Posted by Tina
President Obama and his family were greeted by rain, rather than Raul Castro when they landed in Cuba yesterday. Nevertheless the President got his photo op today in a lavish formal ceremony that included a formal picture in front of a giant rendering of Che Guevera. Obama informed the press that his visit was a sign that change is coming. As Obama smiled and pressed the flesh of the elites in the Cuban government at least 50 protesters demonstrating against Cuba’s poor human rights record were arrested in Havana. Arrests included the leader of democracy campaign group who was arrested in a Castro regime crackdown. Obama is scheduled to speak to the Cuban people and will include a message encouraging human rights. Josh Earnest:
And while he’s in town the president will ‘visit with people who have previously been victimized by the government, and encourage them to continue to fight for the kinds of universal human rights that we deeply cherish in this country’.
‘That is effective advocacy for American values,’ Earnest added. ‘That is effective advocacy for the kinds of principles that we cherish in this country and in our government. And it is, by the way, an approach that is strongly supported by the vast majority of the Cuban people.’
I don’t know how effective it will be but it’s better than saying nothing. The thing that falls short for me is that the President doesn’t share the values underpinning individual freedom but instead supports the more oppressive designs of a powerful central government. In many ways his policy is to move America toward the Cuban model while trying to convince the Castros to stop jailing people for speech…big freakin’ whoop!
JUST REPORTED: Raul wants more of the embargoes lifted and he wants Guatanamo back. Watch for concessions from America without changes demanded of the Cuban government.
(Photo by Getty Images)
You failed to see who went with him?
Whether Republican or Democrat Our government is always selling corporations. Our secretary of States travels around doing deals for corporations. We are no more than a taxpayer funded fascist corporate state.
Let our gov separate from corporate affairs and take care of it’s people.
Let’s hope some good comes from this. I fear we will yet make another business deal with a authoritarian state.
I as of now support a relationship with Cuba. I just fear what they really want from Cuba.
There was an edited version of the above photo circulating on Twitter yesterday. Seems someone added the letters DOU, just to the left of the large drawing on the building, and added BAG and an arrow pointing at da prez over his left shoulder.
One pix can be worth 1000 words!
From else where on the web—
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BUT then the utterly grotesque: Obama posing in Cuba for a photo-op, purposely arranged in front of the 6- or 7-story tall Che Guava frieze, and standing at attention.
What a disgusting louse, with the Mussolini chin-up pose yet again, celebrating an evil they refuse to name, because Che was basically Castro’s own Heinrich Himmler, the architect and executioner for Latin American Communism and Warden of the first Latin American Gulag.
Somebody tell me again how National Socialism & Socialism are so different.
Finally we’re subjected to a “teachable moment” lecture on American “shortcomings,” while a notorious Communist racist-murderer-executioner & homophobic-killer (and Che was a homophobe not just in the “I don’t want to cater a gay wedding” sense, but in the “put a bullet in that queer’s brain” sense) — not only get’s off scot-free, but is Celebrated by an American President??
Appalling hardly begins to measure the revolting nausea I feel.
Link—
https://notclauswitz.wordpress.com/2016/03/21/gray/
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Yeah, pretty much.
My thoughts exactly.
In case we have US college educated folk in our readership who would like to know the actual record of the monster Che, now branded as a hero, some casual reading:
FrontPage Magazine:
TownHall:
<a href="http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blog/michael-j-totten/truth-about-che-guevara".World Affairs Journal:
The love for Che among the college educated points to the failure of our schools to educate and inform as well as the fundamental transformation of the educational system to a laboratory in agitation and revolutionary thinking…disgusting!
Good news – bad news. The president goes to Cuba, that’s the good news. The bad news is he’s coming back.
A Pie Guevara moment.
Those implying that the photo of Obama in Cuba suggests he admires Che Guevara might want to explain whether they also think that:
a) Reagan giving a speech at Moscow State University in front of a statue of Lenin indicates he admires Lenin
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b) George W. Bush posing for a picture in front of a statue of Ho Chi Minh indicates he is an admirer of Ho Chi Minh
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c) George Bush, Sr. posing in front of a photograph of Mao Tse-tung indicates that he is an admirer of Mau Tse-tung
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And if not, perhaps they can explain what the difference is.
Chris asks: “…want to explain whether they also think that:
a) Reagan giving a speech at Moscow State University in front of a statue of Lenin indicates he admires Lenin”
Tell you what, as soon as you see right wingers wearing Lenin T-Shirts and making pilgrimages to his grave let me know. Ditto “b” and “c.”
When did Obama ever wear a Che Guevara T-shirt or make a pilgrimage to his grave? Your response makes no sense. Are you really saying that the only thing wrong with the Obama picture is that he’s a left-winger, and that right-wingers doing the exact same thing isn’t wrong?
You could have just said that.
My response makes perfect sense. Che Guevara has been made a hero of the far left for decades. Che t-shirts and Che posters are everywhere, including in ACORN offices and campaign offices. Connect the dots. Take these for what you will:
Barack Obama and Che Guevara…stay tuned for the following video, “The Truth About Che Guevara”
Yes, and liberals who admire Che Guevara are stupid, and deserve to be criticized as such.
That has nothing to do with Obama standing in front of a picture of Che Guevara on a photo op in Cuba, which is not enough to tell us if Obama is an admirer of Che. There is no evidence that Obama is an admirer of Che. That photo is not evidence, Obama being a leftist is not evidence, and putting both of those facts together still is not evidence. You’re connecting dots that don’t logically connect, and once again using some pretty tenuous guilt by association.