Did you know that Barack Obama speaks Spanish, is Cuban and that his real name is Gerardo Passiaux?
Look again. You’re not the first to mistake this tall Cuban for the Democratic candidate. It happens to him all the time, Passiaux says.
And here at the Democratic convention in Denver, more than one delegate has freaked out thinking they had run into the senator himself…. but then when he starts talking in Spanish the illusion vanishes.
Gerardo, who is originally from Guantánamo, Cuba, says he is happy to be (Barack) and supports his quest to be the next tenant of the White House.