Posted on 12/20/2014 11:29:16 AM PST by Steelfish
DECEMBER 20, 2014 A Dictator’s Best Friend Obama throws our adversaries a lifeline. By Matthew Continetti
‘It’s a sad day for freedom,” Marco Rubio told Bret Baier after President Obama announced he would normalize relations with Cuba. Not a sad day, senator: a sad year.
If there was a theme to 2014, it was Obama’s persistence in bailing out dictators and theocrats from political scrapes and economic hardships, his tenacity in pursuit of engagement with America’s adversaries no matter the cost to our strength, principles, credibility, or alliances.
In this president the thugs in Havana and Caracas, Damascus and Tehran, Moscow and Naypyidaw and Beijing have no better friend. For these bullies, these evildoers, these millenarians and sectarians, Barack Obama is more than a dupe. He is an insurance policy. Cuba is but the latest example of this president’s failing to exercise leverage in the pursuit of American strength, security, and prestige. Here are the Castro brothers, decrepit and spent, their revolution a joke, their economy in peril thanks to the collapse in oil prices brought on by a strong dollar and increased U.S. supply.
The China option — foreign direct investment from America — is Raul and Fidel’s only play to sustain power over the society they have impoverished. And Obama says yes, yes to everything: an embassy, an ambassador, diplomatic relations, travel and exchange, status among nations, removal from the list of state sponsors of terror, and a serious opportunity to lessen the embargo that has kept the dictators caged for decades.
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Is Boehner a conservative?
Everyone babbles nothing is “DONE.” People should just shut up and take what comes. A trivial people deserve what they get. As the Gaul said to the Roman;”woe to the conquered.”
Obama’s backers have rendered Congress deballed, controlled, useless.
“‘It’s a sad day for freedom,” Marco Rubio told Bret Baier after President Obama announced he would normalize relations with Cuba. Not a sad day, senator: a sad year.”
What’s even sadder is that a “republican” congress will do nothing to stop him.
Do any representative bodies ever stop their charismatic dictators?
That would be a No.
They will also act like they are sad, very sad, and that sadness is supposed to reflect a purity of heart and is a substitute for action. For the next election, they can refer back to how sad they were about it all.
Ohaha'll do anything to ditch the "All-time Democrat Loser" title Americans bestowed on him at midterms.
Putin better keep his pants on (/snix).
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Ideologue Obama said he's "Not Done Yet," and has already gifted the world with Amnesty, ObamaCare, continuing racial unrest complete with 60's-era looting and burning, with Communist Cuba thrown in the WH garbage pile, for good measure.
HE'S HAVING WET DREAMS AGAIN All of Obama's most execrable activities serve to cherry-pick specific left-Democrat constituencies.....to serve his goal of a permanent Democrat majority.
Too bad midterm voters didn't go along with it.
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Taken by itself, Obama's newest brainchild---Operation Choke Point---epitomizes imperial governance. But when combined with his, and Holder's, aggressive use of civil forfeiture and Internal Revenue Service seizures of assets for no cause, a picture of government run amok emerges.
These govt-sponsored schemes strip ordinary Americans and business owners of their most basic rights simply because Obama doesn’t believe in them, fundamentally transforming the nation into little more than a banana republic in the process.
Choke Point sounds like another train wreck in the continuing saga of The Obama/Holder Extortion Unlimited. Obama told Joe the Plumber he was going to spread the wealth around. Nobody realized it would be going to idiots like Jonathan Gruber, to Obama's lefty community organizers....and into all those secret offshore accounts. Valerie Jarret is Obama's "Deputy Senior Advisor"---in Chicago gangland parlance that means "Wire Transfer Artist."
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Obama long ago ran out of ideas and is now publicly showing how he is running out of torment options.....and is resorting to his community organizer con man schemes....like extortion.
The Deranged Progressive Mind At Work: Community organizer Obama coerced and sued banks into providing “dignity mortgages” to deadbeats w/ no intentions of paying up----a big part of how struggling taxpayers got soaked in the bailout financial crisis.
Now as president, Obama's siccing the US Justice Dept on banks b/c a buncha dumbos got stuck w/ mortgages they can't possibly pay.
As Investors’ Business Daily concludes: The Obama/Holder bank actions have little, if anything, to do with “justice” or restitution for innocent victims. In its 30-page “statement of facts,” Justice couldn’t provide a single shred of evidence that BofA had committed fraud. Nor could Holder ID a single “victim” by name.
(The effect of the serial Obama/Holder bank heist is that) lenders are bankrolling the same lefty parasites that bled them for the risky loans that burdened American taxpayers. With endless streams of cash, Obama/Holder enables lefties to ramp up their shakedown campaign.....repeating the Obamacycle of dangerous political lending that wrecked the economy.
Obama and Holder are punishing banks over and over again---extorting billions of dollars from the largest banks and giving it away to Obama's lefty political friends---major suck-ups to his favorite liberal causes. 12/20
Very good. Our “leaders” weep crocodile tears.
AMERICANS BEWARE!
Pope Francis concocted Obama’s unconditional surrender to Cuba Stalinist regime.
Behind Obama’s unconditional surrender to the Castro’s brothers, is the plot to make the American taxpayers liable for whatever the American companies sell to Cuba. The end of the embargo is their goal. "Because of something called the Export-Import Bank there's no risk whatsoever in exporting to bankrupt, murderous and kleptocratic regimes- worse there' no incentive for the kleptocrats to clean up their act, as would happen under a genuine free-market. Also the World, financed 80% by the American taxpayers will open their vaults to be freely looted by the Castro brothers."
Castro helped to bankrupt the Soviet Union, Obama before leaving want to complete the destruction of United States.
In the commercial and political relations of the Cuban regime and the U.S. there are several priorities to be concerned with.
Cuba has defaulted in all his international financial deals and Castro encourages other Third World nations to follow his example. Why are we going to sell to someone without the expectation to ever be pay. The American taxpayers should be aware that they are the targets of the scam by which the multinationals sell to Castro whatever he needs and we, the taxpayers, end footing the bill. Castro for 42 years has been with commercial ties with over 150 nations. Now when he has exhausted the patience of nations fool enough to have given him credit, Castro’s puppets in the media, the congress in cahoots with some greedy commercial circles are trying that the American taxpayers shoulder the heavy burden of subsidizing his regime to the tune of 9 billion dollars.
From Humberto Fontova
Every atom of evidence shows that the actual people of Cuba actually want U.S. sanctions against the Stalinist regime that tortures them tightened. So perhaps President Obama should stop insulting the intelligence of Cuba-watchers by claiming to speak and act on their behalf. Here’s their reaction to this week’s early Christmas gift from Obama to the Stalinist dictator who tortures them:
"Sadly, President Obama made the wrong decision. The freedom and democracy of the Cuban people will not be achieved through these benefits that he's giving -- not to the Cuban people -- but to the Cuban government. The Cuban government will only take advantage to strengthen its repressive machinery, to repress civil society, its people and remain in power." (Berta Soler, leader of The Ladies in White, Cuba’s biggest dissident group.)
“[Alan Gross] was not arrested for what he did, but for what could be gained from his arrest. He was simply bait and they were aware of it from the beginning... Castroism has won,” (Yoani Sanchez, Cuba’s most internationally famous dissident.)
"I feel as though I have been abandoned on the battlefield." (Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet, former Cuban political prisoner awarded the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bush.)
>b>The list of back-stabbed and outraged Cuban dissidents is much, much longer.
At any rate, Cuba’s post-Soviet sugar-daddy (Venezuela) is currently in dire economic straits from the precipitous plunge in the price of oil, Venezuela’s top export. Their economic lifeline to the Castro regime looks shaky, hence the: “here I come to save the day!” by President Obama.
But let’s face it. Castro’s Stalinist regime has jailed, tortured and murdered tens of thousands (including some U.S. citizens) for over half a decade and most Americans don’t seem to give a flying flip. Fine. So let’s consult yet another Cuban dissident who actually serves up some red meat. Let’s notify Joe Sixpack and Soccer Mom (who quite understandably find all this human-rights stuff regarding a foreign country utterly irrelevant) that maybe it’s time to pay closer attention to the issue:
If the U.S. allows financing towards Cuba, it will be the U.S. taxpayers who would sustain the Castro regime. Since it has run out of doors to knock on (for credit), the Castro regime is now focused on the United States." (Cuban dissident and three-time Amnesty-International prisoner of conscience Rene Gomez Manzanoin.)
“Whoops!” you say. “How’s that again?!”
Barry was trained and mentored by his terrorist friend Bill Ayers. It’s no surprise that he is subordinating democracy for Communist Cuba. Democrat voters own this.
What Congress? What Senate? What SCOTUS?
This guy doesn’t need any of them.
Those days are over.
The Republicans like it that way. Chief Justice Roberts has relinquished his duties to Obama. What’s left to discuss.
0bama marched his horse onto the Senate floor long ago. Nobody should be surprised we are now being run by a new Caesar.
The author fails to note that Obama is simply one dictator helping other dictators. He’s no dupe. He, and his puppet masters, know exactly what they’re doing.
From what I have read from Rome, the Pope didn’t “concoct” it, but as soon as he heard about it (Obama sent some “representatives” to talk to him a couple of weeks ago), he realized that he’d be the koolest leftwing pope ever if he went along with this. The US didn’t get anything out of the deal, and neither did the Church. It was all to promote Castro and side with the left and get good publicity, because if there’s one thing this Pope loves, it’s the adulation of the media.
Evo Morales, btw, just came out and said “at last I have a Pope.” The Marxist dictator who is busy trying to revive pagan religion in his country...well, I guess he knows what he’s talking about.
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