“President Obama should disavow the endorsement of the daughter of Cuban dictator Raul Castro. It is galling that an envoy from a Communist regime would come to our country and lecture the American people on who to vote for while the regime refuses to hold free and fair elections and systematically violates the human rights of its people. The decision by the Obama Administration to welcome Mariela Castro to our shores—a decision that has received rightful criticism from both Republicans and Democrats—continues to be an egregious affront to the people of Cuba and those who love freedom everywhere.”This from a guy who happily accepted an endorsement from a slug who likes to threaten violence on the President of the United States and other Americans.
Doesn't he realize that there is absolutely no need to kiss the asses of the Republican Party's most predictable block of voters? They vote "R" no matter who it is.
*cough*David Rivera*cough*
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envoy from a Communist regime would come to our country and lecture the American people
freedom of speech unless it goes against what you believe??
He is not only ignorant he is trying to kiss a-- in the Cuban community because Mariela Castro visited the U.S. three(3)times during George W.'s presidency. Where were these people at the time?
Not a free speech issue, Eddie. Wrong tree to bark up.
His remarks taken in isolation, I agree with Romney on this, although his and his party's silence during previous visits from this member of the Castro family reveal that his condemnation this time is purely political.
BHO could use this to political advantage as well, placing human rights above politics, and reiterating Americans' demand to release Alan Gross and Castro's political prisoners. That would require statesmanship, though, and this administration's preferred approach seems to be drones.
pishposh squathole and your sly sarcasm re BHO and statesmanship! Perhaps it is because true statesmanship went MIA during the Bush years,you now fail to recognize it when it's real. And just maybe, maybe there is more behind Alan Gross being in jail in Cuba than meets the prejudiced American eye...
MiaExile: You're quite right: I fail to recognize how providing a privileged Castro despot a platform to lecture about freedom and liberty for Cubans and American counts as statesmanship. And you're also right about there being "more than meets the eye" in the Gross incident, because there always is. But that's not my point.
The point is, not only has this become another lost opportunity to make a statement or initiate action for human rights, it's devolved into political grandstanding. Great system: everybody loses.
"Politics" is about all Cuba is about these days thanks to a small group of Cuban-American extremists in Miami-Dade County and their reps in Congress. Indeed, everyone exploits the Cuban population and their struggle for their own selfish political desires and could care less about "libertad."
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