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DeepModem Mom

(38,402 posts)
Wed Jul 29, 2015, 04:21 PM Jul 2015

Clinton to call for lifting embargo with Cuba:

Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign says she will call for lifting the embargo with Cuba in a Florida address on Friday.

In the speech, Clinton will side with President Barack Obama, who normalized relations with the island nation in December, and deride her Republican presidential opponents for pushing what her campaign calls the "failed policies of the past."

Clinton has previously advocated lifting the embargo, writing in her book "Hard Choices" that she recommended the president take another look at the trade prohibition.

Action by Congress is required to formally lift the sanctions....

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/c3ab273af57d4ba6ae3d8cc3fb7e210c/clinton-call-lifting-embargo-cuba via AP

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Clinton to call for lifting embargo with Cuba: (Original Post) DeepModem Mom Jul 2015 OP
Yes! shenmue Jul 2015 #1
K&R sheshe2 Jul 2015 #2
Great.. THank you Hillary and President Obama Cha Jul 2015 #3
I love the fact that Hillary will make this proposal while she is in Florida Gothmog Jul 2015 #4

Gothmog

(145,321 posts)
4. I love the fact that Hillary will make this proposal while she is in Florida
Thu Jul 30, 2015, 07:46 PM
Jul 2015

The vote of the younger Cubans are in play and the Democrats should go after these voters

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