What is Obama’s position on Cuba?

• Obama has advocated easing the Bush-imposed ban on Cuban-Americans visiting the island and sending money to their relatives. He makes a broader case for a new Cuba policy, arguing that capitalism, trade and travel will help break the regime’s stranglehold on the country and help open things up.Clinton immediately disagreed, firmly supporting the current policy. This places her in the strange position of arguing, in effect, that her husband’s Cuba policy was not hard-line enough. But this is really not the best way to understand Clinton’s position. In all probability, she actually agrees with Obama’s stand. She is just calculating that it would anger Cuban-Americans in Florida and New Jersey.

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  This is not naiveté. Obama’s position on Cuba is not all hope. Most of the older generation of Cuban-Americans are hard-line Republicans anyway, so it’s probably pointless courting them. And the younger ones—under 45 or so—are far less wedded to the punitive approach and symbolic battles of the past. So Obama is taking a calculated risk that the time is right.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/107578

I am a foreigner!

1. Can I donate to Obama’s campaign?
   Emphatically no. It is illegal to donate if you are not a U. S. citizen. Please do not donate, and please do not ask a U. S. citizen to take money and donate it for you. IT IS VERY ILLEGAL
2. Can I buy from Obama’s store?
   No, that counts as a donation. If you want Obama gear, there’s lots of it on CafePress and all of it perfectly legal for you to buy.
3. Well then, can I make an avatar and buy it for someone in exchange for them donating?
   No, you cannot. Please do not do this, it is very shady.
4. Can I make avatars just for fun?
   Yes, you may.
5. What else can I do?
   You could buy Obama’s books, Dreams from my Father and The Audacity of Hope, but if you really want to give money to someone, please choose a charity (use Charity Navigator to find a good one) and donate money or time to it. The true spirit of this campaign is not just to help Barack get elected, but to help ourselves and each other.

I work for a government contractor? Can I still donate?

Why are so many people donating $xx.01?

Can I donate to Obama’s campaign?

Can I buy from Obama’s store?

What else can I do?

Excellent! When making Obama merchandise, it is essential to keep it respectful and positive. Remember you are a representative of the campaign, and the face you present to the world is what people will remember about Obama. When making flyers, you need to add this DISCLAIMER somewhere on them: “Paid for by _________. Not authorized or paid for by the Obama campaign.” This is a legal requirement.

Barack Obama is the junior Senator from Illinois, born in 1961 to a white mother from Kansas and a black father from Kenya. He spent his childhood and teenage years in Hawaii and Indonesia, and graduated from Columbia University with a degree in Political Science, specializing in International Relations. In the 1980s he worked as a community organizer in Chicago, then attended Harvard Law where he was elected the first black president of the Harvard Law Review. Graduating Magna Cum Laude, he returned to Chicago to continue his work in the community. As an associate attorney with Miner, Barnhill & Galland from 1993 to 1996, he represented community organizers, discrimination claims, and voting rights cases. In 1996 he was elected to the Illinois state senate representing Hyde Park and was a lecturer of constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1993 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004. In February of 2007 he announced his candidacy for President and is currently a strong contender, building a vast grassroots campaign on a message of hope, community, unity, and empowerment. Visit his website at BarackObama.com.