Obama's policy isn't as far-reaching as I'd like to see, but this is still night and day between him and Clinton. I have no idea what she's even trying to say about Cuba. Obama is talking sense, directly labeling our policy a failure, and then drawing at least a few of the correct implications from them with regard to remittances and travel.
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Cuba
21 Feb 2008 08:17 pm
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Chelsea is a fox. About the right age for you, Matt, maybe a little older.
MattY doesn't know this, but the person who asked the Cuba question is a Mexican citizen who won't become a U.S. citizen and who promotes CulturalSeparatism. Details.
Why does CNN have a Mexican citizen asking questions of candidates for U.S. president?
GO DONNA EDWARDS!!!!! YAAAAY!!! All Our Cuban Base Are Yours!!
Nothing on her mother.
At the risk of sounding like a Testostero-Patriarchist...
What is with Sen. Clinton's outfit this evening? Does she want to dress like a super-villainess? That COLLAR?!?!!
Why does CNN have a Mexican citizen asking questions of candidates for U.S. president?
Because all of Univisions American anchors sort of suck.
Man, Univision is so in the tank for Hillary.
Sorry, Obama's like a talking PowerPoint presentation, ticking off bullet-points with his fingers.
I thought the audience went nuts because Hillary kept bringing up the President, as, it seems, he is not well-regarded in some Democratic circles.
Hillary's working hard to play both sides of the border fence
I have an idea of what Clinton is saying on Cuba -she makes it pretty clear -
"As president I would be ready, to reach out and work with a new Cuban government once it demonstrated that it truly was going to change that direction... But there has to be evidence that indeed the changes are real, that they’re taking place, and that the Cuban people will finally be given an opportunity to have their future determined by themselves."
agree or disagree, it's clear.
i really doubt that when it comes down to it Clinton and Obama's stance as president towards Cuba wouldn't be exactly the same. They try to make out they have hugh differences but that's just politics.
In his reply Obama says -
"If we think that meeting with the president is a privilege that has to be earned, I think that reinforces the sense that we stand above the rest of the world at this point in time."
"a privilege that has to be earned". So in other words preconditions. Clinton spells them out, Obama puts this more generally.
"a privilege that has to be earned".
Obama is saying this is a bad thing, and that in order to restore our standing in the world we have to stop acting like such dicks (parapharasing).
Yes, Clinton's policy will be the same towards Iran - bow down to the US, stop enrichment, then we'll talk about what the US WON'T do for you...all the while threatening to bomb them out of existence if they don't obey.
Bush Lite, this is called.
Re: "Why does CNN have a Mexican citizen asking questions of candidates for U.S. president?"
For 40 years we had Peter Jennings, a Canadian citizen, asking questions of US presidential candidates and I'm sure you had no problem with that. And if we checked, I bet other journalists in America have foreign citizenship or dual citizenship. Big deal.
Jorge Ramos is a journalist who lives and works in he United States. People of Mexican origin are not the enemy.
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Obama's policy isn't as far-reaching as I'd like to see
Sure, but he doesn't have the benefit of a Cuban last name, and would surely lose Florida to McCain if he adopted as far reaching a policy as you would advocate.
Can't blame the guy for not conceding Florida outright.
Posted by SoCalJustice | February 21, 2008 8:24 PM