Comments on: The WaPo sees the light on Obama and Cuba

By: Yancey Ward

Yancey Ward — Sat, 20 Dec 2014 00:51:56 +0000

The change in WaPo is real and is certainly linked to the change in ownership. Bezos can see that WaPo was going down the toilet if it didn’t find a way to differentiate itself from NYT. The paper seems to be trying to find the middle ground between NYT and WSJ. One could see this coming when Bezos gave Little Ezra Klein the boot.

By: RNB

RNB — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 12:52:16 +0000

I see William Ayers as the first U.S. ambassador to Cuba of the new era.

By: parker

parker — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 03:51:42 +0000

G Joubert,

All former icons provide traction when thrown under the bus. These are not the JFK era democrats of the past, they hate America and will trash previous ‘heroes’ to push the agenda of destruction.

By: G Joubert

G Joubert — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 03:23:15 +0000

Funny how liberals like Obama and others so quickly rubbish JFK.

By: avi

avi — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 02:22:19 +0000

no end until every inch of stolen property is returned to its rightful owners, with interest and any european corporation that illegally built on that land be prosecuted.

By: Ralph Kinney Bennett

Ralph Kinney Bennett — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 02:11:14 +0000

“WE are punishing the citizens of Cuba?” What utter nonsense. The Castro regime is doing the punishing. Just like Putin is punishing Russians. If anyone had any doubts about Obama (Fool or Knave?) how about something along the lines of, Oh, say, “traitorous slimeball.” Just imagine the ass-kissing, obsequeous lounge Marxists Obama will be sending to Cuba as the cutting edge of American “diplomacy.” And now, of course, we will hear the media engaging in another round of rapture over “free health care” and “literacy.” Read or re-read Michael Totten everyone.

By: james

james — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 01:26:19 +0000

Bezos is well known around the Seattle area to be a libertarian. That is perhaps wrong, as he rarely says anything about politics.

If its correct – it would definitely signal a change in direction – if slowly.

By: parker

parker — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 00:19:16 +0000

The “empowerment” of ordinary Cubans is such pretezel logic the Times deserves an award for supreme absurdity.

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 23:43:01 +0000

Paul in Boston: Aha, it was a stepfather, who helped raise him:

Bezos's mother Jacklyn was a teenager at the time of his birth. Her marriage to his father lasted a little more than a year. When Jeff was four, she remarried, to Miguel Bezos, a Cuban who immigrated to the United States alone when he was fifteen years old. Miguel worked his way through the University of Albuquerque, married Jacklyn and legally adopted his stepson Jeff. After the wedding, the family moved to Houston, Texas, and Miguel became an engineer for Exxon.

By: Paul in Boston

Paul in Boston — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 23:36:13 +0000

According to Howie Carr, one of the local talk radio hosts, Bezos’ family members were Cuban refugees who escaped Castro. Funny how that influences your thinking.