone - along with the Panamanians. They used to call them "little brown fuck machines". I don't know what the Philipinas were called.
In 1962, So Korea had GDP per capita of around $103.88. Cuba's lefties took power of a future communist paradise a few years earlier in '59. Today So Korea's GDP per capita is $35,485 (PPP, 2014 est.). A fuckin crime that Castro's bro committed one of the great atrocities of the 20th century via benign neglect, just 90 miles off America's coast. Liberals are the biggest hypocrites on the planet.
You're going to have to flesh that out a bit more. I'm no fan of the Castro brothers, quite the opposite. I look forward to bringing Cuba back in to the US sphere, where prosperity through commerce with us will undo in a decade the harm wrought over the past 60 years.
Is it wrong that the first thing I thought when Obama went to Cuba was the possibility of an alien in the new Star Trek series having a proverb "Only Obama can go to Cuba"?
