Obama’s Worst Lie About his Dirty Castro Deal is in his First Sentence
Obama’s Worst Lie About his Dirty Castro Deal is in his First Sentence
December 17, 2014
by Daniel Greenfield
via Obama’s Worst Lie About his Dirty Castro Deal is in his First Sentence | FrontPage Magazine.
Usually you have to get at least two sentences into an Obama speech to find a whopper so big that McDonald’s wouldn’t be able to figure out what to charge for it. Not this time. Instead the worst lie in Obama’s Cuba speech was in his very first sentence.
“Today, the United States of America is changing its relationship with the people of Cuba,” Obama said.
No, nope. Still no.
Cuban is run by the Castro thugs. There is no democratically elected government. Obama did not make a deal with the elected representatives of the Cuban people.
He made a deal with the Castro crime family.
The people of Cuba have no say in how they live. They have no say in how they are governed. They have no say in their relationship with the United States except to flee by boat. Which many of them have done.
That opening sentence is the slimiest lie in Obama’s series of lies about his dirty deal with the Castros. It’s the slimiest lie because with it Obama makes the explicitly false claim that Raul Castro represents the Cuban people.
It’s an endorsement of the Communist dictatorship.
“There’s a complicated history between the United States and Cuba. I was born in 1961 — just over two years after Fidel Castro took power in Cuba, and just a few months after the Bay of Pigs invasion, which tried to overthrow his regime,” Obama said, as usual making it all about him.
The phrasing of his speech actually makes the case that the history involved doesn’t matter because it took place before Obama was born.
This is disturbingly egocentric even for Obama.
“Neither the American nor the Cuban people are well-served by a policy that’s rooted in events that took place before many of us were born,” Obama states.
Regardless of when Obama was born, the regime he just made a deal with it is still the same one as then. That concept seems to elude Obama’s narcissistic grasp of history.
“First, I’ve instructed Secretary (of State John) Kerry to immediately begin discussions with Cuba to re-establish diplomatic relations that have been severed since January of 1961. Going forward, the United States will re-establish an embassy in Havana, and high-ranking officials will visit Cuba.”
I’m sure Hanoi John will be thrilled.
“Second, I’ve instructed Secretary Kerry to review Cuba’s designation as a state sponsor of terrorism. This review will be guided by the facts and the law. Terrorism has changed in the last several decades. At a time when we are focused on threats from al-Qaida to ISIL, a nation that meets our conditions and renounces the use of terrorism should not face this sanction.”
Marxist terrorist groups haven’t disappeared and some of them interact with Islamic terrorist groups.
Step three involves bailing out the collapsing Castro regime by sending lots and lots of money to Cuba.
No, really. Here’s Obama.
Third, we are taking steps to increase travel, commerce, and the flow of information to and from Cuba… it will be easier for Americans to travel to Cuba, and Americans will be able to use American credit and debit cards on the island… we’re significantly increasing the amount of money that can be sent to Cuba… we will facilitate authorized transactions between the United States and Cuba. U.S. financial institutions will be allowed to open accounts at Cuban financial institutions… it will be easier for U.S. exporters to sell goods in Cuba…
But Obama respects the embargo. No really.
As these changes unfold, I look forward to engaging Congress in an honest and serious debate about lifting the embargo.
Unilateral dictatorship is not an honest and serious debate.
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WarSclerotic 
December 18, 2014 at 1:29 AM
December 18, 2014 at 1:41 AM
Raul Castro’s Long History of Crimes Against Humanity
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/raul-castros-long-history-of-crimes-against-humanity
December 18, 2014 at 1:45 AM
In 1961 Castro proclaimed the socialist nature of his administration, with Cuba becoming a one-party state under Communist Party rule; the first of its kind in the Western hemisphere. Adopting a Marxist-Leninist model of development, socialist reforms introducing central economic planning and expanding healthcare and education were accompanied by state control of the press and the suppression of internal dissent. Abroad, Castro supported foreign revolutionary groups in the hope of toppling world capitalism, backing the establishment of Marxist governments in Chile, Nicaragua, and Grenada, and also sending Cuban troops to aid leftist allies in the Yom Kippur War, Ethio-Somali War, and Angolan Civil War.
December 18, 2014 at 7:30 AM
RE: first three comments. So What? Times and circumstances change. But not on this site.
. . . the worst lie in Obama’s Cuba speech was in his very first sentence.
“Today, the United States of America is changing its relationship with the people of Cuba,” Obama said.
No, nope. Still no.
Cuban is run by the Castro thugs. There is no democratically elected government. Obama did not make a deal with the elected representatives of the Cuban people.
Read what BHO’s sentence act reads, not what you wish to read into it.
This site grows increasingly shrill and irrelevant. As does capo Bibi. Have a look at the 18 Dec comments about him in Haaretz.
December 18, 2014 at 3:43 PM
Do murdering dictators change ?
And in this case no regime change request from the black hand ?
Can the Cuban people travel freely now ?
December 20, 2014 at 2:12 AM
Dictators come and go.
Cuban people will travel; if not now, soon enough.
“Black hand?” To whom do you attribute that? What an obtuse, racist little man you are.
December 20, 2014 at 3:28 PM
You are not the smartest on the block, racist I ?
To obola, the black hand !
And now a bit googlen : the black hand.
https://www.google.com.mx/search?q=the+black+hand+mafia&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=WHiVVJLeHoqFyQSRw4KYAw#q=the+black+hand
December 18, 2014 at 4:35 PM
Soon, His Highness Obama will be offering the same gilded white flag to our friends in sunny North Korea. All Kim Jong Un has to do is stop picking on Sony and start acting like a victim of the Big Satan, you know, the kind of person that gives Obama the overwhelming urge to bend at the waist.
Sadly, however, the Cuban community here in the US is blowing its tortilla over King Obama’s act of rolling his bus over yet another group of loyal revelers. Yep, loyal. You know, the same Cuban community who voted by a whopping 53% to raise Obama to the top of Mount Olympus.
Such loyalty is enough to make a grown man cry…and cry they must, for their great leader has given them more ‘hope and change’ than they ever imagined.
So, I say unto our Latin friends, thank you. Thanks for helping Obama rise to his level of incompetence, thanks for giving him just enough power to take even more power, and lastly, thanks for giving us a better way to buy Cohiba cigars.
Meanwhile, keep those checks flowing back to your families in Cuba. They’re going to need all the pesos they get in order to buy all those nice shiny western goods soon to arrive at a neighborhood el mercado near you.
December 18, 2014 at 4:37 PM
Obama’s Bailout for Communist Dictators
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/obamas-bailout-for-communist-dictators/
December 24, 2014 at 4:00 PM
Cuban migrant missing after Cuban coast guard sinks boat
By Brenda Medina and Enrique Flor
bmedina@MiamiHerald.com
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http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/cuba/article4711515.html