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Senator Marco Rubio Slams Obama Administration Over Cuba

By: BigGator5 (Diary)  |  January 15th, 2011 at 12:00 PM  | 

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Senator Marco Rubio… Senator Marco Rubio… Senator Marco Rubio… Senator Marco Rubio… Senator Marco Rubio.

Ok, I’m done.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, a Cuban-American Republican who warned last week that the Obama administration was sending out “trial balloons” to new members about its intention to ease travel restrictions, condemned the administration’s actions as “unthinkable.”

“I strongly oppose any new changes that weaken U.S. policy towards Cuba. I was opposed to the changes that have already been made by this administration and I oppose these new changes,” Rubio said in a statement. “I believe that what does need to change are the Cuban regime’s repressive policies towards the independent press and labor unions, its imprisonment of political prisoners and constant harassment of citizens with dissenting views, and its refusal to allow free multi-party elections.”

Senator Marco Rubio… Senator Marco Rubio- Ops, I digress.

I’ve said this once and I’ll say this again: Cuba will become a state in the US soon after it becomes free. When US Cuban exiles return, they will take one look around and beg us to take them in. I think they will become a US State in short order. We should split the island into two states, because Cuba is huge. This, of course, is completely up to the Cuban people and we shouldn’t force anything on them. However I think they should choose quickly, because we have waited for over a hundred years for the people of Puerto Rico to make up their bloody mind. I would like for the people of Puerto Rico and Cuba to become our equals.

Still, one has to wonder if Alan Gross is a hostage and the State Department is somehow trying to make a deal with the Communist Government. We can only guess what we will fret away to get him free.

Senator Marco Rubio… Senator Marco Rubio… Senator Marco Rubio… Senator Marco Rubio… Senator Marco Rubio… Senator Marco Rubio… Senator Marco Rubio… Senator Marco Rubio… Senator Marco Rubio… Senator Marco Rubio… Senator Marco Rubio… Senator Marco Rubio… Senator Marco Rubio… Senator Marco Rubio… Senator Marco Rubio… Senator Marco Rubio… Senator Marco Rubio… Senator Marco Rubio… Senator Marco Rubio… Senator Marco Rubio… Senator Marco Rubio… Senator Marco Rubio…

[Cross-Posted On Practical State.com]

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  • jamesmackey

    Pretty sad that a supposedly limited government conservative would want to continue economic sanctions on an island 90 miles off our coast and certainly no threat to the United States.

  • Menlo

    I see no reason why one can honestly oppose loosening relations with Cuba without also supporting an embargo on China.

    • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

      later

  • jamesmackey

    I fear Rubio will be a disappointment. Castro is at the end of his life, he has admitted that his way of doing things doesn’t work. Economic development and Cuba can become a viable country again. Rubio is just playing to little Havana.

    • bobmontgomery

      Sounds like you are disappointed that Rubio became a Senator in the first place. Weren’t his views on evil Communist regimes pretty well known? Did you also fear when Regan became president that he would be a disappointment? His views on evil communist regimes were pretty well known , too. Just a little economic development and Cuba will be fine, huh?
      Okay, then.

      • jamesmackey

        First I’m glad Rubio won. Cuba is no threat to the United States. Economic development brings liberalization. It happened in China and Eastern Europe and it will happen in Cuba.

        I notice Rubio didn’t join the Senate Tea Party caucus which is surprising. And I have a prediction. Before 2012 election Rubio will call for comprehensive immigration (amnesty) reform joining up with Jeb Bush.

        • bobmontgomery

          …but you fear he will be a disappointment because he talked about an evil communist system in Cuba? Of course Cuba is not going to take over the US. That is a simplistic attempt to diminish Rubio. He is not out on the stump warning about Ft. Lauderdale being invaded. Further, you seem to really want people to suspect Rubio for some reason, so your plea that you are glad he won is a little disingenuous.

          • jamesmackey

            Disappointed by not joining with DeMint, Mike Lee and Rand Paul in the Tea Party caucus.

            http://saintpetersblog.com/2011/01/15/tea-party-caucus-forms-in-the-us-senate-but-without-marco-rubio/

        • Menlo

          Economic development has done nothing to liberalize China. It raised the standard of living for a very tiny percentage of its population allowing those few to pay off government officials in exchange for growing China’s prestige. China is still a harsh, brutal, and evil totalitarian dictatorship; and it always will be.

          I can’t say what will happen with Cuba. It’s a different country, a different size, and a different culture. Economic development is not possible in every nation and will not bring the same outcome in every nation.

    • Superheater

      It’s anybody that escaped that blood-thirsty fiend.

      Having had a Cuban emigre as a grade-school teacher in the early 1970′s, I suspect that Castro has earned every bit of the antipathy you see, even long after those folks are woven into the fabric of America. (said teacher’s son is a military Doctor)

      Castro may be paying lip service to reality, but if there was any justice, he’s be tried with crimes against humanity.

      As it stands, justice will likely have to wait to another place that might make Cuban Summers seem like an Antarctic winter.

  • level32

    Okay for one if Senator Rubio was slamming President Obama…I didn’t get that feel. I didn’t get the notion from these quotes that Rubio was “Slamming” any one but rather making a point based in principal. Two…All he did was lift travel restrictions! He didn’t stand up and condone their way of life or promise to adopt their ideals as our own, he lifted travel restrictions so people could go see family and open up more avenues for illegal drugs since the boarder war is slowing imports and exports from Mexico. Three, Cuba will never become a state of these United States because its a COUNTRY!!!! It’s a communist country at that, and as much as you may want to believe President Obama’s a socialist and a Communist and Lennonist he’s not and Cuba really is! They threatened to Nuke us out of fear of invasion in case you didn’t know or you forgot! They don’t want to be a part of us they want to have friendly relations with us, after all our biggest federal prison that gives tip top health care to terrorist who by the way our men and women in uniform are dying for…Or capturing and sending to is located in CUBA!!! Finally, as a fellow blogger I must say the point of a blog or any body of writing is to have a beginning a middle and an end with facts and a point relevant to the title…This does not follow that framework at all and it looks sloppy! Furthermore, to comment on Cuban relations or render an opinion about the future of Cuba requires knowing the history and some present facts about the country and it was painfully obvious none of those conditions were met! All due respect…as the Geico Caveman said…Next time maybe do a little research!!!

  • runner12

    I will give you that this is not the best written and researched diary on RS. It is a complex issue which evokes passionate feelings in those who are Cuban-American and deserves more research. I also agree that the assertion that Cuba should or will become a state is, well, odd. It is a sovereign nation. Also, we have enough debt right now, adding Cuba would not help that.

    To the assertion that Obama is not a socialist, I will echo your own sentiment, do some research! Obama began his political career with people who are admitted socialists. Obama and/or those who influence him want to transform the US into more of a democratic-socialist state. The best way to determine a person’s poltical point of view is to look at who shaped it. Obama’s past is riddled with loose and close associations with people who espouse some form of socialism. This not name-callling or slander, it is simply an accurate portrayal of President Obama’s political philosophy.

    Which brings me to my last point, Rubio did slam Obama. He did so quite clearly. Many Cuban-Americans feel strongly about having nothing to do with Cuba. You can hardly blame them, many fled Cuba with nothing bu the clothes on their back. Their family members were killed for dissenting. The wisdom of complete isolation is something that is worth debating, but I can understand why Rubio and many others feel the way they do.

    Lastly, it is best not to criticize someone else’s writing when your post is one long paragraph.

    • runner12

      It has been a long day.

    • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

      I do favor a different strategy after all these decades, but I think it is an acceptable position, certainly, to maintain a strong position against communism/socialism given the historical particulars.

      And I have criticized Rubio on his oil drilling and AZ Law positions.

      • Menlo

        Does anyone not consider that China is actually worse in every possible way? Besides the horrific acts against its own people, it poses an existing and ongoing danger to all Americans and to the rest of the world. China is causing us more harm now than the Islamic terrorist groups ever could have hoped to.

        • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

          One could be sincerely for the policy re Cuba on moral and strategic grounds and against the same in China for acceptable reasons, imo. Especially considering the power of China on fronts that would also cause human suffering if we had the identical policy as in Cuba, for instance.

          Plus, to claim disingenuousness (sp?) which essentially seeks to judge the heart, I would want to have direct evidence of not being for the Cuban policy for the stated reasons, rather than depend on comparisons with China, to make that leap. But that’s just me.

          • Menlo

            The human suffering would not be greater with the same policy in China; I believe it would actually be less. Regardless, however much suffering did result (at least for Americans) would be necessary and overwhelmingly justified.

            I do think it’s wrong to expend any government resources on Cuba when we actually have a greater need to do so with regard to China. I could understand not wanting to change policy with Cuba on those grounds.

          • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine
  • proudmarinemom

    “The White House announced the new measures late Friday night, likely anticipating the mixed reaction among some Democrats and Republicans to any move seen as inching toward rapprochement with the communist regime. They had been in the works for months, but political concerns ? such as November?s midterm elections ? held up the announcement.”

    See: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/47640.html#ixzz1BDKj1UX0

    In other words, Obama is terrified of Marco Rubio and has shot a preemptive strike across his bow. Which, ironically, lifts Rubio into the spotlight.

    The majority of Americans know nothing — absolutely nothing — of the starvation, beatings, humiliation and worse that descends upon those who dare to criticize the Communist regime in Cuba. A doctor who states publicly that he has an insufficient supply of syringes in his clinic is at risk of being sentenced to 20 years in a filthy cell without toilets, running water, bedding or ventilation.

    The new Obama-Castro Holiday Inn in Havana will have sparkling swimming pools with swim-up bars, cocktails with little umbrellas, waiters in tuxedos, etc. And a ten foot wall with broken glass on top to prevent clueless Americans from seeing the reality outside the verdant garden paradise.

  • rasvar

    but really think is a holdout from a different age and is out of date. Trade is the best way to spread our ideas. By restricting our ability to spread our ideas, we are only giving a great propaganda weapon to Cuba. None…and I mean NONE…of our allies are supporting us on this. The U.S. is alone.

    On top of this, one has to review if the embargo is working. I am hard pressed to find any evidence that this has helped at all. The only reason this still exists is because there are still those highly connected Cuban exiles who insist on being repaid for the seizing of their property. At some point, one has to admit that something like that is never going to happen and the long term maintenance of the status quo is a negative to both Cuba and the U.S.

    I understand there are political and emotional reasons for continuing the embargo. I just don’t think that they are viable reasons anymore. Open up Cuba to the free flow of information from the U.S. Remove Cuba’s best anti-U.S. propaganda weapon by opening up trade. The positives far outweigh the negatives.