Obama was in Selma today to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the march in Selma.

But back in 2007, he gave a speech about Selma and the civil rights movement that was, perhaps kindly put, as “fact-challenged” in the extreme.

The main fabrications in it. Obama spoke of Robert Kennedy’s “ripples of hope’ speech as seeming to include the Selma march, that the Selma march was one of the reasons that he, Barack Obama came into existence. According to this version, Selma inspired Kennedy who made his speech, and inspired the Kennedy White House to begin the airlift from Kenya. Obama’s father came over from Kenya thru the airlift was able to meet his mother, Selma inspired the integration of their get together, et voila, the rest is history. All because of Selma, which is wonderful of course because it gave us Barack Obama, Jr.

Except, it wasn’t exactly history. Not really any kind of history.

Problems? Barack Obama Sr. came over in the airlift in 1959, before the Kennedys were involved in it, and certainly before the Kennedy White House. Barack Obama Jr. was born in 1961, long before the Robert Kennedy’s speech about ripples of hope in 1966 and the Selma march in 1965. So his birth pretty much had nothing whatever to do with Selma or anything he claimed. It had to do with his father wanting to study in the U.S. and wanting a woman to hang with while he was here (although he was already married). By the time Selma rolled around, Barack Obama had already divorced Obama’s mother and was gone.

“But don’t tell me I don’t have a claim on Selma Alabama, that I’m not coming home when I come to Selma!”

But that’s Barack Obama, never let facts get in the way when you can try to link yourself to people and events in history….