Obama to normalize relations with Cuba

[YellowFever]

Obama hails 'new chapter' in US-Cuba ties - BBC News

Might be worth it just for the new travel destinations and decent cigars.....

[Parihaka]

Win. There was no point to this other than to satisfy expat Cubans in Florida. Win.

[YellowFever]

Now we can turn it into Cancun minus the drug cartels.

[gunnut]

One of the few Obama policies I agree with. Sanctions have done...what...over the last 50 years? It's time to try something different.

Let's conquer them with Coca Cola and McDonald's and Starbucks instead of depriving them of Coca Cola and McDonald's and Starbucks.

[Albany Rifles]

Its going to destablize the market for baseball players!!!

[gunnut]

Quick, flood the market with cheap Cuban imports...

[TopHatter]

It's about damn time. Absolutely no benefit whatsoever to a continued embargo other than politics.

[GVChamp]

It's about damn time. Absolutely no benefit whatsoever to a continued embargo other than politics.

That's a pretty big benefit, IMO. I care a lot more about who is in the White House than I do about trade policy with some craphole island.

I'd give Cuba a freakin' Super-carrier if they take Puerto Rico, too.

[bbvet]

I agree also - regardless of the idiot and his clown college admin. We didn't do it right 50 years ago - it's way overdue to change policy. Better to sell them "Made in the USA" than having them continue to buy Russki.

I wonder if the Coca Cabana:Dancing-Banana: will make a comeback?

[tbm3fan]

Win. There was no point to this other than to satisfy expat Cubans in Florida. Win.

Just saw this on the news and what took so damn long to do it? We have relations with Russia and China but Cuba is a big bad no no.

Then we have Rubio on TV talking about blocking normalization. Well, Marco, eat my shorts you moron.

Russia had some new deals in the making but I would hazard a guess that those may fall by the wayside.
I'm pretty sure the average Cuban will be saying go home Ruski while saying we love Yankees (sorry Albany :) )

[zraver]

This has the potential to save a lot of lives. For years the life blood of international relief work has been American donors. Cuban doctors are often the yeomen doing the work, but marrying American dollars with Cuban doctors and nurses has been difficult. For example during the Haitian earthquake- Cubans, not Americans or other nationalities were the most common provided of medical treatment. Today, Cuba has had nearly 200 doctors and nurses in West Africa fighting Ebola for months- well ahead of any official American response.

[tbm3fan]

The real gold mine here is going to be those rolling gold mines called 1950's Buicks, Fords, Chevy's and Olds. I for see container ships heading this way with many of those cars on board.

God, I hope Fast 'n Loud doesn't get over there as I can't stand those guys.

[Albany Rifles]

Looks like I will get to do battlefield tours of the Spanish American War battlefields!!!!

Woot!! Woot!!!

[TopHatter]

Just saw this on the news and what took so damn long to do it? We have relations with Russia and China but Cuba is a big bad no no.

And Vietnam!

[zraver]

And Vietnam!

Fighting and dying next to Germans in A-stan.... The biggest killer of Americans in combat in the last 100 years.