Barack Obama to make historic visit to Cuba, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio Blast Obama for the Visit

[AngryCanadian]

Barack Obama to make historic visit to Cuba


The Push to get Cuba of the Embargo.

Ben Rhodes, Obama's deputy national security adviser, said the president will carry the message that the U.S. and Cuba need not be defined by their "complicated and difficult history." He said the U.S. wants to expand opportunities for U.S. businesses in Cuba, facilitate travel for Americans and coax Cuba's government into passing those benefits on to the public.

"Cuba will not change overnight," Rhodes wrote in a Medium blog post. But he said the guiding principle behind the visit is "taking steps that will improve the lives of the Cuban people."

Rhodes noted the ultimate aim is to persuade Congress to lift the trade embargo — Havana's biggest request of the U.S. Although short-term prospects have seemed unlikely, a Republican congressman just back from leading a delegation of lawmakers to Cuba said he believed legislation ending the embargo could pass Congress by the end of the year.

Regime Change Republican presidential candidates are attacking, mocking Obama.

Marco Rubio is in favor of a regime change in Cuba.

Florida Senator Marco Rubio, another child of Cuban immigrants, lambasted the president for visiting what he called an "anti-American communist dictatorship."

"Probably not going to invite me," Rubio said.

Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Florida Republican born in Cuba, called the visit "absolutely shameful." But Senator Jeff Flake, an Arizona Republican, who travelled to Havana with Secretary of State John Kerry last year for the U.S. Embassy's re-opening, cheered the announcement.

"For Cubans accustomed to watching their government sputter down the last mile of socialism in a '57 Chevy, imagine what they'll think when they see Air Force One," Flake said.

With less than a year left in office, Obama has been eager to make rapid progress on restoring economic and diplomatic ties to cement warming relations with Cuba begun by his administration. Obama and supporters of the detente argue the decades-old embargo has failed to bring about desired change on the island 140 kilometres south of Florida.

Texas Senator Ted Cruz, whose father came to the U.S. from Cuba in the 1950s, said Obama shouldn't visit while the Castro family remains in power. Florida

 

[AngryCanadian]

When it comes to International and foreign policy issues and especially on Cuba it seems that the Republican presidential candidates dont have any interests ending the long unwanted embargo or resorting diplomatic channels to the Cubans. These few Republican presidential candidates who are agaisnt Obama's Cuban foreign policy change have only one thing in common.

Regime Change.

 

[ShaneEnochs]

Can't even give credit where credit is due.

 

[AuH20]

Someone wants to make money in Cuba.

 

[enhanced_deficit]

Dialog is good.

But Rome is burning in Syria/Benghazi, Europe is hit with migration crisis and DGP's masters are sending him to Cuba.. what are their priorities.

 

[Libertas Aut Mortis]

When goods dont cross borders, armies will.....its sad when people are actually calling for armies to cross borders; just because we can.

It would be funny if it wasnt my life on the line....but that isnt the case.

 

[Matt Collins]

At least Obama did one thing right in his 8 years as President.

 

[Feelgood]

Cruz / Rubio = Isolationist

 

[seapilot]

One word why obama is really going to Cuba. Cigar.

 

[wizardwatson]

One word why obama is really going to Cuba. Cigar.

Or....

Marco Rubio: Clearly, we need regime change in Cuba. I would like the President to explain to the American people why he feels at this critical time in our nations history he feels that wooing Cuba is a priority.

DGP Obama: Well, Marco, I left my wallet on your mom's dresser.

 

[AngryCanadian]

Or....

Marco Rubio: Clearly, we need regime change in Cuba. I would like the President to explain to the American people why he feels at this critical time in our nations history he feels that wooing Cuba is a priority.

DGP Obama: Well, Marco, I left my wallet on your mom's dresser.

Marco:Great Work team! lets go to Cuba and bring chaos there to.