March 23, 2016 at 1:52 p.m.
The president is a disgrace to the nation
The president is a disgrace to the nation
In short, as Rubio posted on Facebook, it was "one of the most disgraceful trips ever taken by a U.S. president anywhere in the world."
In recent weeks, Obama has been too busy to attend the funeral of long-tenured and admired Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia, though he had no public events scheduled for that day. He just didn't want to go.
Likewise with the funeral of former First Lady Nancy Reagan. On that day Obama was busy elsewhere, attending the SXSW technology festival, where he called for letting the government have access to everybody's smartphones lest we all start running around with "Swiss bank accounts" in our pockets.
Now it was certainly Obama's prerogative not to attend those funerals, and he certainly wasn't the first president in the last century to skip out on services for dead justices and former First Ladies.
But he was the first president in the last 88 years to go to Cuba, and there's a big reason why his predecessors haven't gone, particularly since 1959: the totalitarian revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power that year.
Fidel Castro's regime was brutal and repressive, the antithesis of human rights, and his brother Raul's regime is no different. People may say times have changed, but they haven't changed in Cuba: People live like dirt, and, if they try to get up and stand on their own, they are quickly sent to prison.
That's a fact, and it's why the Ladies In White exist. Who are the Ladies In White? They are a movement of women in Cuba who protest the imprisonment of dissidents, particularly their own loved ones.
They attend Mass in white every Sunday to make their statements, and they pay heavily for their actions, sometimes jailed, other times beaten, always repressed and punished.
According to the Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation, in 2015 alone there were more than 8,000 short-term detentions for political insubordination, their crime being that they were government opponents.
But, as Rubio points out, Obama won't be hanging out with the Ladies In White. He was busy elsewhere, just like he was on the day of Nancy Reagan's funeral. Only this time, instead of advocating for totalitarian policies, he was busy hanging out with the totalitarians themselves, and living in the luxury of their ill-gotten spoils.
Here's how Rubio put it:
"President Obama's entourage will sleep in hotels controlled by the Cuban military that were confiscated by the regime and are among the $7 billion in unpaid legal claims owed to American property owners. When President Obama arrives in Havana on Sunday, he will visit Catholic Church sights and church officials, yet he's inexplicably expected to skip St. Rita Church, where the Ladies In White have shed much blood and received routine beatings at the hands of the Castro regime for simply demanding their loved ones' freedom."
That's not all.
During his visit to his Cuban paradise - where he implored Americans to finally end the Cold War and stop all this hating on Cuba - he posed for a picture in front of the "revolutionary" Che Guevara.
Only Che Guevara was less a revolutionary and more of a terrorist and mass murderer. In his day, Guevara was responsible for the executions of thousands of Cuban dissidents. He touted hatred and murder and called for blood to flow like rivers for socialism.
Just who does that sound like? Yes, it sounds exactly like ISIS, except they want to exterminate for Allah rather than for socialism.
Guevara plotted to carry out mass murder in New York by blowing up department stores on the day after Thanksgiving, in a scheme foiled by the FBI, long before Osama bin Laden every dreamed up 9/11.
Che Guevara was a terrorist's terrorist and today's murderers are his direct descendants. And so it pains us to see our president posing in front of a mural of Guevara during the same week that terrorists were blowing up and killing and injuring hundreds of innocent people in Brussels.
It was an extreme dishonor to those who died in 9/11 and to the honor of victims of terrorism everywhere.
It is disgraceful. It makes us sick to our stomachs, and there is no other way to put it.
In a press conference with Raul Castro after he arrived in Cuba, Obama went so far as to say he didn't personally disagree with Castro's criticisms of the United States. That's not surprising.
It's not surprising because this man hates the United States of America. He hates our culture and our values. He hates our constitution and our democratic institutions and our Founding Fathers.
His sympathies run elsewhere, to the Third World and to all its "revolutionaries."
One might disagree with that admittedly candid and harsh assessment, but we think the pictures from Cuba tell the true story.
Rather than attend the funerals of revered Americans, Obama would rather stand with totalitarians. Rather than honor the memories of Antonin Scalia and Nancy Reagan, he would rather celebrate the legacy of Che Guevara.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and these pictures speak an even heavier volume. They broadcast to the entire world the true allegiance of the president of the United States of America.
It is indeed a sad, sad day.
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