The "LIBERAL" Washington Post weighs in on Cuba.....

[yellowcanine]

Obama gives the Castro regime in Cuba an undeserved bailout

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-obama-administration-extends-the-castro-regime-in-cuba-a-bailout-it-doesnt-deserve/2014/12/17/a25a15d4-860c-11e4-9534-f79a23c40e6c_story.html

[vi5]

1. I've never gotten a real answer on this....

My sense of history on the Cuba issue is admittedly sorely lacking.

But why have we kept an embargo and non-normalized relations with Cuba while practically falling all over ourselves doing business with China in every possible way?

I mean communism? Both. Human Rights violations? Both. So what am I missing.

Or is the answer pretty much just straight forward hypocricy?

[pkdu]

2. Florida , Miami Dade....this issued to cause you to lose the County and the state....as Rachel

Said last night....thatsn no longer true .

A small majority of alls Cuban Americans now support normailzation...and a huge majority of younger ones do.

[yellowcanine]

3. Pretty easy that - Cuba can't make cheap junk for Walmart to sell.

China can. Any questions?

[potone]

4. The answer is simple.

The Electoral College. Florida, and especially Miami, has a very large Cuban exile community that is extremely anti-Castro, and that punishes any politician who even dares to suggest that we should normalize relations with Cuba. But that is changing as a younger generation of Cuban-Americans is more open to the idea. Our policy on Cuba is a Cold War relic that has not served any good purpose for many years. It is long overdue to change it.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

7. The older Cubans are very conservative

...especially the dwindling population of those that came over after the Revolution. However, younger Cuban- Americans have different concerns.

[sharp_stick]

6. The anti Castro community

also really enjoys the pretty much open borders policy that allows anyone that makes land a legal immigrant.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

5. Dear WaPo

Ask yourselves these questions:

1) We've had the embargo in place for fifty years now? Has it done anything to hasten the end of the Castro regime?
2) Saudi Arabia is a monarchy; it treats women as second class citizens; it has a horrid human rights record; Saudi nationals have been linked to funding ISIS and 9-11; it is intolerant of all religions other than Islam; and it would not let our troops openly practice Christianity, even when they were there to defend their nation. Are you saying we should discontinue diplomatic relations and support for Saudi Arabia?
3) Are the Castro brothers getting any younger?
4) How is MFN trading status for China not an undeserved bailout?
5) Do we have the right to lecture any nation on human rights? #Gitmo #ICan'tBreathe #Ferguson #OscarGrant #TortureReport

Get back to me and let me know.

[Cha]

8. And, here's someone from the NYT OPED

Why the Cuba Issue No Longer Cuts Against Democrats in Florida

Just a snip//

"All of that changed over the past 10 years. The 2013 Pew survey showed that the Republican advantage among Cuban-Americans had dwindled to 3 percentage points, 47 to 44. The Florida exit poll in 2012 showed that Mr. Obama won the Cuban-American vote, 49 to 47 percent. Last month, the exit polling showed that Cuban-American voters supported the Democrat Charlie Crist, 50 to 46 percent, though he lost the governor’s race."

MOre
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/18/upshot/why-the-cuba-issue-no-longer-cuts-against-democrats-in-florida.html?abt=0002&abg=1

[still_one]

9. Jeff bozo of Amazon fame now owns the Washington post. The media outlets

Have been so right about everything, WMDs in Iraq, is just one example of one of their most glaring binders.

[marmar]

10. The WaPo editorial page is a NeoCon rat's nest ......

..... nobody's called it liberal in a long time

[blm]

11. Anyone who thinks WaPost is 'liberal' after the last 4 decades is a moron.

Every now and then it shows a flash of common sense, but, more often than not, they earn their news business nickname for being a hub for CIA - Spook Central.

[ucrdem]

12. + 1

Watch what they do. Also the USAID role in Cuba which is front an center today raises some embarrassing questions about those glorious Arab Spring uprisings including Egypt's.