On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:34:44 -0400, Wayne B
wrote:

On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 13:27:11 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

Let's see...we're in bed with the Peoples' Republics of China and
Vietnam; Germany, Italy, and Japan are valued allies and trading
partners, but the Republicans, they're worried about our idiotic
"relationship" with Cuba.

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Most of the republicans that I know think the policy is stupid also.
It's the hard core, ex-pat Cubans in the Miami area that are the real
problem. For reasons that are not clear to me they wield a policy
influence that is way out of proportion to their numbers.

That is very, very odd. I've always thought so also. This is changing
though as the cuban-american population gets younger.