Democrat Charlie Crist has said that the Cuban people on the island of Cuba, are suffering because of the U.S. embargo against the communist regime of the Castro brothers.
It’s been 50 years, and it hasn’t worked. And because that amount of time, you want to see if policies can work, and can come to fruition. It’s apparent to me, after 52 years, I think it is now, that this one has not. And I don’t want the people of Cuba to suffer anymore, and I think if we enter in trade with Cuba, it will help Florida and America, and the people of Cuba. –Charlie Crist (Video)
Asinine statement? Yes.
It is obvious that Crist’s change of mind, or flip flop, was only made to pander to leftist voters within the Democratic Party, and nothing more.
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Even the Democratic Party’s very own Florida Senator Bill Nelson took issue with Crist’s statement. And as Republicans have stated,” Charlie Crist’s position is so far out of the mainstream, he’s gone to the left of Bill Nelson, someone who voted with Barack Obama 100% of the time last year.”
President Obama’s own State Department stated the following:“It is not the time to unilaterally go in and lift the embargo until we see some iron-clad guarantees that freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of the assembly is being allowed inside Cuba by the police state that is still run by the Castro brothers.” -Senator Bill Nelson (D)
Cuba is an” outlier in the Western Hemisphere with its lack of respect for these rights. “We are deeply concerned about the recent increase in arbitrary detentions, physical violence, and other abusive actions carried out by the Cuban government against peaceful human and civil rights advocates.” Marie Harf, State Department spokeswoman
Now Republican Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen has spoken to the Shark Tank to give her take on Crist Statement that Cubans were suffering because of U.S. foreign policy. Ros-Lehtinen has been blistering Crist in the press since he first told leftist Bill Maher the Cuban embargo needed to be lifted.
Ros-Lehtinen said that what “opportunist” and “serial flip-flopper” Crist did was echo the Fidel and Raul Castro historic line of attack that the U.S. is to blame for the suffrage in Cuba.
In essence, Crist is acting as the Castro brothers puppet, and running cover for all of the murderous regimes past, present, and future civil rights violations.
Ros-Lehtinen added that Crist’s words were despicable and irresponsible, but that this statement coming from someone who has flip-flopped on every political issue, is expected and believable.One good point that the congresswoman makes is, the U.S. embargo does not prohibit food and medicine from being sent to the island, suggesting that if Crist was so concerned about the U.S. caused suffering in Cuba, “then he should round up all of the food and medicine can and send it.”