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Obama Apologizes to Castro

Obama Apologizes to Castro
Cuban communist leader lectures Obama for 30 minutes.

Barack Obama apologized to Cuban president Raul Castro during their phone conversation after the American commander in chief's opening remarks. Speaking to reporters at his final White House press briefing of 2014 Friday afternoon, Obama gave more details about his phone call with the communist leader of Cuba earlier this week before the announcement of a change in U.S. policy on the Caribbean island nation.

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Obama began the phone call with Castro with what he described as 15 minutes of opening comments. It was the first conversation between the heads of state in both countries since 1961. "I apologized for taking such a long time," Obama said. Castro responded by reminding Obama that the American president was still young enough to beat Castro's brother, former Cuban president and revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, who once gave a 7-hour-long speech.

Obama Apologizes to Castro | The Weekly Standard



OK Barry, you had me applauding you there, especially hearing the interview you did with CBC.,...great idea by the way, CBC is broadcast in Spanish directly into Habana, and is highly rated there.

But this is sucking up.

This is the typical and, I thought for a bit, the "old" you, milking the thing for the cheap points.

Barry, Barry, Barry....can't you for just once, let the yeast rise on the bread before baking it? It was a great idea, whose time had come and was playing with right and left alike, perhaps the ONLY thing you've done that got so much approval home and abroad. A week ago if you'd come here we would have paid you the greatest Canadian insult and ignored you, today I thought you might want to think about running here.

But you blew it, Barry, FFS.....

Stand back now and be a statesman, let Harper and Castro enjoy a bit of the limelight, stop hogging it.

BTW, I will believe your "apology" when you close Gitmo and give the land back to the people to whom it belongs. Carter gave back the Panama Canal going on four decades ago....
 
OK Barry, you had me applauding you there, especially hearing the interview you did with CBC.,...great idea by the way, CBC is broadcast in Spanish directly into Habana, and is highly rated there.

But this is sucking up.

This is the typical and, I thought for a bit, the "old" you, milking the thing for the cheap points.

Barry, Barry, Barry....can't you for just once, let the yeast rise on the bread before baking it? It was a great idea, whose time had come and was playing with right and left alike, perhaps the ONLY thing you've done that got so much approval home and abroad. A week ago if you'd come here we would have paid you the greatest Canadian insult and ignored you, today I thought you might want to think about running here.

But you blew it, Barry, FFS.....

Stand back now and be a statesman, let Harper and Castro enjoy a bit of the limelight, stop hogging it.

BTW, I will believe your "apology" when you close Gitmo and give the land back to the people to whom it belongs. Carter gave back the Panama Canal going on four decades ago....

Did you read the story? This is hardly "hogging the limelight."
 
No need to get all drama llama. Sometime you need correcting, like after the elections last month. :lol:

Reagan Apologized to Thatcher for Grenada Invasion

Charlotte Alter @charlottealter

Nov. 10, 2014
Margaret Thatcher Meets With Ronald Reagan In London In 1978 Margaret Thatcher the Head Of The British Conservative Party meets with President Ronald Reagan at The Chamber Of Communes In London on Nov. 28, 1978. Gamma-Keystone/Getty Images
According to a newly published phone conversation between the leaders


Ronald Reagan apologized to former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for invading Grenada in 1983 without consulting her, according to a newly published conversation between the world leaders.

“I’m sorry for any embarrassment that we caused you,”
Ronald Reagan Apologized to Margaret Thatcher for Grenada Invasion






Why did Reagan apologize to the SS?

The New York Post accused President Obama of implicitly apologizing for the Hiroshima bombing by sending the U.S. ambassador to Japan to an event memorializing the world's first atomic bomb attack. But by this standard, President Ronald Reagan apologized to the SS when he laid a wreath at a cemetery in Bitburg, Germany, where SS members were buried.

The Times reported that, after commemorating the dead at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Reagan visited the Kolmeshohe Cemetery at Bitburg. He also visited a U.S. air base and said: "We who were enemies are now friends. ... We who were bitter adversaries are now the strongest of allies. ... In the place of fear we have sown trust, and out of the ruins of war has blossomed an enduring peace."
Why did Reagan apologize to the SS? | Blog | Media Matters for America


I don't remember Reagan (your avatar) apologizing for signing into law the legalization of abortion in California, resulting in millions of abortions...


Bread and circuses.
 
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Reagan Apologized to Thatcher for Grenada Invasion

Charlotte Alter @charlottealter

Nov. 10, 2014
Margaret Thatcher Meets With Ronald Reagan In London In 1978 Margaret Thatcher the Head Of The British Conservative Party meets with President Ronald Reagan at The Chamber Of Communes In London on Nov. 28, 1978. Gamma-Keystone/Getty Images
According to a newly published phone conversation between the leaders


Ronald Reagan apologized to former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for invading Grenada in 1983 without consulting her, according to a newly published conversation between the world leaders.

“I’m sorry for any embarrassment that we caused you,”
Ronald Reagan Apologized to Margaret Thatcher for Grenada Invasion






Why did Reagan apologize to the SS?

The New York Post accused President Obama of implicitly apologizing for the Hiroshima bombing by sending the U.S. ambassador to Japan to an event memorializing the world's first atomic bomb attack. But by this standard, President Ronald Reagan apologized to the SS when he laid a wreath at a cemetery in Bitburg, Germany, where SS members were buried.

The Times reported that, after commemorating the dead at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Reagan visited the Kolmeshohe Cemetery at Bitburg. He also visited a U.S. air base and said: "We who were enemies are now friends. ... We who were bitter adversaries are now the strongest of allies. ... In the place of fear we have sown trust, and out of the ruins of war has blossomed an enduring peace."
Why did Reagan apologize to the SS? | Blog | Media Matters for America


I don't remember Reagan (your avatar) apologizing for signing into law the legalization of abortion in California, resulting in millions of abortions...


Bread and circuses.


Reagan owned Castro. Not so with Obama.
 
Oh, wait, did I take that out of context?


BTW, Castro outlived Reagan. LOL
 
He outlived a lot of people.

Reagan did nothing to stop, or slow Castro, same same with Ford, Nixon, Johnson, Carter, Bush, Bush, Clinton...
 
Reagan did nothing to stop, or slow Castro, same same with Ford, Nixon, Johnson, Carter, Bush, Bush, Clinton...

I dunno about that ... Castro was effectively neutered in matters not on his own shores.
 
you should see him tap dance

Well, being flashy, grabbing all the attention, bragging and showing off are natural for him. It's all he does.
 
Well, being flashy, grabbing all the attention, bragging and showing off are natural for him. It's all he does.

It is important to be good at what you do.
 
Obama Apologizes to Castro
Cuban communist leader lectures Obama for 30 minutes.

Barack Obama apologized to Cuban president Raul Castro during their phone conversation after the American commander in chief's opening remarks. Speaking to reporters at his final White House press briefing of 2014 Friday afternoon, Obama gave more details about his phone call with the communist leader of Cuba earlier this week before the announcement of a change in U.S. policy on the Caribbean island nation.

440px-Official_portrait_of_Barack_Obama.jpg


Obama began the phone call with Castro with what he described as 15 minutes of opening comments. It was the first conversation between the heads of state in both countries since 1961. "I apologized for taking such a long time," Obama said. Castro responded by reminding Obama that the American president was still young enough to beat Castro's brother, former Cuban president and revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, who once gave a 7-hour-long speech.

Obama Apologizes to Castro | The Weekly Standard

I do not think that an apology is due or helpful to American security.
 
This "story" by the Weekly Substandard should be a case study of how conservative media misleads its devoted followers.
 
This "story" by the Weekly Substandard should be a case study of how conservative media misleads its devoted followers.

And low info voters too.
 
Obama apologized for talking so long--15 minutes--in his opening remarks.
Another deceptive 'OP title' from US Conservative .

Careful, you'll be called an Obama apologist.
 
Obama Apologizes to Castro
Cuban communist leader lectures Obama for 30 minutes.

Barack Obama apologized to Cuban president Raul Castro during their phone conversation after the American commander in chief's opening remarks. Speaking to reporters at his final White House press briefing of 2014 Friday afternoon, Obama gave more details about his phone call with the communist leader of Cuba earlier this week before the announcement of a change in U.S. policy on the Caribbean island nation.

440px-Official_portrait_of_Barack_Obama.jpg


Obama began the phone call with Castro with what he described as 15 minutes of opening comments. It was the first conversation between the heads of state in both countries since 1961. "I apologized for taking such a long time," Obama said. Castro responded by reminding Obama that the American president was still young enough to beat Castro's brother, former Cuban president and revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, who once gave a 7-hour-long speech.

Obama Apologizes to Castro | The Weekly Standard

If Obama and the Cuban leader meet, do you think Obama will bow to kiss his cigars?
 
And low info voters too.

Most "low info" voters don't go to the Weekly Standard, or really any sort of politically based media.

The real "low info" voters are the people who consume NO MEDIA AT ALL. And those voters are endemic among both party bases.

Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, Daily Kos, New Republic, National Review, Wall Street Journal ... at least they're getting SOMETHING. Even if 90% of it is bull.

The true "low info" voters are the people who just show up completely blind. And that's enough of a percentage of both bases that I really think they cancel each other out.

For every "Obamaphone" youtube video, I can find you a conservative asshole in my neighborhood who doesn't know dick and will vote for a Republican just because.
 
Most "low info" voters don't go to the Weekly Standard, or really any sort of politically based media.

The real "low info" voters are the people who consume NO MEDIA AT ALL. And those voters are endemic among both party bases.

Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, Daily Kos, New Republic, National Review, Wall Street Journal ... at least they're getting SOMETHING. Even if 90% of it is bull.

The true "low info" voters are the people who just show up completely blind. And that's enough of a percentage of both bases that I really think they cancel each other out.

For every "Obamaphone" youtube video, I can find you a conservative asshole in my neighborhood who doesn't know dick and will vote for a Republican just because.

But that's your opinion.

I happen to believe the low info voters are tied to one sided media source without looking at what others have to say, you know, like people who listen to Rush or Faux News all day long, become worked up and incensed so much, they come to forums with itchy typing fingers and repeat what they just heard for the past three hours.

You know this apologist stuff comes from somewhere. When it's repeated enough over the air waves and cablevision, people really begin to believe the stuff they hear, as biased and untrue as it might be, now that's low info, or, misinformed.
 
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