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Obama Lands In Cuba As First US President To Visit In Nearly A Century (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Barack Obama descended on Cuba with a pomp unmatched by the Pope on Sunday, becoming the first American president to visit Cuba in nearly a century, and the first since a revolution led by Fidel Castro toppled a U.S.-backed strongman in 1959. As he arrived, Obama used a Cuban phrase meaning "what's up?" when he tweeted: "Que bola Cuba? Just touched down here, looking forward to meeting and hearing directly from the Cuban people." "This is a historic visit," Obama said as he greeted U.S. Embassy staff and their families at a Havana hotel. "It's an historic opportunity to engage with the Cuban people."
One of the many results of the new diplomatic relations between the two countries is the ability for Cuban residents to become more connected to the internet. Reuters is reporting that Alphabet Inc's Google is poised to expand internet access in Cuba. "One of the things that we'll be announcing here is that Google has a deal to start setting up more Wi-Fi and broadband access on the island," Obama said in an ABC News interview that aired on Monday. The U.S. Treasury Department has even authorized San Francisco's Airbnb service to expand its home rental listings in Cuba to non-U.S. travelers.
Please, keep him down there, with the rest of his leftist friends.
Or a strong contender, at the very least.
Because when you need basic things like food and shelter, nothing satisfies like wifi.
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Here is what Senator Ted Cruz wrote about this:
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/03/obama-cuba-visit-ted-cruz-213749
If you are a fan of President Obama, could you please explain to me why you think Senator Cruz is wrong about this? Because at the moment I agree with Senator Cruz. President Obama's administration has dropped the embargo and helped out the government of Cuba, and I'm not aware of a single demand that Cuba has granted in return. Set free political prisoners? Allow Amnesty International to visit the prisons? Maybe beat the political prisoners a little bit less? No, no, and no.
Not only did President Obama not make any demands of Cuba, but now Cuba is making demands of President Obama. Pay reparations, return Guantanamo Bay.
I do hope that President Obama will at least use his "bully pulpit" to say something about human rights in Cuba. Words are what he is best at. I would have preferred a binding agreement, but he already didn't do that.
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How does any sane person not see that?
Presidents generally have leeway in how their administration implements the law. Just because you don't like the actions that Obama has taken on immigration doesn't mean that he committed treason.
Because even if he's breaking laws, that's not treason...
Treason has a rather specific definition, and not merely "I don't like that guy..."
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Well, the Cubans didn't have many choices after the Russia let them down after the fall of Berlin's wall and the years following the change in the regime and the Venezuela no longer being able to provide them with almost free oil due to a collapsing market. This time, they were really strangled, that's why Raul started to think about opening the Cuban economy.
So, whoever would have been POTUS at this time, the Cubans didn't have choice. That's why Obama could have been much more hard on business a insist to obtain effective changes in the human rights in Cuba, unfortunately, he didn't.
The first president to go from Air Force One to the No-fly List because of his ties to radical islam.
As opposed to say what Saudis do, or the Chinese? I don't understand why people get fixated on the problems with Cuba when other nations that do far, far worse are our best pals and we do billions of dollars of business with those dirtbags.
A pretty fucking considerably different situation, and I tend to be on Snowden's side.
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To answer your question, people who actually keep up with news.
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If both, how is more than 45% less than something considered "nearly"?
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That I'm guessing that he didn't re-open relations with Cuba because it was the right thing to do and he actually did it as a favor to Google for lending him all the people that ran the IT portion of his campaign. (Since they apparently want to expand their business into Cuba.)
Did you know 80 to 90% of the moderators on slashdot wouldn't recognize a troll even if one dragged them under a bridge.
But they are required to at least implement the law. They take an oath that it be faithfully executed.
Because Cuba is 60 miles from the United States.
But they are required to at least implement the law. They take an oath that it be faithfully executed.
What makes you think that Obama haven't faithfully executed his oath?
Please look up the definition of treason. Even if what you said were true (it's not), that's not treason.
I'm happy I'm not the only one who has no idea which one is correct.
I know, right? And make Elian row.
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And this is one of many reasons why Obama is a liar and a failure.
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It took way too long for this to happen. Back when we gave China MFN status, what, early 90s? I was already complaining about the hypocrisy. The rationale was that by engaging with China we would eventually transfer our ideas as well as our goods. The theory behind this was called "Constructive Engagement".
But if CE was really the proper way to deal with these regimes, what about Cuba? It never really worked anyway. CE was just justification--it was all about the money, and earlier it was about playing China against the USSR. It was hypocritical on its face, right from the start.
I've literally been complaining about this since before some of you were born. Sheesh! Look, I get it. Castro stole your stuff, and you're mad; but most of the people who directly lost are dead. Aside from that, conquest happens. It's how America was built. At some point you have to write that off.
Don't get me wrong. Communism sucks. It's an evil little anachronism that exists down there; but our way of dealing with it didn't work. Time to try something different... finally!
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
In his defense, he can accurately say he has not issued that many 'executive orders'... by issuing 'executive memoranda' instead: http://www.usatoday.com/story/...
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The only thing the oath states will be faithfully executed is the Office of the President of the United States. It uses different language when referring to the Constitution and mentions no other laws.
A president needs to have room to make peace with our enemies. That's one of his jobs.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
and Mexico is zero miles and have horrific prison conditions and has government complicit in religious discrimination against non-catholic groups, and we do a third of a trillion dollars in trade with them. Do you even have a point?
"looking forward to meeting and hearing directly from the Cuban people."
He can't be that stupid. Can he?
He's going to hear from a carefully selected Potemkin village of people who fear for their lives and freedom if they say anything less than glowing things about life in Cuba.
The POTUS is trying to make peace and normalize a relationship that has been adversarial for 80 years. I suppose the best business advice I could offer Obama is stop trying to make more customers for US businesses. The more customers our economy has the more taxes will go up and the more the world will hate us and nuclear war is assured. The devil will take over our souls and homosexuals will ruin our lives. Not to mention all the friendly commies will convert our children into the red menace that will result in mass abortions on gun owners. It's so scary about the only person who can stop the chain-reaction of zombie doom is Trump or Cruz or whoever the GOP decides should rule the earth. The return of FUD GOP-style has been magnificent to watch. Comedians will be the only true entertainment when Trump get elected.
The last president that was the target of impeachment was a Democrat.
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Room for what? (Cuba's got at least ninety miles of water on all sides...)
(Cuba's got at least ninety miles of water on all sides...)
A statement that is both factually true and utterly irrelevant.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
I have no problem believing he's got ties to radical Islam... but if he does, it's probablt not the "retard version" where he's some sort of camel-fucking Muslim sleeper agent (fucking illiterate evangelicals will believe anything)...
The last president to be impeached was Clinton, a Democrat. There were Democrats circulating articles of impeachment against President G.W. Bush.
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and Mexico is zero miles and have horrific prison conditions and has government complicit in religious discrimination against non-catholic groups, and we do a third of a trillion dollars in trade with them. Do you even have a point?
That's why we are going to build a wall! *duck*
Aww, whose...
*facepalm*
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Since when are you forced to read stories you're not interested in?
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Sorry, not even close.
I strongly dislike him and his politics as well. But choosing how to enforce the laws is not Treason. It may be dereliction of duty. But it's not aiding and abetting the enemy in time of war. He is not a traitor. He's a scum sucking marxist-liberal who has a vision of America that will lead to it's destruction, but that is his right, and he's managed to convince many others that such a route is the best way to go. And he would likely have the opinion that I am a scum sucking right-wing nutbag who has a vision of America that will lead to it's destruction, as is my right. That we disagree is not treason, or even criminal.
Bradley Manning, Snowden, the Rosenbergs, Bowe Bergdahl, Adam Gadahn. Those are individuals whose acts are treasonous as per the actual definition of the crime.
We need to re-learn how to disagree with someone and their political views without needing to demonize them and accuse them of high crimes without any actual basis for those claims.
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How does any sane person not see that?
Probably has something to do with his deporting more people than the previous 3 presidents combined, and net immigration from Mexico being not just 0, but negative. IE, they're going back (btw, didn't Romney have a dream about that?).
The guy who said the election was rigged won the presidency with the second-most votes.
we're talking about Obama, not Bush.
The guy who said the election was rigged won the presidency with the second-most votes.
Oh I fully agree with you about both the Saudis, and the Chinese (and a host of others, frankly).
My point was just that he happens to be GOING to Cuba, and I fully expect that Guantanamo will be discussed in the media - while there's some irony that 400 miles away is the Canaleta prison.
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The guy who said the election was rigged won the presidency with the second-most votes.
As someone who likely disagrees with you on many political points, I wholeheartedly agree on this. Unfortunately, as much as I love taking the optimistic route, I think things are going to get even worse (more partisan fighting, less cooperation and compromise) before they get better. I really hope I'm wrong, though.
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The list of Obama lawlessness would take a megabyte of typed text at a minimum.
What you described is the grey area between Congress making the law and POTUS implementing the law. But that's not lawlessness. If it was, Congress would have impeached and removed Obama from office already. And Bush II, Clinton I, Bush I, Reagan, Carter, Ford, Nixon, etc.
The way things are going, I expect whichever party wins, the other party will talk about impeaching him/her. Unless Trump wins. Then both parties will talk about impeachment.
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This is part of the physiological tools Govts use to condition the peasants.
Physiological is the body. Psychological is the mind. You probably meant latter instead of the former. Based on the rest of your rambling comment, you also don't know how the government works.
Obama said in his tweet that he looked forward to hearing directly from the Cuban people.
Unfortunately, most of the people who wanted to speak with him were arrested Sunday night.
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Here's a bit of a gedankenexperiment. How about if we open the borders to emigration? But with a twist.
For every Cuban who applies to escape the island, Cuba has to find an American who wants to live in the workers paradise. Cuba would get dedicated socialists who would (at least for a while) not complain about the conditions. Free medical, etc. for the taking. And they probably would owe lots of student loans, forgiving those might be the price the US pays (re-instate the loan if the immigrant returns to US).
Cuba would have to forgive the Cuban outbound emigrants their debts to the Cuban society that raised them (a common argument socialist governments give when asked why their borders are closed to emigration).
Allow free tourism between the two countries, anyone who overstays their visa would trigger an opening for someone going the other way.
The US would want to screen potential Cuban immigrants, no repeat of the Mariel boat lift.
Run this as a friendly cooperative experiment - we both might learn something.
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