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Title: Ron Paul calls for diplomatic relations with Cuba
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URL Source: http://www.latimes.com/news/politic ... ebate-20120126,0,6939981.story
Published: Jan 27, 2012
Author: Alana Semuels
Post Date: 2012-01-27 08:37:29 by Ada
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Views: 154
Comments: 6
Ron Paul took a risky position in Florida in Thursday’s debate, calling for communication and diplomatic relations with Cuba, saying that people's positions have changed dramatically over the last few years. Paul said that Cuba isn’t going to invade the U.S. any time soon, and that Americans weren’t looking under their beds anymore, worried. Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich followed by pledging to continue the economic embargo on Cuba and to take any action short of military invasion to upend the government of Raul Castro. Paul’s position is a potentially dangerous one in Florida, a state with a influential voting bloc of conservative Republicans from Cuba who have long favored aggressive policies toward Havana. But a study of Cuban American voters in Florida suggests that Paul might be right, and that voters' opinions about Cuba are changing. Support for tightening the embargo dropped by roughly half between 2004 and 2008, according to a study by Benjamin Bishin, a UC Riverside professor. Cuban Americans’ support for easing the embargo increased to 43.4%, from 26.7% in 2004, and support for easing travel restrictions increased to 47.4% from 32.9%, Bishin found. “Cuban Americans’ attitudes on issues of U.S. foreign policy toward Cuba seems to be in transition,” he wrote in a 2009 study.
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#1. To: Ada (#0)
Ummm...legal Cuban cigars.
Serial killer psychopaths ruin families. Corporate psychopaths ruin societies -- Prof. Robert Hare
Once again, Ron Paul is right. As someone who was once a strong supporter of the embargo, now I believe the best way to deal with them is trade and dialog. The whole world trades with Cuba and they can get anything they want that's made in America via Canada. Opening relations would also eliminite the ability of the Cuban government to blame US (Evil Gringos) for all their troubles. We could also scrap the ridiculous "wet-foot/dry-foot" program.
Duh! Of course he is. Everyone who recoils in righteous indignation at the possibility of having diplomatic relations with Cuba needs to look at the "Made in" sticker on everything they own...
Not only that we wouldn't have to go to Canada to get a really good Cigar. I've never understood how we can have a naval base there, while we are supposedly at odds with them and have an embargo against them.
In other news: "John F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy seen clawing their way out of their graves in apparent anger at Ron Paul...."
#2. To: Ada (#0)
But a study of Cuban American voters in Florida suggests that Paul might be right, and that voters' opinions about Cuba are changing.
#3. To: Flintlock (#2)
#4. To: Flintlock (#2)
We could also scrap the ridiculous "wet-foot/dry-foot" program.
#5. To: Ada (#0)
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
#6. To: Ada (#0)
-Alex Kurtagic
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