Obama May Visit Cuba

by JASmius



See if you can guess the real reason why:

Just a day after his stunning announcement that the United States will re-establish a diplomatic relationship with Cuba — including opening an embassy in Havana —  President Barack Obama is weighing a trip to the island nation or hosting a visit from its communist leader, Raul Castro.

"I don’t have any current plans, but let’s see how things evolve," Obama told ABC "World News Tonight" anchor David Muir.

Time reports that Secretary of State John Kerry is already planning a trip there, according to a statement issued Thursday in which he said: "I look forward to being the first Secretary of State in sixty years to visit Cuba."

Earlier Thursday, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the president was not "ruling out" a visit to Cuba, with Earnest adding that there could be "important national security reasons for the president to travel to other countries that have what we would describe at best as checkered human rights records."

Here's a hint: dignifying and bolstering regimes with "checkered human rights records" with corrupt U.S. diplomatic recognition and "engagement" is NOT why O is "weighting a trip to Cuba".  On that score he's much more interested in giving Raul Castro the red carpet treatment here, which is already in the works.

No, there's one reason - besides that fine Cuban choom - why his infernal majesty wants to frolic on that Caribbean island prison:

Earnest also noted that the natural beauty of Cuba might entice the president to make a trip there.

"Like many Americans, (Obama) has seen that Cuba is a place where they have a beautiful climate and a lot of fun things to do, so, if there's an opportunity for the president to visit, I'm sure he wouldn't turn it down," Earnest said.

That's right, folks: Cuba is O's newest vacation destination.  He'll even get to play golf on the same course as Che Guevara did!  That will be some reverent putting, right there.

Exit observation: Calvin Coolidge is the last POTUS to visit Cuba for any reason.  What, then, does that tell us about Cuba's strategic value to the United States, and Barack Obama's hard-left ideological reasons for tossing the oppressed Cuban people overboard?

Bonus exit question: If O goes to Cuba, can't they keep him down there?  He'd be right at home, after all.