Has Obama Confused Cuban Foreign Relations with His Cuban Take-Out Order?

by Elizabeth Nelson

Again, we conservatives can't make this stuff up, as liberals turn a blind eye to Obama's sabotaging our safety with his mind-blowing foreign policy decisions.  He goes to bed with Iran and wakes up with Cuba, vowing to "re-establish US Cuban diplomatic ties."   

"When the United States shuttered our embassy in 1961, I don't think anyone thought it would be more than half a century before it reopened"

One has to wonder if this man is ignorant or committing deliberate national suicide, risking our national safety.  Was he asleep during American history, before he moved to America?  Perhaps he was daydreaming through the chapter that included the reason we closed that embassy and why we don't consider Cuba a "friend?" Those who fail to learn from (or forget) history are bound to repeat it.  However, can we really afford to repeat that part of history? Obama has already thawed the Cold War with Russia.

President Barack Obama said Wednesday that it was past time for the U.S. to re-establish diplomatic relations with Cuba as he announced that the two countries were reopening their embassies after more than 50 years.

Earlier Wednesday in Havana, a U.S. diplomat delivered a note from Obama to Cuban President Raul Castro restoring diplomatic ties.

The short ceremony at the Cuban Foreign Ministry in Havana ended 54 years of broken relations that began during the Eisenhower administration. Jeffrey DeLaurentis, the chief of mission at the U.S. Interests Section, delivered the note.

The GOP made a great point about Obama's idiotic idea of re-opening the embassy in Cuba and relaxing all the embargoes and prohibitions that we have levied on them for years, and for reasons that have obviously slipped his mind.

Sen.Ted Cruz was quick to criticize Obama's move to reopen embassies."It's unacceptable and a slap in the face of a close ally that the United States will have an embassy in Havana before one in Jerusalem," tweeted Cruz, who is seeking the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.

He also tweeted the common sense that eludes Obama and his liberal parrots.

 Even Rubio, a Cuban, and Gov. Rick Perry had a harsh criticism for Obama's ludicrous idea.  In a statement, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio vowed to oppose the confirmation of an ambassador to Cuba until the Castro regime makes several concessions, including "securing greater political freedoms for the Cuban people."

And former Texas Gov. Rick Perry said the Cuban government had made no changes that suggest re-engagement would benefit Cuban citizens.


"The Cuban people today are not any freer politically or economically, and President Obama has failed to account for what the Castro regime has done in the last several years that warrants such an enormous shift in a longstanding U.S. policy," he said.

Obama's statement from the rose garden are a clue that he is oblivious to Cuba's past and America's history or to their continued cruelty towards their own people.

In his Rose Garden speech, which was carried live on Cuba's state-run Cubavision network, Obama noted that many Cubans have called for increased U.S. engagement with their country, and said it was time to look toward the future.

"You can't hold the future of Cuba hostage to what happened in the past," Obama said, quoting a Cuban resident.

The President agreed, pointing out that the Eisenhower administration had severed ties with Cuba in the same year that Obama had been born.

"You don't have to be imprisoned by the past," he said. "If something isn't working, we can and will change."

But after his announcement, protesters in Miami spoke out against the move, indicating at least some pockets of the Cuban community are not supportive of his policy.

Obama also said that working more closely with Cuba will allow the U.S. to address human rights issues that go against America's policies.

"We will not hesitate to speak out when we see actions that contradict those values," Obama said. Critics, however, have expressed doubt on that score. Read more CNN

Has this man totally forgotten about the Cuban missile crisis, the political standoff of the first Cold war and what brought us to the brink of nuclear war?  

Cuba is not our friend , they've lied to our faces in the past and Putin openly hates and disrespects Obama, the "paper tiger."  There are really good reasons for a USA large thumb on Cuba and yet they are still cruel to their own people.  Yet Obama expects Castro to treat us with love, respect and honesty? We gave Putin an inch and he's taken more than a mile.  We didn't "hold him to his Soviet KGB past" but he's proven that this leopard still has spots and sharp teeth.  Do we really need to invite Cuba to this cold war party?

Fine, if Obama is dead-set on sabotaging American soil, let's send one of his daughters and Chelsea Clinton to be the first Ambassadors to Havana, Cuba and give them the same security detail that Ambassador Stevens had in Benghazi.