And, um, what makes you think that's gonna happen?

The Smartest Man in the World is heading off for a Latin American summit, and he's optimistic that the power of Hopenchange is going to have a positive effect on the hemisphere's most repressive government:

"What we're looking for is some signal that there are going to be changes in how Cuba operates that assures that political prisoners are released, that people can speak their minds freely, that they can travel, that they can write and attend church and do the things that people throughout the hemisphere can do and take for granted," he said.

Hmmmm...something tells me that even though Obama has made some recent overtures toward Cuba, they're not exactly clamoring to make those changes. What was that something? Oh, yeah. This.

Oh, and I loved this:

Though the U.S. image abroad may have suffered in recent years, "there's a reason why there are consistently so many immigrants to our country from Latin America," he said.

Yes, because they're from third-world hellholes whose governments are more than happy to foist off their working poor on us, rather than developing decent economic policies. And why not?

Obama described himself as "a strong proponent of comprehensive immigration reform," and said he has met with the congressional Hispanic Caucus "to try to shape an agenda that can move through Congress."

Yeah, that's just awesome. We are so fucked.

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