Saturday, February 23, 2008

McCain Cuba response

Quote from John McCain about Barack Obama’s Cuba policy prescriptions:

'Obama said that as president he'd meet with the imprisoned island's new leader `without preconditions,' '' McCain said. ``So Raúl Castro gets an audience with an American president, and all the prestige such a meeting confers, without having to release political prisoners, allow free media, political parties, and labor unions, or schedule internationally monitored free elections.

''Meet, talk and hope may be a sound approach in a state Legislature,'' McCain said in a dig at Obama's experience as a state senator before his 2004 Senate election. ``But it is dangerously naive in international diplomacy. . . .''

I take this to mean that McCain will also refuse to meet with the leaders of countries like China and Saudi Arabia, where they are not doing all the same things that Cuba is not doing.

Oh, I forgot, those countries are not on the State Department's State Sponsors of Terrorism list so that means they're OK.

5 comments:

Anonymous,  4:14 PM  

This is about attacking Obama and gaining South Florida votes.

Don't worry. MacCain won't be elected President.

Greg Weeks 4:30 PM  

I posted not so much to complain about McCain, but rather to continue highlighting the numerous ways in which U.S. policy and conventional wisdom is contradictory and at times clearly hypocritical.

Anonymous,  4:48 PM  

true

Boli-Nica 11:54 PM  

McCain's victory in Florida's primaries which turned around his whole campaign, was largely due to the 50 percent vote among Cuban-Americans. Interestingly enough, the Cuban Republican "political machine" threw its support to Romney. The McCain "movement" was Senator Martinez, both Diaz-Ballart brothers, and Ros-Lehtinenn as well as McCain's immigration position.

While there is that side of the McCain campaign. Bernie Aronson, who is advising McCain drafted a position paper on Cuba that calls for gradually easing the embargo.

Greg Weeks 8:31 AM  

We shouldn't take the "advisors" argument too far, because they all have informal advisors whose opinions may conflict.

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