Is Senator Obama smarter that a Fifth grader?

Senator Obama recently stated that he would meet with the enemies of this country, as Roosevelt and Kennedy had met with the enemies of this country during their Presidency.

Roosevelt, if you overlook his administration's antipathy for the Soviet Union before September 1, 1939, only had to deal with three leaders who led nations that were enemies of the United States: Hitler, Mussolini, and Tojo. Of these three, only Tojo survived the war as a prisoner before his execution for war crimes. Mussolini was killed by Italian partisans and Hitler committed suicide so as to not fall into the hands of the Soviet Red Army.

Roosevelt never met with any of these three leaders; he did meet with the leaders of our allied nations: Churchill and Stalin. While the United States and the Soviet Union did become adversaries again after the end of the Second World War, that was not until after the death of President Roosevelt.

The point is that if the Senator wishes to base his candidacy and his administration policies upon the lessons his history, it would behoove him to known enough about history - real history - and not some alternate history from a paperback book, to learn what has worked in the past, and what has failed in the past, before he makes his usual empty and high sounding pronouncements.

The old adage is that those who fail to learn [from] history are doomed to repeat it. Maybe the Obama corollary should be that those who learn an incorrect version of history will never admit they are wrong. Maybe If the Senator would start singing a Sam Cooke song, the press might forgive him for his lack of knowledge about basic American history.

Now, about his desire to be the President of all 57 states...