cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/45338079
[a video about Cuba from the news collective Belly Of The Beast]
In 2014, something historic happened. The U.S. admitted that decades of economic war toward Cuba had failed — and chose engagement instead. Historian Peter Kornbluh recalls the moment Barack Obama and Raúl Castro announced the opening on live television. “It was everything we had worked for,” he says.
But he did nothing to make it permanent, allowing the next two jackasses to come into office and return everything to Cold War status. A grand jester, accomplishing nada, is a perfect description of Obama’s eight years in office.
Obama was really good at giving liberals hope that all their dreams of a perfect America that lives up to the hype would come true while not actually doing anything to make that a reality.
Quite possibly this country’s most successful conman.
