President Obama Claimed that Marxist Vietnam Dictator Ho Chi Minh, was Inspired by Founding Fathers –Image: I Am The Tea Party(FOX News) It came as some unwelcome news and a slap in the face to American Heroes that served in Vietnam along with the 60,000 families that lost loved ones during the Vietnam War that the whole thing was just a misunderstanding.
This was the impression that President Obama gave last Thursday when he spoke with the media after a meeting with Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang.
Obama striking a wistful tone observed, that it may have taken 67 years but the United States and Vietnam were finally enjoying the relationship that Ho Chi Minh wrote of–after all, Obama said that the Communist Dictator had been inspired by the words of Thomas Jefferson.
President Obama may have just been trying to flatter his guest who was obviously eager to show that Ho Chi Minh, was not the monster history shows him to be but his connection between the American Founders and Ho Chi Minh shows either a massive lack of historical knowledge on the part of Obama or a remarkable degree of flexibility.
I believe the former to be true given the fact that President Obama just last month, compared American bashing Marxist Nelson Mandela to George Washington.
H/T: Lana Wong
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