Good grief. Up is down, front is back, wrong is right, and Socialism causes no shortages and had engendered booming economies wherever it has been tried.... Because Barack Obama has clearly lost his mind (via Gateway Pundit):

Barack Obama promotes trade with anti-American communist Cuba but opposes trade with pro-American capitalist Colombia.
...Go figure.

On Cuba-- In 2004, Mr. Obama told an audience at Southern Illinois University that trade with Communist Cuba was a good thing:

"I think it's time for us to end the embargo with Cuba... It's time for us to acknowledge that that particular policy has failed."

Here is the video:

On Colombia-- On April 3, 2008, Barack Obama said that trade with capitalist pro-American Colombia was bad:

"I will oppose the Colombia Free Trade Agreement if President Bush insists on sending it to Congress because the violence against unions in Colombia would make a mockery of the very labor protections that we have insisted be included in these kinds of agreements."

The latest Democratic objection to the trade agreement with US ally Colombia is that Bogotá isn't doing enough to protect labor activists. But the murders of trade unionists have fallen by almost 80% since 2002.

Drats-- If only it were a communist regime!

Is it getting through to the average American exactly what is at stake this fall? Do people get it how much worse their economy and lives are about to be should a bunch of Marxists inflict the final blow by raising taxes and capital gains taxes? Do people get it that our appeasement of Islamist/Socialist countries is a prelude to losing everything that Americans have fought and died for for over 231 years now?

I realize that the garbage coming out of Obama's mouth lately makes for good blogging and lots of angst; but what is mostly makes for (especially when not challenged by our "watchdog" media)--is a recipe for catastrophe. And every day the recipe gets worse.

Newt Gingrich, speaking at the American Enterprise Institute, seems to understand America's problems--and he definitely understands the enormous danger we are in right now. His wonderful speech reflects an understanding of the deep racial anger that Obama spoke of in Philadelphia. But his point--that the longer we play the angry victim, the worse it will be for everyone, is long overdue. This is a must-watch speech. Transcript can be found here, but it really needs to be heard to be appreciated.

The differences between what Gingrich is saying here, and what Obama and Clinton are doing in their shameless lust for power--are enormous. It is so important that it cannot be adequately expressed. Our President believes many of these things, I think, but his biggest failure is that he has not been able to communicate and articulate the difference in these visions, and why it is so important that we do figure it out as an electorate--and fast.

I am also very doubtful that McCain--even if he gets elected--can be effective in articulating these principles, not because he is not capable; but because he doesn't believe half it. Furthermore he refuses to attack the premises so frequently put forward by Obama and Hillary which would be so catastropically destructive.

Here is the bottom-line. There is a way to save our country, and it is a back to basics approach: either we trust the free markets, or the United States withers on the vine and dies. It is that simple.

(*)(*)(*)(*), I wish Newt had jumped into this race. </img>


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This is good news. Anyone willing to take down the trade embargo against Cuba is doing the right thing.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/...in658417.shtml

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