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McCain to FL Cubans,"Obama will sit down with Raul Castro"

 John McCain, not 5 minutes ago, told Cuban Americans living in Miami that Obama will sit down to talk to Raul Castro unconditionally. In an effort to scare up support, McCain has launched a" Scare Florida's Jewish and Spanish speaking" communities into supporting the GOP candidate this election cycle. Unless the democratic nominee really tries hard to reach out to these groups, they will vote according to their unfounded fears and insecurities. Sen. Obama needs to set up a special delegation of election workers, and make repeated visits and overtures to them. Most who harbor these old fears are already a part of an age demographic he does not do well with. There is no good reason for Obama not to be President of the United States this time next year, but there is an incredible amount of work to do yet. If we reach out to those we know and tell them what we know, and his campaign makes the attempt to inspire these people the way so many of us have been inspired, we can change their fears to hope.


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I'm not going into those neighborhoods with that story until Obama comes to his senses and apologizes to Cubans and Jews for his no pre-conditions nonsense.

See here. http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/05/the-first-usiran-summit-redux.php

While I appreciate your sentiment, I very much doubt, actually I am certain, that Obama will not be able to inspire many Cuban-Americans in South Florida. Any discussion of diplomatic talk, negotiation, meeting, etc. with anyone named Castro or for that matter, any government member of Cuba will ensure a rejection of that candidate. Since I think Obama will pursue a different policy towards Cuba than the one we've had since 1960, Obama should expect to loose much of Florida's Cuban-American vote. BTW, I do think Obama is doing the right thing in trying to re-frame our diplomatic policies towards Cuba.

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Considering Obama can't win Florida no matter what (ultra-Zionists, rednecks, old women, etc) he's probably better off pushing policies that people will like in other states (ending the Cuban embargo, fairer dealings with Palestine) than trying to appeal to these people.

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