re: #82 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

The other point is that we have not “given” anything to Cuba beyond reopening our embassy there. To hear people complain on the Net it is like we just lifted the embargo and instituted foreign aid payments…

That was something I talked to my mom about yesterday… She brought up the idea of reparations yesterday. I told her it wasn’t going to happen, we wouldn’t even pay reparations to our own citizens that we put in internment camps during WW2, we’re not going to pay them to Cuba. But she is reflexively anti-Obama in a way that I cannot understand or explain.