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| Senior White House Aide Ben Rhodes Will Attend Fidel Castro's Memorial |
| 2016-11-30 |
| [Breitbart] A senior White House aide to President Barack Obama will attend Cuba dictator Fidel Castro’s service, according to the White House press secretary Josh Earnest. The White House decided against sending an official delegation to represent the United States at Fidel Castro’s memorial, but will allow senior aide Ben Rhodes to attend as an informal symbol of his work to normalize relations with the communist country. "America sometimes makes itself a prisoner of our own history. We have a very complicated history with Cuba," Rhodes explained during a discussion of his work for Obama in the Atlantic. Earnest said that Rhodes had already planned a trip to Cuba this week, and would attend along with Ambassador Jeffrey DeLaurentis, the Chargé d’Affaires at the newly reopened U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba. Rhodes’ trip, Earnest explained, would show the appropriate amount of respect for the Cuban people, but without the honor of an official delegation. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #8 "Attila the Hun had an active outdoor lifestyle." Oldie but goodie... |
| Posted by: magpie 2016-11-30 22:47 |
| #7 Any chance Rhodes will decide to stay? |
| Posted by: Crusader 2016-11-30 21:37 |
| #6 |
| Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 2016-11-30 19:57 |
| #5 I would love it if Rhodes was forced to return to the US the way many Cuban refugees did - via raft. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2016-11-30 09:15 |
| #4 Champ won't go till Trump builds some golf courses there. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2016-11-30 07:30 |
| #3 Champ would go in heart beat if only they'd offer him the job |
| Posted by: Cheaderhead 2016-11-30 05:34 |
| #2 I guess 0bean didn't go because he didn't want to get mocked again. |
| Posted by: gorb 2016-11-30 02:53 |
| #1 Is there any hope at all that Rhodes will renounce his citizenship and defect ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-11-30 01:34 |