Obama’s Bailout for Communist Dictators

Mandela memorial service (30)The Soviet Union did not have to fall. If Carter had won a second term and Mondale had succeeded him, the Communist dictatorship might have received the outside help it needed to survive.

And we would still be living under the shadow of the Cold War.

Carter couldn’t save the Soviet Union, but he did his best to save Castro, visiting Fidel and Raul in Cuba where the second worst president in American history described his meeting with Castro as a greeting among “old friends”.

Raul Castro called Carter “the best of all U.S. presidents.”

Obama’s dirty deal with Raul will make the worst president in American history, Castro’s new best friend.

Carter couldn’t save Castro, but Obama did. This was not a prisoner exchange. This was a Communist bailout.

Obama boasted that he would increase the flow of money to Cuba from businesses, from bank accounts and from trade. When he said, “We’re significantly increasing the amount of money that can be sent to Cuba”, that was his real mission statement.

The Castro regime is on its last legs. Its sponsors in Moscow and Caracas are going bankrupt due to failing energy prices. The last hope of the Butcher of Havana was a bailout from Washington D.C.

And that’s exactly what Obama gave him.

Obama has protected the Castros from regime change as if Communist dictators are an endangered species.

From the beginning, Obama put his foreign policy at the disposal of Havana when he backed Honduran leftist thug Manuel Zelaya’s attempt to shred its Constitution over the protests of the country’s Congress and Supreme Court. And its military, which refused to obey his illegal orders.

Obama’s support for an elected dictator in Honduras should have warned Americans that their newly elected leader viewed men like Zelaya favorably and constitutions and the separation of powers between the branches of government unfavorably. It also showcased his agenda for Latin America.

His embrace of Raul Castro brings that agenda out into the open even if he still insists in wrapping it in dishonest claims about “freedom” and “openness” while bailing out a Communist dictatorship.

Obama began his Castro speech with a lie, declaring, “The United States of America is changing its relationship with the people of Cuba.”

The Cuban people have no relationship with the United States because they have no free elections and no say in how they are governed. The only Cubans who have a relationship with the United States fled here on rafts.

Obama did not make his dirty deal with the Cuban people. He made it in a marathon phone call with the Cuban dictator.

When Obama claims that his deal with Raul Castro represents a new relationship with the people of Cuba, he is endorsing a Communist dictatorship as the legitimate representative of the Cuban people.

This is a retroactive endorsement of the Castro regime and its entire history of mass murder and political terror. Obama is not trying to “open up” Cuba as he claimed. He likes Cuba just the way it is; Communist and closed.

Obama did not consult the Cuban people, just as he did not consult the American people. He disregarded the embargo, Congress, the Constitution and the freedom of the Cuban people.

His dictatorial disregard of the embargo, which can only be eliminated by Congress, in order to support a dictatorship, is a disturbing reminder that the road he is walking down leads to a miserable tyranny.

Cuban-American senators from both parties have been unanimous in condemning the move. These senators are the closest thing to Cuban elected officials. But Obama disregarded Senator Menendez, a man of his own party, Senator Marco Rubio and Senator Ted Cruz.

Instead Obama chose to stand with Raul Castro and his Communist dictatorship.

Obama tried to whitewash his crime by exploiting Alan Gross, a USAID contractor who was imprisoned and abused by the Castro regime, as if the release of an American hostage justified helping the men holding him hostage stay in power. And the media, which was reprinting Castro’s propaganda claiming that Gross’ imprisonment was justified, is busy now pretending that it cares about his release.

He had similarly tried to whitewash his Taliban amnesty by using Bergdahl and his parents as cover. If a deal is struck with Iran, the release of Robert Levinson, Saeed Abedini or Amir Hekmati will almost certainly be used to divert attention from the fact that their own government has collaborated with the thugs and terrorists who took them hostage.

Even though Obama criticized European countries for paying financial ransoms to ISIS, his own ransom paid to the Castros is worth countless billions. And the blood money pouring out of American banks into the Castro regime will encourage other dictatorships to take Americans hostage as leverage for obtaining concessions from the United States. Americans abroad will suffer for Obama’s dirty deal.

No European country recognized ISIS in exchange for the release of hostages. Only Obama was willing to go that far with Cuba, not only opening diplomatic and economic relations, but promising to remove the Communist dictatorship from the list of state sponsors of terror despite the fact that the last State Department review found that Cuba continued to support the leftist narco-terrorists of FARC.

FARC had taken its own American hostages who were starved and beaten, tortured and abused.

Now Obama has given in to the demand of a state sponsor of terror to be removed from the list of state sponsors of terrorism in exchange for releasing a hostage.

Obama has sent a message to Iran that the best way to secure a deal is by wrapping it in an American hostage. He has told ISIS that we do negotiate with terrorists. And he has once again demonstrated that his vaunted “smart power” is nothing more than appeasement wrapped in excuses and lies.

But Obama did not act to help Alan Gross. He did not even act because he genuinely thought that diplomatic relations would open up Cuba. In his speech, Obama used the claim commonly put forward by Castro apologists that the very fact that the Castros were still in power proved that sanctions had failed. Yet the lack of sanctions against Cuba by the rest of the world certainly did not usher in the new spirit of openness that Obama is promising. Rewarding dictators with cash never frees a nation.

This was not about saving Alan Gross. It was about saving Raul Castro.

Obama and Castro are both weakened leaders of the left. Like the Castros, Obama has lost international influence and his own people have turned on him. The only thing he has left is unilateral rule.

If Obama saw something of his own hopes and aspirations to engage in a populist transformation of the United States in Manuel Zelaya or Hugo Chavez, his horizons have narrowed down to those of Raul Castro. His ability to remake the world has vanished and the American people are revolting against his collectivization efforts. They want open health care markets, free speech and honest government.

Obama can no longer remake the Middle East, he certainly can’t bring the Soviet Union back from the dead, but he could still bail out Raul Castro and maintain Communist rule in Cuba.

No matter how often Obama claims to be “on the right side of history”, the Castros are a living reminder that to be on the left is to be on the wrong side of history.

Obama did not want to see the “Berlin Wall” fall in Havana on his watch. After watching his own grip on the United States collapse, he did not want to see the left fail again.

We can never know how history might have been different if Carter had gotten a second term or if Mondale had replaced Reagan. But Obama’s deal with Castro reminds us that the end of the USSR was not inevitable. It happened because we stood up against the tyrants in the Kremlin and their useful idiots in the White House.

A good man like Reagan could make a difference by bringing down the USSR. A bad man like Obama can make a difference by keeping Cuba Communist.

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  • http://twitter.com/WinstonCDN WinstonCDN

    Obama is a despicable human POS.

    • dwayne roberson

      That is an easy type-o. Forgot the TU again dagnabit!

    • dagmiller

      Well Okay, but actually he is also a very clever man. Look how far he has gotten in transforming this country into the UNITED NATIONS OF AMERICA. Yes, he and his Islamist/marxist cohorts are very clever indeed.

      • truebearing

        My guess is that the cleverness comes from those manipulating things behind the scenes. Obama is clever in a dishonest way but too lazy to accomplish anything all on his own.

      • Nabukuduriuzhur

        Obama is not clever.

        Every time in 2008 when the Democrats tried to show him off, he failed miserably. He can do speeches via teleprompter, but when he’s on his own, it’s clear that he’s not very bright.

        Since his entire past before becoming a state rep in Illinois turned out to be a fabrication, one wonders if he even graduated high school.

        • dagmiller

          I disagree. Check him out the next time he takes questions from the press—he has a way with words, and always demonstrates he is quite bright. Look, these abilities have gotten him where he is, and without which, he’d still be a community organizer.
          As to his past (place of birth, early contacts, education, etc.) I wish all our suspicions and outright claims of fraud such as yours [ "entire past...fabrication"] could be proven and made public; but, for some reason, that has not happened. I wonder why. For starters, on the birth issue, where is Rush when we need him? And don’t you think some official, high up in the Republican party, would have pursued the question of the president’s birth, for example, if it could be proven. Such proof would lead to impeachment, which is what, I think, you and I, all conservatives, and most of the population, would relish.

          • doramin

            Obama only takes pre-arranged, pre-scripted questions from compliant pressies.

          • kiwi41

            ” Such proof would lead to impeachment, which is what, I think, you and I, all conservatives, and most of the population, would relish.”

            There are MORE than enough blatant examples of criminal acts against the constitution and acts of treason to impeach the PONS if anyone had the cajones to do so.

  • De Doc

    The Castro Crime Syndicate will soon be pushing up daisies. Perhaps it is time for the U.S. to move in set up a situation that will benefit the Cubans as much as the Americans. Obama probably has some idiotic, socialistic motive behind this move, but I see lots of capitalist opportunities ahead, when Cuba finally wrests itself from the Castro dictatorship.

    • JR Kipling

      This country cannot help anyone. We have to save ourselves. The US Govt on every level State Dept,. Dept of Commerce, DOJ, is staffed by Obama
      minions. We do not want any interaction with a place like Cuba as it will give these Obama soldiers a cause and opportunity. The first thing that
      will happen is unlimited immigration from Cuba and unlimited loans to the Communists.

      • zoomie

        not true, the government is staffed by graduates of the best schools in Amerika. that Sir, is the fundamental problem. think it through. i for one am not optimistic.

  • Yehuda Levi

    When the Castro brothers are gone another leftist thug will take over. After all, Cuba has the stamp of approval of American Hollywood and now Obama as well.

    According to Hollywood and Obama, America is the problem, not Cuba.

    Why would Cuba change and disappoint either party?

  • Bamaguje

    “Obama did not consult the Cuban people, just as he did not consult the American people” – DG.

    So this is a deal between two tyrants – Castro and Obama – not between American and Cuban peoples.

    “He had similarly tried to whitewash his Taliban amnesty by using Bergdahl and his parents as cover… Obama has sent a message to Iran that the best way to secure a deal is by wrapping it in an American hostage” – DG.

    May be Israel should capture an American hostage to swap for Pollard. It seems to be the only language America’s “pen & phone” tyrant understands.

    • John Pallyswine

      Democrats, libs, progressives and other mental deviants love rewarding bad behaviour to the point of being obsequiously disgusting about it.

      Who are pulling this idiot`s strings?? Through Obamy, Bush and Clinton and LBJ and Carter, the owners of America`s Federal Reserve System have betrayed anybody who is still idiotic enough to view the leaders of the USA as being on the side of morality.

    • wildjew

      Obama believes he has divine sanction for this. After all God’s viceroy on earth (Pope Francis) helped him accomplish it.

      • Crassus

        Who would have ever believed that the Communists got their men into both the Papacy and the White House? The world has truly gone insane.

      • truebearing

        Yes, the Pope, who supposedly champions the poor and wants and end to violence is involved in propping up a brutal communist regime. Francis is a fraud.

        • wildjew

          He’s not the first in the Vatican to prop up a brutal dictator.

          • truebearing

            The Vatican is a political entity that forgot what the original church was based upon. The divergence of their teachings from the Gospel has always bothered me.

            Francis comes from South America where Marxists infiltrated the Catholic Church, infusing their social justice nonsense with the Christian teachings. The result was Liberation Theology. Despite efforts to stamp it out, it is still rampant throughout the Catholic Church.

            The irony of corrupting the church with Liberation Theology is that Marx basically stole his egalitarian ideas frm Christianity, sans God.

          • Debbie G

            Love that last paragraph.

        • kiwi41

          The Vatican has been supporting Nazis for decades.

  • halevi

    Why is it OK for us to trade with China, but not Cuba? Or is it not OK? If not, then why do we tolerate it?

    • dwayne roberson

      We are the teenager who wants the credit card.

    • pupsncats

      China isn’t on our list of state sponsors of terrorism. That’s the difference I believe.

    • trickyblain

      Good question. Same applies with Vietnam, or much more repressive regimes like Saudi Arabia and Libya under Qadaffi.

      Don’t think for a minute that if Cuba had expansive oil fields, this embargo wouldn’t have ended over 20 years ago. It’s been a political football to placate a faction of exiles in Florida.

      Hopefully, soon we won’t have to go to Mexico to find the best cigars in the world.

      • truebearing

        I guess you don’t find Castro’s desire to nuke American cities, kill his own citizens, facilitate drug smuggling to the US, or spread communism throughout South America as compelling reasons to choke off our biggest hemispheric enemy.

        • Vinegar Hill

          What an utterly hysterical response. The mighty Cuba is not only a “threat” to capitalism in South America but has the potential to bring down the USA. You could try and send the outline of a script to Hollywood directors because you have the making of a big hit with your comment.

          • http://www.stubbornthings.org NAHALKIDES

            You don’t know your history. Truebearing is right: during the Cuban missile crisis, Fidel wanted Russia to nuke the U.S. Fortunately, the Soviets maintained firing control over their missiles in Cuba and Fidel couldn’t launch them on his own. And Cuban soldiers did cause trouble in South America. Finally, what about the Cuban people? Their only hope for freedom is for the communist dictatorship to collapse or be overthrown.

          • truebearing

            You’re babbling. There was nothing hysterical about my comment, other than your esponse, which, as usual, made no sense.

            You didn’t challenge or refute a single thing in my comment. Are you disputing that Castro wanted to nuke American cities? Ae you disputing anything else? if so, put up your non-hysterical response, replete with the facts that prove me wrong. I won’t be holding my breath.

          • Vinegar Hill

            Why would Castro want to “nuke America” when that could be carried out by the USSR? Missiles in Cuba made no difference to the stragetic balance of power. Both sides in the Cold War had a first strike capability.
            You accuse the Castro regime of facilitating drug smuggling to the US.. That’s how the CIA had funded illegal cover operations when Congress denied funding for presidential foreign policy whims and fancies. Ask your friend Olie North what it was like under the teflon president who organised more fund-raising activities.

          • truebearing

            Don’t play any dumber than you are. Castro and Gueverra wanted to nuke the US. They are the kinds of madmen that are drawn to the evil potential of Marxism.

          • zoomie

            you’re trying to reason with a cowardly traitor. good luck

          • zoomie

            coward and traitor

          • Vinegar Hill

            Why “coward”?
            Why “traitor”?
            Obama has done the right thing.
            Obama has the intelligence to change.
            You are a reactionary.

          • His Excellency

            So, in other words, you want America to boycott Israel, the only liberal democracy in the Middle East, but at the same time, further enrich Communist Cuba, the only totalitarian dictatorship in the Western Hemisphere. You clearly have a double standard.

          • nightspore

            Now you’re engaging in sophistry. Castro even told McNamara many years later that he was willing to start a nuclear war at that time.

            I believe that was a major reason behind the Soviet decision to back off. They realized how dangerous it was to put missiles in the hands of someone like Castro.

        • trickyblain

          Qadaffi was a monster on the order of hundreds of times worse than Castro — before and after he promised to stop his WMD programs. You’ve referred to him as our “ally” here. No love for Castro here, but I’d take Cuba way before dozens of nations that we freely do business with. Plus, it’s been over 50 years since the most egregious events on your list occurred — the revolutionary fervor from the 60′s died long before the Berlin Wall fell.

          I also have issues with my gov’t telling me where I can or cannot go, and on which products I can spend my dollars.

          • truebearing

            I referred to Ghaddafi as an ally? Where, exactly did I say that? Now that you falsely allege that I said Ghaddafi was an ally, at least Ghaddafi was an ally against the Islamists. On his worst day he didn’t come close to their brutality. And is Libya in the Western Hemisphere now? I didn’t know it had relocated.

            ” Plus, it’s been over 50 years since the most egregious events on your list occurred — the revolutionary fervor from the 60′s died long before the Berlin Wall fell.”

            You don’t stay up on current events, do you. Cuba has been the hub of communism in Central and South America for decades. Nicaragua, Venezuela, Bolivia, Mexico, et al. were all supported/instigated by Castro, the Soviet satellite. If Cuba isn’t causing any problems anymore, why are so many nations in South America turning communist, and why are Cuban troops there to help them?

            Anyone evil and insane enough to want to nuke America, at any time, should never be forgiven, much less supported.

            Castro’s “utopia” was finally taking the path always traveled by communist nations — failure — but Obama couldn’t stand to watch yet another communist state collapse, or one of his personal heroes fall. Castro’s collapse would have been a good thing for the horribly oppressed Cubans, but that is all lost on you. You are too busy being outraged that you don’t have total freedom, while the Cubans under the Castros have none. Nice display of heedless narcissism. You’re a real civil rights stalwart.

          • trickyblain

            http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/dont-blame-bush-for-al-qaeda-in-iraq-blame-obama/#comment-1451228536http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/dont-blame-bush-for-al-qaeda-in-iraq-blame-obama/#comment-1451228536

            —–Bush didn’t directly enable Islamists all over the Middle East. He
            didn’t unseat a valuable ally in the war on Islamist terror, like Obama
            did twice. You can say both Saddam and Mubarak were dictators but
            Mubarak wasn’t using WMDs on his own citizens. He wasn’t supporting
            terrorism. He wasn’t seeking nuclear weapons so that he could rule the
            Middle East and most likely, attack Israel. Mubarak didn’t invade
            Kuwait, with an eye on Saudi Arabia, which would have been an economic
            disaster for the US. Now we have discovered vast energy reserves due to
            fracking, but we didn’t have that option then.——
            -TB

            If not Qadaffi, who was the other “ally” other than Mubarak? And Mubarak? Another beacon of humanity. You call these tyrants “allies,” yet question my respect for civil rights? Both regimes committed murder, rape (of young girls) torture of political prisoners and all the things dictators love to do. And attacking Israel? The Saudis won’t even let a Jew into the country. Yet we do billions of dollars of business with them per year.

            My question was pretty simple — no outrage at all, no support for the Castro’s: Why is it ok to have trade/tourism with tyrants as bad and much worse than the regime in Cuba, but embargo Cuba for the last 50 years? What good has it done — for us or for the Cuban people? But, as per your custom, you go all hysterical. At least you didn’t call Obama the son of Satan this time.

          • truebearing

            My son of Satan joke didn’t sit well with you, eh? I’ll try harder to anticipate your sense of humor next time.

            I already acknowledged Ghaddafi being an ally against Islamists, didn’t I? And Islamists are doing far worse things than he ever did, as bad as he was. There are no morally perfect options when dealing with Muslim countries. The only choice is the lesser of evils. As usual, Obama has facilitated the greatest of evils…the Satan’s son thing fits pretty well.

            You keep ignoring the word “hemispheric” in my original reply. Cuba is 90 miles off the coast of Florida and has done whatever it can to aid the enemies of the US, from its very beginnings. That is a compelling reason to choke the Castro regime alone.

            I don’t recall defending doing business with China. As a matter of fact, I have been opposed, both morally and strategically, to American businesses sourcing everything in China. They’ll ultimately rip-off every patent or design and replace the short-sighted fools who insist on hanging by a short rope.

            We don’t have the capacity to change every evil regime in the world, but we certainly could have, and should have, waited out the collapse of the Castro regime. It was teetering on the brink. Now Obama will violate more laws and help them out, with our money. You who are so concerned with where you can spend your money should be equally concerned where American dictators squander your taxes.

          • His Excellency

            There is no embargo on Cuba by definition. There are only limited sanctions that are too full of holes to be an actual embargo. Besides, the Castro family dictatorship had craved to start a nuclear war with the United States in the past. Read Humberto Fontova’s articles and books for more on the truth.

      • JayWye

        Cuba DOES have oil/gas fields,off-shore,same one as the US wants to drill if Comrade Obama wasn’t blocking it.. Cuba signed a deal with CHINA to develop them. it has the potential to foul Florida coasts and beaches when the Chinese have their inevitable sloppy management and spills.

      • zoomie

        how have you survived all these years without the best cigars in the world ? you poor deprived soul.

    • zoomie

      why is it ok for us to trade with china ? see my post above. my response is we should not. are the chinese any more free now after us “helping” them for over 20 years ? the people in Hong Kong seem a little un sure.

  • truebearing

    This was a superb analysis of Obama’s consistent historical loyalty to communism.

    “From the beginning, Obama put his foreign policy at the disposal of Havana when he backed Honduran leftist thug Manuel Zelaya’s attempt to shred its Constitution over the protests of the country’s Congress and Supreme Court. And its military, which refused to obey his illegal orders.”

    This was the perfect place to begin the history of Obama’s loyalty to marxist dictators. Too many people ignored his belligerence toward the Honduran government for throwing Zelaya out of office for violating the Honduran constitution. Obama punished Honduras for their perfectly constitutional actions, and the UN joined Obama in meddling in Honduran internal affairs — a sign of things to come. Of course, no one was surprised that the corrupt UN violated its charter, yet again, but what they did in concert with Obama was an early warning that America blithely ignored, at its own peril.

    Look at Honduras now. It is the main conduit for drugs being sent north from South America. It is overrun with drug gangs, making its murder rate one of the highest in the world. It was also a country where Obama and Holder supplied guns to narco-gangs during the Fast and Furious scheme.

    Now Obama is shoring up the collapsing headquarters for communism in South America, and there is no good reason to do so. A collapsed Castro regime is good for Cubans and good for America, but bad for communists, and that is the only reason he is doing it. This is yet another act of treason. The Castros have been our sworn enemies since they grabbed power. Now Obama is using American capitalism to save a failed revolution.

    • dwayne roberson

      Cuba, Venezuela, Honduras, etc. All Too Big To Fail. Too big for a miserable leftist ideology. Neo-stimulus holiday gift from the not so lame duck.

    • halevi

      Sadly, for years to come, Obama will be a big trouble maker in the US and around the world after his presidency.

      • kiwi41

        Hopefully without such a large Secret Service attachment around him he will become nore ” accessible ”
        The fact that it is still breathing, just goes to show that today, the Secret Service agents are no longer partiotic Americans………

        • zoomie

          or it was obvious that more problems would be created than solved

          • kiwi41

            I forgot, the Biden insurance policy !

    • Daniel

      This an excellent post. I forgot about that incident with Honduras and your post is a very enlightening reminder.

      • truebearing

        Actually, Daniel reminded me, which is one of the reasons I liked his article so much. As he pointed out, the Honduran Supreme Court, Congress, and military were all acting in accordance with the Honduran constitution when Zelaya, a Chavez crony, tried to do what Obama is doing in the US — ignore constitutional restraints and ignore the separation of powers.

    • Patriot077

      And Hillary was on the same page with him on Honduras and Zelaya. Also the UN. As another commenter posted above, the world has gone insane.

  • http://libertyandculture.blogspot.com/ Jason P

    Excellent summation of the meaning of Obama’s unilateral embrace of the Cuban communist leadership.

    Senator Menendez noted that the use of a civilian as a bargaining chip puts all civilians at risk when abroad. The refusal to protect Americans at home when threatened by North Korea’s operatives makes this a double surrender to communism.

    Obama: traitor-in-chief.

  • RAM500

    O aspires to be a Castro himself.

    • pupsncats

      O IS a Castro.

  • Daniel

    There’s Murphy’s Law……..and Parkinson’s Law…….and Newton’s Law of Gravity.
    I would like to propose Greenfield’s Law:
    “Any negotiation that Obama engages in will be catastrophic for the US and Americans will suffer…..if not die.”(except for Obama’s Communist cronies fleecing the Treasury…..like Solyndra).
    There are about as many exceptions to Greenfield’s Law over the last 6 years as there are to Newton’s.

  • http://www.apollospeaks.com/ ApolloSpeaks

    DECEMBER 17, 2014

    A day of infamy that will go down in history as a triumph for totalitarian communism.

    http://www.apollospeaks.com

  • hatsylady

    “He likes Cuba the way it is; communist and closed.” Such truth in one short sentence.

  • WillyWallace

    Perfect time for Pro-Democracy and “Elections Now!” protests now that the eyes of the world are on them. All those Cubans who seek freedom need to be in the streets today to finally free their Island Prison Society from the grip of Fidel, the Communists, and millions of Americans who support Fidel, Che, and Obama.

    This could be “The Mother-of-all-Backfires” on Obama and Fidel. Of course, if Fidel falls and is jailed for his countless crimes, Obama will somehow take credit.

  • halevi

    I’ll keeping lighting the Hanukah candles to bring some light into this very dark world. We can thank Obama for much of the darkness.

    • Daniel

      Happy Hanukkah to you and your family.
      And I would like to encourage our Gentile readers to check out the history of Mattathias and Judah Maccabee’s revolt which provide the inspiration for the holiday.
      In that history is the key to resisting Obama.

      • pupsncats

        May I also encourage your Jewish readers to check out the history of the Crusades which provides insight into how different the world would be under Islamic rule.

    • Yehuda Levi

      Happy Hanukkah!

      • truebearing

        Happy Hanukkah to you, and to all of our Jewish compatriots on FPM.

        • Yehuda Levi

          Thank you and Merry Christmas to you.

          I always enjoy your posts. Keep up the good fight.

  • ping

    Perfect timing, as Cuban-trained Marxist deathsquads murder opposition in Venezuela Obama is not just helping his Castro pals but los Chavistas as well.

  • DowntotheBone

    The hits just keep coming from B. Hussein Obama.

    Just what would a declared domestic enemy of the U.S. have done differently these past six years?

  • Jack Schitt

    Birds of a feather flock together

  • nelly2004

    why is impeachment off the table!!!

    • Harald Eigerson

      Because democrats love power and the party that gives it to them way more than their own country which they despise and its people which they hold in contempt.

    • ricpic

      Because Republicans quake at the thought they might be called RACISSS!

  • Lanna

    Bailouts for the Castro Brothers lining their coffers…..Russia’s economy in the tank, China too, Who is next on the list to be bailed out by the US???? Now we exist to help foreign countries and not our own people under Obama.

  • cree

    Another profound example of dissemination of the truth that all of Frontpage’s contributors provide. Of those here who agree, spread the word; America needs truth information and too often the need to here the other side to the stories.

  • Debbie G

    Mr. Greenfield, it’s quite interesting that your column from yesterday spoke about Venezuela, Cuba, etc. Were you already aware that Obama made a deal with Cuba or do you have ESP?

  • Cappy1437

    One of his ulterior motives was also to open up Cuba so his rich friends can go down and buy up waterfront property. Why do you think Beyonce and Jay Z went down there. They were scoping out the potential for beachside residences and real-estate investments. Don’t be fooled. There’s a payoff for Obama in this.

    • Vinegar Hill

      That’s the capitalist way and you must feel proud. There are lots of big bucks to be gained but perhaps you have missed the boat?

      • truebearing

        That’s the crony capitalist way, aka fascism. Get your terms straight before you post.

        • Vinegar Hill

          Butter wouldn’t melt in your mouth.

          • truebearing

            Whatever that was supposed to mean. Actually, it is yet another lie…your special area of expertise.

          • truebearing

            “Temika Maffucci?” LOL

            Your “voters” were more believable when they were all “guests.”

  • vonrock

    A path for Muslims, money makers and cheap labor.
    A Marxist dream for the historic Barack, makin his grandparents proud.

  • Colt

    Another anti-American action taken by an anti-American creep. Obama deserves to spend some time in a communist gulag. Maybe that would change his tune.
    I doubt it though. He is not, never has and will never be my President.

  • Capt Bob

    ISIS will have a new stepping off place as well as missiles to fire.

    • El Cid

      The irony is that Cuba will not allow a competing tyranny to Communism. And, Guantanamo is there. That’s the other irony.

      • JayWye

        Guantanamo will soon be a Russian naval base. After Comrade Obama turns it over(surrenders it) to Cuba.

        • El Cid

          That would not be ironic. No, it will be a launching pad for Jihad against the West under the sponsorship of Castro.

  • James_IIa

    It’s a bad move by Obama, but fortunately he can’t preserve communist rule in Cuba anymore than he could preserve Morsi’s rule in Egypt.

    • DowntotheBone

      “It’s a bad move by Obama,….”

      But, you repeat yourself!

    • UCSPanther

      Trying to prolong the Castro regime at this point is like trying to reclaim a long abandoned trailer home where the woodwork has rotted out and has been completely overrun with rodents, mold and insects.

      • zoomie

        perhaps, but it seems to me that there are two requirements that must be met in the modern world to over throw a tryannical government.
        1. There must be many, many thousands of people ready to die for freedom.
        2. The army must refuse the order to shoot them.

  • johnnywood

    What else would you expect from a Communist/Community Organizer?

    • zoomie

      yup, he went to the church of god damn amerika for 20 years.

  • Erudite Mavin

    What a surprise…..Not
    Rand Paul came out in support of Obama’s Cuban agenda

  • El Cid

    Cuba, an Island prison in the Caribbean, is regarded on the left as some kind of Utopia. The Castros, vicious liars and tyrants, are regarded as heroes. I hope that Obama and his family move there after his presidency is over.

  • Colt

    Birds of feather flock together.

  • reyol

    Cuba is important because it is the hub of Latin America. The Spaniards sent everyone and everything through Havana. After Independence, Cuba continued to function as a hub. Once the Castros took over, they made Cuba the hub of revolution for Latin America while the cultural and economic activities shifted to Miami along with the Cuban upper and middle class. Cuba needs to resume its proper role within Latin America but only with a politically and economically free system. Obama has betrayed the Miami Cubans and has given the Castros what they need to resume their revolutionary activities throughout Latin America; this is very dangerous for the United States as the whole hemisphere can be destabilized. Venezuela is a large country but it appears to be a deadend; it cannot function as a hub (though I don’t know why; I suspect that it’s purely geographical). Cuba is a small country but it has always been important for this reason.

    • ricpic

      To some extent Cuba’s inordinate influence in Latin America might be the reflection of the generally acknowledged brilliance of Cubans by their neighbors. Some nations are brighter, on average, than others and Cubans, once referred to with grudging admiration as the Jews of the Caribbean, fit that bill.

      • reyol

        True precisely because Cuba’s position as the hub of Latin America attracted a lot of high quality middle class immigrants. Since many Latin American countries were and are deficient in middle class professionals, Cuba supplied off-site middle class services to other countries as well as being a cultural center. Spain fought hardest to keep Cuba because of this importance; Spain could have remained an influential hegemon in spite of losing their empire if they had held on to Cuba. The Castros made Cuba a revolutionary hub. Our trade embargo “worked” in that it stopped their revolutionary efforts. It also allowed us to benefit from Miami replacing Havana in many of it’s former functions.

        • His Excellency

          If there was really an embargo by definition, the Castro dictatorship wouldn’t be able to receive any American products. But since they do, the “embargo” is simply sanctions that are too full of holes to actually be an embargo.

  • ricpic

    The American People may have abandoned Obama but the party it voted into power in November sure hasn’t.

    • Daniel

      I don’t think our readers really appreciate how witty this comment is.

  • dg barrett

    Obama has indeed brought ‘Hope and Change’ all over the world! Namely for Putin, Assad, The Ayatollah, The Castros, (who am I forgetting?), illegal Immigrants welcomed from Mexico, Latin America and possibly, probably, many terrorists, and just recently Kim Jung Il was spared a bad weekend. ‘Hope’ for working class Americans since 2008 disaster? Not so much!

  • WhiteHunter

    Let’s face it: Obama has much in common with Castro, which is why he admires him and his “accomplishments” so much:

    Castro rules by decree, without the annoyance of needing the approval of a separate, independent, freely elected legislature that includes his political adversaries (there aren’t any–he’s already shot or imprisoned all of them); so does Obama (although Obama calls them “executive orders”);

    Castro “radically transformed” Cuba’s once-vibrant, free-wheeling, open economy and lifestyle into a drab, squalid, impoverished, Marxist wasteland with a command economy and an all-knowing, all-powerful government apparatus to enforce it and punish “violators”;

    Anybody in Cuba who still writes anything or wants to produce a film that’s critical of The Leader and his Magnificent Achievement suddenly finds himself in trouble–very SERIOUS trouble. Here…well, just ask Dinesh D’Sousa what happened when he produced a film critical of Obama. Or the videographer who produced “the video that [didn't] provoke–and justify–the Benghazi massacre.” Or ask any of Lois Lerner’s targets. Or any journalist, like Fox’s James Rosen. Ask any of them what happens to people like them under the Obama regime;

    Castro instituted “national health care.” That is, if you don’t mind what passes for ‘care,’ including the reuse of bloody bandages from one patient to the next, a total lack of adequate (by First World standards) medical technology and facilities, and…oh, do you know that in Cuba, you’re tested for AIDS with every contact with a “health care provider,” including a nurse or a dentist…and if you test positive, you’re immediately whisked off to a secure “camp” for AIDS patients, and NOT ALLOWED TO LEAVE–EVER? Here, we have something almost comparable in “Obamacare,” which has destroyed our existing, excellent health care system, and has already denied cancer patients and veterans the care that could easily have kept them alive.

    That’s just for starters. I’m sure others can easily add to the list, since there are so many other exact parallels between the two dictators, and their congruent visions of where they want to take their respective countries and peoples. Or rather what they want to do to them. In Casto’s Cuba, we see a glimpse of Obama’s “dream” for America.

  • CobrayRPB

    Maybe he is trying to secure a location for hus pathetic presidential library? No state wants that treasonous eye sore within their territory, so his Marxist pals are stepping up. It wont take up much space because he hasn’t accomplished anything. I imagine a small room with some food stamps, his lucky putter and his pen and phone will suffice. Park the Choom Wagon out back and away we go!

    • zoomie

      it’ll be going in at the university of chicago, where Milton Friedman used to teach. amerika transformed

  • JayWye

    as the TV commercials say; “But WAIT…..there’s MORE!” We have TWO more years of Comrade Obama working against America.

    Next,Comrade Obama is going to vacate Guantanamo Naval base,turn it over to Cuba,and shortly after that,Russia will move into the naval base. Of course,they will bring a high-level air defense system that will also cover half of Florida. Perhaps even base nuclear missiles there.
    (if they haven’t already. Seems they haven’t exactly kept to their previous strrategic arms treaties.)
    But any large Russian naval warship will have nuclear weapons aboard.

  • pfbonney

    Obama: A rogue American president allying himself with the rogue leaders of the world.

  • zoomie

    Over 25 years ago Engineers, Tradesmen and Managers from McDonnell Douglas were sent to China to teach them how to make aircraft components. At the time the business ” Leaders ” at the company desribed it as being in the best interest of the company. It was explained if they didn’t outsource component manufacturing to China, the Chinese would purchase some one else’s aircraft who would.

    That company no longer exists. The Chinese will be introducing a commercial aircraft soon.

    The problen isn’t just my half brother Barry. It isn’t just my next door neighbors who are true believers ( PhD’s much smarter than me ).

    It’s what happens when millions of people have their head so far up a dark smelly place, they just can’t tell the difference anymore.

    In other words any damn fool could see dealing with communists was stupid, is stupid and will forever be stupid. Unless of course there is another more likely explanation … to keep communism going. Elites want power, and don’t mind you paying any price to get it.

    All Hail The Gulag

  • Edd2013

    Another great article.

  • GinnyLee

    “Obama did not consult the Cuban people, just as he did not consult the
    American people. He disregarded the embargo, Congress, the Constitution
    and the freedom of the Cuban people.

    Otherwise, it’s “business as usual” for BHO – and it’s illegal. WHO is going to shut him down?

  • Mickey “the wrench”

    Oh, but they had a wonderful segment on this on 60 Minutes. But the bottom line is that the embargo still stands. Sorry boys, no Ceegars and Rum from Cuba just yet, so don’t get too excited.

  • halevi

    I hope you’re right.