On Sunday, President Obama will touch down in Cuba for what promises to be one of the most disgraceful trips ever taken by a U.S. president anywhere in the world. This is an Obama presidential trip whose ultimate results will be giving away legitimacy and money to an anti-American regime that actively undermines our national security interests and acts against our values every single day. President Obama’s entourage will sleep in hotels controlled by the Cuban military that were confiscated by the regime and are among the $7 billion in unpaid legal claims owed to American property owners. When President Obama arrives in Havana on Sunday, he will visit Catholic Church sights and church officials, yet he’s inexplicably expected to skip St. Rita Church, where the Ladies In White have shed much blood and received routine beatings at the hands of the Castro regime for simply demanding their loved ones’ freedom.
On Monday, President Obama will showcase the most damaging part of his Cuba policy: the lawless, one-sided weakening of the LIBERTAD Act that seeks to enrich American businesses and the Castro regime’s police state, without any concessions from Cuba that lead to greater freedoms for the Cuban people. The Obama-Castro state dinner promises to be another low point of this visit, one that I fully expect will be attended by some of the Castro regime’s biggest low-lifes who will seek to exploit this opportunity to mock this president, his administration and the American people.
On Tuesday, the irony should not be lost on anyone that President Obama will be giving a speech at yet another property confiscated by the Castro regime. President Obama’s decision to end his trip at a baseball game is a fitting symbol of this trip and of his entire Cuba policy: he thinks this is a game. What’s not a game is the repression, intimidation and exploitation Cuba’s baseball players face and that has led to many of them defecting the first chance they get, and that would probably lead some of them, should they be able to meet and speak freely with President Obama, to ask him directly for asylum and a flight to freedom on Air Force One.
As a whole, President Obama’s trip to Cuba and his policy of one-sided concessions to this regime are as naïve as his world view and as misguided as his foreign policy affecting other parts of the world. America should be standing with our allies and democracy advocates around the world, not embracing, enriching and empowering our enemies, the way President Obama is about to do in Cuba.
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Matthew Latteri
Senator Rubio, I must say, your hardline and extremist views on Cuba are disgraceful, not President Obama's trip. I maybe a republican, but I throughly disagree with your opinions on this trip and Cuba Policy as a whole. The simple fact of the matter i…
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Irakli Gabidzashvili
You shouldn't have suspended your Campaign Marco. The US and World needs a leader like you. Marco was the first candidate for president I ever backed publicly and I will never regret that.
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Thomas Bewley Evangelist
Thats right Marco....we love you!!!.....Obama is a disgrace...he should held for Presidential Crimes against "our" country!!!
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Carlyn Greene
If only you were going to replace him. I'm still devastated at the stupidity of the American voters who are and choosing Trump, who knows nothing about foreign policy as he consults with himself, over you.
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Mary Thompson Jordahl
He is a disgrace to our country Senator Marco Rubio !! He will go down as the worse President in history, God help us no one like him ever holds the office again !
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James Magee
Here's why Rubio is wrong on this issue. There is no denying that Cuba has for more than half a century and still is run by a Communist regime. Given his heritage, it is understandable that Rubio would be appalled by the resumption of diplomatic rela…
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Bethzali Paradise
Seems Like the Iligitimate Venezuelan President will be in Cuba as well at the same time President Obama is in Cuba....one just wonders what could they be up to????
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Terry L Neel
Obama is not naïve or misguided, he's doing exactly what has been his plan all along - the betrayal and destruction of the United States.
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Cherie Jones Sanchez
Thank you Senator Rubio for having the courage to speak the truth about this disgraceful act by Obama. We look like fools and unfortunately our candidates for the next Presidential race prove we are a nation led by idiots. Not a single candidate left is impressive.
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Nancy McBride Debennette
I don't understand the American voters. Such as fine, respectable and honorable man as you, Marco should be the last man standing. I have donated and prayed for you from the beginning and was so upset when you had to suspend your run. You would make …
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