Obama Blasts McCain on Cuba

Can you imagine these two in a foreign policy debate? I can’t wait! Let Obama explain again how Iran is a “tiny” threat. LOL.

THANK GOD for superdelegates. If this country had to totally rely on the intelligence of the people COMMENTING here to choose a president, we’d be in deep dodo!
Seriously, it’s very sad that so many Americans can’t comprehend, when Obama speaks.

obama will talk to castro, et al. what a disaster. vote for anybody but obama

Did Sen Obama tell voters in Florida that he blocked their votes for Sen Clinton, but now he wants their support.

The people/governments who talk the loudest are like those small dogs who bark so loudly, thinking they are bigger than they are. The U.S. has nothing to fear by talking to anyone; we don’t need to be bellicose though. The constant saber-rattling from Bush/Cheney and their disciples is mindless rhetoric that makes the U.S. sound like whiners.

You got to love all the slander that is completely off topic coming from the republican side of this debate…
…it’s all “scandal” to try and defeat the dems this year…
guess what your scandals won’t put food on the table …won’t stop terrorists using our foreign policy for the past 7 years to recruit…and it won’t get us help from our allies to get our soldiers out of Iraq.

I can not believe this is finally coming out after a year. But I was on this website and it talked about Larry Sinclair.
http://citizenwells.wordpress.com/

Obama will go down after the verdict in the Rezko trial. I like this site to keep updated on that.
See you people don’t know about this because the media has sheltered Obama for the whole year. I feel sorry for all of you when you find out all this stuff is true.
http://rezkowatch.blogspot.com/

and someone needs to look into the Committee for Liberation of Iraq…
this is a real group…that Mccain and Lieberman were the honorary co-chairs back in 2002-3 …they are the group that lobbied for us TO GO to war. Along with their buddy schultz who is the Bechtel guy who won the first no bid contracts out of Iraq for an initial 687 million…and has now gone on to earn billions from this.
this is not made up…wonder why Lieberman puts his butt on the line for the war to look like a good thing with McCain because they were partners in helping us get there.

Obama is right about Cuba – and other latin american countries…I guess one has to be latino to appreciate it-sad to say. Add all other countries disenfranchised by the current administration simply because they (BUSH) want a war for profit in their personal pockets — and you have a wounded turkey called the republican party – that even Reagan would shutter over. Obama is tough as nails, he stays on message – he knows the truth and that the truth will set us all free. God help those who purposely stand in our way of cleaning up this filty dirty current administration.

Will the real Obama please show yourself? In 2003 you wanted to open up everything to Cuba, last year it was another position, today another one. Just what do you believe?

So many non-Christians posting on this blog. Jesus said ‘love your enemy.’ So many bloggers that hate their enemies and won’t even talk to them – like Cubans. Won’t even talk to them. Pathetic.

As a Cuban American, this makes me dislike Obama even more. And I’m sure many Cuban Americans as well. He is out of touch with the plight of the Cuban community.
I cannot believe there fellow Cubans listening to his garbage.
He will lose South Florida so badly. He is Al Gore wasn’t as stupid when he ran for the presidency. Gore can blame Clinton for that Elian fiasco. He squandered Gore’s chances with the Cubans.
Mark my words, No clear thinking Cuban American will vote for Obama.

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Senator Obama is actually a pretty smart guy. I know that scares some of you, having a President who was near the top of his class as opposed to John McCain at the bottom of his class. And this thing about talking with enemies..James Baker,,,you all remember him, said that he went to Syria to talk with them 16 times when they were on our list as sponsoring terrorism. Didn’t get anywhere on the first 15 visits,, but on the 16th he got them to change what they were doing. And guess what..not one soldier died for it.
You don’t like Obama’s plans about dealing with Cuba, don’t vote for him. But he’s a smart guy who has a good sensible plan for changing how we approach other countries. Oh ya..common sense isn’t something you all think about either.”
Amen my friend. I am tired of he mentality that if we pose as the moral authority over the rest of the world, mostly by a sense of entitlement as the most powerful country in the world, that rogue nations will simply grovel at our feet.
How about a Pew Poll in 2007:
- 68 percent of Pakistanis
- 76 percent of Moroccans
- 93 percent of Egyptians
- 64 percent of Turkey
The percentage in each country that have unfavorable views of America. Turkey, one of our key NATO allies in the Middle East, have 83 percent that believe the U.S. is the greatest foreign policy threat in the world. You people need to wake up and realize playing the bully just doesn’t work, and never has.

I chuckle when I hear Mr. Obama try to characterize the embargo as a “failed” “Bush-McCain” policy of the “last eight years,” when it has been US policy since 1960, in various manifestations.
Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush Jr. All have taken part in overseeing this policy toward Cuba.
Six republicans, four democrats.
So somehow it is a Bush-McCain policy?

Having read the responses that many of you have left I realize that the country that I love more than anything in the world very well may be as backward as our foreign counterparts suggest. Anyone who believes that we would be weak talking to our enemies is near sighted and ignorant. Our nations image abroad has declined drastically over the course of the past 7 years. The public diplomacy efforts of our diplomats has been made impossible by Bush’s big stick diplomacy. Yes we are strong, powerful and unstoppable; but to refuse to take the necessary steps to ensure liberty and justice for all peoples of this earth contradicts the very framework on which this great nation was founded. Obama has a very strong understanding of foreign policy. He has also proven that he can make rationale decisions when his advisors inform him of events. When it comes down to the issues Obama is the right choice.

My principled position is for an U.S. foreign policy from a position of strength and respect, not arrogance and saber rattling.

Here is the beauty part, “bdiddy”:
Obama’s “preconditions” (“preparations”?) are very similar to those McCain suggested in a speech he made in February:
“Last night, he (Obama) said (it was after the democratic debate) that as president he’d meet with the imprisoned island’s new leader ‘without preconditions.’ So Raul Castro gets an audience with an American president, and all the prestige such a meeting confers, without having to release political prisoners, allow free media, political parties, and labor unions, or schedule internationally monitored free elections.”
What is this horrible set of “preconditions” except asking Cuba to “take significant steps toward democracy, beginning with the freeing of all political prisoners,” only with more specifics? These are Obama’s words, not mine.
These are identical positions. Also, where is the “saber-rattling” against Cuba?
So, Obama jumps on the McCain bandwagon and acts like he is charting brand new territory?
Talk about “arrogant.”

I have great concern that our party is passing up an historical opportunity to lead in a much needed new direction. McCain’s advisors are trapping him in the old box of pandering to special interest groups on foreign policy for domestic political “advantage.” All of the tough talk against the strawman Castro and his little one crop sugar producing island (as if Cuba really ever posed a threat to us) has done nothing for either America or Cuba and its people.
China and its leaders have committed genocide against their own people, killing millions while aiming nuclear missles at us and arming the communists in Vietnam against us in the war which led to the death of thousands of our people. They’re killing and jailing dissenters in their country by the thousands each year.
Yet we’re obsessed with Cuba. This is embarassing. It does nothing for us. We think we score political points by lambasting our opponents for wanting to talk to Third World countries etc. with 1930′s military capabilities yet stay silent about China and Russia, our biggest threats and biggest violators of human rights in the world.
Please John. Don’t fall for this nonsense. Be the strong leader and man you are and stop appeasing special interest groups worried about toothless tigers in the middle east and a puny one crop island to the South. If anyone can stand up to these groups and to Russia and China, it’s you.

Mccain is not going to move this country foward. He’s stuck with old fashion policy that hasn’t worked in the past. He’s stupid to want to persue failed policies because he believes he can make them work. Why don’t he have his own plan instead of using Bush’s plans. Mccain is exactly the same as Bush and when Bush leaves so will Mccain. Did anybody notice that Mccain has never stated how he was going to pay for anything nor how he was going to make this war in Iraq work. The truth is he doesn’t know.