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Obama to lay out vision for Cuba in historic Havana speech
Associated Press ^ | Mar 16, 2016 6:56 PM EDT | Josh Lederman

Posted on 03/16/2016 5:46:13 PM PDT by Olog-hai

President Barack Obama will use an historic speech in Havana next week to lay out a vision of greater freedoms and more economic opportunity in Cuba, White House officials said Wednesday, offering a glimpse of how the president hopes to use his trip to encourage change on the communist island.

Obama’s speech on Tuesday at the Grand Theater of Havana will mark a moment that seemed unimaginable only a few years ago, before Obama and Cuban President Raúl Castro moved to restore relations between the two estranged countries.

Obama’s advisers said they hoped Cubans would be able to watch the speech live on television, adding that Obama sought not to dictate outcomes but create the space for Cuba to change on its own. …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Cuba; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: castros; cuba; dictators; globalism; havana; obama; obamacubaspeech; obamacubatrip; putinsbuttboys; putinstrollarmy
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1 posted on 03/16/2016 5:46:13 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

I had no idea he was president of Cuba? Poor Cuba. By the time he’s done a 50 year long embargo will seem like good times.


2 posted on 03/16/2016 5:54:23 PM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: Olog-hai

I’m 69 years old. If there’s a dumber individual on the face of this Earth than Obama. I have never heard him or heard of him


3 posted on 03/16/2016 5:55:24 PM PDT by Federal46
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To: Olog-hai
a moment that seemed unimaginable inevitable only a few years ago, considering that a sociopathic Communist had just been elected US President. . .
4 posted on 03/16/2016 5:56:09 PM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: Olog-hai
The Emperor who Wears No Clothes still acting like an idiot and the world begins to move past him.
5 posted on 03/16/2016 5:57:20 PM PDT by Vision (Obama is not a well man.)
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6 posted on 03/16/2016 6:00:25 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: Olog-hai
That should pretty well be the end of Cuba.

"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."

-- Milton Friedman


7 posted on 03/16/2016 6:00:54 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Everyone has a plan till they get punched in the mouth -- Mike Tyson)
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To: Olog-hai

When a Marxist nation suspends itself in 1959 economically it doesn’t exactly take ‘vision’ to denote what that country should do.

This has been Obama’s MO from the beginning...take a any particular no-hoper and give a speech. The speech achieves nothing but people praise Obama and that’s all he’s interested in.


8 posted on 03/16/2016 6:01:40 PM PDT by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends.)
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To: Olog-hai

Cuba could be a good place to unload all his imported undocumented democrats.


9 posted on 03/16/2016 6:02:12 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: Olog-hai

What is so “historic” about it? The “media” call it historic every time Obama takes a ..... or eats an ice cream cone. Historic is going to be when we finally throw him out of the White House on his ass in January.


10 posted on 03/16/2016 6:02:18 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (America is not a dump, sewer or "refugee" camp. It's my home.)
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To: Olog-hai

The Cuban commies wouldn’t put up with it if an American went there and tried to give a speech.


11 posted on 03/16/2016 6:03:52 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (America is not a dump, sewer or "refugee" camp. It's my home.)
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To: Olog-hai

A Chicago Community Agitator laying out Cuba’s vision for them. ROTFL! Cuba has really gone down hill.


12 posted on 03/16/2016 6:05:15 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (America is not a dump, sewer or "refugee" camp. It's my home.)
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To: Olog-hai

If he kisses Fidel on the lips, wake me up.

Otherwise, maybe he will decide to just stay down there. Hey Barry, check out the beach by Gitmo. The sharks down there love commie bastids.


13 posted on 03/16/2016 6:07:48 PM PDT by West Texas Chuck (OBAMA: Fundamentally Twerking America)
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To: Olog-hai
Great idea Obama.
Maybe you can do for them what you did for Syria?


14 posted on 03/16/2016 6:07:52 PM PDT by Bon mots
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Obama to lay out vision for Cuba in historic Havana speech

Let the first debater challenge his opponent to kill himself and that would leave him as the master debater.

15 posted on 03/16/2016 6:08:39 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: Bushbacker1

Oops! Wrong thread!


16 posted on 03/16/2016 6:09:11 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: Olog-hai

I am certain that Baraq Hussein Obama’s vision is that Cuba will submit to Islam


17 posted on 03/16/2016 6:14:18 PM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (Obama - "I will stand with the Muslims")
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To: FlingWingFlyer

The “media” call it historic
= = =

Well, of course they mean hysteric.

Including all the Feminine connotations.


18 posted on 03/16/2016 6:18:35 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (As always, /s is implicitly assumed. Unless explicitly labled /not s. Saves keystrokes.)
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To: Olog-hai

Hey Bambi!

Here’s a list for you, in case anybody gives a damn about your “vision for Cuba”:

Freedom of Speech and the Press,
Release of Political Prisoners,
Freedom of Religion,
Open and Free Elections,
...oh....and while you’re at it....how about reasserting those rights for Americans?


19 posted on 03/16/2016 6:28:22 PM PDT by G Larry (ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants.)
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To: MrBambaLaMamba

No; he does not require that of communist states. Only ones that allow free exercise of religion for Christians and Jews.


20 posted on 03/16/2016 6:29:49 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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