PATHETIC – AT 8:54 A.M. ET:  The usual suspects in the American press are lining up to support Obama's hug-up to the Cuban dictatorship.  The Associated Press reports on the new warmth, with a story clearly tilted to suggest that more than 50 years of estrangement was kind of our fault:

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Turning the page on a half-century of hostility, President Barack Obama signaled Thursday he will soon remove Cuba from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism, boosting hopes for improved ties as he prepared for a historic encounter with Cuban President Raul Castro.

Hours before his arrival in Panama for a regional summit, Obama said the U.S. State Department had finished its review of Cuba's presence on the list, a stain on the island nation's pride and a major stumbling block for efforts to mend U.S.-Cuba ties. A top senator confirmed that the agency had recommended removing Cuba from the list, all but ensuring action by the president within days.

"We don't want to be imprisoned by the past," Obama said during a visit to Kingston, Jamaica. "When something doesn't work for 50 years, you don't just keep on doing it. You try something new."

With his optimistic assessment, Obama sought to set the tone for the U.S. and Cuba to come closer to closing the book on more than a half-century of estrangement, when he and Castro come face to face at the Summit of the Americas. Obama arrived Thursday evening in Panama City.

COMMENT:  So casually stated, so obvious to the "intellectual" classes.  But what about the people of Cuba, who've lived under the Castro dictatorship for more than five decades?  What happens to them?  How do they benefit from this new warmth?  Why isn't the United States demanding an easing of repression on the island as the price for American recognition?  Why aren't we demanding truly free elections?

The answer is that the Obama crowd, and the political faction it represents, don't really care about human freedom or individual rights.  They demonstrate this over and over.  One day it's Cuba, the next day it's Iran.  North Korean repression?  Why, who cares?  We're building a legacy for Barack. 

And we see where that legacy is taking the cause of human freedom.

April 10,  2015