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Sunday, August 26th, 2007...4:39 pm

Clinton and Giuliani Support Bush’s Cuba Policy

They have made the political calculation to pander to the the South Florida Cuban-American mafia and the wealthy Cuban-Americans of New Jersey, rather than advocate change in policy, even though the current policy has failed for fifty years and a majority of Cuban-Americans support a change in that policy.

Albor Ruiz of the New York Daily News says it way better than I can.

OK, I understand craven politicians, bereft of bedrock principles, seeking only power and prestige, pandering, or should I say whoring, for campaign money. Really, I do. Florida and New Jersey cast a combined 42 electoral college votes after all. But what makes Bush’s severe restrictions on Cuban travel and remittances, as well as Clinton’s and Giuliani’s support of such, so utterly ridiculous is the absolute ineffectiveness of those restrictions.

Anyone in the USA with a credit card and an internet connection may send funds to Cuba. Likewise, anyone may easily travel to Cuba.

Anyone aspiring to the presidency who doesn’t favor changing a policy that has failed for the fifty years should not be president.

While I’m at it, why do the media refer to Senator Clinton as Hillary and every other candidate by their last names?

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