Cuban Confusion

So the US is going to stop with the silly, spiteful embargo of Cuba.

Knowing that Freepers love spite-based foreign policy, and generally view world affairs as an instrument to bash Obama, I expected a huge (if boring) hew and cry that Obama loves Commies and Cuba is the worst. And there was some of that, but not as much as I thought. I guess not even Freepers can get too worked up about this.

Which turned out even more amusing, as Freepers struggle to hate Obama, even as they kinda supported about what he did.

Jim Robinson sets the marching order at "simplistic"

Comrade dictator Obama never met a commie he didn’t like.

manc could have posted this on any Obama thread.

He’s going all out now he’s near his end to destroy this country and our laws.

This is only the beginning and he needs to be marched out of our white house and impeached.

re_nortex also doesn't bother with anything specific:

If hussein is for it, I'm against it. Evil must always be opposed.

re_nortex then follows up with some impressive rationalization.

We have diplomatic relations with China, Russia and Saudi Arabia. They are all at least as bad as Cuba.

Cuba is merely 90 miles away, thus making that barbaric country an existential threat.

Buckeye McFrog goes with the tried-and-true "this is a distraction from Obama's real evils"

How come Rush is not talking about this?

Because it is largely just a distraction from more ominous things Obama is doing. Sanctions against Cuba have not really achieved anything. Certainly not the removal of the Castros. The greatest effect is likely to be to make the electoral sledding in Florida a little rougher for Democrats.

cgbg will personally benefit, so this is an okay move.

Even a broken clock gets the time right twice a day.

As a cigar person I am very excited. I would expect trade relations to be established with Cuban tobacco as legal as Dominican, Honduran, and Nicaraguan tobacco is today.

Cigar manufacturers have pledged that when it is legal they will create new multi-country blends—and all cigar smokers will benefit.

Not a student of history, DoughtyOne argues that this move will make America's previously steadfast foreign policy inconsistent:

Soon... perhaps North Korea will become our closest ally eclipsing South Korea.

Under this administration who knows?

If our allies are following along here (and they certainly are), imagine what connection to the U. S. they’ll consider in the future.

Our government needs a stadium filled dose of Prazac, to combat the multi-personality it has become.

Bratch blames the bad sort of Capitalism:

Wouldn’t be shocked to find the Crony Capitalist Chamber of Commerce (CCCC?) fingerprints all over this.

Tupelo also likes this, but gets his digs in at Democrats and foreign aid:

Well, someone had to do it. Who better than a Democrat who just loves dictators.
Only problem I have is the fact that we now have another country to support with our dwindling tax dollars.
I think an aid pool is in order. Pick a number between 1 billion dollars and 100 billion dollars. Closest to the amount of foreign aid sent to the Castro brothers........ er........... Cuba yep Cuber in 2016 wins

SoFloFreeper thinks Cuba is useless, and thus its human rights record matters:

Then send a “way to go” letter to Obama, since you apparently think this is a brilliant move by the Kenyan.

Meanwhile, let me remind you that China and Russia and the Sauds are quite different from Cuba. All three are significant trading partners with us on manufactured goods and energy. Cuba has tobacco.

Cuba is repressive, just like the other places you mentioned; that does not make for an argument to bolster the Cuban dictatorship.

pallis also likes cigars, so he makes a desultory attempt to say Democrats are Communist.

Ideologically speaking, it is hard to distinguish Cuban communists from Democrats. As a matter of reality, the Cuban landowners that have fled Cuba are not likely to repossess their property and status in Cuba, and the Cuban communists are not likely to ever suffer justice for the atrocities they have committed against humanity. Sanctions and our isolating Cuba from the US hasn’t done anything to make matters better, or punish the despots. Despots have a way of flourishing at the expense of common people. Our Democrat elites are proof of this.

I look forward to the Cigar trade, but think when Americans start smoking Cuban cigars they will be surprised at how good some of the Central American cigars are by comparison. The entire cigar industry should benefit.