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Obama shakes hands with Cuba's Castro in 'gesture of hope'

The right hates everything .. where's the news?

Ahhh... perfectly worded from one of the few admitted Socialists here.

You can't figure out the news? Really? Has it flown over your head? Or are you being coy?

And yes... we on the Right hate Liberty, Equality under the Law, Limited Government, a Strong Military, Secure Borders and Low Taxation. All terrible, terrible things to defend.



Hopefully, Obama will get something right and open the door to Cuba.
Well, at least deep down you admit Obama has gotten very little right. Freudian slip of the keyboard?

As for those political prisoners in Cuba (which is just about the entire nation)... Obama just socked one in their guts.
Too bad Chavez wasn't around so they could take a Three Socialist Stooges Selfie.
 
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As for those political prisoners in Cuba (which is just about the entire nation)... Obama just socked one in their guts.

Okay.

Time for the Republican Stooge litmus test.

Political prisoners indeed.

Now what about Chinese political prisoners?

Here's some of your favorite presidents as you so eloquently put it "socking political prisoners in their guts".

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Handshake and a hand on the arm.

Woah!

Oh we could stop there Zimmer with all the unsavory characters presidents have shook hands with.

Perhaps we'll stop with this one:

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So Zimmer.

There's an easy way out of this.

Admit that this is trivial garbage since every president in the history of the United States has shook the hands of dictators.

Or continue to call out Obama, ignoring the past and really showing that you're nothing more than a hypocrite and a Republican Stooge.
 
Obama was taking selfies and grinning like the Cheshire cat at this so called memorial so I don't think he was real interested in proper protocol. Obama was just being Obama.

So was Ted Cruz, what is your point? This is some really trivial bull**** people.

EDIT: My mistake, Cruz walked out, he didn't take a selfie. I still think its trivial Bull****, like complaining about Bush walking on the wrong side of the stage or bumping his head on AF1.
 
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This thread would be laugh-out-loud funny if it weren't so danged pathetic. I'm no Obama fan, but good lord, criticizing a guy for bending to shake the hand of a guy 8 inches shorter than you is ridiculous. If folks watch the short clip from which this still was snapped, it would be obvious that there is music and singing blaring in the background, and after Obama mounts the steps he shakes everyone's hand and appears to issue a short greeting close to their ears, because of the noise I presume. It's hardly his fault that everyone on the stage was shorter than he was, so to make his greeting effective he had to bend closer to them. Sheeesh.

I'm sure glad that DP posters don't bother wasting time with petty nothings! :lol:



Same old line with you, "I'm no Obama fan BUT" and then you defend him.:lol: What was Obama hoping to hear from this little dictator anyway? " Hey Obama I have decided to release all political prisoners and the innocent American I am holding in my filthy prison, remember him? The guy you never ask about"?
 
I agree, much ado about nothing. I do wonder how Cuban TV will play this up and what the announcer will say about the hand shake.

What you miss is that Castro will use this pic of Obama being friendly and subservient to show the people of Cuba how powerful and respected he is in the world. Obama gave him the photo op of a life time.
 
We stayed in casas particulare and ate at paladars, in private homes with ordinary people. We were on a deck in Havana finishing a bottle of wine with a young guy, an architect, who was working on the renovation of a building in the old city. He was very vocal, about 20 feet from a busy sidewalk, about how Fidel needed to step aside or die or whatever so the country could move on. It was different in the smaller towns, though. We spent time in Villa Clara, Trinidad and Cienfuegos and the people there still revere Fidel and the revolution. Especially women, older women, and especially black people who can remember the bad old days. We saw several people put their hands over their hearts when they said, "Che".
There's no dire poverty, no lack of medical care or education, no street prostitution or begging or punk crime. We'd be driving through back-road farm country and go past a farmhouse with a big red cross painted on it- that's a clinic, where a doctor lives. The country is unique in Latin America. I know about the human rights abuses but suspect it's played out of proportion for political reasons.

Did you visit the prisons where anyone who stands up to Castro or communism rot in deplorable conditions? Hope you enjoyed your vacation.:roll:
 
If you shake their hand and want to hear what they say in a very crowded room I'd bet you'd bow to listen.

I repeat, why did Obama care what this little thug had to say? You glare at him like I don't give a crap what you are saying you worthless little punk then you drop his hand like a hot potato and move on.
 
Yes, disaffected college students and hipsters are truly representative of "The left."

The asinine things some of you guys actually think regular, run-of-the-mill liberals believe is staggering. It's like you live on another planet.

And they got Obama elected twice.
 
What you miss is that Castro will use this pic of Obama being friendly and subservient to show the people of Cuba how powerful and respected he is in the world. Obama gave him the photo op of a life time.

Do you know how people in Saudi Arabia are treated? I don't recall anyone on the right complaining about Bush showing friendliness to a dictator by holding hands with him.

Look, if you want to hold the stance that U.S. leaders should not be friendly to dictators, fine. But for crying out loud at least be consistant about it.
 
What you miss is that Castro will use this pic of Obama being friendly and subservient to show the people of Cuba how powerful and respected he is in the world. Obama gave him the photo op of a life time.

Oh for crying out loud. What do you really think if your man Romney had won and was in that situation? Would he have given him that secret Mormon handshake or would he have looked really mean at him and curled his upper lip?

It was a frickin handshake. It wasn't like he was shaking Castro's penis. You people need to get off the computer and actually go outside to get some fresh air.
 
What you miss is that Castro will use this pic of Obama being friendly and subservient to show the people of Cuba how powerful and respected he is in the world. Obama gave him the photo op of a life time.

Possible, probably good PR back home for Castro. But over all I see this as no big deal. I watched a bunch of interviews being conducted in Miami of the Cuban population there yesterday. It seems the only ones peeved at the hand shake is the old farts who were born in Cuba, the younger ones viewed with a shrug. No big deal to them. It isn't to me either.
 
Do you know how people in Saudi Arabia are treated? I don't recall anyone on the right complaining about Bush showing friendliness to a dictator by holding hands with him.

Look, if you want to hold the stance that U.S. leaders should not be friendly to dictators, fine. But for crying out loud at least be consistant about it.

Start a thread about that if you want but this one is about Obama. Deflection will not work with me.
 
Start a thread about that if you want but this one is about Obama. Deflection will not work with me.

Translation: "I'm not consistent."

Your concession noted and your faux outrage dismissed.
 
Possible, probably good PR back home for Castro. But over all I see this as no big deal. I watched a bunch of interviews being conducted in Miami of the Cuban population there yesterday. It seems the only ones peeved at the hand shake is the old farts who were born in Cuba, the younger ones viewed with a shrug. No big deal to them. It isn't to me either.

The younger Cubans are like all young Americans, they did not live through the cold war era and have no real grasp of who and what the Castro's are.
 
Translation, you and others want to change the subject.

Nope not changing the subject, making a comparison. Don't like it, go pound sand son.

You just don't like your faux outrage exposed for all to see.
 
Start a thread about that if you want but this one is about Obama. Deflection will not work with me.

No, this is another nonsense thread, once again showing the hypocrisy of the partisan. You do that well. But let's not pretend there is anything more here.
 
Nope not changing the subject, making a comparison. Don't like it, go pound sand son.

You just don't like your faux outrage exposed for all to see.

It is a common practice with you libs to try and derail a thread that makes you uncomfortable. This thread is about Obama and Castro and watching you desperately try to change the subject speaks for itself..
 
It is a common practice with you libs to try and derail a thread that makes you uncomfortable. This thread is about Obama and Castro and watching you desperately try to change the subject speaks for itself..

I love when you get upset at your faux outrage exposed.

Especially when you try to use a lib label on me. It makes you look even that much more ignorant. :lamo

Yep, I'm a lib alright, didn't vote for Obama, don't agree with his policies both foreign and domestic, yet I'm a lib. :lamo

Your ignorance makes the day much better, thank you!
 
The younger Cubans are like all young Americans, they did not live through the cold war era and have no real grasp of who and what the Castro's are.

That's true, but it is probably time to move on. If we can become pretty good friends with Vietnam it maybe time to try with Cuba.
 
It is a common practice with you libs to try and derail a thread that makes you uncomfortable. This thread is about Obama and Castro and watching you desperately try to change the subject speaks for itself..

They shook hands and a grand plot was uncovered!
 
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