{"id":27846,"date":"2016-03-22T14:50:57","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T18:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=27846"},"modified":"2016-03-22T14:50:57","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T18:50:57","slug":"our-president-has-forgotten-who-we-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=27846","title":{"rendered":"Our President Has Forgotten Who We Are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/article\/2001662\" target=\"_blank\">The Weekly Standard<\/a> posted an article yesterday about <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Barack Obama\" href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">President Obama&#8217;s<\/a> remarks in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Cuba\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=23.1333333333,-82.3833333333&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=23.1333333333,-82.3833333333 (Cuba)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Cuba<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8220;President <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Fidel Castro\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fidel_Castro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Castro<\/a>, I think, has pointed out that in his view making sure that everybody is getting a decent education or health care, has basic security and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Old age\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Old_age\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">old age<\/a>, that those things are <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Human rights\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Human_rights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">human rights<\/a> as well. I personally would not disagree with him,&#8221; Obama said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8220;But it doesn&#8217;t detract from some of these other concerns. And the goal of the human rights dialogue is not for the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667 (United%20States)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">United States<\/a> to dictate to Cuba how they should govern themselves, but to make sure that we are having a frank and candid conversation around this issue. And hopefully that we can learn from each other.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Obama made the comment at a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"News conference\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/News_conference\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">joint press conference<\/a> with the Cuban Communist dictator.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is the video from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=j8OiahvC728\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j8OiahvC728\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Does anyone truly believe that the people in Cuba have freedom of speech,\u00a0 <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Right to keep and bear arms\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Right_to_keep_and_bear_arms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">the right to bear arms<\/a>, etc.? President Obama needs to rethink his definition of human rights. It is a shame that the reestablishing of a relationship between the United States and Cuba did not include a demand for increased human rights in Cuba in exchange for the economic benefits Cuba will reap from the relationship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Weekly Standard posted an article yesterday about President Obama&#8217;s remarks in Cuba. 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