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Obama Apologizes to Castro

sawdust said:
At times Mark Levin is too bombastic for me however this is an excellent interview with Marco Rubio and I think that Rubio makes an excellent argument about our relationship with Cuba. I wouldn't recommend that anyone comment unless they listen to the whole interview.

LISTEN to Marco Rubio’s fantastic interview with Mark Levin on Cuba » The Right Scoop -
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Lmao, this made me chuckle:

Cuba’s economy is set up so that 90% of all money in Cuba gets taken by the military because nothing is privately owned.

Read more: LISTEN to Marco Rubio’s fantastic interview with Mark Levin on Cuba » The Right Scoop -
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Yeah, Rubio isn't a credible source on this. When he went on his rant that the US' is setting a bad example by opening relations with dictators because dictators are bad, I laughed even harder.
 
Hatuey said:
Lmao, this made me chuckle:



Yeah, Rubio isn't a credible source on this. When he went on his rant that the US' is setting a bad example by opening relations with dictators because dictators are bad, I laughed even harder.
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I live in Florida and know lots of Cubans. Everyone I've spoken to opposes Obama's Cuban policy. Rubio reflects the feeling of Cubans in Florida. It's easy for anglo's not connected to the communist regime in Cuba to applaud the change in policy but the people with skin in the game should be listened to.
 
US Conservative said:
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
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I'd say it's time to return all the Cuban criminals that came over when Carter was in office. We should also give them about a million of our prisioners we could certainly do without.
 
Yeah...thats a completely misleading headline. He apologized for being long winded in his intro. I'm assuming his apology was kind of tongue in cheek. Raul responded by talking for 30 minutes.

Nothing to see here.
 
Flamethrower said:
I'd say it's time to return all the Cuban criminals that came over when Carter was in office. We should also give them about a million of our prisioners we could certainly do without.
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I'm sure that Cuba will welcome all of those people with open arms and a nice fish dinner. :roll:
 
What could Obama possibly have to say to a Castro for 15 minutes.

He should have listened to how things are going to change for the Cuban people before any positive steps are taken.
 
sawdust said:
I live in Florida and know lots of Cubans. Everyone I've spoken to opposes Obama's Cuban policy. Rubio reflects the feeling of Cubans in Florida. It's easy for anglo's not connected to the communist regime in Cuba to applaud the change in policy but the people with skin in the game should be listened to.
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Too bad, they have had 54 years to scream and yell and be butthurt. The rest of the country is moving on.
 
beefheart said:
Too bad, they have had 54 years to scream and yell and be butthurt. The rest of the country is moving on.
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The question is should the rest of the country move on? Cuba is a communist government that oppresses it's own people. I used to go to a Cuban restaurant in Tampa owned by someone who had been a political prisoner in Castro's prison. He served a mean Vaca Frita and Cuban revolutionary philosophy. The stories he told about life in Cuba and the Cuban prison were horrible. I think Rubio made some strong points. The time to normalize relations with Cuba may be when the Castro brothers die. All we are doing there now is strengthening despots.
 
As one who's been to Cuba several times through montreal over the past several years, I can't help but lament the changes that are going to come to such a unique culture and place as a byproduct of opening it up to Americans.
 
Mason66 said:
What could Obama possibly have to say to a Castro for 15 minutes.

He should have listened to how things are going to change for the Cuban people before any positive steps are taken.
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Brevity is not a primary skill of politicians.
 
beefheart said:
Too bad, they have had 54 years to scream and yell and be butthurt. The rest of the country is moving on.
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That is an interesting point of view. Ignore the people this will affect and disregard anything they have to say.

Will you use the same thinking with supposed white police officer violence against blacks? After all it is their problem, not every body else's, right?
 
sawdust said:
I live in Florida and know lots of Cubans. Everyone I've spoken to opposes Obama's Cuban policy. Rubio reflects the feeling of Cubans in Florida. It's easy for anglo's not connected to the communist regime in Cuba to applaud the change in policy but the people with skin in the game should be listened to.
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Read the survey of Cubans in Miami-Dade I posted earlier in the thread.
 
Mason66 said:
What could Obama possibly have to say to a Castro for 15 minutes.

He should have listened to how things are going to change for the Cuban people before any positive steps are taken.
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Read the ****ing article! Castro talked for a half hour.
 
US Conservative said:
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
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Just another part of Barack "Hussein" Obola's world apology tour.
 
StillBallin75 said:
He has nothing to apologize for in this case, but it's incredible it took so long for us to begin to abandon this outdated and idiotic policy.
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Actually Obama should be apologizing to American citizens for doing such a poor job as president.
 
US Conservative said:
More appeasement of commie dictators. What could go wrong? :doh
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Notice that Hollery Klinton quickly jumped on the normalization bandwagon claiming she had fought for it all along. The truth is that she never gave it a thought but is thinking there is political benefit in going along with it.
 
Kobie said:
Read the survey of Cubans in Miami-Dade I posted earlier in the thread.
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Is this it?
Cuban-Americans nationwide are almost evenly divided over support for the embargo and for President Obama’s effort to normalize relations with Cuba, according to a new poll that shows a vast generational divide in reaction to this week’s historic announcement.

The poll by Bendixen & Amandi International also showed that Cuban-Americans are nearly split on whether Obama should have exchanged prisoners Wednesday with Raul Castro’s communist government.

But they strongly disapprove of Obama’s foreign policy overall and his approach to Cuba specifically, according to the poll of 400 Cuban-Americans conducted for The Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald and the Tampa Bay Times.

Among the strongest responses from Cuban-Americans: Whether the United States should remove Cuba from the State Department’s list of state sponsors of terror. That move is opposed by 60 percent, with only 22 percent in favor. The Obama administration is reviewing Cuba’s designation.

Read more here: Poll: Cuban-Americans split on Obama
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ObamacareFail said:
Notice that Hollery Klinton quickly jumped on the normalization bandwagon claiming she had fought for it all along. The truth is that she never gave it a thought but is thinking there is political benefit in going along with it.
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Who? Is that a friend of yours or something?
 
Serenity said:
I'm shocked.

You've never flown through the Sierra Maestra and landed your Cessna on top of Pico Real del Turquino to perform life saving techniques on someone desperately in need?

You better put that one on your to do list :2razz:
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I dont have my pilots license or personal aircraft (yet). Ive only served in northern Mexico, and the southwest US. But then again we only need to worry about indigenous villagers, not emu's. :cool:
 
Kobie said:
And this is why the Weekly Substandard is garbage.

Obama speaks uninterrupted for 15 minutes, then apologizes for speaking so long, and the headline is "Obama Apologizes To Castro."

Then he gives Castro his turn, and the subhead is "Cuban communist leader lectures Obama for 30 minutes."

Factually correct, but pretty misleading.

The AP version of the story is here (it's Newsday's site):

Lots to say in historic Obama-Castro phone call - Newsday
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But you are forgetting that everything that happens involving Obama has to be portrayed in the most negative light possible. It's how they roll.
 
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