Robert Gibbs made a very special announcement today about the communist plantation, Cuba! You can now travel and send gifts and clothes there — if you’re a Cuban-American with family on the island, that is. (Although the liberal New York Times writes that there maybe be more easing on the way, which Obama may announce during his trip this week to Trinidad and Tobago, which is very symbolically near Cuba.)
What else was symbolic today? Oh yes, Robert Gibbs let some mid-level government official go up to the podium and read the announcement in Mexican. Fortunately for us Real Americans, Mexican CNN anchor Rick Sanchez was there to translate this gobbledygook into white people words.
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OH SO WE LOVE COMMUNISTS NOW? Well isn’t that just SWELL.
REVOLUTION, SHEEPLES!!1
Jesus it only took 60 years to change one little tiny part of the “Cuban Doctrine?” What the fuck?
necesitas mas bolsitas de te
This is really just about cigars. No one cares about the communist sheeple.
[re=288038]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: “Cuban Doctorin’” is might fine already. Don’t need no tinkerin’.
“Hey guys, we’ve got this awesome policy which has not really changed in 60 years, and which has not accomplished anything at all, in fact it has kept in power the guys we hate so much and who are responsible for us starting the policy to begin with. Let’s keep it!”
That’s pretty much the GOP platform on Cuba. I really do not get it.
The legal framework for sending Rick Sanchez back to Cuba forever has been laid.
HOPE
Look, dropping sanctions against Libya is one thing, after all they only blew up an airliner full of innocent civilians. However, the Cubans are REALLY bad.
What was Obama thinking??? Is that “portuguese” waterdog Manchurian Candidating from the Whitehouse already?
[re=288054]DC Hates Me[/re]: I vote we keep Rick & send Geraldo (& no, I don’t care that he’s Puerto Rican). And just for giggles, let’s send Lou Dobbs–so he can see how real furreigners are.
I think this is all a plan to find people who can keep GM products running.
what, now all these mexicans are going to get rights? If they only worked half as hard as I do at checking the wonkettes, they wouldn’t need to steal our JORbs!
Yeah, but do they allow gay marriage there? I’m only goin’ if I can get gay married, have an abortion, and take a seminar in Marxist theory. (Note to Cubans: This would be a good travel package).
To get elected preznident you have to win Florida, or “la pequeña Cuba de la Norte”</i) as it’s known in Havana. Until 2008, you could only win Florida by pandering to former whorehouse and casino owners transplanted from Havana, who were unremitting in their fervid desire to reclaim their heritage, which could only be accomplished by getting rid of Fidel….After a while, though, the got old and died. Hopey won. They lose. ¡Venceremos, amigos! Lets all plan on going down and working the cane harvest this fall!
Dear Rick,
Just because you speak Spanish doesn’t mean you can translate on the fly. It is an art. Much like teabagging.
I can haz cheap rum?
[re=288062]TJBeck[/re]: TJ Beck has the solution. Cubans will buy our entire inventory of crappy American-made cars, while our car geeks will buy all their 50-year-old American classic cars. Cuba will bring themselves into the 21st century while stimulatin’ our economies. World’s problems solved.
HTML: UR DOIN IT RONG!
I can now eat Cuban sandwiches guilt-free! Which is nice, because they’re mighty tasty.
[re=288075]Min[/re]: Uh, those were actually invented in Tampa by anti-Castro Cuban emigres. So you were already good.
Can Rick Sanchez watch the telenovellas on Univision for me and translate? Because the women on those shows are HAWT, and I want to know what the heck they’re yelling about.
Rush and some of the GOP fat cats are behind this as a means of securing a lifetime supply of cigars. Which of course they have been enjoying illegally for years and don’t give a rats ass about their legality.
Of couse for a select group of closeted Republicans, cigars here means something different entirely from the dark, handsome and economically repressed boys there.
i can haz cigars now?
[re=288093]Bruno[/re]:
well, there is a ‘rumor’ that Fidels brother is teh ‘gay’.
[re=288073]hobospacejunkie[/re]: Cuban cars don’t look quite ready for the Barrett-Jackson auction, but I guess we could find some body shop in South San Diego to take care of that. More WIN!!
[re=288086]Lazy Media[/re]: Way to kill my buzz.
Oh fuck all. Listen, I’m a Canadian, and I love Americans and all, but – no. Not Cuba. It’s the ONLY GODDAMN PLACE ON EARTH where you can go and not see American tourists. It’s a paradise of Canadian and Australian and Brit tourists all chilling in perfect harmony at beaches and resorts, not having to worry about getting trampled by yokels from Milwaukee with crocs on their feet and cameras hanging around their necks, yelling at teenage busboys for messing up their pina colada order, as around the corner the MTV Spring Break Beachhouse has a Miller High Life funneling contest. Again, I love Americans. Just not the kind of Americans that you send anywhere else on earth for some reason.
[re=288086]Lazy Media[/re]: Actually, the Cuban sandwich is about 100 years old, which makes it at least 5 years older than Castro.
Trinidad is not near Cuba. Not even in the Alaska is near Russia sense.
[re=288110]sati demise[/re]: There’s a rumour that every single Latin American socialist is teh gay (Chávez, Morales, etc etc), as Latino wingnuts are even more fond of that particular slur than the Yanqui variety.
Although in fact El Presidente Raúl’s daughter is the island’s biggest gay-and-tranny rights activist.
[re=288059]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: Signed.
[re=288059]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: I’ll pack their stuff and make the reservations.
If we can’t get Cuban cigars and rum then the Communists have won.
The US should offer to free the Cuban Five if Cuba will free all their political prisoners.
This would present quite a dilemma for Cuba – since the Cuban Five are held in extremely high regard
in Cuba (kinda like martyred saints). Would they do it? They just might.
[re=288235]kapish[/re]: You’d have to define “political prisoner”.
[re=288149]totoro[/re]: What are you talking about? Hell, everything from Cuba to Teirra del Fuego is in a little patch of ground in our backyard, so they’re all next-door neighbors.
I think the biggest arguement for Cuban-American relations was presented by Roland Martin on CNN tonight. Complaining about exchanging with a Dictator Communist Govenment, was a reply,”If Cuba had loaned us 1 1/2 trillion dollars like Red China, we wouldn’t be having this decussion.” That’s the whole key to it, is there anyway US Big Business can exploit it? If there was, it would of already been done and finished long ago and we would have those tourist on the beach like the Canadian earlier was talking about.
[re=288131]mattbolt[/re]: Holguin, Cuba (think Paradisus Rio De Oro) will be overrun by vanguard force of itinerant shnorrer snowbillies from Wasilla, in short order.
O is taking a big dump on the vacation dreams of generations of Mapleleafpoutine-munchers from Thunder Bay, FTW!
This is the dream of our muslin hetman, Barack “Medianochegobbler” Obama.
[re=288264]doloras[/re]:
That definition could be left to Human Rights Watch.
[re=288062]TJBeck[/re]: Win. Here’s your cigar.
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