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Adenoid_Hynkel

(14,093 posts)
Fri Aug 14, 2015, 12:27 PM Aug 2015

Jeb: Kerry’s Cuba Embassy Visit a ‘Birthday Present’ to Castro

Source: Mediaite


Before John Kerry appeared in Havana to reopen the American Embassy in Cuba, Jeb Bush joined the chorus of GOP candidates who have blasted the Barack Obama administration’s decision to normalize relations with the country. Bush characterized Kerry’s visit as a “birthday present” for Fidel Castro, saying that the move is America’s latest “acquiescence to his ruthless legacy.”

“[Cuba] remains an unyielding dictatorship, a tragic example of the folly of communism, and an affront to the conscience of the free nations of the Western Hemisphere,” Bush said. “Standing up for fundamental human rights and democratic values should not be an afterthought to America’s Cuba policy, it should be its guiding principle.”

Bush also reportedly pledged that, as president, he would reverse Obama’s “appeasement” strategy, and would work to support freedom from tyranny. Bush’s statement also took shots at Kerry for not allowing inviting Cuban political dissidents to the flag raising.

Read more: http://www.mediaite.com/online/jeb-kerrys-cuba-embassy-visit-a-birthday-present-to-castro/



"An unyielding dictatorship," eh, Jebbie?

Says the family in love with the brutal Saudi beheading regime, and who actually adopted the dictatorship's crown prince and christened him "Bandar Bush."

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SpankMe

(2,957 posts)
4. LOL!
Fri Aug 14, 2015, 12:52 PM
Aug 2015

This would be a good title for a book of his memoirs after he's lost the primary to Trump, and then Trump loses to Hillary.

rurallib

(62,423 posts)
11. so hard to believe there are two that stupid
Fri Aug 14, 2015, 03:17 PM
Aug 2015

even harder to believe sentient humans would vote for them.

tavernier

(12,392 posts)
5. Yes, jeb, that's what it was all about.
Fri Aug 14, 2015, 01:01 PM
Aug 2015

The POTUS and the SOS have little else to do than to try to piss you and Ileana off, so they cooked up this little birthday present for that old zombie.

It's a new day, brother Bush. Either lead, follow, or get out of the way; but stop living in the past.


lordsummerisle

(4,651 posts)
6. Jeez
Fri Aug 14, 2015, 01:07 PM
Aug 2015

we're just normalizing relations with them, not making them the 51st state or anything...

And I think both Bush and Rubio don't like this because Obama's upstaged them, I bet they each wanted to do this given the chance..

Dawson Leery

(19,348 posts)
8. Jeb is fighting the battles of the 1960's all over again.
Fri Aug 14, 2015, 02:03 PM
Aug 2015

The only way this baboon, I mean goon gets the nomination is if he steals it (to which he certainly is capable of).

 

libdem4life

(13,877 posts)
9. I wonder how this is affecting the conservative Cubanos in Florida?
Fri Aug 14, 2015, 02:52 PM
Aug 2015

True, they hate any Castro, but it will allow them to travel to see relatives. Mixed bag, perhaps?

 

Mika

(17,751 posts)
14. Where have you been? Cuban expats have ALWAYS been allowed to go to Cuba. Only USians are banned.n/t
Fri Aug 14, 2015, 03:32 PM
Aug 2015
 

Mika

(17,751 posts)
17. Sorry. But, this has been on the front burner for a while now. Shocked at how uninformed these ...
Fri Aug 14, 2015, 05:06 PM
Aug 2015

... discussions are.

Apologies for the upset.



 

Mika

(17,751 posts)
15. No. Trading w/China's sweatshops was the goal. Cuba has no sweatshops making Sonys and Nikes. n/t
Fri Aug 14, 2015, 03:33 PM
Aug 2015

Judi Lynn

(160,545 posts)
19. Jeb & his family, with their "exile" confederates preferred Cuba under Batista.
Fri Aug 14, 2015, 06:49 PM
Aug 2015

Batista ran the country to their complete benefit. The Bush family maintained their properties in complete security, and the Spanish-descended Cubans were the very LARGE fish in a very tiny bowl.

All the black people were expected to stay out of sight when they weren't working, to be "invisible," as in they were not wanted to even go to the same city parks where Spanish-descended wealthy Cubans went, or be anywhere close to them if they weren't their servants or plantation employees.

That's why it was just fine with them when Batista used his death squads to roll around Havana streets, and other towns' streets, grabbing suspected "leftists" to torture and often murder, or even quarter before dumping their bodies, hanging them from street lights or dangling them from trees to try to terrorize the vast poor population so much it would back down and accept life as Batista dictated, as painful as it was.

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Another reason Bushes loved Batista's Cuba is that their own property holdings were always safe under the bloody monster who worked hand-in-glove with the U.S. Mafia, which made him wealthier daily when his wife-s brother made his rounds of the casinos picking up their kick-backs.

Jeb also appointed Batista's grandson as one of his Florida Supreme Court Justices: Raoul Cantero III, who was raised in Spain after the dictator took off at the end of the Revolution, relieving the Cubans of a vast portion of their National Treasury.

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Raoul Cantero, Jeb.

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Fulgencio Batista, Dwight D. Eisenhower





With Richard M. Nixon



With wife

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