Now That President Obama Has Joined The Fair Play For Cuba Committee When He Pardon Lee Harvey Oswald?

Answer 1

Another user wrote: "President Obama has always questioned the Kennedy era sanctions against Cuba. Cuba provided its citizens free healthcare long before the President made that available in the USA." It should also be noted that a number of people have questioned the sanctions against Cuba, especially in the past decade: surveys of public opinion show that younger people (who were not raised with the anger about the takeover of Cuba by Fidel Castro) especially see no value in the sanctions. Other assertions that President Obama is eager to pardon Oswald, or that he doubts the results of the House Select Committee on Assassinations, are false.

Answer 2

While this question seems sarcastic (the Fair Play For Cuba Committee was most active in the 1960s) and it is also based on a myth (opponents of President Obama have accused him of being a Communist, and the FPPC was said to be a Communist-front), it raises an important, and emotional, issue. Many older and more conservative Americans are vehemently opposed to the US normalizing relations with Cuba, as they were when we normalized relations with Vietnam. But younger Americans, as well as many major businesses, believe our embargo against Cuba has not worked, and they also believe it is time to try a different approach. Supporting US efforts to re-establish relations with Cuba after all these years does not mean that one supports Communism, nor does it make one a supporter of Fidel (or Raul) Castro's policies. And it certainly does not mean a pardon for Lee Harvey Oswald, the man who assassinated President Kennedy (and was said to belong to the Fair Play For Cuba Committee).