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Jeb Bush calls for strengthening Cuban embargo
By WILLIAM E. GIBSON
Sun Sentinel
December 3, 2014
WASHINGTON Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's call for strengthening the U.S. embargo of Cuba signals a get-tough approach to foreign policy sure to please his political base of Cuban-American conservatives.
One big question is whether Bush's position will alienate other voters, including thousands of Cuban-Americans who oppose the embargo and are streaming to the island to visit family members.
Bush's stance, affirmed during a speech in Coral Gables, Fla., on Tuesday, sets up a clear contrast to Hillary Clinton, the potential Democratic front-runner for president. She wants to lift the embargo and normalize relations with Cuba.
Bush acknowledged this week that he is "thinking about running for president." If he and Clinton are nominated by their respective parties, they will compete hard for Florida, the biggest swing state and home to 70 percent of the nation's Cuban-Americans.
"I would argue that instead of lifting the embargo we should consider strengthening it again to put pressure on the Cuban regime," Bush told cheering supporters at a gathering of the U.S. Cuba Democracy PAC, a pro-embargo advocacy group.
WASHINGTON Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's call for strengthening the U.S. embargo of Cuba signals a get-tough approach to foreign policy sure to please his political base of Cuban-American conservatives.
One big question is whether Bush's position will alienate other voters, including thousands of Cuban-Americans who oppose the embargo and are streaming to the island to visit family members.
Bush's stance, affirmed during a speech in Coral Gables, Fla., on Tuesday, sets up a clear contrast to Hillary Clinton, the potential Democratic front-runner for president. She wants to lift the embargo and normalize relations with Cuba.
Bush acknowledged this week that he is "thinking about running for president." If he and Clinton are nominated by their respective parties, they will compete hard for Florida, the biggest swing state and home to 70 percent of the nation's Cuban-Americans.
"I would argue that instead of lifting the embargo we should consider strengthening it again to put pressure on the Cuban regime," Bush told cheering supporters at a gathering of the U.S. Cuba Democracy PAC, a pro-embargo advocacy group.
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Historic NY
(37,449 posts)we embargo one Communist nation yet were borrow trillions and send all our manufacturing to another.
Initech
(100,068 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,527 posts)Jeb Bush to Cuban-Americans: 'I am honored to be a soldier in your army'
Published December 03, 2014/
Fox News Latino
CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) Nearing a decision on a presidential run in 2016, Jeb Bush on Tuesday reaffirmed his support for the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba and pushed for a foreign policy that he said could help repair the nation's credibility after Barack Obama's presidency.
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Bush not only reaffirmed his support for the U.S. trade embargo of Cuba, but said America should consider strengthening it. Without naming her, he criticized efforts by Clinton and others to lift the sanctions.
Clinton, who backed the trade limits when she ran for president in 2008, reversed her position this year and now describes the embargo as "Castro's best friend," arguing that the regime uses it as a scapegoat for the island's problems.
Bush said the embargo should remain until the Castro regime is driven from power or releases its political prisoners and holds free elections. He also pledged his support for the event's host, the U.S-Cuba Democracy PAC, one of the policy's staunchest defenders.
"I am honored to be a soldier in your army," he told the crowd in Spanish.
Some of Florida's most prominent Cuban-American leaders lauded him, citing his tenure overseeing a diverse state that has often served as safe harbor for refugees from across Latin America.
"Jeb knows the world," said former U.S. Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart.
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2014/12/03/jeb-bush-to-cuban-americans-am-honored-to-be-soldier-in-your-army/
global1
(25,242 posts)Bush said, "I would argue that instead of lifting the embargo we should consider strengthening it again to put pressure on the Cuban regime".
What are we pressuring the Cuban regime for?
Alenne
(1,931 posts)This is why people hate politics and politicians.
America is such an immature country.
KaryninMiami
(3,073 posts)Someone should clue him in that second generation Cuban Americans- especially those who are college educated, are voting Democratic now. As are most Cuban Americans not living in South Florida. The "Elian Gonzales crazies" (remember him?) are boisterous and very unified in their anti Castro passion, but not nearly as powerful as they once were and many are in their 70's or older.
Arkansas Granny
(31,516 posts)I don't see any benefits at all.
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)and the Elephant in the room is that inn 2016, Rick Scott will be able to hand this asshole the state, as Jeb himself made the machines that will doso. But hey, we got Debbie Wasserman-Schulz in charge, right?
Sad thing is, if we fire debbie Now, Hillary will put her back in a heartbeat as Debbie is a die hard Puma, and she will still botch the Florida campaign.
Skink
(10,122 posts)True Blue Door
(2,969 posts)True Blue Door
(2,969 posts)but it should apply universally to all undemocratic states, including China. This is bullsht.
Wounded Bear
(58,648 posts)but it should apply universally to all undemocratic states, including us.
Can we put an embargo on ourselves?
True Blue Door
(2,969 posts)Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Don't believe capitalist propaganda.
The only reason the embargo is still in place is because the capitalists will never let a successful worker's state exist just a few miles off the coast of Florida, it might give us proles here ideas, so they they work to destroy the Cuban economy.
True Blue Door
(2,969 posts)Cuba is a farce, every bit as China or Iran. Apologism for is it an outrageous insult.
Judi Lynn
(160,527 posts)True Blue Door
(2,969 posts)with farcical rigged elections where 99% of the people have "elected" Fidel Castro for decades. Don't come to a liberal website spouting your totalitarian propaganda.
People are arrested or murdered for talking about open voting in Cuba.
You're not going to "climate change denial" this subject. Deny that Cuba is a police state and I'll alert your propaganda-spouting ass.
I won't be entertaining any demands from you to prove the Holocaust happened either.
okaawhatever
(9,461 posts)Odin2005
(53,521 posts)True Blue Door
(2,969 posts)you can write in a candidate. Stop posting demented totalitarian lies.
Donald Ian Rankin
(13,598 posts)You should be utterly ashamed of yourself for dishonestly pimping for it.
okaawhatever
(9,461 posts)Odin2005
(53,521 posts)SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)Initech
(100,068 posts)LeftInTX
(25,304 posts)bob-connors
(27 posts)Please read my article relating to this at:
http://bobpaulconnors.hubpages.com/hub/GOP-quagmires-from-Vietnam-to-Iraq-and-ISIS