I'm positive that this little gem made Savage's skin crawl earlier this week:

"But when the world was on the brink of nuclear holocaust, Kennedy talked to Khrushchev and he got those missiles out of Cuba." (here)

Come again? Honestly, I'm not sure what is more disgusting about the Man from Fantasy Island: the malicously deceptive reinterpretation of history; or the manner in which the MSM, for the most part, oogles over it.

Try this: Obama needs a history lesson.

Maybe I am missing the nuance in Obama's rhetoric. For starters, when JFK and Khrushchev met it was a year prior to the Cuban Missile Crisis. We were not on the brink of nuclear war. But, in the spirit previously only attributed to a Clinton, maybe Obama didn't actually mean met.

Since we're all about facts here. That meeting, where you know Kennedy and Krushchev actually fucking met was after the Bay of Pigs. Which gets us to the cause of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Crisis was the result of Khrushchev's interpretation of Kennedy's weakness, through their meetings and, say it with me: the Bay of Pigs; where Kennedy pulled the plug on an attempted over throw of Castro by not authorizing the use of air support. As the Real Clear Politics article linked above states, it isn't that Kennedy wasn't willing to confront Castro, it's that Kennedy didn't have the stomach to commit and finish the job. That's the weakness that Khrushchev perceived and lead him to think that Kennedy might be able to be strong-armed into allowing the missile installations in Cuba, and if not, at least giving up something in return.

Kennedy's mishandling of the Bay of Pigs lead directly to the near disaster of the Cuban Missile Crisis. It was only through a naval blockade, a near nuclear stand-off and concessions by the US, eg: giving up missile installations in Turkey and agreeing to a non-invasion of Cuba that an understanding was reached. And, if you look at it from a Soviet perspective, that's not a bad deal.

I find it interesting that Barrack Obama failed to mention that in his statements. It's also worth pointing out that Kennedy's resume was considerably longer than Obama's at that point in his career, with military service and over a decade in Congress.

So there you go, now you can vote for hope. While you do, try not to be divided by, or label things with fact or understanding.