Name:	MartiniMan -	Reply
Subject:	Bad news on Cohibas
Date:	12/19/2014 11:03:40 AM

In the midst of all the bad results of Obola essentially giving everything to get nothing from the Cuban dictator now we learn that the embargo on Cuban cigars will remain in place for now.  As one who has had both a Cohiba and a Montecristo whilst in one of the 190 other countries that have open relations with Cuba I can tell you that for the money they are way overrated.  Give me Davidoff, Romeo y Julieta or Rocky Patel any day over the overpriced, crappily produced Cubans.

I have found it most amusing to hear the nonsense about how having diplomatic and economic relations are going to somehow improve life in Cuba.  Once again, the inability to think critically is just killing this country.  There are over 190 countries that have diplomatic and economic relations with Cuba and has that caused them to be anything other than a totalitarian regime?  Nope.  Yet somehow magically opening relations with the U.S. is going to change everything.  We shall see but count me among the skeptical.  Only until the Castro's have reached room temperature is there any hop in change and even that is slim.  They replaced one military dictatorship with another having communist leanings.  BFD.  

And in the meantime the people get screwed while those in charge put billions in their Swiss bank accounts......no surprise as that is always the outcome of communism/socialism/progressivism/liberalism.  But hey, they have free health care, right?  Yep, thats why people are constantly jumping on boats out Florida to sneak into Cuba......oh, wait a second.......its the other way around.  What idiots!  How can leave such a paradise?!?!?  Common sense is so uncommon......

Name:	MAJ USA RET -	Reply
Subject:	Bad news on Cohibas
Date:	12/21/2014 7:14:56 AM

First, I have smoked a few Cuban cigars (note: they were for sale in Iraq).  I found nothing special about them. Put a JR band on them and they'd get no more than usual attention. Hoyo de Monterrey and Rocky Patel are fine.  I stay away from Cohibas. La Gloria Cubana Serie R is the cuban seed cigar.

 The embargo?  Their proletariat are damned if we do... and damned if we don't. But, a deal with the devil is a deal between two devils.  Maybe Obama is looking for a haven for the time when he finally gets outed for who he really is.

- - LMF Curmudgeon