Obama vs. Fidel: Africa tells the whole story on ‘hope and change’
Obama vs. Fidel: Africa tells the whole story on ‘hope and change’
Tue Mar 29, 2016 9:22PM
In his historic visit to
Cuba, US President Barack Obama appeared on the Caribbean state’s
national television to speak of “hope and change,” just like he had in
his 2008 presidential campaign but New York journalist and radio host
Don DeBar tells Press TV that the president has failed to bring about
either in his own country, which manifests itself in the “implosion” of
both the Democratic and Republican parties in the run-up to the 2016
presidential election.
Obama, who has normalized ties
with Cuba after decades of adversary, “invoked… themes of hope and
change” during his address to the Cuban nation on March 22, while “we
find ourselves after two terms of his presidency with neither really on
hand.” DeBar said, commenting on Fidel Castro’s criticism of “the
empire” after the visit.
“There’s a great shortage of both in the
United States with people more disaffected and more distrustful of the
political and economic institutions of the country than perhaps at any
time in its history,” the analyst said referring to 2016 presidential
race.
“And in terms of ‘change,’ there’s been almost none, in terms of real policy, from the Bush years.”
Obama’s registered trademark missing
The
US president’s address of human rights issues as well as “free and
democratic elections” on the island prompted the leader of the 1959
Cuban Revolution to react in a Tuesday column published by the official
newspaper of Cuba's communist party Granma, where he denounced Obama’s speech as “syrupy.”
According
to DeBar, the speech was the most “pathetic” part of Obama’s visit as
the people are “not in the market for hope and change particularly the
variety offered by Barack Obama.”
Castro, on the other hand, is an “astute thinker” with a “strong sense of reality and of real politics.”
Given the history of the US aggression on Caribbean nation, including an embargo that has not yet been lifted, Castro’s column
“described the actual situation in Cuba in relation to the United
States… in terms of President Obama’s attempt to lecture Cuba on human
rights after asking for historical amnesia.”
Obama told Cubans to
“leave the past behind,” recalling his 2008 slogan “Yes, we can,”
juxtaposed with “Sí se puede,” meaning “if you can” in Spanish.
Fidel
and his brother, President Raul Castro, however, believe that the US is
“the one that has caused the wrong and is still doing it with the
blockade” forcibly held in place despite global opposition, noted the
American journalist.
US
President Barack Obama (L) speaks with Cuban President Raul Castro
during a Major League baseball exhibition game at the Latinoamericano
stadium in Havana on March 22, 2016.
Africa tells the whole story
Studying the two world leaders’ legacy in Africa could provide a holistic picture of the countries’ policies, DeBar said.
“If
you look at the way that Barack Obama has related to Africa, where his
father was born, by installing Africom, as opposed to the way that Fidel
Castro has… by essentially delivering the fatal blow, by assisting
Angola and the anti-apartheid forces inside South Africa, to apartheid
of South Africa; I think it tells the whole story.”
Comments (6)
ricck lineheart49 minutes ago
The
U.S. has NO , NONE on human Rights . Look at Palestine . Look at the
mass migration of people from the middle east to Europe and else where
to leave the bombed out and blasted away landscape from the U.S./NATO "
War on Terror " ...Obama has only continued with the Bush policy while
letting the U.S. infrastructure to decay to an equal of any third world
country .
bilabo3 hours ago
Obama says and dose exactly what he is told by his handlers...and if he dident they wood kill him...
Parvin Darabi7 hours ago
Obama is a murderer in chief.
irish eel9 hours ago
Obama
will go down in history as a tyrant thief war criminal traitor he will
be remembered as the man who gave unconditional obedience to zionists
from day one operation cast lead sums up his regime of terror good
riddance regime change starts at home zionist scum out now
Ferry> irish eel3 hours ago
...but he got the Nobel price for nothing and there are more like him who didn't deserves the Nobel price. Obama better can be nominate for an Oscar for hypocrite and patented liar in place.
Frank Scafani10 hours ago
Murder Inc. its right had out stretched in friendship, and a knife for your back it its left hand.
Obama’s registered trademark missing
Given the history of the US aggression on Caribbean nation, including an embargo that has not yet been lifted, Castro’s column
“described the actual situation in Cuba in relation to the United
States… in terms of President Obama’s attempt to lecture Cuba on human
rights after asking for historical amnesia.”
