Obama Would Meet with Raul Castro
Is there a dictator that liberals don’t legitimize?
They loved Stalin and Mussolini. They’ve been holding the scrotum of Fidel Castro for 50 years.
More recently, Sean Penn, Danny Glover, Kevin Spacey and Naomi Campbell actually fly to Venezuela to meet with egomaniac Hugo Chavez; the President of Columbia University invites Mahmoud “There are no gays in Iran” Ahmadinejad to speak; Barack “B.O.” Obama isn’t in the White House yet, but he’s already sending invites to Raul Castro.
Would any of these idiots do the same for, say, George W. Bush?
Politico: Bush attacks Obama foreign policy plan By: Mike Allen
President Bush attacked a key foreign policy stance of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), contending heatedly at a news conference Thursday morning that talking to dictators without preconditions can be dangerous and counterproductive.
Obama’s argument that the president “should never fear to negotiate” with America’s enemies — including Cuba’s new leader, Raul Castro — is one of his clearest differences with his rival for the presidential nomination, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.).
At a news conference where Bush showed unusual passion for a president in his waning months, he said “now is not the time” to talk with Castro.
“What’s lost … by embracing a tyrant who puts his people in prison because of their political beliefs?” he said. “What’s lost is, it’ll send the wrong message. It’ll send a discouraging message to those who wonder whether America will continue to work for the freedom of prisoners. It’ll give great status to those … who have suppressed human rights and human dignity.
“The idea of embracing a leader who’s done this, without any attempt on his part to … release prisoners and free their society, would be counterproductive and send the wrong signal.”
Warming to the subject, Bush continued: “Sitting down at the table, having your picture taken with a tyrant such as Raul Castro, for example, lends the status of the office and the status of our country to him. He gains a lot from it by saying, ‘Look at me. I’m now recognized by the president of the United States.’”
