Obama: A Miricle ((A path to Friendship: Cuba's Door)(Ltr: 15, 4-14-2009))

Obama: A Miricle
((A path to friendship: Cuba’s Door) (Ltr: 15, 4-14-2009))



I started writing my Obama letters a few days after he made president, and tried to keep up with the mess he’s been creating, but I am happy to say, I am half proud of my president today. He has done three things correct since he’s been in office, soon to be 90-days. One, he allowed an old black lady to get on the welfare line; two, he made an international speech to the college kids in Heidelberg, Germany, on leaving something behind with their skills and talents, instead of robbing your neighbors blind, and in the last day or two it occurred to him this stupid blockade with Cuba is silly. We’ve had it for fifty-years, and we don’t even know why we have it. I mean, we allow every other dictatorship in the world to carry on as usual, normal business with the USA, and we kick our neighbor in the ribs for doing the same thing.
Let’s face it, China is no democracy, and look what they’ve done to Tibet; and they’ve got the guts to scorn Japan for their atrocities in WWII, and we opened the international trading door for them, brought them into the World Trade Organization as if they were our blood brothers, only to build more rockets and aim them at us. And I suppose I could crisscross the globe and pick out a dozen more countries, like Vietnam, and Burma, and so forth, but here we are chopping away at little Cuba. Take the chains off and let’s go have a party over yonder, under the Cuba sun: to have and have not, I heard that some place. And if the people want a dictatorship, let them have it. It’s called the people’s choice. They could change it if they had a heart to, we did. We get into this mode; we got to change everybody to fit into our box. Cultures, histories, economics, they all play a role in the way of life for a country. As long as they are not building missiles and aiming them at us, let them alone, and let’s open a door of friendship, like we did with our real enemies in Vietnam. Did you know they got a statue of liberty in Havana? They like us, and there are not a lot of folks out there that do; so Mr. President, with all respect, you’ve started to do something right for once. God bless you, and I hope I can soon write a letter and stipulate a forth thing you’ve done correct.