Again, BO adopts the same tactics used by the neocons before him. Still no change! We're waiiiitiinnnng!!

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-09-14-cuba-restrictions_N.htm

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Obama has extended the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba for one year, the White House said in a statement released on Monday.
The extension was expected and has been the practice of all U.S. presidents dating to the 1970s under a section of the so-called "Trading With the Enemy Act."

Obama extended the embargo even though he has made reaching out to old U.S. foes a key plank in his foreign policy.

There have been signs of a possible thaw in U.S.-Cuban ties since Raul Castro early last year took over as president from his ailing brother Fidel. Fidel Castro had held the post since heading the revolution that ousted the U.S.-backed Batista regime on Jan. 1, 1959.

Obama has sought to reach out to Cuba by easing travel and financial restrictions on Americans with family in Cuba. The two countries have said they will hold talks on resuming direct mail links. But Obama has also said he will not lift the embargo until Cuba undertakes democratic and economic reforms.

In signing the extension, Obama was taking a symbolic step because existing law, the Helms-Burton Act, requires Congress to take action specifically ending the embargo.

But Obama also bypassed an opportunity to suggest a willingness for easing U.S.-Cuban animosity.

The White House statement renewing the provisions was dated Sept. 11 but only released on Monday, when the last extension, issued by former President George W. Bush, was to expire.

"I hereby determine that the continuation for one year of the exercise of those authorities with respect to Cuba is in the national interest of the United States," Obama said in a memorandum addressed to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.

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Barack Obama or G. W. Bush...?. The same crap !.
Is this the change the whole world was waiting for ?!!!.
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You guys aren't even paying attention to what his is doing to know what the hell he is changing and what he isn't.. ah well wait you know what he hasn't changed, that you focus on well. Course that doesn't take much effort. The loud and the miserable are out in droves to be sure of that.

Actually, I am, and I've documented such. I've gone into great detail explaining my reasoning and backing it with research. It is YOU presenting the "same old crap". (I've even linked to F.A. Hayek, who won a NOBEL PRIZE in economics for proving that central economic planning, i.e. ObamaCare, doesn't work)

Please, enlighten us, what exactly has been "changed"?

Que pasa? No puedo ir mi a la Copa Cabana!? Que triste!!

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/29551986/barack_obama_so_far/2

Not so sad, they probably don't care if you can't go.

"Biggest Victory Pulling the economy out of its nose dive. "Back in November, much of the world believed that we were on the precipice of a complete economic collapse," says Elizabeth Warren, the TARP watchdog. "Today, that's not the case." <This is not true. Congress and the FED simply bailed out corporations and used "stimulus" (credit liquidity) to get consumers to go further into debt (thus prolonging the recession).

That is not what the economists says so who should we believe?

What did your economist say? It's ok to cut and paste if you can't remember word for word.

No that is what yours tells you.

Hell word for word doesn't work you either. Cut and paste is just faster when you're sick to death of repeating yourself. Personally I think we that support Obama should just let this forum go to the opposition, it's going there anyway. When that happens you'll need a pep pill just to stand the pessimism.

I asked you a question. What did your economist say?

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/29551986/barack_obama_so_far/2

I see Mick Jagger is one heII of an economist.
How many other dopers are interpreting the economy?

Not even, please don't read it, we would not want you to get another point of view, saturated Fox brains tend to explode when they hear the truth......lol

It is what economists say that don't work for our government and/or the major corporations that were bailed out...

Well, I know several being that I'm going to school for a degree in it and not one that I've spoken to believes that Obama is remotely responsible for bringing us out of this.

So let me ask you, what did it: the 80 billion in spending or the promises of change?


Ok, so I got this far into the RS "article"...

"Biggest Blunder Subsidized failing banks rather than nationalize them."

until my beer started running out my nose from laughing so hard.

And also this lovely excerpt that completely contradicts your point above:

"Warning Signs Few stimulus funds spent to date; only 160,000 homeowners aided by $75 billion program to prevent foreclosures. Plan to rid banks of toxic assets — unveiled to great fanfare — still hasn't gotten off the ground."

That was the most poorly written editorial I've ever seen! It contradicts itself more than a politician!