Keep Cuba sanctions, Democratic presidential candidate Kerry says

[IndianaGreen]

Here is another example of Kerry's pandering and waffling. The Kerry campaign will tell you that Kerry voted this year to lift the Cuban embargo, which should have been lifted eons ago. However, when Kerry appeared on Meet the Press last year he contradicted himself. Was Kerry pandering to the Miami Cubans, or can Kerry even remember which side of an issue he is supposed to be on?

Flip-flops like this make Kerry look like an opportunist or worse, as a liar.

Posted on Mon, Sep. 01, 2003

Keep Cuba sanctions, Democratic presidential candidate Kerry says
BY PETER WALLSTEN

Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, a Democratic candidate for president who has campaigned heavily in Florida for cash and votes, appeared to shift his stance on the trade embargo with Cuba on Sunday, telling a national television audience that he now supports keeping sanctions in place.

Kerry's remarks, delivered on NBC's Meet the Press, seemed to contradict statements he made during a 2000 interview with The Boston Globe that a reevaluation of the embargo was ''way overdue'' and that the only reason Cuba has been treated differently than China and Russia is the ``politics of Florida.''

Kerry on Sunday called that ''an honest statement,'' but when NBC's Tim Russert asked whether he endorsed lifting sanctions he replied: ``Not unilaterally, not now, no.''

The Massachusetts senator, who has met privately over the past year with exile leaders, said Sunday that he would support easing travel restrictions, though he was vague about how to do it and whether he was referring to tourism. He also said he might consider allowing more money to be sent to dissidents.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/6666091.htm

[morgan2]

1. let the pandering begin

translation, "please vote for me in florida."

[wtmusic]

2. He thinks he has the base locked up

and is moving to the center.

Trying to have it both ways. Just like the war. :eyes:

[DaisyUCSB]

6. well Dean isn't for lifting any more sanctions than Kerry is

as far as I know he's even less pro-reform than Kerry is.

Let's be acountable towards our candidates here.

I'm not a Kerry supporter or a Dean supporter, but you do support Dean and he doesn't seem to be anti-anti-castro here

[pacifictiger]

9. If the dems are stupid enough

to use old fashioned political "strategy" of who is theoretically "electable" at this stage, instead of the genuine gut honesty and straight talk that Dean portrays, washington is lost to the average person. As much as I've tried to like Kerry, and I think personally he's a great caring guy, I cannot get past the fact that he just does not have the fire-in-the-belly drive to change anything. We will have more damage to undo after another 4 or 8 years and I suspect if changes are not begun now, by 2008-12 there will be some sort of populace uprising.

[DaisyUCSB]

3. Kerry is for the lifting of the TRAVEL embargo

because he thinks that would help both America and the Cuban people

But he isn't for lifting the trade embargo. We might as well wait till that skunk Castro dies to lift that.

[Forkboy]

4. He's running out of strikes

[WiseMen]

5. Kerry has been completely consistent. But I am sure you don't care

All you are doing is spreading out the "indirect source" manure
manufactured by the repubs. Quite Ok. They will be spreading
if out as well. Truth is irrelevant to Rove, and apparently to
other folks as well.

[Forkboy]

7. Wisemen

what is the truth?

[IndianaGreen]

8. The Miami Herald is not a Republican newspaper

The Herald has bore the brunt of the hatred of the Miami Mafia.

[corporatewhore]

10. I am not to sure about miami herald not being a repub newspaper

day after FTAA protests they praised John timoney and miami pd for their restraint leading up to protests they had stories that were like lions tigers and protestors oh my sure they have one alright columnist but for the most part thethey were a spokes person for the police not to mention they were one of the corporate sponser of the ftaa talks

[IndianaGreen]

11. Miami Herald applauded Elian Gonzales being returned to his dad.

No Republican newspaper would have done that!

[DaisyUCSB]

12. um the herald wouldn't have taken a side. Maybe an editorial did

.

[corporatewhore]

13. it still sponsered the FTAA talks

and in their "news" section they said protestors would come armed with fuckin ninja stick (i dont know what a ninja stick is but now i want one;)

[corporatewhore]

14. Sanctions only hurt the people not the rulers just like in iraq