Comments on: Cuba Si, Obama Maybe

By: Ronald Hayden

Ronald Hayden — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:58:11 +0000

Funny thing about Cuba’s treatment of gays…I remember this period during, I think, the late eighties when in San Francisco it became a meme to talk about how Cuba was much more advanced than the US on AIDS. They would put up gays in little cottages by the sea and give them free treatment.

No kidding, Cuba was being presented *by the gay community* as a gay mecca.

As they say, you can’t make this stuff up.

By the way, Roger, found out about you through Glenn and Helen pimping your book and then by seeing you on C-Span. Now most of the way through the book, and as a 9/11 apostate in San Francisco, am glad to have encountered a “fellow traveler”…

By: hermie

hermie — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:55:59 +0000

BTW, what is a ‘moderate’ Taliban?

What is a moderate gangster?

What is a moderate terrorist?

What is a moderate gang-banger?

What is a moderate Nazi?

Does this President have any knowledge of even recent history? The Taliban behead those who would resist their oppression. Does Obama think a moderate Taliban is one who beheads a woman in the middle of a soccer stadium, but only in the morning when it is cooler and more comfortable to wear a burka?

By: hermie

hermie — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:48:54 +0000

The Left tells us we have to lift the embargo…but how many other countries have never embargoed Cuba? China, Russia, and scads of other countries have dealt with Cuba over the decades; but Cuba still remains poor and freedoms curtailed under the Castro brothers and their communist toadies.

Just because the US has an embargo, doesn’t mean that Cuba couldn’t take advantage of its other trading relationships throughout the world. The ‘lift the embargo’ chant is just a pitiful excuse to blame the US for the poverty of the masses. Sure we could lift the embargo, but the government of Cuba would still restrict commerce and the Castros would still skim off the top; just this time they would have more to skim.

By: Gary Rosen

Gary Rosen — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:17:42 +0000

The moderate Taliban gives a 75-year-old woman only 20 lashes instead of 40.

By: nina

nina — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:58:39 +0000

Jose you are moron

By: Jose

Jose — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:17:17 +0000

I visit Cuba all the time illegally (fly to Cancun).

To me the place is a near paradise. Cheap rum & cigars, and beautiful women.

What’s not to love ?

By: Lightnin' Hopkins

Lightnin' Hopkins — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:49:23 +0000

What Henry Gomez said.

Cuba has librarians rotting in jail for being “enemies of the revolution” for crying out loud. We can shift our policy all we want, the tyranny will continue – same with Venezuela.

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:27:34 +0000

At least this is one less country we have to fund.

By: Wellspring

Wellspring — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:59:12 +0000

I think that with Cuba’s economy is as weakened as it’s going to be. Cuba gets enough from Europe and Russia to keep it from getting much worse; plus we have to counter their influence. Combined with a foreign policy that is cagey and focused on US interests (and I’m certainly not going to argue that we have that), opening up the embargo could result in a flood of cash and services that ultimately weaken communism there. They’re likely to try to boycott us.

Also, kudos to President Obama for showing his steady foreign policy hand by going out of his way to offend the British and weaken the special relationship. Combined with their bumbling in Russia and elsewhere, things are going to get very lonely for our allies and very lucrative for our enemies.

Has he given any thought to how he’s aligning the incentives? Of course not– on the job training!

By: AlanC

AlanC — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:59:41 +0000

The only industry that would get a boost from ending the embargo is the Classic Car auction market. Do you know what a ’50s era Packard would go for?