RON RADOSH: Obama Confounds Critics and Surprises Raul Castro with His Strong Defense of Democracy in Communist Cuba: “Obama may not have given the exact speech conservatives would have hoped he would give, but it was better than any of us expected. So I praise him for saying what he did. I’m sure Raul Castro and his henchman had a very different reaction.”

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Related: Good catch by Stephen Miller on Twitter: “Watch it again. [Obama] says 2 Cubans, 1 Black President, a woman, and then a democratic socialist,” adding, “Favorite thing about this.. Obama recognizes candidate heritages but then comes to Sanders’s ideology because Jewish…I mean gosh, why would Obama skip over Sanders’ Jewish heritage?”