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...been to Cuba, you've interviewed Castro, so you seem to have no personal problem with socialism. What do you think about the communist-run system here in Vietnam...
...must, which is why Barack Obama's latest foreign policy offering, regarding how to open doors with Cuba as the Castro era ends, is at least as much about repairing his image for Democrtic voters as it is about reshaping U.S. relations with Havana. Not that it doesn't deserve a careful look in its own right...
...change in foreign policy," one of Obama's foreign policy advisers said. "New century. New challenges, new opportunities, new thinking... What's new here is that we are trying to restore the ability of Cuban Americans to be involved with Cuba - who better than they? On the other hand, Castro has defied all expectations before and though there will be a post-Fidel government, its not likely to be a democracy. So we need stuff in our pocket to [bargain] with...
...decide ahead of time when a relative is going to die," says Miami immigration attorney Magda Montiel Davis, a Cuban-American moderate who says she is now voting for Obama after reading his Herald article. Bush and hard-line leaders insist the policy helps keep U.S. dollars out of Castro's hands. But "it has also made [Cubans living in Cuba] more dependent on the Castro regime," Obama argued in the Herald, "and isolated them from the transformative message carried there by Cuban-Americans...
...That survey, say academics like Rafael Lima, a University of Miami communications professor and the son of an exile once imprisoned by Castro, reflects the growing number of younger, more moderate Cuban-American voters in South Florida - and the waning clout of the older, more conservative generation. Unlike their elders, the younger generation believes that the 45-year-old economic embargo against Cuba has utterly failed to dislodge its communist leader. As a result, Obama could now galvanize those moderates, who Lima says "have been waiting for a viable presidential candidate to wave their banner for once...