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Home Front: Politix
Dodd Would End Cuba Embargo if Elected
2007-09-09
CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) - Democrat Christopher Dodd ...
... who? ...
... pledged Saturday that as president ...
... oh right, him ...
... he would end a decades-old trade embargo with Cuba and lift travel restrictions to the communist island.
Looking to do well in the Florida non-primary, is he?
The Connecticut senator also said he would open an embassy in Havana and shut down the 17-year-old TV Marti, a U.S. government-run station that broadcasts to Cuba. ``Other than the war in Iraq, no other American policy is more broadly unpopular internationally,'' Dodd said of American policy toward Cuba.
Unpopular doesn't equate to 'wrong', unless you're a Democrat.
Dodd called the policy an ``abject failure.'' As president, he said he would seek a repeal of the 1996 Helms-Burton Act, which strengthened the U.S. embargo against Cuba. He also said taxpayers should not spend millions of dollars annually on TV Marti, which virtually no one in Cuba sees, and that he would reform its companion, Radio Marti.

Dodd sidestepped a question on whether he would meet leaders like Cuba's Fidel Castro and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez if elected. ``Presidents don't run around and meet with people automatically,'' Dodd said, without directly answering the question.
That wasn't a 'no'.
Posted by:Steve White

#9  Actually tu3031, you have a BETTER chance to get elected than Dodd. You have the advantage of unfamiliarity. Dodd's act is so pathetically tired that only his home staters pay any attention to him anymore.
Posted by: mcsegeek1   2007-09-09 16:49  

#8  he would reform its companion, Radio Marti

Any bets that said "reform" would involve removing all the "controversial" -- anti-Communist -- elements?
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2007-09-09 10:27  

#7  Good grief, the man's proposing what amounts to nothing more than unpayable subprime loans to another group that is incapable of compensating for what they'll take. What the hell do they have to trade that we need? Why haven't they been able to unload that to the world outside of the US market? Nothing. Hello, Mr. Dodd, anyone home up there? The lights are on, but nobody is home.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2007-09-09 08:47  

#6  Kissing a little ass in FLA.
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2007-09-09 08:34  

#5  Gah, I live in CT and completely forgot about Sen. Sandwich. A write up in the Guardian should really be a shot in the arm to his campaign. Actually this idiot will draw lots of campaign $ because the smart money (eg double-digit iq) knows he's going nowhere but back to his soft senate seat where he can continue to pork barrel and log roll for his pals.
Posted by: regular joe   2007-09-09 07:56  

#4  funny pink comments!
Posted by: Unutle McGurque8861   2007-09-09 07:15  

#3  Dodd just wants some Cuban cigars and rum.
Posted by: 3dc   2007-09-09 01:25  

#2  Dodd was President Reagan's number one opponent during the communist aggression against Central America. He actively worked for unilateral disarmament of US allies, while allowing the enemy to expand their terror wars. His conduct delayed democraticization for a couple of years. If anything, he would be a worse President than Carter, if that's possible.
Posted by: McZoid   2007-09-09 00:22  

#1  If I'm elected, senator, I'm keepin it in. So we'll see what happens, since we've both got about an equal chance of being elected...
Posted by: tu3031   2007-09-09 00:19  

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