I just read something this morning that almost, ALMOST, made me decide to change my steadfast support from John Edwards to Chris Dodd. I was browsing Political Wire and came across this jewell:
Democrat Christopher Dodd pledged Saturday that as president he would end a decades-old trade embargo with Cuba and lift travel restrictions to the communist island.The Connecticut senator also said he would open an embassy in Havana and shut down the 17-year-old TV Marti, a U.S. government-run station that broadcasts to Cuba.
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I've said it in the past, and will reiterate it now. If any of the major three Democrats comes out in favor of ending the Cuba embargo, they get my support. I hope John Edwards joins Dodd on this. The Cuban embargo has outlived 9 US presidents, all the while the Cuban people suffer and the same man has controlled their government.
What is the basis for a continued embargo? We trade with China, a nation that poisons the goods it sends to us, and Vietnam, a nation that defeated us in war.
The embargo is insulting to the concept of freedom. Part of our rationale for having the embargo is that the Cuban people aren't free, they don't live in a democratic society. The irony doesn't amuse me.
While I can't bring myself to give money or offical support to Chris Dodd, I have to thank him for having the courage to take the right position. While Edwards has led on nearly every other issue this primary season, Dodd is leading on Cuba.
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