When a voter goes to the polls he/she may consider the position of a politician on many issues. But for those of us who were born in Cuba there is only one issue.
On the Cuba issue Barack H. Obama is not any different than George W. Bush. Yes, he has enacted some timid policy changes in the area of remittances and visits to the Caribbean island-nation by Cuban born U.S. citizens, but those minor changes, in my opinion, do not amount to a hill of beans.
The fact of the matter is that he has continued the genocidal Cuba embargo/blockade against the socialist nation. The hatred of the two major U.S. capitalist political parties toward Cuba is too strong for them to overcome it. There is no Nixon pragmatist in the two parties.
Even though there is still too much time between now and November of 2012, and many things could develop on the Cuba issue, I plan to recommend to Cuba Journal readers who live in the United States that when they cast their vote for president of the United States, they either write-in NOTA (none of the above) or write-in the name of U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent from Vermont.
Why reward Barack H. Obama for his incompetence and lack of vision?
4 comments:
I actually have a slightly different opinion than you on this one. He actually did do all he said he would on this issue. Nothing more, nothing less. I voted for him primarily on this issue but not solely. It was the only thing that I believed he would actually follow through with out of all of his proposals. What we got was a guy who can accomplish more for the right wing than they can do themselves. If there is any reason not to vote for him, it would be that he abandoned almost everything that people believed he stood for. He never said he would respect Cuba nor end the embargo. My cynicism messes with me, and in the back of my mind I wonder if this sheepish president that we have imagines that he would actually make more serious changes with a second term. I'm sure that he won't really talk about the issue much besides in the usual context for his campaign, but I almost feel like he will begin to undue this policy, not out of good feelings, but as the oil industry demands it. I don't know but I do share your frustration.
You are absolutely wrong!
In 2004 when he was campaigning for the U.S. Senate seat from the state of Illinois he said: "We have to end the Cuba embargo." That video is in Cuba Journal and you will also find it on You Tube.
Obama is a typical U.S. politician. He says one thing when he is running from office and the opposite when he is elected.
In my book he is a liar and a SCUM.
Maybe I'm off a bit, but that wasn't his presidential campaign. No doubt he is just a typical politician. I agree completely with that part. I'm just wondering about for how long the politicians can not give in to the economic powers that fund so much of what they decide to do. There will come a point when they succumb to the more powerful supporters. If Obama will be in the White House or not, I can't be sure. Bernie Sanders would obviously be a good president. It's a shame that we are missing Paul Wellstone, he was another good guy. I don't really know where he stood on the issue, but certainly he was a more honest man than most of who we are stuck with. Like I said earlier, if Obama would ever decide to end the embargo, and I stress if, it certainly wouldn't be based on what is the right thing to do.
I do support Obama in his effort to reform our dismal health care system.
It is a big shame for the United States to have 45 million people with no health insurance.
The Cuba embargo/blockade is a huge failure. No county in the world, other than the imperialists and the zionists, supports it.
Obama has to send a message to Congress in which he asks that body to repeal it. If he doesn't, he does not get my vote in 2012.
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