Why Obama stopped “wet-foot/dry-foot” Cuba policy

First, the story, from CNN.com:

US ending ‘wet foot, dry foot’ policy for Cubans

by Elise Labott, Kevin Liptak, & Patrick Oppmann

Washington (CNN)President Barack Obama is ending the longstanding “wet foot, dry foot” policy that allows Cubans who arrive in the United States without a visa to become permanent residents, the administration announced Thursday.

The move, which wasn’t previously outlined and is likely one of the final foreign policy decisions of Obama’s term, terminates a decades-long policy that many argued amounted to preferential treatment for a single group of migrants.
“By taking this step, we are treating Cuban migrants the same way we treat migrants from other countries,” Obama wrote in a statement Thursday.

Cubans, as you might expect, are not entirely pleased that the 1995 policy is stopping. From the ManilaTimes.net:

Obama ‘screwed’ us, angry Cuban migrants say

PANAMA CITY: “Obama has screwed all Cubans,” Yadiel Cruz, a Cuban in Panama bitterly told Agence France-Presse on Thursday upon learning the US president has suddenly made it tougher for migrants like him to get into America.

The 33-year-old summed up what many compatriots were feeling as they digested the news in a Catholic shelter in Panama’s capital, a waypoint on their overland trek to the United States.

Ulises Ferrer, a carpenter from Havana, said: “We don’t know what we’re going to do now. But what we’re certain of is that we’re not going back to Cuba unless we’re dead.”

There is always a reason for policy change. It is this:

Cubans are not a monolithic voting bloc like blacks or Mexicans. In fact, Cuban-Americans voted for Trump at a higher rate than “white Americans.”

The reason distills down to political payback. Favoring the “underdogs” oppressed by America, and providing punishment to those Cuban-Americans who voted Trump. As far as Obama is concerned, the best of both worlds.

Once again, clear and obvious proof that Barack Hussein Obama embraces evil — in the guise of the Castros — and eschews good, because Cubans aren’t “his people.” He is supporting Raul Castro and not the Cubans who wish to leave.

Obama is doing this because 1. He can, and 2. He is leaving. Again, defecating on the American people before exiting the presidency.

It’s no more complicated than that.

BZ

 

Leftists: we must fete Castro

castro-and-guevara-marchingIn one of the few photos of the two together, Fidel Castro (far left) marches with Che Guevara (middle) before they both had their massive trademark beards.

Customarily I wouldn’t have given a drop of piss from my kidneys for Castro or an inch of space in the blog, except that the reaction of Leftists the world over upon news of his death this past weekend begs the primal question: are these people loons?

The short answer up front: yes.

I find it amusing to watch Canada’s effete and jejune PM Trudeau being resoundingly mocked globally. From Breitbart.com:

Canadian PM Trudeau Praises Dictator Castro as ‘Remarkable Leader’

by Nick Hallett

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has praised Communist dictator Fidel Castro as a “legendary revolutionary” and “remarkable leader” after the former Cuban leader’s death Friday night.

The gushing continued.

Mr. Trudeau said that he learned of Castro’s death with “deep sorrow”, paying tribute to him as a “larger than life leader who served his people for almost half a century”.

“A legendary revolutionary and orator, Mr. Castro made significant improvements to the education and healthcare of his island nation,” the Canadian prime minister said.

Although acknowledging the dictator was a “controversial figure”, Mr. Trudeau added: “Both Mr. Castro’s supporters and detractors recognized his tremendous dedication and love for the Cuban people who had a deep and lasting affection for ‘el Comandante’.”

Castro’s Cuban regime was notorious for imprisoning dissenters, including homosexuals, journalists, and political opponents, and nearly brought nuclear war to the United States, one of Canada’s closest allies.

Following those ridiculous remarks, social media and news outlets opened up on the ignorant Trudeau, and rightly so. While Trudeau purports to be a LGBTQ supporter, he praised the man responsible for killing gays in Cuba solely because of their sexual orientation. Just as Trudeau was slathering said praise, Raul Castro was busy shutting down Cuba’s internet. Even UK’s TheGuardian.com recognized the foolishness.

Fidel Castro: Justin Trudeau ridiculed over praise of ‘remarkable leader’

Canadian prime minister, whose father was close to the Cuban revolutionary, raised eyebrows with his eulogy to ‘legendary’ leader

Justin Trudeau, the Canadian prime minister, has been mocked and criticised over his praise of the late Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

His statement was met with puzzlement and derision by some Americans, including US Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, who is of Cuban descent.

“Is this a real statement or parody? Because if this is a real statement from the PM of Canada it is shameful and embarrassing,” Rubio tweeted.

The statement spawned the Twitter hashtag ž#TrudeauEulogies, which quickly began trending as people emulated Trudeau’s upbeat tone and lack of criticism.

“While controversial, Darth Vader achieved great heights in space construction and played a formative role in his son’s life,” tweeted @markusoff, riffing on the Star Wars movie villain.

Leftists, various celebrities and other vacuoles lavished their own forms of spittle-chinned bootlicking upon Fidel Castro who — just as Mussolini lovingly kept the Italian trains on time — provided free healthcare for all in Cuba, huzzah huzzah. Insert rim-shot here.

Communism, the ideology embraced by Castro, is responsible for the deaths of over 100 million people.

The UKDailyMail.com nailed it with this article.

$120 million bed-hopping hypocrite: He claimed he lived on $25 a month. But Castro had 20 luxury homes, a private island, an 88ft yacht – and mistresses galore

by Tom Leonard

Fidel Castro the restless revolutionary had no time for pleasure, despising holidays as ‘bourgeois’ and claiming to live in a fisherman’s hut. His only luxury was the cigars that he continually chomped.

Or so he insisted to fellow Cubans who endured decades of abject poverty, crumbling housing and food rationing during his long rule. However, the reality — carefully kept from public consumption thanks to his iron grip on the media and public discourse — was very different.

A prodigious womaniser and food connoisseur who kept some 20 luxurious properties throughout the Caribbean — including a private island he used to visit on his beautiful yacht — Castro was a complete fraud.

The man who spent his life railing against the excesses of capitalism lived like a king — and a very debauched one at that.

Western observers have long suspected that ‘El Comandante’ — The Commander — was siphoning off the proceeds from state-run enterprises, including a small gold mine.

However, when Forbes magazine listed Castro in 2006 as one of the world’s richest ‘kings, queens and dictators’, he angrily insisted he lived on a salary of £20 a month.

Simultaneously, whilst living “la dolce vita,” he ensured that average Cubans did not and, further, is responsible for an estimated 10,000 to 100,000 Cuban deaths.

The Harvard-trained scholar Armando Lago, in his book The Black Book of Communism, first published in French, (1997) then in English 1999, made an attempt to list Castro’s deaths since 1959. So far the deaths of 97,000 persons have been named, each confirmed by at least two sources. Some 30,000 executed by firing squad, 2,000 extra-judicial assassinations, 5,000 deaths in prison due to beating by guards and denial of medical care and 60,000 deaths while trying to escape Cuba by sea. According to Dr. Lago’s and his ongoing-research partner, Cuba Archive President Maria Werlau, 78,000 innocents may have died trying to flee the dictatorship. Another 5,300 are known to have lost their lives fighting communism in the Escambray Mountains (mostly peasant farmers and their children) and at the Bay of Pigs. Another estimated 14,000 Cubans were killed in Fidel’s revolutionary adventures abroad, most notably his dispatch of 50,000 soldiers to Angola in the 1980s to help the Soviet-backed regime fight off the Unita insurgency. Their 2005 total ranges between 90,827 and 102,722 deaths.  The estimates of Cubans killed range from 35,000 to 141,000 (1959-1987) according to and available on the site of R. J. Rummel-University of Hawaii, “Power Kills.”

The thing that so many fail to realize or acknowledge is one of the most fundamental points about Cuba: if it were such a wonderful Communist haven why were so many people willing to flee? No mints on pillows?

Leftists want to idealize and romanticize Fidel Castro, just as they idolize Che Guevara. Some persons simply called them the “lawyer and the doctor.” Just common men. Common men who didn’t mind putting a bullet in your brain pan if you disagreed with them.

fidel-castro-rolex-gmt-master-reference-1675-from-jakes-rolex-worldFidel Castro, the commoner’s guerilla fighter, wears a Rolex GMT-Master Reference 1675 on his left wrist. The fashionable “thinking man’s” green-fatigued Rolex owner. Fidel Castro wore a sport Rolex Submariner when he overthrew dictator Fulgencio Batista during the Cuban Revolution in 1959. Rolex was also a favorite of Che Guevara.

The Mariel boatlift in 1980 was both an embarrassment to the Castro regime — as 125,000+ Cuban citizens decided to flee — as well as a boon in terms of Castro’s ability to empty his jails, prisons and insane asylums.

Just as Che Guevara was a naked murderer, so was Fidel Castro. Brothers in blood.

Finally: nature abhors a vacuum. With Fidel dead and Raul allegedly stepping down, who is next in line and why?

BZ

 

Did Obama tell Cuba: return our cop killer?

Obama In Cuba with Che Guevara BehindNO.  Of course he didn’t, nor will he.  Good ol’ Obaka, with Che Guevara behind.  That’s how incredibly ignorant Mr Obama is of what Guevara said and stood for.  More on that in a moment. **

To bring up the issue of an American cop killer acquiring refuge in Cuber might “upset” the two despots of Cuber.  Can’t have that.

Obama Cuba Raul Castro

Michelle and Hussein with Smiling Raul Castro.  Good times.

So while Belgium blows up, Obama ensures he attends a nice baseball game in Cuber.  It’s important that our president does “the wave” with the rest of the crowd.

NBCNews.com actually asks:

Will Obama Demand Cuba Hand Over Fugitive Cop-Killer?

by Tom Winter

White House officials would not tell NBC News whether President Obama will raise the issue of 70 fugitives from U.S. justice — including convicted cop-killer JoAnne Chesimard — who are hiding in Cuba when he meets Cuban leaders during his visit to the island.

Chesimard, who fled to Cuba in 1984 after escaping from a New Jersey prison in 1979, was convicted of the 1973 execution-style murder of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster. She is on the FBI’s Most Wanted International Terrorists list, and is the most notorious of a group of criminals and violent radicals who have sought refuge in Cuba since Fidel Castro took power.

Other fugitives include Willie Morales, who blew off his own hands while making bombs for a Puerto Rican independence group, and Victor Manuel Gerena, the alleged “inside man” in a $7 million armored car robbery.

Uh, no.  No.  He didn’t ask.  He was too entranced with the Castros, baseball and dancing.

Obama Che** Let’s now go back to Che Guevara, the idolized Leftist reactionary that Barack Hussein Obama was ever-so-pleased to be photographed before.

Let’s display a quote from said Che Guevara.

“The Negro is indolent and lazy, and spends his money on frivolities…”
— Che Guevara

So wait.  Barack Hussein Obama is standing before and is — by doing so — tacitly approving of the “revolutionary” Che Guevara?  The racist Che Guevara?

True.  Barack Hussein Obama is that ignorant of history.  He embraces a racist.

Che Guevara, the Argentinean communist who fermented revolutions in Cuba and the Congo, was finally dispatched by the Bolivian forces in 1967. Some 42 years later — long after the specter of revolutionary communism ceased to hound most of mankind — Che appears to be having the last laugh. His image is ubiquitous in the West — adorning the shirts and bags of an affluent but historically illiterate generation. Prince Harry, third in line to the British throne, was spotted wearing a Che t-shirt few years ago. This year’s “Icons” collection by Belstaff (an Italian clothing company) contains a “Che Guevara replica jacket.”

Che Guevara, as Alvaro Vargas Llosa shows in The Che Guevara Myth and the Future of Liberty, was a megalomaniac and a murderer. Embarrassingly for the young idealists sporting his image, he was also a racist, a homophobe and an anti-Semite. “The Negro is indolent and lazy,” Che opined about his Congolese comrades, “and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent.” Ignorance about the real Che is universal. Thus, Angola’s capital of Luanda boasts a Che Guevara Street and the South African capital of Pretoria may soon be graced by a street of the same name.

Obama isn’t stopping there.  Oh, no, not by a wide margin.  He wants to import thousands more Muslims into this country, according to the WashingtonExaminer.com:

White House wants increase of Syrian refugees

by Paul Bedard

The White House is quietly pushing for an increase in refugees from Syria, despite new concerns raised by state and county officials that federal help is often missing when they arrive.

President Obama’s assistant for immigration policy told a task force set up by the National Association of Counties that the U.S. is eyeing a bigger role to help alleviate the growing crisis.

Syrian Refugees Were CREATED by OBAMAFurther, there were 680,000 green cards issued to migrants from Muslim nations from 2009 to 2013 — and will issue another 680,000 green cards to migrants from majority-Muslim nations in the coming five years.

Unless we replace the resident of the Spite House.

Who completely believes he is the smartest man in the room.  Any room.  All the time.  No matter who else is present.  Please click the link above and read the article completely.

In the meantime, the “smartest man in the room” learns absolutely nothing from history and cannot see that he is attempting to duplicate the European Model when, in fact, Europe is in the process of shedding that model.

Because it doesn’t work, and it isn’t working.

BZ

 

All you need to know about Obama’s trip to Cuba

Obama In Cuba with Che Guevara BehindFirst, Raul Castro failed to meet Obama at the airport.

Massive lack of respect.

Obama pandered of course and gushed about, of all things, the food.

In the meantime there are more political prisoners now in Cuba than in many years.  Even though Raul Castro says there are no political prisoners in Cuba.  He asked Obama: name them.

Here they are.  Did or will Obama brace Raul Castro on this lie?  No.

There isn’t anything Obama does that isn’t scripted.  He stood where he did and when he did for a purpose.

Don’t fail to see it.

BZ

P.S.

How sad to think that most Leftists, Millennials and college attendees won’t have any idea about the photograph at the top of this post.

 

Hillary: put her in handcuffs now

US-POLITICS-CLINTONIs this a face that resonates with Millennials and teen voters?

Hillary is a serial liar, and has been lying for years.  I believe she truly lacks the capability to tell the truth, even when it would tend to save her.

But it’s too convoluted now.  And it’s way too late to save her, or even remotely think about saving her.  She is beyond saving just as she is beyond telling the truth.  The truth is, first, relative, and it is — as she would tell you — in the eye of the beholder.  There is no Real Truth, there are only shades of the truth and the precipice of the truth.  The truth is a concept to be wrapped and folded and cloaked and hidden away, aided and abetted by the Leftists populating today’s general American Media Maggot newsroom which is, by the way, bleeding readers and viewers.  [As an aside: gee, I wonder why?]

With that preface, take it away Trey Gowdy:

Trey Gowdy: Hillary Clinton wiped her server clean

by Lauren French

Hillary Clinton wiped “clean” the private server housing emails from her tenure as secretary of state, the chairman of the House committee investigating the 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi said Friday.

“While it is not clear precisely when Secretary Clinton decided to permanently delete all emails from her server, it appears she made the decision after October 28, 2014, when the Department of State for the first time asked the Secretary to return her public record to the Department,” Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), chairman of the Select Committee on Benghazi, said in a statement.

But does no one read the next two paragraphs?

Clinton was under a subpoena order from the panel for all documents related to the 2012 attacks on the American compound there. But David Kendall, an attorney for Clinton, said the 900 pages of emails previously provided to the panel cover its request.

Kendall also informed the committee that Clinton’s emails from her time at the State Department have been permanently erased.

PERMANENTLY ERASED.

In law enforcement, this is called an “admission.”  An admission is the first step towards a confession.

The only thing left to be done, in truth, is for Hillary Clinton to be “perp-walked” in front of a bevy of ENG hacks adrip with stark lights and the AMM jostling and bumping and shouting at Hillary.

Wouldn’t that be just grand?

BZ