Nobody seems to have picked up on this. during the last debate during the Cuban relations exchange , Obama said :
Now he should know that Hillary Clinton was 12 years old when Castro came to power and even older when John Kennedy (stocked up with 1200 Cuban cigars)initiated the present policy and went to full embargo, travel restrictions and freezing Cuban assets.
Am I the only one who caught this blunder?
Am I the only one who thought it was merely hyperbole? Your OP strikes me as something of a nitpick.
Maybe he just needs a history lesson on Hillary Clinton.
Who cares?
Probably not. You might be the only one who cares.
Yea, even by the standard of political nitpicking, this is pretty weak stuff.
Maybe he was just trying to be gallant. “Why, I could have sworn Senator Clinton couldn’t be a day over 45!”
In fact, Obama was about six months old at the time. A double blunder! Oh, the horror!
Well, “essentially” can cover a multitude of sins, but even without relying on it, how much progress did Cuba make in those areas under Fulgencio Batista?
Isolated I’ll give you, if you insist.
I wouldn’t quibble on that hairsplitting. Even Obama couldn’t speak at that age.
alright, just don’t throw him under the bus. it’s enough they’re busting his balls about the plagerism thing… which is irrelevant as far as I’m concerned.
You know, Hillary was criticizing Obama about it at the last debate and you can tell her entire attack was written for her. heh.
Which leads me to what I find extremely amusing: the first flow of Cuban refugees - the ones who are and whose children are the most influential in Floridian (and national) politics these days - were the fat cats under Batista and had little or no interest in what the great mass of Cubans thought about politics. A desire for democracy in Cuba is, in and of itself, a good thing. However, the undercurrent of that (in some) is a desire to get their ill-gotten riches back.
Fat chance. If (when! - eventually) Cuba changes its government, it won’t be the people lurking in Florida for the last 45 years who control the new government, it will be the people living in Cuba who are fighting for change. If our government insists that restoring relations is dependent on returning the pillage of robber barons to their heirs, I shall be sorely disappointed.
I don’t know what you said but I think I agree with you. The Cubans in Florida are shitheads.
Sorry, I know this is hyperbole, but there are many Cubans living here who are fine, fine people. Many in my area came here a long time before Castro was born (their families moved here and settled this area) and there are of course decent folks who have moved here over the years. Yes, some are shitheads, but that is a rather broad statement.
Prior to the revolution in Cuba (which actually began in 1956) there was a thriving tourist business, a happy middle and upper class, a healthy sugar export business, and free elections. But there was also terrible poverty, racism, segregation, political corruption and political violence. By early 1952, Batista staged a coup and essentially destroyed the democracy that he had helped to design. But the turmoil had begun long before that.
This PBS website gives a very balanced view.
Isolation didn’t seem to be an issue before the revolution began, but certainly political rights and freedoms were for many Cubans long before Senator Clinton was born.
Oh, you caught that as well did you? Good for you !
I actually did notice it at the time but understood that he wasn’t trying to be absloutely literal.
It makes me somewhat optimistic that this is as far as people have to reach to find something to criticize Obama for.
I noticed, but I didn’t think he needs a history lesson just because he either misspoke or did the math wrong.
Yet another foolish pitting from a confirmed fool.
Maybe Hillary’s youthful looks fooled him.