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

First of all what is this "gesture of hope" BS? I didn't know whether to put this in media bias or here. I have no problem with him giving the guy a formal handshake in a situation like this but he seems like he is really infatuated with the guy and it looks to me like he is bowing again. Why is he so warm and subservient to this commie thug.



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This is a shining example of why the hubris of the republicans fails on all levels... especially with foreign policy.
 
Your right of course and this criticism is foolishness. There are plenty of legitimate criticisms of Obama that have far more bearing on our daily lives, and they get less attention.

Eggzactly!
 
I contend that prosperity brings freedom. I remember the USSR and how when we gave in and sent them food, the beginning of the end of Strict Communism was not too far behind.

Yes, lets lay on their beaches, just as we do the rest of the Caribbean and poison their minds with our wealth and our liberties (we still have some) and I believe we'll see real change forced upon the dictators.

The ghost of Meyer Lansky would approve.
I think you have it backwards. Freedom brings prosperity. People work hardest when its for themselves and top down govt rarely knows best.
 
Oh yeah! The Castro regime is made up of racists and homophobes.

Che Guevarra-hero of the American left:

“The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have maintained their racial purity thanks to their lack of an affinity with bathing, have seen their territory invaded by a new kind of slave: the Portuguese.”

“The black is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work and saving, which has pursued him as far as this corner of America and drives him to advance himself, even independently of his own individual aspirations.”

"We're going to do for blacks exactly what blacks did for the revolution. By which I mean: nothing."

"The Negro is indolent and lazy, and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent."

"Mexicans are a band of illiterate Indians."

“Blind hate against the enemy creates a forceful impulse that cracks the boundaries of natural human limitations, transforming the soldier in an effective, selective and cold killing machine. A people without hate cannot triumph against the adversary.”

“A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the The Wall!” (The Wall is a reference to the wall where Che’s enemies stood before his firing squads.)

“What we affirm is that we must proceed along the path of liberation even if this costs millions of atomic victims.”

“If any person has a good word for the previous government that is good enough for me to have him shot.”
- Che Guevara

Its easy to see why he's a hero of the left- :roll:

But in the end he's just another socialist/communist totalitarian murdering thug-that is loved by the left, like the other socialist/communist totalitarian murdering thugs Stalin, Lenin, Mao-you know-that the left loves.
 
Che Guevarra-hero of the American left:

Its easy to see why he's a hero of the left- :roll:

But in the end he's just another socialist/communist totalitarian murdering thug-that is loved by the left, like the other socialist/communist totalitarian murdering thugs Stalin, Lenin, Mao-you know-that the left loves.

Che Guevara is not a "hero of the American left," unless you consider dip**** hipsters in coffee shops to be the "American left."

Some of the strawmen conservatives build so they can bash liberals are hilariously stupid.
 
Wow... This is one of the most pathetic threads I've ever read.

For people who say liberals are the bleeding hearts, since Obama was elected, many on the right show us every days ugh threads like this who the real "bleeding hearts" are.

There is nothing so trivial, that they cannot get outraged over.


The "leader" of the free world just shook hands with a murdering, totalitarian dictator.

Trivial. :roll:
 
There's no dire poverty, no lack of medical care or education, no street prostitution or begging or punk crime.

You mean you didn't see these problems, hanging out with Canadians and Euro's.

You are nuts if you dont think its going on, you got the Michael Moore show. Congrats.
 
You mean you didn't see these problems, hanging out with Canadians and Euro's.

You are nuts if you dont think its going on, you got the Michael Moore show. Congrats.

Doesn't pay, with some people, does it.
 
Che Guevara is not a "hero of the American left," unless you consider dip**** hipsters in coffee shops to be the "American left." Some of the strawmen conservatives build so they can bash liberals are hilariously stupid.
Someone is buying all that Che memorabilia and it certainly isn't the middle or the right.

Its ignorant leftists all the way.
 
Someone is buying all that Che memorabilia and it certainly isn't the middle or the right.

Its ignorant leftists all the way.

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.
 
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.
Nowhere did I say they were "representative" of the left.. I said they were "ignorant leftists".

Do you agree with me?
 
Every president in the history of the Republic has done this.

To believe otherwise is pure ignorance.

They usually do so for a reason, when these dictators can be used in the best interests of the US. What was the excuse for this?
 
They usually do so for a reason, when these dictators can be used in the best interests of the US. What was the excuse for this?

If you have to ask then you don't know do you? So why are you chastising the move when you don't know it's intent?
 
They usually do so for a reason, when these dictators can be used in the best interests of the US. What was the excuse for this?

Maybe he thinks Castro can be used in the best interests of the US. Wow, that wasn't really a hard question at all.
 
Tell me about it. The last five years has been Perpetual Outrage Syndrome from the right. Obama can't fart without these guys going bonkers.


Nothing different than what we saw from the flocks of Sheeple suffering from stage Three Bush Derangement Syndrome.
 
They usually do so for a reason, when these dictators can be used in the best interests of the US. What was the excuse for this?

Ah so the principle of the matter really isn't an issue than.

But Hey, as long as your conservative American masters tell you to be outraged, you'll be outraged til the cows come home.
 
They usually do so for a reason, when these dictators can be used in the best interests of the US. What was the excuse for this?

Yeah he sould have shunned him and imposed more sanctions because that always works!
 
Nothing different than what we saw from the flocks of Sheeple suffering from stage Three Bush Derangement Syndrome.

That's absolutely true. What does that tell us? Partisans are mentally damaged.
 
So you are saying it's kinda like the 8 years of bush?

Actually, it's much worse than it was under Bush, which makes sense, because Obama is an even worse president.
 
Of course I was asking you to see if you know but I guess we all have to guess, but yes, i'd diss the move unless it was for a helluva a good reason.. He probably has always admired Fidel Castro but may not have shared Fidel's "obsession".

WikiLeaks cables detail Fidel Castro's doomed love for Obama | World news | The Guardian

He shook hands with Raul Castro. Not Fidel. So if you're going to criticize from the outset, at least know the topic and know the participants of the topic. That helps.
 
Yeah he sould have shunned him and imposed more sanctions because that always works!

It seemed to help with South Africa. Of course all other countries of the world are free to trade with Cuba but it seems they have little to trade with, except the sex trade. Fidel Castro is the world's biggest pimp.
 
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