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 administrations decision to normalize relations with the country. Bush characterized Kerrys visit as a birthday present for Fidel Castro, saying that the move is Americas 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 Americas Cuba policy, it should be its guiding principle.
Bush also reportedly pledged that, as president, he would reverse Obamas appeasement strategy, and would work to support freedom from tyranny. Bushs statement also took shots at Kerry for not allowing inviting Cuban political dissidents to the flag raising.
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"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."
onehandle
(51,122 posts)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
(62,451 posts)even harder to believe sentient humans would vote for them.
roody
(10,849 posts)fbc
(1,668 posts)tavernier
(12,406 posts)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)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..
yellowcanine
(35,701 posts)Maybe not with teabaggers but most voters favor this.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)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)True, they hate any Castro, but it will allow them to travel to see relatives. Mixed bag, perhaps?
Mika
(17,751 posts)libdem4life
(13,877 posts)Mika
(17,751 posts)... discussions are.
Apologies for the upset.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Mika
(17,751 posts)apnu
(8,759 posts)He's got to be shitting bricks that Trump is so competitive right now.
bucolic_frolic
(43,311 posts)what you say, JEB! might be warming up the pilliwinks for you
Judi Lynn
(160,631 posts)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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