AM I THE ONLY ONE OR ONE OF MANY, SURPRISED TO HEAR THAT OBAMA IS THE 1ST PRESIDENT TO VISIT PUERTO RICO IN 50YRS!! SINCE JFK BACK IN 1961! SAYYY WHAT?!? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? This month (june 14th) in a sense will mark a day in history as President Barack Obama has announced he will visit Puerto Rico, fulfilling his 2008 campaign promise and making him the first U.S. president to visit to the island since John Kennedy?s trip almost 50 years ago. A task force recently called on the United States to resolve the issue of Puerto Rico?s statehood by 2012. ?All the four million people living on the island, as well as those Puerto Ricans who are here in the U.S., are U.S. citizens, but they inhabit a territory that is separate and distinct from the rest of the United States that has its own language, culture and history,?

here is someone elses thoughts on the matter and i think they summed it up PERFECTLY read on:

Juan Saenz writes:Have you ever read the unbelievable ?Real Facts? on the inside of a bottle cap of Snapple? Here is Snapple ?Real Fact? #452 There are approximately 9,000 taste buds on your tongue. Now here is another unbelievable real fact, not one president of the United State has made an official visit to Puerto Rico since John F. Kennedy did in 1961. That?s before the Cuban missile crisis. That?s before Beatlemania. That?s before John Glenn became the first American to orbit the earth. That?s a long time to not visit part of your country and its 4 million US citizens. I know being president is a busy job but Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton had 8 years to squeeze in some tropical weather.

This June 14th, President Barack Obama will make an official visit to Puerto Rico. President Gerald Ford did go to Puerto Rico for a Group of Seven (G7) economic summit in 1976, but it was not an official visit. In other words, he went to the conference and jetted out. I salute President Obama for making the time to meet with Puerto Rican Governor Luis Fortuno and officially tour the island. Hopefully it won?t be another 50 years.