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Sources: Obama to visit Cuba next month

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Washington (CNN)President Barack Obama will visit Cuba next month, multiple U.S. and diplomatic sources told CNN on Wednesday.The White House is expected to announce the trip Thursday. One U.S. source described the anticipated visit as short.
The trip, long expected, comes after Obama's administration formally reopened ties with Havana in late 2014, following a half-century of enmity.

The visit was first reported by ABC News.
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Another big step in the right direction! :applaud:applaudA great time overdue for a US president to visit the island nation.
 
Sounds cool.

The security is gonna be one hell of a feat though.
 
It's about time an American president had the balls to go and visit Cuba, and start the process of normalizing relations with them. Obama is a good candidate, as he's been called a Communist so many times by the right wingers that it no longer matters that they do so yet again.
 
lb_on_teh_cb said:
so you can be flooded by more illegal aliens?
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A step in the right direction because countries work best in the world political sphere when they have open diplomatic channels.
 
Awesome. I'm going next year. Hope to get down island a lot of details to work out.
 
TheDemSocialist said:
Read more @: Sources: Obama to visit Cuba next month

Another big step in the right direction! :applaud:applaudA great time overdue for a US president to visit the island nation. [/FONT][/COLOR]
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I think resuming relations was somewhat substantial, but not a huge deal in the scheme of things. I'm glad it happened, though.

I don't see this visit as much news, really. It will be huge in the media I suspect, and interesting. But it doesn't strike me as anything groundbreaking.

The Berlin Wall coming down was big deal, and I stayed-up all night watching it.

But this doesn't do much for me.

But I do want to go there soon! :thumbs:
 
Chomsky said:
I think resuming relations was somewhat substantial, but not a huge deal in the scheme of things. I'm glad it happened, though.

I don't see this visit as much news, really. It will be huge in the media I suspect, and interesting. But it doesn't strike me as anything groundbreaking.

The Berlin Wall coming down was big deal, and I stayed-up all night watching it.

But this doesn't do much for me.

But I do want to go there soon! :thumbs:
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Nothing standing in your way right now.
 
Dittohead not! said:
It's about time an American president had the balls to go and visit Cuba, and start the process of normalizing relations with them. Obama is a good candidate, as he's been called a Communist so many times by the right wingers that it no longer matters that they do so yet again.
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The time to normalize relations is when the Castro brothers are dead. If Obama shakes the hands of these brother tyrants, it will indeed be a sad day in American history.

I feel bad for the millions of Cubans whose family members were killed by the Castro regime. It will truly be a sickening moment in history watching an American President shaking the hands with a cold-blooded killer that nearly led us to the brink of World War 3.
 
Chomsky said:
I think resuming relations was somewhat substantial, but not a huge deal in the scheme of things. I'm glad it happened, though.

I don't see this visit as much news, really. It will be huge in the media I suspect, and interesting. But it doesn't strike me as anything groundbreaking.

The Berlin Wall coming down was big deal, and I stayed-up all night watching it.

But this doesn't do much for me.

But I do want to go there soon! :thumbs:
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It also just got a hell lot easier there as well: http://www.debatepolitics.com/latin...et-much-much-cheapertravel-cuba-get-much.html

But as do I. Im actually underway putting together the prices and doing research in going there sometime latter this year.
 
lb_on_teh_cb said:
hmm, if you say so but whats that got to do with illegal aliens?
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Not much of anything. Nor does his visit. If you're vague statement has to deal with the 'wet foot dry foot policy' and the 'Cuban Adjustment Act', that is going to take congressional action.
 
TheDemSocialist said:
It also just got a hell lot easier there as well: http://www.debatepolitics.com/latin...et-much-much-cheapertravel-cuba-get-much.html

But as do I. Im actually underway putting together the prices and doing research in going there sometime latter this year.
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I remember from the other thread.

Lucky you!

I say you're doing the right thing by going before the place gets too overladen with American tourists and American corporations!

It's going to be an amazing experience I bet.
 
TheDemSocialist said:
Read more @: Sources: Obama to visit Cuba next month

Another big step in the right direction! :applaud:applaudA great time overdue for a US president to visit the island nation. [/FONT][/COLOR]
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Finally!

The United States began trading with Vietnam within weeks of the Communist take over. Cuba is a tiny little island country, if you were to go there you would find it absurd and ridiculous this little, near backward country has so terrified America.

In the meantime, the US has had no trouble dealing with a variety of tyrants, when it suited them
 
Chomsky said:
I think resuming relations was somewhat substantial, but not a huge deal in the scheme of things. I'm glad it happened, though.

I don't see this visit as much news, really. It will be huge in the media I suspect, and interesting. But it doesn't strike me as anything groundbreaking.

The Berlin Wall coming down was big deal, and I stayed-up all night watching it.

But this doesn't do much for me.

But I do want to go there soon! :thumbs:
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Nixon going to China, the Berlin Wall crumbling were historic moments, this is nowhere near Nixon going to China, but long overdue.

We had a good laugh in 1986, when the Cuban pavilion at Expo was within eyesight of the US Pavilion and they made a stink about it.
 
Fearandloathing said:
Nixon going to China, the Berlin Wall crumbling were historic moments, this is nowhere near Nixon going to China, but long overdue.

We had a good laugh in 1986, when the Cuban pavilion at Expo was within eyesight of the US Pavilion and they made a stink about it.
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Yeah, it's a good thing and I'm happy it happened.

But I'm more excited for an opportunity to visit, than it's geopolitical import.
 
Bucky said:
The time to normalize relations is when the Castro brothers are dead. If Obama shakes the hands of these brother tyrants, it will indeed be a sad day in American history.

I feel bad for the millions of Cubans whose family members were killed by the Castro regime. It will truly be a sickening moment in history watching an American President shaking the hands with a cold-blooded killer that nearly led us to the brink of World War 3.
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Looking forward to it...
 
man, bloody dictators around the world will WEEP when Obama leaves office. They will never have another American president so willing to comply to their demands. I almost feel sorry for them. If they weren't monster dictators, that is.

go obama.....just go.
 
Bucky said:
The time to normalize relations is when the Castro brothers are dead. If Obama shakes the hands of these brother tyrants, it will indeed be a sad day in American history.

I feel bad for the millions of Cubans whose family members were killed by the Castro regime. It will truly be a sickening moment in history watching an American President shaking the hands with a cold-blooded killer that nearly led us to the brink of World War 3.
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Do you consider these sad days for America as well?

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JoeTrumps said:
man, bloody dictators around the world will WEEP when Obama leaves office. They will never have another American president so willing to comply to their demands. I almost feel sorry for them. If they weren't monster dictators, that is.

go obama.....just go.
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Oh PALEASE.

Your righteous indignation would be alot more interesting to the rest of us if it weren't quite so covered in crap.

America has dealt with dictators and despots wherever and whenever it has suited them to do so.

So to say this is some kind of moral stand over dictators and humanity is a JOKE.
 
JoeTrumps said:
man, bloody dictators around the world will WEEP when Obama leaves office. They will never have another American president so willing to comply to their demands. I almost feel sorry for them. If they weren't monster dictators, that is.

go obama.....just go.
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Lol.
 
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