Submitted for your consideration, a column supposedly penned by a supposedly live former dictator in which he contemplates the surname of President Obama's Chief of Staff.

What a strange surname! It appears Spanish, easy to pronounce, but it's not. Never in my life have I heard or read about any student or compatriot with that name, among tens of thousands.

Where does it come from? I wondered. Over and over, the name came to mind of the brilliant German thinker, Immanuel Kant, who together with Aristotle and Plato, formed a trio of philosophers that have most influenced human thinking. Doubtless he was not very far, as I discovered later, from the philosophy of the man closest to the current president of the United States, Barack Obama.

Yes fidel, Emanuel is German.  It means tax cheat.

I wonder what the next reflection from the coma andante is going to be about, the brand of undies Obama wears?