Obama and the Snake

This is a story I heard in AA. A man is walking down the road and he meets a snake. The snake says, "I'm so cold. Please pick me up so I can be warm." The man says, "I can't pick you up. I know what you do. You are posionous and will bite and kill me." The snake says, "I promise I won't bite. I've changed." The man picks up the snake and the snake bites him. The man, with his last dying breath, says, "You promised you wouldn't bite." The snake says, "You knew who I was when you picked me up."

So what can I say? How stupid, stupid can Americans be? They picked up this snake and are now bit!