Boy, we knew that Obama's inexperience would soon catch up to him, causing him to make an error as egregious as this one, as Lincoln Diaz-Balart points out:
Advocates for Castro [at the Summit of the Americas], [s]omehow, they knew that President Obama would refer to Castro’s totalitarian fiefdom as 'Cuba.'
Yup, can you believe that Obama called the nation of Cuba, well, "Cuba"? He should've known better. That's what we get for electing someone so inexperienced and naive as Obama! Of course, I'm not sure what this says about Diaz-Balart himself, as Giancarlo Sopo notes:
Even for Lincoln Diaz-Balart, this is nutty, especially since he himself referred to Cuba as ‘Cuba’ four times in his speech (:12, 1:30, 3:05, 3:18). I wonder if this implies now that he is no longer a Cuban-American congressman, but rather ‘the totalitarian Castro fiefdomite congressman from Miami?’ Should CANF change its name now to the Totalitarian Castro Fiefdom-American National Foundation?