The democrat whiz kid on foriegn relations, blames President Bush for some of the ills in Cuba. Of course none of this would be the fault of communist dictator Fidel Castro!
Taking issue with the increased restrictions on Cuban exiles visiting and sending money back to relatives, Barack will be visiting Little Havana as part of a fund raising event for the local democrat party.
From Brietbart --
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is leaping into the long-running Cuba debate by calling for the U.S. to ease restrictions for Cuban-Americans who want to visit the island or send money home.
Obama's campaign said Monday that, if elected, the Illinois senator would lift restrictions imposed by the Bush administration and allow Cuban-Americans to visit their relatives more frequently, as well as ease limits on the amount of money they can send to their families.
"Senator Obama feels that the Bush administration has made a humanitarian and a strategic blunder," spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in an e-mail. "His concern is that this has had a profoundly negative impact on the Cuban people, making them more dependent on the Castro regime, thus isolating them from the transformative message carried by Cuban-Americans." More....
Seeing through the cheap campaign stunt & commenting on his ignorance, some Cuban exile groups express in the Miami Herald their displeasure and, wonder why the black democrat presidential primary candidate does not say anything about the abuses of blacks in South Africa....
''We regret that Sen. Obama has been so ill-advised as to assume that lifting sanctions against Cuba's dictatorial regime will bring about change,'' read a statement issued by the non-partisan Cuban Liberty Council.
``It is sad that he does not apply the same principles used to bring about change in South Africa where blacks were victims of the same apartheid as Cubans on the island.'' More...
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