HELP WANTED: Fact Checker for Speech-erific Political Candidate

No experience necessary... must be proficient with Wikipedia.

Barack Obama says that we have George Bush to blame for the emergence of commie thug Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. According to Obama, Bush's neglect and failure to support friendly leaders created a "vacuum" into which the likes of Chavez have stepped.

Ooops... Hugo Chavez was elected president in 1998. Either President Clinton, sometime before 1998, turned over responsibility for South American foreign policy to then Governor of Texas George W. Bush or Barack Obama's internet access is on the fritz.

I'm eager to hear Obama's excuse for such an idiotic gaffe. I'm sure that it's just another in the long line of distractions and dirty political tricks foisted on the American public by his opponents. How dare these people call attention to Obama's glaring lack of historical knowledge. We should all just shut up and let the man eat his waffles!

The only plausible explaination for Obama's failure to check such a simple fact is a combination of laziness and supreme overconfidence that he can say and do anything without being questioned by the voting public. So far the polls suggest that many voters are so commited to Obama's candidacy (or at least to the noble concept of it) that nothing could cause them to waiver. Not even the fact that the man is dangerously ignorant of the most basic facts of history. Perhaps he was distracted by the painful memories of his uncle moving to the Soviet Union and joining the Red army just in time to help liberate Auschwitz which had recently been moved from Poland to Germany.

It's reminiscent of the old joke that during the impeachment trials Bill Clinton could have walked down a public street in broad daylight mowing people down with a machine gun and the reaction of his supporters would have been, "oh well, nobody lives forever!"