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.”
Bart says: Why not drop the stupid embargo altogether?
What do we gain by punishing the Cuban people?
Let’s open the gates and flood them with capitalism – that’ll teach ‘em.
It’s absurd that we have “most favored nation” relations with the Communist Chinese yet won’t trade with Cuba.
Grim
Comment by grimgold — August 21, 2007 @ 10:47 am