Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) opposes President Barack Obama’s plans to establish a U.S. embassy in Cuba.
In a statement on Wednesday, Bush, who recently took steps toward running for president in 2016, called the move a “foreign policy misstep” that “undermines America’s credibility.”
Read the full statement below:
The Obama administration’s decision to restore diplomatic ties with Cuba is the latest foreign policy misstep by this President, and another dramatic overreach of his executive authority. It undermines America’s credibility and undermines the quest for a free and Democratic Cuba.
The benefactors of President Obama’s ill-advised move will be the heinous Castro brothers who have oppressed the Cuban people for decades.
I am delighted that Alan Gross has been released. It will be a joy and relief for his wife and family to have him home this Hanukkah season. He is innocent and should never have been in prison in the first place, nor spent five long years there as he suffere din poor health. It is, however, unfortunate that the United States chose to release three convicted spies.
Cuba is a dictatorship with a disastrous human rights record, and now President Obama has rewarded those dictators. We should instead be fostering efforts that will truly lead to the fair, legitimate democracy that will ultimately prevail in Cuba.
(H/t: Alex Leary)
Buncha’ RW-cucarachas coming out of the woodwork.
And no Jeb. You’d think between your father and brother–
you’d have some sense of what constitutes a ‘Foreign Policy Mishap.’
Comparatively? This isn’t one.
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Both Tom Ricks and George Will have called George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq the single biggest foreign policy mistake in the history of the country. Jebby should get some perspective.
[LMAO] Sorry… but I can’t take any post with ‘Bush and foreign policy misstep’ in the title serious.
In a communique from his Fantasyland compound in Orlando.
Yeah, because our policy of the past 50 years has been SO coherent and successful in achieving our policy objectives. It’s actually been one of the biggest policy failures from the Hall of Shame. This is just the latest IQ test to emerge. Anyone who thinks normalizing relations with Cuba is a bad idea, is probably a paradigm bound idiot incapable of any rational, independent thinking or analysis on the merits.
Jeb Bush, like the rest of his family, is just another political whore, who speaks for political expedience only. The Bush’s have never been good with ‘the vision thing’. As for Marco Rubio, es un hijo de la gran puta! Y un idiota.