Obama: US Can Learn About Human Rights from Cuba

[American_Jihad]

Rolmao I can't help it we have a dummy for president and a lot of dummies who voted for that ssob...

Obama: US Can Learn About Human Rights from Cuba
March 21, 2016
Daniel Greenfield

Does Cuba have something to teach us about human rights? Considering Obama and Castro's attitude toward the rights protected by our Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion, Freedom of the Press and the Right to Bear Arms, not to mention the Right to Compulsory Insurance, you can see why Obama would find the Communist dictatorship inspiring.

“President Castro, I think, has pointed out that it, in his view making sure that everybody is getting a decent education or health care, has basic security in old age, that those things are human rights as well.”

“The goal of the human rights dialogue is not for the United States to dictate to Cuba how to govern themselves,” Obama continued. “Hopefully, we can learn from each other.”

Cuban health care is quite impressive. And by "impressive", I mean that it's a good way to die. It also depends on a population of plantation doctors who are leased as slave labor to other countries.

...

If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. As long as he's willing to sell pork out of his home to make ends meet.

And of course there are Castro's progressive education policies.

"I say it is one of the achievements of the revolution that even our prostitutes are university educated," Fidel Castro said.

And that's true. Their university education however is worthless.

...

We're headed this way too with the education bubble. Some are already there.

But Obama is pushing the leftist FDR line of positive entitlements as rights over negative rights that are freedoms. Give up your freedom, get free stuff. Look how well it worked out in Cuba.

Obama: US Can Learn About Human Rights from Cuba

 

[American_Jihad]

Obama in Cuba: Embracing the Oppressors
Looking the other way as dissidents are rounded up by the Castro brothers.
March 22, 2016
Joseph Klein

President Barack Obama shook hands with Cuban President Raul Castro in Havana's Palace of the Revolution on the second day of his three-day trip to Cuba and held what Obama called “frank” discussions with the Cuban dictator. Upon his arrival on Sunday, Obama declared that his visit was a “historic opportunity to engage directly with the Cuban people.” Obama was accompanied by 40 members of Congress and a large delegation of administration officials and business leaders from the private sector. The president continued to remove restrictions getting in the way of freer trade and exchanges with Cuba, but is asking little in return.

Obama sounded almost like the Cuban guide who had led the “people-to-people” tour in which I participated last month. We too were to “engage directly with the Cuban people.” Just like Obama, some even posed for pictures in front of a giant sculpture of Ernesto Che Guevara in Havana's Revolution Square. However, posing in front of the sculpture of a bloodthirsty killer, who once threatened to kill millions of Americans with nuclear armed missiles, sends far more of a troubling symbolic message when the president of the United States and leader of the free world does it than a group of ordinary American tourists. Obama should have declined the photo-op and stuck to pictures in front of memorials to Cuba’s 19th century poet and essayist, and patriotic hero, José Julián Martí.

Obama must have known before he landed on Cuban soil that 526 critics of the Castro regime had been detained during the first two weeks of March alone. There were dozens of arrests, just hours before he arrived, of members of the dissident group, Ladies in White, who march in protest every Sunday. When Obama was asked about this at a joint press conference following his meeting with President Castro, he avoided a direct answer. While President Obama is planning to meet with some dissidents, the Cuban regime has engaged in what one dissenter called “preventive repression, so it does not occur to anyone to say anything to Obama while he is here.”

As for Castro, he appeared perplexed when questioned about political prisoners during the joint news conference. It was like the scene from the movie Casablanca, when Captain Renault, explaining his closing of Rick’s Café, exclaimed, “I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here” as he was grabbing his winnings. Castro’s response to the question was “what political prisoners? Give me a list.” Obama looked on, showing not the slightest bit of emotion.

President Obama did talk generally about the importance of human rights and said that he would continue to speak out in support of the “universal” rights of freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and freedom of religion. He said that he had “frank” discussions with Castro regarding human rights, but did not indicate any real progress on that front. In fact, in another of Obama’s displays of moral equivalence and apologies for alleged shortcomings of the United States, Obama said that he welcomed criticisms from Castro regarding areas where he thinks we are “falling short,” such as income inequality and racism. And Obama lauded the Cuban regime’s record on advancing the right of all Cubans to free health care and education, which he agreed were human rights.

The average Cuban, however, does not live in the style to which Cuban leaders have become accustomed. Even with a modest introduction of private enterprise under Raul Castro’s rule, obtaining high-end goods is more of an exercise of political access than free market economics. Internet access follows a similar pattern. Monthly ration coupons for food provide for a substandard level of nutrition. Basics like the availability of clean water for drinking is a luxury. And while racial segregation in employment that had prevailed in pre-revolutionary Cuba was largely ended, blacks in Cuba cannot organize to press for policies long existing in the United States to deal with the remnants of segregation, such as affirmative action.

Nothing at all was said about the high profile fugitives from the U.S. criminal justice system harbored by the Cuban regime, most notably Joanne Chesimard, a.k.a. Assata Shakur. She was convicted for murdering a New Jersey state trooper in 1973 and received a life sentence. She escaped to Cuba and was granted “asylum” there in 1984. Evidently, a convicted murderer who killed a policeman in the United States is the Castro regime’s idea of a “political” prisoner deserving of the Castro regime’s protection.

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Obama in Cuba: Embracing the Oppressors

 

[Freewill]

Obama in Cuba: Embracing the Oppressors
Looking the other way as dissidents are rounded up by the Castro brothers.
March 22, 2016
Joseph Klein

President Barack Obama shook hands with Cuban President Raul Castro in Havana's Palace of the Revolution on the second day of his three-day trip to Cuba and held what Obama called “frank” discussions with the Cuban dictator. Upon his arrival on Sunday, Obama declared that his visit was a “historic opportunity to engage directly with the Cuban people.” Obama was accompanied by 40 members of Congress and a large delegation of administration officials and business leaders from the private sector. The president continued to remove restrictions getting in the way of freer trade and exchanges with Cuba, but is asking little in return.

Obama sounded almost like the Cuban guide who had led the “people-to-people” tour in which I participated last month. We too were to “engage directly with the Cuban people.” Just like Obama, some even posed for pictures in front of a giant sculpture of Ernesto Che Guevara in Havana's Revolution Square. However, posing in front of the sculpture of a bloodthirsty killer, who once threatened to kill millions of Americans with nuclear armed missiles, sends far more of a troubling symbolic message when the president of the United States and leader of the free world does it than a group of ordinary American tourists. Obama should have declined the photo-op and stuck to pictures in front of memorials to Cuba’s 19th century poet and essayist, and patriotic hero, José Julián Martí.

Obama must have known before he landed on Cuban soil that 526 critics of the Castro regime had been detained during the first two weeks of March alone. There were dozens of arrests, just hours before he arrived, of members of the dissident group, Ladies in White, who march in protest every Sunday. When Obama was asked about this at a joint press conference following his meeting with President Castro, he avoided a direct answer. While President Obama is planning to meet with some dissidents, the Cuban regime has engaged in what one dissenter called “preventive repression, so it does not occur to anyone to say anything to Obama while he is here.”

As for Castro, he appeared perplexed when questioned about political prisoners during the joint news conference. It was like the scene from the movie Casablanca, when Captain Renault, explaining his closing of Rick’s Café, exclaimed, “I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here” as he was grabbing his winnings. Castro’s response to the question was “what political prisoners? Give me a list.” Obama looked on, showing not the slightest bit of emotion.

President Obama did talk generally about the importance of human rights and said that he would continue to speak out in support of the “universal” rights of freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and freedom of religion. He said that he had “frank” discussions with Castro regarding human rights, but did not indicate any real progress on that front. In fact, in another of Obama’s displays of moral equivalence and apologies for alleged shortcomings of the United States, Obama said that he welcomed criticisms from Castro regarding areas where he thinks we are “falling short,” such as income inequality and racism. And Obama lauded the Cuban regime’s record on advancing the right of all Cubans to free health care and education, which he agreed were human rights.

The average Cuban, however, does not live in the style to which Cuban leaders have become accustomed. Even with a modest introduction of private enterprise under Raul Castro’s rule, obtaining high-end goods is more of an exercise of political access than free market economics. Internet access follows a similar pattern. Monthly ration coupons for food provide for a substandard level of nutrition. Basics like the availability of clean water for drinking is a luxury. And while racial segregation in employment that had prevailed in pre-revolutionary Cuba was largely ended, blacks in Cuba cannot organize to press for policies long existing in the United States to deal with the remnants of segregation, such as affirmative action.

Nothing at all was said about the high profile fugitives from the U.S. criminal justice system harbored by the Cuban regime, most notably Joanne Chesimard, a.k.a. Assata Shakur. She was convicted for murdering a New Jersey state trooper in 1973 and received a life sentence. She escaped to Cuba and was granted “asylum” there in 1984. Evidently, a convicted murderer who killed a policeman in the United States is the Castro regime’s idea of a “political” prisoner deserving of the Castro regime’s protection.

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Obama in Cuba: Embracing the Oppressors

I must once again defend a democrat. At least, Obama is finally holding his hand over his heart during the playing of the national anthem. Too Bad it was the Cuban national anthem.

 

[SuperDemocrat]

Why doesn't Obama really tell us what he thinks of America.

 

[Freewill]

Of course, we can learn from Cuba's human rights record. I learned how to drive on ice by driving on the ice. I learned where to put my fingers when hammering a nail by hitting my fingers. Cuba's record is so poor there must be something we could learn from so we don't repeat their behavior. But then again I don't think that is what the apologist in chief really meant. He is useless can't wait till he leaves. I never thought I would say it but even Mrs Tulza would be better.

 

[Freewill]

Why doesn't Obama really tell us what he thinks of America.

He is being polite and sharing his thoughts firstly with his friends.

 

[American_Jihad]

Castro lifts Obama's hand in awkward finish to press conference
7 / 26

The Hill
Jesse Byrnes19 hrs ago

Cuban President Raul Castro and President Obama finished their joint press conference Monday in Havana with the Cuban leader awkwardly raising Obama's arm.



The historic and at times strange event finished with Castro urging a reporter to provide a list of political prisoners in the country.

Obama then smiled as the pair left their lecterns and shook hands, before Castro took hold of Obama's left hand and raised it into the air as they turned toward the cameras.

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Castro lifts Obama's hand in awkward finish to press conference

 

[Timmy]

What's wrong with what he said ? You righties straight up lie and take shit out of context .


President Castro, I think, has pointed out that it, in his view making sure that everybody is getting a decent education or health care, has basic security in old age, that those things are human rights as well.”

 

[American_Jihad]

What's wrong with what he said ? You righties straight up lie and take shit out of context .


President Castro, I think, has pointed out that it, in his view making sure that everybody is getting a decent education or health care, has basic security in old age, that those things are human rights as well.”

Move there and see how you like it...

 

[TNHarley]

Not surprising Obama is learning from a socialist dictator.
Bernie is probably jealous. lol

 

[American_Jihad]

Not surprising Obama is learning from a socialist dictator.
Bernie is probably jealous. lol

Not the first time...

Here Hugo giving a book to obongo, socialism for greenhorns...

 

[longknife]

Rolmao I can't help it we have a dummy for president and a lot of dummies who voted for that ssob...

Obama: US Can Learn About Human Rights from Cuba
March 21, 2016
Daniel Greenfield

Does Cuba have something to teach us about human rights? Considering Obama and Castro's attitude toward the rights protected by our Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion, Freedom of the Press and the Right to Bear Arms, not to mention the Right to Compulsory Insurance, you can see why Obama would find the Communist dictatorship inspiring.

“President Castro, I think, has pointed out that it, in his view making sure that everybody is getting a decent education or health care, has basic security in old age, that those things are human rights as well.”

“The goal of the human rights dialogue is not for the United States to dictate to Cuba how to govern themselves,” Obama continued. “Hopefully, we can learn from each other.”

Cuban health care is quite impressive. And by "impressive", I mean that it's a good way to die. It also depends on a population of plantation doctors who are leased as slave labor to other countries.

...

If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. As long as he's willing to sell pork out of his home to make ends meet.

And of course there are Castro's progressive education policies.

"I say it is one of the achievements of the revolution that even our prostitutes are university educated," Fidel Castro said.

And that's true. Their university education however is worthless.

...

We're headed this way too with the education bubble. Some are already there.

But Obama is pushing the leftist FDR line of positive entitlements as rights over negative rights that are freedoms. Give up your freedom, get free stuff. Look how well it worked out in Cuba.

Obama: US Can Learn About Human Rights from Cuba

 

[hazlnut]

Rolmao I can't help it we have a dummy for president and a lot of dummies who voted for that ssob...

Obama: US Can Learn About Human Rights from Cuba
March 21, 2016
Daniel Greenfield

Does Cuba have something to teach us about human rights? Considering Obama and Castro's attitude toward the rights protected by our Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion, Freedom of the Press and the Right to Bear Arms, not to mention the Right to Compulsory Insurance, you can see why Obama would find the Communist dictatorship inspiring.

“President Castro, I think, has pointed out that it, in his view making sure that everybody is getting a decent education or health care, has basic security in old age, that those things are human rights as well.”

“The goal of the human rights dialogue is not for the United States to dictate to Cuba how to govern themselves,” Obama continued. “Hopefully, we can learn from each other.”

Cuban health care is quite impressive. And by "impressive", I mean that it's a good way to die. It also depends on a population of plantation doctors who are leased as slave labor to other countries.

...

If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. As long as he's willing to sell pork out of his home to make ends meet.

And of course there are Castro's progressive education policies.

"I say it is one of the achievements of the revolution that even our prostitutes are university educated," Fidel Castro said.

And that's true. Their university education however is worthless.

...

We're headed this way too with the education bubble. Some are already there.

But Obama is pushing the leftist FDR line of positive entitlements as rights over negative rights that are freedoms. Give up your freedom, get free stuff. Look how well it worked out in Cuba.

Obama: US Can Learn About Human Rights from Cuba

No quotation marks = straw man alert.

You like putting things in mens mouths.

 

[American_Jihad]

Rolmao I can't help it we have a dummy for president and a lot of dummies who voted for that ssob...

Obama: US Can Learn About Human Rights from Cuba
March 21, 2016
Daniel Greenfield

Does Cuba have something to teach us about human rights? Considering Obama and Castro's attitude toward the rights protected by our Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion, Freedom of the Press and the Right to Bear Arms, not to mention the Right to Compulsory Insurance, you can see why Obama would find the Communist dictatorship inspiring.

“President Castro, I think, has pointed out that it, in his view making sure that everybody is getting a decent education or health care, has basic security in old age, that those things are human rights as well.”

“The goal of the human rights dialogue is not for the United States to dictate to Cuba how to govern themselves,” Obama continued. “Hopefully, we can learn from each other.”

Cuban health care is quite impressive. And by "impressive", I mean that it's a good way to die. It also depends on a population of plantation doctors who are leased as slave labor to other countries.

...

If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. As long as he's willing to sell pork out of his home to make ends meet.

And of course there are Castro's progressive education policies.

"I say it is one of the achievements of the revolution that even our prostitutes are university educated," Fidel Castro said.

And that's true. Their university education however is worthless.

...

We're headed this way too with the education bubble. Some are already there.

But Obama is pushing the leftist FDR line of positive entitlements as rights over negative rights that are freedoms. Give up your freedom, get free stuff. Look how well it worked out in Cuba.

Obama: US Can Learn About Human Rights from Cuba

No quotation marks = straw man alert.

You like putting things in mens mouths.

I'M not a democrat beside your the one on his knees...

By the way if an islamist took a look at your avatar they would do you from ear to ear...

 

[American_Jihad]

Cuba Celebrated Obama Visit by Arresting 498 Dissidents
April 6, 2016
Daniel Greenfield

You can see why Obama loves Cuba.

The Cuban Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation on Monday said that there were at least 1,416 arbitrary political arrests in Cuba during March, of which 498 took place during the March 20-22 visit of U.S. President Barack Obama.

The figure of 1,416 arrests, most of them lasting just hours, is one of the highest monthly totals registered in the past five years, exceeded only by the 1,447 arbitrary arrests recorded in November 2015.

For once, an Obama record that doesn't involve the number of Americans out of work.

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Cuba Celebrated Obama Visit by Arresting 498 Dissidents

 

[Clementine]

Rolmao I can't help it we have a dummy for president and a lot of dummies who voted for that ssob...

Obama: US Can Learn About Human Rights from Cuba
March 21, 2016
Daniel Greenfield

Does Cuba have something to teach us about human rights? Considering Obama and Castro's attitude toward the rights protected by our Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion, Freedom of the Press and the Right to Bear Arms, not to mention the Right to Compulsory Insurance, you can see why Obama would find the Communist dictatorship inspiring.

“President Castro, I think, has pointed out that it, in his view making sure that everybody is getting a decent education or health care, has basic security in old age, that those things are human rights as well.”

“The goal of the human rights dialogue is not for the United States to dictate to Cuba how to govern themselves,” Obama continued. “Hopefully, we can learn from each other.”

Cuban health care is quite impressive. And by "impressive", I mean that it's a good way to die. It also depends on a population of plantation doctors who are leased as slave labor to other countries.

...

If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. As long as he's willing to sell pork out of his home to make ends meet.

And of course there are Castro's progressive education policies.

"I say it is one of the achievements of the revolution that even our prostitutes are university educated," Fidel Castro said.

And that's true. Their university education however is worthless.

...

We're headed this way too with the education bubble. Some are already there.

But Obama is pushing the leftist FDR line of positive entitlements as rights over negative rights that are freedoms. Give up your freedom, get free stuff. Look how well it worked out in Cuba.

Obama: US Can Learn About Human Rights from Cuba

Obama was downright giddy around Castro. He must dream of being in his position.

Cuba is a great example of what to avoid. Human rights do not exist under tyrants.

The tyrants control everything and people are severely punished or even killed if they so much as speak out against the state. Castro is just as evil as Bowl Cut Jr.

 

[American_Jihad]

A History Lesson on Cuba for President Obama
Did the U.S. really "exploit" pre-Castro Cuba?
April 12, 2016
Humberto Fontova

“I know these issues are sensitive, especially coming from an American President. Before 1959, some Americans saw Cuba as something to exploit, ignored poverty, enabled corruption." (U.S. President Barack Obama, March 22, Havana Cuba.)

“I believe that there is no country in the world including any and all the countries under colonial domination, where economic colonization, humiliation and exploitation were worse than in Cuba, in part owing to my country’s policies during the Batista regime." (U.S. President John F. Kennedy, Oct 24, 1963.)

It’s understandable that two U.S. Presidents should hail the resourcefulness and guile of American businessmen. But liberal Democrats aren’t exactly renown for that sort of thing. And read right, the above statements imply exactly such praise—if somewhat backhandedly. The (seemingly) apologetic statements also imply condescension for those poor, stupid, corrupt Cuban natives who were such easy marks for sharp Yankee robber barons.

You’d never guess this from the media, Hollywood or your professors (or speechwriters for Democratic presidents), but in 1953 more Cubans vacationed in the U.S. (and voluntarily returned to Cuba) than Americans in Cuba. Yes, pre-Castro Cubans found the U.S. “a nice place to visit, but they certainly wouldn’t want to live there.” All this despite the friendliness and quaint habits of the natives -- and despite the ability to emigrate from Cuba virtually at will and obtain U.S. visas virtually for the asking. During the 1950s and based in Florida, Sheriff Joe Arpaio would have been lonelier than the Maytag repairman.

Obama and Kennedy were describing a nation (pre-Castro Cuba) with a higher per capita income than half of Europe, the lowest inflation rate in the Western Hemisphere, the 13th lowest infant-mortality on earth and a huge influx of immigrants. Furthermore, in 1959 U.S. investments in Cuba accounted for only 14 percent the island’s GNP, and. U.S.-owned companies employed only 7 per cent of Cuba's workforce.

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You might recall that a similar crime by a Latin dictator (Manuel Noriega) got his nation (Panama) invaded by 26,000 U.S. troops. In the process, 23 American servicemen were killed and 350 Panamanians (both military and civilian) died. As a result, Panama’s sovereign head of state Manuel Noriega was captured, tried, convicted and jailed for drug trafficking.

The U.S. response to the Cuban dope-traffickers, mass-murderers and terror-sponsors -- as dramatized quite recently with Obama's “historic” presidential visit -- has been markedly different.

A History Lesson on Cuba for President Obama

 

[American_Jihad]

LOL That's what happens when you deal with socialist/commies, maybe the kiddies will learn something...
Cuba Doubles Down on Insults, Calls Obama's Visit an 'Attack'
Because when you bend over backwards to please thugs...
4.19.2016
News
Tiffany Gabbay

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On Monday, Cuba Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez called Obama's visit "an attack on the foundation of our history, our culture and our symbols." Fox Latino reports:

"Obama came here to dazzle the non-state sector, as if he wasn’t the representative of big corporations but the defender of hot dog vendors, of small businesses in the United States, which he isn’t," Rodriguez said.

The remarks came at the Cuban Communist Party's twice-a-decade congress, held over the weekend, where some of Cuba's most powerful officials criticized the creaking inefficiency of its state-controlled economy, tarred its vibrant private sector as a potential source of U.S. subversion

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Obama either never learns or he simply does not mind being made a fool. Indeed, just like the Iranians before them, the Castros have now spat in Obama’s face not once, but multiple times.


Cuba Doubles Down on Insults, Calls Obama's Visit an 'Attack'

 

[elektra]

Cuba's Human Rights? 100% of all Native Cubans murdered, killed, simply replaced with Spaniards and African Slaves.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

"Obama: US Can Learn About Human Rights from Cuba"

Unfortunately, it’s impossible for most conservatives to learn about the truth from anyone.