The President went to Cuba last week, which I’ll admit was a historic event. I think he was the first president there since Teddy Roosevelt rode up San Juan Hill in his pre-president days. But Obama went there for quite different reasons than Teddy. Roosevelt was there to free the Cubans from the jackbooted thug Spaniards. Obama went there to cozy up to the latest wearers of jackboots on the island.<\/p>\n
From Reuters<\/a>;<\/p>\n Obama’s visit was aimed at consolidating a detente between the once intractable Cold War enemies and the U.S. president said in a speech to the Cuban people that it was time for both nations to put the past behind them and face the future “as friends and as neighbors and as family, together.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n As is always the case with this administration, the visit has only provoked Fidel Castro;<\/p>\n “We don’t need the empire to give us anything,” he wrote. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n Well, they don’t want anything but the reparations they say we owe them. From the Christian Science Monitor<\/a> last year;<\/p>\n Castro said United States payment of hundreds of millions of dollars in economic reparations for damages caused by the five-decade-old embargo, and indeed a lifting of the embargo Cuba considers a \u201cblockade,\u201d would also have to take place before the two adversaries can renew relations that were severed soon after the Cuban revolution of 1959.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I guess hundreds of millions of dollars is “nothing”. Cuba has been free to trade with every country in the world, except the United States, and they blame their economic dysfunction on one country out of the 160 on the planet. And then they insult us – because they know that nothing can disrupt this administration’s plans to hand over that hundreds of millions of dollars to feather the president’s legacy nest.<\/p>\n Can you imagine this administration placing demands on the communist Cuban government, demands like handing over the convicted cop-killer JoAnne Chesimard<\/a> before we resume relations?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"