You have to love the incompetence of Prtesident Obama and those around him. Just look at the many gaffes involving foreign relations.
[T]here is the catalogue of Mr. Obama's embarrassing moments on the world stage, a list which includes: giving England's Queen Elizabeth II an iPod with his speeches on it; giving British Prime Minister Gordon Brown a collection of DVDs that were not formatted to the European standard (by contrast, Mr. Brown gave Mr. Obama an ornamental desk-pen holder made from the oak timbers of Victorian anti-slaver HMS Gannet, among other historically significant gifts); calling "Austrian" a language; bowing to the Saudi king; releasing a photo of a conference call with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in which the president was showing the soles of his shoes to the camera (an Arab insult); saying "let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's"; saying the United States was "one of the largest Muslim countries in the world"; suggesting Arabic translators be shifted from Iraq to Afghanistan where Arabic is not a native language; sending a letter to French President Jacques Chirac when Nicolas Sarkozy was the president of France; holding a town-hall meeting in France and not calling on a single French citizen; and referring to "Cinco de Cuatro" in front of the Mexican ambassador when he meant Cinco de Mayo. Also of note was Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton giving Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov a "reset" button with the Russian word for "overcharge."
Remember – for the last eight years we were told that George W. Bush was a bumbling idiot, and Democrats assured us that they were the party of competence. But when you look at the inability of these folks to get even the little things right, along with the major policy flaws exhibited on Israel, Iran, Honduras, and missile defense, it seems clear that these four years are best described as a foreign policy Obamateur show.
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The President held the Cinco de Mayo celebration on May 4, one day early. He was attempting to make a joke. If anything, fault him on his Spanish. When he should have said Cuatro de Mayo.
Sites like this blog come up in Google on occasion and I usually ignore them for precisely this reason. The Obama critics are long on hostility and usually short on providing real information. Someone who knows about the incident only from your blog would think that the President did not know the holiday occurs on May 5. That is simply not the case. He was attempting a joke about holding the celebration early, and did not translate it into Spanish correctly. If you want to criticize him for not speaking Spanish, go ahead. It should be a plus for the anti immigrant types.
And as far as the Chirac letter, President Obama was responding to communication initiated by Mr. Chirac on behalf of a charitable foundation he now runs that is concerned with humanitarian aid to West Africa.
I did not bother researching the rest of the claims in your post. If you are not concerned about accuracy and the truth on your website, I see no reason why I should be either.
Along with an AFP blurb about Mr. Chirac's charitable organization, there is a link to the website for Le Figaro. It was a short piece in this magazine that started the whole thing.
Read it yourself. (It is in French though). Or find a translator. You will see that nothing in the short article in any way supports the right wing fantasy that the President either did not know or forgot who the President of France was.
I tend to think that when Obama's critics are reduced to just making things up in order to criticize, he must be doing a damn good job.
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jyHbiQwT8A2VnasPh30A3G8kbt3w
Chirac launches foundation 'to awaken consciences'
http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualites/2009/03/19/01001-20090319ARTFIG00357-confidentiel-barack-obama-a-ecrit-a-jacques-chirac-.php
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