brilliant obama: i was three months old during bay of pigs
By American Girl in Italy on April 20, 2009 at 11:28 PM in Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Hillary Clinton, Hugo Chavez
(bumped up from early Monday morning)
In a follow up to Susan’s earlier post, I wanted to point out an error in Obama’s response to the 50 minute diatribe launched by Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, where he criticized the US for what he called 100 years of terroristic aggression in Central America and denounced the US-backed attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro’s Communist government in Cuba in 1961.
“To move forward, we cannot let ourselves be prisoners of past disagreements. I’m grateful that President Ortega did not blame me for things that happened when I was three months old. Too often, an opportunity to build a fresh partnership of the Americas has been undermined by stale debates. We’ve all heard these arguments before.”
But Obama, according to his online Certificate of Live Birth, was not actually born yet. The invasion at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba occurred in April 1961. Obama was born August 4, 1961.
Maybe the Bay of Pigs *got him born*, like the march on Selma Alabama?
But, let’s not worry about the specifics. Let’s just continue with the “Obama is brilliant. The most brilliant President, ever.” meme.
Tapper covered Obama’s trip this morning on GMA, and includes some footage of Hillary from the primary discussing the risk of the power and prestige of the US being put at risk by inexperience.
“Oh I see, it’s going to be one of those.” As in, I am going to try and be BFF’s with Chavez, and he is going to publically humiliate me? It that what Diane means by “one of those’? And too bad, although Obama is so brilliant, that Spanish isn’t one of the many foreign languages he speaks. What? He doesn’t speak any foreign languages? But..he is so brilliant!?!
And if you have any doubts about promises made by Obama on the campaign trail, and whether he considers them actual promises or just campaign rhetoric, just have a look at a recent answer he gave Tapper about Cuba:
TAPPER: Thank you, Mr. President. You have heard from a lot of Latin American leaders here who want the U.S. to lift the embargo against Cuba. You’ve said that you think it’s important leverage to not lift it. But in 2004, you did support lifting the embargo. You said, “It’s failed to provide the source of raising standards of living and squeeze the innocent” and “it’s time for us to acknowledge that this policy has failed.” I’m wondering, what made you change your mind about the embargo?
OBAMA: 2004 that seems just eons ago. What was I doing in 2004?
TAPPER: Running for Senate, sir.
OBAMA: I was running for Senate, there you go.
There ya go, as in, “I was campaigning…it was just a bunch of stuff I said to get elected.” And that was just a mere three years before he began his run for President. You can read the rest of the answer here.
Personally I think the *there you go* says it all. What a brilliant answer.























