During his most recent “U.S. apology tour of the world,” President Obama made this statement to Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega’s diatribe on the U.S.:
“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.”
Again, the person who the Left claims is the smartest President ever seems to have some challenges working with math.
First, according to the alleged certificate of live birth that he has posted, Obama was born in August of 1961. My history books show the the Bay of Pigs occurred in April of 1961. It would seem like his living presence missed the event he referenced by nearly 4 months. Before you claim that Obama was “In Utero” and therefore, assuming a 9 month gestation, he would be somewhat right, remember that Obama has shown through his legislation and votes that a baby is not alive, or even a life of any kind until after it is born and than survives attempts by the delivering physician to kill it during the first few moments after being separated from its mother.
Another problem with Obama’s math is this: Obama seems to believe that because he wasn’t born he holds no responsibility for the specific event. He somehow separates himself personally from the fact that he is THE representative of the United States and what it stands for. If Obama can do this, shouldn’t the same hold true for other Americans?
In 1961, with a few exceptions, you need to be 21 to vote for elected office. I would proffer that using Obama’s logic, anyone who was not yet 21 in April of 1961 had no responsibility for the Bay of Pigs. After all, they weren’t able vote in the administration that launched the attack. Obviously, anyone born after April of 1961 also would not be responsible for the Bay of Pigs. Roll the calendar forward and the extension of Obama’s logic suggests that only people who today, are 69 or older could even possibly be responsible for the Bay of Pigs.
Bear with me as I walk through this next part. The 1960 election determined the administration of the Bay of Pigs. In 1960 there were 170 million people in the US, approximately 65% were of voting age. Of that, approximately 64 million voted. Of those that voted, approximately 50% voted for the Kennedy administration. Today, approximately 12% of the population are 69 or older. If you do the math, it turns out that just 3.5% of the US population, alive today, could be responsible for the Bay of Pigs. With a current population of approximately 303 million people, only 10.6 million Americans alive today could be responsible for the Bay of Pigs.
60 million people voted for John McCain and Sarah Palin in the last election. 60 million people voted against having Barack Obama as President. While we can argue as to what degree, 60 million people voted for a smaller government with less interference than what we have with President Obama. If President Obama can routinely ignore 60 million voters whom he has sworn to represent, why is he worried about what some third world dictator and thug thinks about decisions made nearly 50 years ago that may, in the best case, have been enabled by a mere 10.6 million voters?
The answer of course, is all to apparent. While President Obama isn’t able to do simple math of any kind, he is able to do the simplest of math. In President Obama’s mind, 10.6 million people aren’t the issue, 60 million people don’t matter. For Obama, all history, US and otherwise, begins and ends with him. If an event happened before he could be accountable for it, it didn’t happen. If an event happened when he could be held accountable for it and he can find a way to avoid accountability, than George Bush did it. In the mind of Obama, the only number that matters is the loneliest number, 1. Obama’s comment had nothing to do with the impact on the US, the country he is supposed to represent. His comment was all about a potential reflection on him, personally.
The only math that President Obama has successfully mastered is the function of 1.
