Panic - Obama shakes cuba's raul castro's hand at mandela memorial

President Obama shook hands with Raul Castro at the Nelson Mandela memorial earlier in South Africa and right-wing media is completely up in arms about this and let's start with the CNN clip christiane amanpour sounding very excited that there are at least surprised excited I think maybe a bit of a of an assumption but certainly surprised and interested at President Obama shaking hands with the Cuban leader Raul Castro take a look at this there's been a lot of questions raised about security here before I came on security officials oz shaking White House as christiane points out President Obama just drove past Castro you go now from Brazil what does that say as a his reconciliation Fang he's not just a lil finding people I peacekeeping no idea UN secretary-general okay so immediately the claim start from the right Lewis played this proves President Obama is a communist this proves President Obama supports the Castro regime in cuba I have to tell you first of all I think it is absolutely worthless to listen to these nonsense claims from the right about the handshake President Obama went down the line and shook hands are kissed on the cheek everybody that was in that in that group of people this is a sign of respect towards Nelson Mandela and to the event it's absurd to start making allegations if your gonna do that then what are we to say about George W Bush holding hands with the Saudi broil family right immediate it's absurd to be going down this line it is pretty stupid me the president's gonna be several what kinda messes just sent to the world if the president refused to shake one person's hand in this line acting like a five year old I don't think that makes much sense no but let's actually explore a little further because this is a good opportunity to talk about the embargo the trade embargo with Cuba I am NOT a defender of cuba and I don't excuse or or or explain away any of the things that cuba has done continues to do the detention uva above the American I growth Alan Gross I believe his name is I don't do any of that but what I do Louis is compare and contrast the the political situation with cuba did that with many other countries around the world and we cannot ignore the reality that I cuba is the only country that has that is embargoed by the United States there are no other countries that have this trade embargo with Cuba four decades have this trade embargo dating back to the Cold War have achieved very little in terms of changing the politics of cuba forcing democracy and elections however the trade embargo as worsened the living conditions above those in cuba and it is hurting american businesses as well american businesses if allowed to do business with cuba would have more customers they would make more money which by the way would increase the tax revenues for the federal government in other words it is fiscally conservative and pro-business to do business with cuba it will help the cuban citizens who certainly I don't think we want to hurt it will hurt it will help Americans and American businesses and we're also spending money on enforcing this embargo with cuba there are many other countries where governments are not freely-elected Louis and the US does business with them my defending those countries and I defending cubano and saying there's an incredible double standard there is course a lot of those countries on well what's at stake obviously lots of natural resources right I mean if you want a country to grow and you mature you have to open things up and I i think this needs to end how is it how was it fiscally conservative to have this embargo it just doesn't make any sense and and remember the cold war's over the cold war has been over for a long time Huber poses no threat to the US at all and the travel embargo and the trade embargo at this point we just have to be more consistent that's really the the point we have to you you consider here