◼ Cuban-Americans Apoplectic over Obama’s ‘Slap in the Face’ to Community 0 Washington Free Beacon
As Democrats and President Obama celebrate the thaw in Cuban-American relations, the residents of Miami’s Little Havana are outraged, reported ABC’s Ross Polumbo....
◼ The Castros Finally Hit the Jackpot - Politico
Candidate Barack Obama said that, as president, he would talk to anti-American dictators without precondition. He didn’t mention that he would also give them historic policy concessions without precondition. His surprise unilateral change in the U.S. posture toward the Castro dictatorship came without even the pretense of serious promises by the Cubans to reform their kleptocratic, totalitarian rule....
Even if you oppose the isolation of Cuba, this is not a good trade...
◼ Why did President Obama engineer a prisoner swap with Communist Cuba involving Alan Gross, an American citizen who badmouthed his own country mere hours after he arrived back on U.S. soil? - Matthew Vadum/American Thinker
...Just look at the first thing newly freed Gross did upon arriving back in America. He pulled a cowardly pox-on-both-your-houses stunt, drawing a vile moral equivalency between the U.S. and the brutal, fascistic island hellhole he just escaped.... What an odd statement for a man released as part of an international James Bond-style spy swap to make. Just hours after coming back to America, he's praising President Obama's newly announced plan to normalize relations with Cuba. It seems staged.◼ President
And I may be going out on a limb here, but condemning your own countrymen as imperialist warmongers after they cut a deal to get you repatriated from the clutches of a nasty dictatorship is more than bad form. It reeks of sedition....
It is also strange that as Gross prepared for his press conference, there was a portrait of Communist mass murderer Che Guevara clearly visible in the Washington, D.C. office of Gross's lawyer, high-profile ambulance-chaser Scott D. Gilbert of Gilbert LLP. The bloodthirsty Guevara was minister of industry and president of the Cuban National Bank. He also administered kangaroo courts that condemned enemies of Fidel Castro's regime to death.
In other words, as Gross prepared his statement about being freed from a Cuban jail, an iconic photograph honoring Cuba's most infamous jailer stared down at him.
Gross thanked a laundry list of leftists for helping to free him....
Obama Didn’t Tell The Whole Story About Cuba - The Federalist
Why did President Obama go for broke on Cuba, announcing the United States would normalize relations with that repressive regime? The answer appears in his statement to the nation. There, the president not only made clear that this change has been on his bucket list for some time, but also that his knowledge of Cuba comes straight out of the international Left’s playbook.
