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Old 01-29-2015, 07:26 AM
 
Location: The Lone Star State
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Right-winger desperately want Obama to be "worse than Bush". It won't happen.
Right wingers don't have to want anything. Your messiah is already recognized as worse by any logical thinking person. He's probably even surpassed Jimmy Carter on the failure scale. The Obamabots still shilling for him are the only ones left who are in denial and looking the fool.
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Old 01-29-2015, 07:27 AM
 
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The problem is that people simply do not understand how US works. Obama could not give Cuba what they want even if he wanted to.
You can bet the Cuban government definitely knows how it works and what they are asking for. It's Obama that doesn't understand how this whole thing works.
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Old 01-29-2015, 07:29 AM
 
Location: Where I live.
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Given this President's track record he will apologize profusely and offer Cuba copius amounts of money.
Yep. No doubt.
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Old 01-29-2015, 08:04 AM
 
Location: On a Long Island in NY
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I bet "American" corporations will put heavy pressure on not only the president, but congress as well, to get Cuba opened up ASAP. They can see the dollar signs for tourist hotels, clubs, casinos, McD and KFC franchises, etc. Cuba will become another Miami Beach, only bigger and less wealthy.


Seriously? Do you REALLY think the Cubans are going to let American businesses just waltz right in?

Let's get real here folks, all foreign owned businesses in Cuba do business through the Cuban government who seizes all of their profits on a regular basis. There was recently a court case where a British corporation went to some "international court" because the Castro regime stole 100% of their profits off of a Cuban resort hotel they operated.

There definitely won't be any McDonald's or KFC franchises allowed.

The Cubans have already told us that American businesses wont be allowed to come in ... they arent stupid, they know that's what we use for leverage. How do you think we took over Hawaii?
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Old 01-29-2015, 08:07 AM
 
Location: On a Long Island in NY
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Yep. No doubt.
He'll probably throw in the Florida Keys as a bonus.

I hope Congress defunds the office of president and the White House.
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Old 01-29-2015, 08:25 AM
 
Location: Florida
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You can bet the Cuban government definitely knows how it works and what they are asking for. It's Obama that doesn't understand how this whole thing works.
I am talking about the posters here. The Cubans, or Obama have not said anything to reveal what they know, or don't know about the system, but the posters here have revealed they do not understand how things work.
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Old 01-29-2015, 08:57 AM
 
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Like he supposedly was going to do with Putin? Does he still have a country?

Right-winger desperately want Obama to be "worse than Bush". It won't happen.
Uh, he is worse than any other president extant.
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Old 01-29-2015, 09:08 AM
 
Location: Ohio
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Castro wants us to pay him to normalize relations.

Cuba’s President Raúl Castro has demanded that the United States return the US base at Guantánamo Bay, lift the half-century trade embargo on Cuba and compensate his country for damages before the two nations re-establish normal relations.
Sounds fair to me.

If the US wrongfully seized all of your personal assets, and then wrongfully imprisoned you in your own home, you'd want compensation, right?

Normalizing...

Mircea
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Old 01-29-2015, 09:23 AM
 
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What the hell are you nuts talking about? Your hatred for Obama has you unable to see anything clearly. Get out, live. If a Republican were President right now you'd be talking about how he'd taken it to the Russians and lowered gas prices. The situation with Cuba is absurd. The US relationship with Saudi Arabia makes any talk of how we want to end dictatorships a complete farce. We're holding a hard line on a cold war that is long over and only being pushed by a small rabid group of people. They have a right to be angry, but they've been out of Cuba a long time. Enough.
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Old 01-29-2015, 09:34 AM
 
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Sounds fair to me.

If the US wrongfully seized all of your personal assets, and then wrongfully imprisoned you in your own home, you'd want compensation, right?

Normalizing...

Mircea


Are we talking about what Cuba under Castro did to its people or something the US supposedly did?
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