Yes, because 45 years of isolation have been so good for the Cuban people. Typical Republican "stay the course" bullshit. If McCain insists on making this election about national security, Obama's going to eat Grandpa John's lunch.

I look forward to Obama's nationally-televised smack-back from Des Moines tonight.

If Cuba hasn't made 'fundamental reforms' in more than 40 years, it's apparent the current policy (i.e. the Embargo) is not working. A new approach must be sought, which seems, for the best results, to include some kind of diplomatic outreach on the part of the United States.

In short, SHUT UP MCCAIN!!

McCain really shouldn't bring up "shifting positions."

Does this campaign know anything about McCain's record?

So basically McCain lost the Iran argument and he's moving onto the next country.

Trying something new, since the old has proven ineffectual with Cuba, with a new albeit authoritarian leader makes good sense. That Obama would publicly question whether an all out embargo is truly productive policy is why I like him. The GOP strategy this general election will to make common sense foreign policy seem scary, weak, and unstable. I believe the opposite and find the republican hawkish policy scary and weakening.

Once again McCain tees it up... I'm really looking forward to Obama's response later today. So far the score is Obama 2, McCain 0 in these little encounters.

As Chris Matthews suggested about the idiot shouting about appeasement, these guys really are a blank slate when it comes to history. McCain obviously doesn't remember that the Cold War ended through a policy of constructive engagement.

Cuba! Cuba! Oh Noes!

jeez, at least hillary was only stuck in the 90s.

There's a big change going on here in South Florida. Younger Cubans don't hold the views of their grandparents and parents. They think the current policy is stupid, so McCain's not going to get the support for his "stay the course" stance that he would have in the last century. Obama can really win on this issue and make some headway in Florida. Best of all, there are GOP Congressional seats up for grabs in Miami and Fort Lauderdale districts, seats held by well-entrenched Cuban-Americans of the old policy school. But we have good, strong Democratic opponents to take them on. We can take those seats away, especially with Obama's help.

FL 18th - seat held by Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R)
Dem challenger: Annette Taddeo

FL 21st - seat held by Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R)
Dem challenger: Raul Martinez

FL 25th - seat held by Mario Diaz-Balart (R)
Dem challenger: Joe Garcia

Please visit Actblue.com and help out if you can. Please help get rid of the Diaz-Balart brothers, a couple of real do-nothing Republicans who really are the hardliners on this failed Cuban policy. Joe Garcia is very strong, you'll see that people have been giving a lot to him via Actblue.

Maybe Florida can redeem itself by electing these great down-ticket Dems.

Thanks for your attention!

Bout time!

With the Council on For Rel recommending normalization of Cuban relations, it was looking there for a minute that Republicans such as Tom DeLay and Arnold Schwarzenegger wouldn't be able to continue their monopoly on the enjoyment of Cohibas!

Cuba Si
McShame No

I thought Obama's shift in position on Cuba looked weak. When I first heard it, I thought: "just another politician afraid to tell the Miami Cubans the truth." If he want to hit it out of the park, he needs to have the courage to swing at the issue. Playing defense here by reiterating the stay the course policy position won't win him many votes.

Interesting.

McCain is speaking in Miami: he started with Obama's lack of commitment to liberty in Cuba (because he's willing to meet with Cuban Leadership) but went on to criticize Obama and Clinton on their opposition to a free-trade agreement with Columbia. So he started with foreign policy and then moved on to economic policy. Is McCain right on the free-trade with Columbia?

By the way, the country is Colombia not Columbia.

More "Stay the course" bullshit from the GOP, which seems to be leading America straight off the cliff.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20080519/cm_csm/yburki;_ylt=AnBc6jMJ.kfe8jXU7UUjbzIDW7oF

Karl Rove is called a "political wizard". However, Senator Obama will expose Rove and the GOP as Wizards (as in Oz) --illusionary figures masquerading behind a curtain of Deceit! The Republican Pretenders are skilled in rituals of smoke & mirrors - Experts in Demonizing and Belittling thier opponents through smear and distortion . We, the American people, are tired of their trickery's and lies based on illusionary fear-mongering and not fact, and like the Wizard of Oz, when the curtain is pulled back by "the light of truth", they will be exposed as the fakers and the pretenders that they are -- with loud, silver-tounged voices filled with vinegar and no Real Power -- pulling strings of "make believe" to coverup their own innate weakness and Experienced villainy, an In-Experience and Naivite that Barack lacks. This unveiling will enable us to finally get off this merry-go-round -- this "yellow-brick-road" of illusion and deceit perpetrated upon the American public by these ShapeShifters and Betrayers of the Public Good.

This massed negativity has been a real detriment to American economic progress and peace in Iraq. Such pretenders and shapeshifters are like a millstone around the neck of humanity, crippling true effort. They proclaim Family Values, yet do nothing but impede true progress while the American way-of-life is dying. Any bills offered by Democrats which will benefit the American families, the GOP votes NO! This massed, organized negativity has been what has enabled them to work so ruthlessly with power and success at the destruction of all that has attempted to get in the way of their projects, desires and greed. They refuse to recognize that humanity can solve its problems without aggression and force and instead use the energy of goodwill and diplomacy, sharing and cooperation.

If you disagree with the Pretenders' politics, however, (I do not say policies for they lack true policies) in unison they attack by subterfuge, distortion and lies to disquise their true intent --the control of money and power for the GOP family only (so much for family values). Masters in fear mongering and shapeshifting, they hope to incite fear in an unsuspecting and gullible American public and to get them to embrace thier plans out of fear and against their own common sense and good judgment! Only this time, we will dispell this Illusion and not be fooled again by these "fakers, con-artists and Pretenders", and our united House, born out of need and true change, will withstand the onslaught of this False, now Fleeting Wind that has devastated the American way of life, no more; their House of Cards is falling!