{"id":439,"date":"2007-08-22T12:18:28","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T18:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=439"},"modified":"2007-08-22T12:20:47","modified_gmt":"2007-08-22T18:20:47","slug":"cuber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=439","title":{"rendered":"Cuber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barrack Obama wants to lift sanction on <a href=\"http:\/\/newsmax.com\/archives\/ic\/2007\/8\/21\/83758.shtml?s=ic\">Cuba?<\/a>.  Turns out not so much.  He just want to lets Cubans visit their families.<\/p>\n<p>I hate the Cuba embargo. We&#8217;ve had it in place for 40+ years and it has done absolutely nothing to weaken Castro&#8217;s evil regime. Actually, if anything, it has empowered him. It has helped starve and deprive his people while doing nothing to keep him from becoming a billionaire.<\/p>\n<p>Lift the embargo. Give Cubans a taste of freedom and prosperity. And like the people of Eastern Europe, they will throw off communism fast than you can say, &#8220;Che&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>No one will advocate this, of course, because it would mean writing off Florida&#8217;s electoral votes. The Cuban-Americans are not reasonable about this. And, to be honest, I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;d be reasonable either if I lived seventy miles from a murderous psychopath who had oppressed and killed my relatives while being embraced and lauded by Hollywood dimwits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barrack Obama wants to lift sanction on Cuba?. Turns out not so much. He just want to lets Cubans visit their families. I hate the Cuba embargo. We&#8217;ve had it in place for 40+ years and it has done absolutely nothing to weaken Castro&#8217;s evil regime. Actually, if anything, it has empowered him. It has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=439\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cuber<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2BzKF-cuber","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}