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Obama’s uncle did what?

By see-dubya  •  May 27, 2008 09:50 AM

CBS:

Obama also spoke about his uncle, who was part of the American brigade that helped to liberate Auschwitz. He said the family legend is that, upon returning from war, his uncle spent six months in an attic. “Now obviously, something had really affected him deeply, but at that time there just weren’t the kinds of facilities to help somebody work through that kind of pain,” Obama said. “That’s why this idea of making sure that every single veteran, when they are discharged, are screened for post-traumatic stress disorder and given the mental health services that they need – that’s why it’s so important.”

Purple Avenger, blogging at Ace of Spades:

Auschwitz of course is in Poland. It was liberated by the Red Army on Jan 27 1945. Poland, on most maps is usually placed to the east of Germany, although we may need to investigate the geography textbooks the Messiah used as a child…

The Allies were wrapping up the battle of the bulge in late January of 1945 — the Rhine crossings were still well into the future when Auschwitz was liberated.

Either Obama’s uncle served in the Red Army, or he’s spinning Clintonesque lies about Auschwitz to sell his government programs. Hey, it’s for a good cause…but it’s not enough for him. It has to be personal. It has to be all about him.

It’s like Bill Clinton whining about those Arkansas church burnings he witnessed as a child–church burnings which never actually happened.

I think the Obamessiah just out Tuzla’d Hillary. The man is…nefarious.

UPDATE: No Tuzla here; he just mentioned the wrong camp during his off-the-cuff freewheeling.

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Comments

  1. #1
    On May 27th, 2008 at 9:54 am, TrinaLC said:

    Gaffe machine, indeed.

  2. #2
    On May 27th, 2008 at 9:55 am, fourstringfuror said:

    This is just another dsitraction. This conversation isn’t helping Michelle Obama’s kids, either. My grandmother is a typical white racist and my grandfather lived in attic. I offer hope and change.

  3. #3
    On May 27th, 2008 at 9:57 am, pueblo1032 said:

    You have got to be kidding, right??? Now if this story was relayed by a REPUBLICAN, not only would it be plastered on front pages across the country, but they would investigate if HE even had an UNCLE.

  4. #4
    On May 27th, 2008 at 9:57 am, 30 pcs of silver said:

    “That’s why this idea of making sure that every single veteran, when they are discharged, are screened for post-traumatic stress disorder and given the mental health services that they need – that’s why it’s so important.”

    PTSD is a very serious matter and support for evaluations to diagnose and treat it is laudable… it doesn’t need to be muddied up with tall tales from the dark side of Obama’s upbringing.

    Meanwhile, his support continues to grow…

    *rolls eyes*

  5. #5
    On May 27th, 2008 at 9:57 am, sonofdy said:

    WOW, now thats a good catch. Uncle under the bus in 3…2…1…

  6. #6
    On May 27th, 2008 at 9:57 am, ajmontana said:

    This guy is a human oxymoron.

  7. #7
    On May 27th, 2008 at 9:59 am, Just A Grunt said:

    That’s not a gaffe, that is a lie. Later today of course it will be a case of he misspoke, he was confused, wrong uncle he meant his aunt, whatever and other then we happy band of web surfers and blog readers none will be the wiser.

  8. #8
    On May 27th, 2008 at 10:02 am, sonofdy said:

    Tomorrow,

    Well it was true because my uncle was assigned in the oss to work with that red army unit…

    The next day,

    It was another camp..

    The next day,

    My uncle lied.

    The mound of bodies under the bus is about to get bigger.

  9. #9
    On May 27th, 2008 at 10:03 am, DesertLover said:

    ajmontana said:
    This guy is a human oxy moron.

    Fixed that for you buddy …

  10. #10
    On May 27th, 2008 at 10:05 am, AliasK said:

    It all depends on what your definition of “Uncle” is

  11. #11
    On May 27th, 2008 at 10:06 am, Boomer said:

    Wow! Looks like both of the Democrats are not only hard core Marists, but that are also hard core liars. We really do need a “none of the above” block for this year’s election cycle along with the rule if this option wins it is a do over with neither candidate able to run again for any public office ever.

  12. #12
    On May 27th, 2008 at 10:06 am, On-my-soap-box said:

    Good gawd, is he competing with Jon Cary for who can tell the most war lies?

    I wish I were a liberal so I could abandon ship and switch to the conservative side. This tripe makes me soooooooo happy this people are on the left.

    Gaffe - not. Lie - yes. Support gaining? UGH :roll:

  13. #13
    On May 27th, 2008 at 10:09 am, tropicalwave12 said:

    My great-grandmother is actually the Queen of England! I just can’t prove it…

  14. #14
    On May 27th, 2008 at 10:10 am, Billy Mays said:

    He may have jsut gotten the camp wrong. I distinctly remember reading a story in the book The Holocaust by Martin Gilbert, an account of a concentration camp being liberated by black soldiers. It was a first person account of a Jew that said he was liberated by a Negro United States tank crew.

    Forgive me for not typing in caps but there is nothing funny about the Holocaust.

  15. #15
    On May 27th, 2008 at 10:10 am, IndependentTom said:

    (yawn)…old news…this man CANNOT keep his foot out of his mouth…

  16. #16
    On May 27th, 2008 at 10:12 am, radio relay said:

    Actually, it is not for a good cause. There is a hidden anti-gun rights agenda with screening everyone for PTSD.

    Once diagnosed with PTSD, you lose your 2cd Amendment right to own a firearm, because you’re a mental risk certified by big brother.

  17. #17
    On May 27th, 2008 at 10:13 am, GraniteMan said:

    Which is better a President who demands we define what “is” is or a President that ducks imaginary sniper fire or a President that sees people in the audience that no one else sees? I’m with McCain.

  18. #18
    On May 27th, 2008 at 10:13 am, ajmontana said:
  19. #19
    On May 27th, 2008 at 10:14 am, see-dubya said:

    Billy Mays–

    Since his father was Kenyan, this uncle would probably have been on his (white) mother’s side.

    I think he will blame it on a faulty memory–his, or his uncle’s.

    But he’ll need to respond to that.

    You know, I know a lot of family legends about my ancestors. But I would want to check them out and make sure they were factual before I used them in a political speech–especially if they involved something as serious as Auschwitz.

  20. #20
    On May 27th, 2008 at 10:15 am, rplatt said:

    Good lord!

    If this dolt wasn’t so dangerous he’d be leg slapping funny.

  21. #21
    On May 27th, 2008 at 10:15 am, misterbee241 said:

    I doubt that Obama is as well versed in history as he’d like us to think he is.
    Having said that, I just wish this election was over, Obama the president so we can get on with the destruction of the American Republic. I’m really tired of waiting.
    Btw - The American military wasnt integrated until after the war was it?

  22. #22
    On May 27th, 2008 at 10:16 am, BadIdeaGuy said:

    “My grandmother worked on a bomber assembly line…”

    I’m pretty sure that his grandmother is now the one locked in an attic by his own campaign.

    #14 Billy Mays: Obama’s uncle who supposedly liberated Auschwitz would not have been black. Believe it or not, half of Barack Obama’s family (the half locked in the attic) is white. Unless the Kenyan army had a few tanks in the area…

    Who says “negro” these days anyway?

  23. #23
    On May 27th, 2008 at 10:16 am, abstractmind said:

    We’re just overreacting!

    I mean, this is just a small gaffe. Its not like his uncle didnt go on to liberate the Israelites from Egypt, beat back the Mongolian hordes with the Tuskeegee Airmen, and brought down the Great Wall of China during the Cold War………its all in our liberalized “Creative History”, which makes kids feel good while giving them important names to relate to, with time being just a mere inconvenience that lies on the path to greatness!

    /sarc off

  24. #24
    On May 27th, 2008 at 10:17 am, On-my-soap-box said:

    In an Absolut world, BO’s geography is correct.

    In an Absolut world, BO is 1/2 white, 1/2 black and 1/2 Asian.

  25. #25
    On May 27th, 2008 at 10:21 am, Billy Mays said:

    It looks like it could have been Buchenwald and service records could easily verify it.

    http://members.aol.com/dignews/b-bender.htm

    The sad thing is some people are claiming that no way did a black unit liberate the camp yet I have read accounts by the inmates themselves that say they were rescued by a negro unit.

    If I had liberated the camp I would probably still be in the attic.

  26. #26
    On May 27th, 2008 at 10:22 am, fourstringfuror said:

    In an Absolut world, BO is 1/2 white, 1/2 black and 1/2 Asian.

    Guess you could say he’s more a man (1.5 times, in fact) than I’ll ever be! lol

  27. #27
    On May 27th, 2008 at 10:23 am, Wraith said:

    Another lie his evil white grandma told him.

    “Now obviously, something had really affected him deeply, but at that time there just weren’t the kinds of facilities to help somebody work through that kind of pain,” Obama said.

    No V.A. hospitals after WWII? So Truman didn’t provide for GIs after the war. Does Odumbama realize he’s claiming a democrat president and congress failed our veterans?

    Odumbama ‘08 Hope and Change because that’s all the idiot has.

  28. #28
    On May 27th, 2008 at 10:23 am, Billy Mays said:

    Even if his uncle was white he still may have just gotten the camp wrong.

    Go back to the service records.

  29. #29
    On May 27th, 2008 at 10:25 am, fourstringfuror said:

    a black unit

    a negro unit

    Dude, his grandfather was white. Let it go.

  30. #30
    On May 27th, 2008 at 10:28 am, wise_man said:

    On May 27th, 2008 at 10:10 am, Billy Mays said: Forgive me for not typing in caps but there is nothing funny about the Holocaust.

    Not typing in all CAPS is a good thing.

  31. #31
    On May 27th, 2008 at 10:29 am, Fineous Reese said:

    poor guy, seems BDS is widening out into generalized derangement syndromes.

  32. #32
    On May 27th, 2008 at 10:29 am, abstractmind said:

    On May 27th, 2008 at 10:23 am, Billy Mays said:

    Perhaps, but i think you’re giving credit where its not due. this is not the first time he’s said something that was catagorically untrue. and one would think that a person running for public office would be able to keep at least the deeds of his family straight.

    Of course, our families dont have all these superheroes, with all their super-deeds, to bear in mind…

  33. #33
    On May 27th, 2008 at 10:32 am, cicerokid said:

    My bet, based on obummers ideology, is that his uncle served in the Red Army, giving credence to this story.

  34. #34
    On May 27th, 2008 at 10:33 am, Speakup said:

    Liberal is as liberal does.

    When failure and low achievement are the most common liberal goals, compensatory lies are just stock & trade.

  35. #35
    On May 27th, 2008 at 10:46 am, undrseige247 said:

    It’s a pretty serious statement to get wrong.

  36. #36
    On May 27th, 2008 at 10:47 am, CCM said:

    Billy Mays - You say he may have said the wrong camp and a concentration camp was liberated by black soldiers, but I assume he was referring to a white uncle. Aren’t all of his black relatives African? They couldn’t have been in an American brigade.

  37. #37
    On May 27th, 2008 at 10:51 am, spo-con said:

    I think it was his typical WHITE uncle……

  38. #38
    On May 27th, 2008 at 10:51 am, Billy Mays said:

    There were so many camps and sub-camps that getting a name wrong would be easy, especially as the stories were passed on from family member to family member.

    If you change Auschwitz to Dacchau, Buuchenwald, or Belsen the story works.

    That makes me more interested if he ever had an uncle that lived in an attic because of it.

  39. #39
    On May 27th, 2008 at 10:54 am, Just A Grunt said:

    People are already starting to issues the apoligizes and of course the first tact is to say he named the wrong camp. If a presidential candidate retelling a personal story does not do enough due dilligence to make sure it is accurate it certainly doesn’t point to his ability handle complex issues very well. Second since it was personal there would have been no need for his staff to “fact check” it. So he can’t even surround himself with smart people to at least advise him that if he isn’t sure about the camp then he needs to speak in generic terms.
    No, this was an attempt for him to try and settle down the grumblings among his Jewish supporters while at the same time pushing some sort of line of reasoning that he could correctly identify an American soldier in 3 out of the 4 movies he has seen. (He had trouble when viewing the “Green Berets” determing which ones were US but he is pretty sure it is the ones who kicked in the doors of the innocent civilians house and dragged them out of bed and then abused him before secretly rendering him aboard an aircraft and sent him to a private prison never to be seen again.) That would be the movie review of that John Wayne classic today.
    Anyway we all know the spin, and I don’t know why he wants to since none of this will be seen on TV so none of the people currently going through American Idol withdrawal will ever know anyway. Think it will make the cover of Time or Newseek?

  40. #40
    On May 27th, 2008 at 10:57 am, abstractmind said:

    If you change Auschwitz to Dacchau, Buuchenwald, or Belsen the story works.

    That, to me, is sort of a stretch.

    Thats like saying you went on a business trip, and when someone asks where it was, you say “well, it was boston…or DC…or LA…or Dallas…oh, whatever, it was a business trip, ok?”

    I would think getting Auschwitz (as the most infamous and well know name of such camps) mixed up with another place would be odd, at best.

    But this man is establishing a track record of such “mistakes”. How many more can we give him before it just doesnt matter anymore? How many more excuses can one make for someone who simply keeps throwing themselves under the bus with this type of “comment error”?

  41. #41
    On May 27th, 2008 at 10:59 am, Just A Grunt said:

    Excuse me but I think I am having a duh moment. It would have to be an uncle on his mothers side, meaning the uncle was white. Obamas family I don’t believe were in America during WWII. I am not sure of that but I think his family came to America after the war. Anyway somebody might want to pursue that line …or not.

  42. #42
    On May 27th, 2008 at 11:02 am, heroyalwhyness said:

    which uncle?

    Second Generation (Parents):
    2. Barack Hussein OBAMA Sr. was born in 1936 in Nyangoma-Kogelo, Siaya District, Kenya and died in a car crash in Nairobi, Kenya in 1982, leaving three wives, six sons and a daughter. All but one of his children live in Britain or the United States. One of the brothers died in 1984. He is buried in the village of Nyangoma-Kogelo, Siaya District, Kenya.

    Except for his father, none of BHO’s paternal grandfather’s six sons (Obama’s uncles) are identified in this article. hmmm

    3. Stanley Ann DUNHAM was born on 27 November 1942 in Wichita, Kansas and died 7 November 1995 of ovarian cancer.
    Barack Hussein OBAMA Sr. and Stanley Ann DUNHAM were married in 1960 in Hawaii and had the following children:

    1 i. Barack Hussein OBAMA, Jr.

    Third Generation (Grandparents):
    4. Hussein Onyango OBAMA was born about 1895 and died in 1979. Before settling down to work as a cook for missionaries in Nairobi he was a traveler. Recruited to fight for colonial power England in World War I, he visited Europe and India, and afterward lived for a time in Zanzibar, where he converted from Christianity to Islam, family members said.

    5. Akumu

    Hussein Onyango OBAMA had several wives. His first wife was Helima, with whom he had no children. Second, he married Akuma and they had the following children:

    i. Sarah OBAMA
    1. ii. Barack Hussein OBAMA, Sr.
    iii. Auma OBAMA
    Onyango’s third wife was Sarah, the one often referred to by Barack as his “grandmother.” She was the primary caregiver for Barack OBAMA Sr. after his mother, Akuma, left the family when her children were still young.
    6. Stanley Armour DUNHAM was born on 23 March 1918 in Kansas and died 8 February 1992 in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is buried in Punchbowl National Cemetery, Honolulu, Hawaii.
    7. Madelyn Lee PAYNE was born in 1922 in Wichita, Kansas. She currently lives in Oahu, Hawaii.

    Stanley Armour DUNHAM and Madelyn Lee PAYNE were married on 5 May 1940, and had the following children:

    3. i. Stanley Ann DUNHAM

    Fourth Generation (Great Grandparents):
    8. Obama was born in Kendu Bay, Kenya

    9. Nyaoke

    Obama had four wives, one of whom was Nyaoke. She fathered many children, of whom Onyango was the fifth son.

    12. Ralph Waldo Emerson DUNHAM was born 24 December 1894 in Argonia, Sumner County, Kansas and died 4 October 1970 in Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas.

    13. Ruth Lucille ARMOUR was born in 1900 in Illinois and died (by suicide) on 25 November 1926 in Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas.

    Ralph DUNHAM and Ruth ARMOUR were married on 3 October 1915 in Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas and had the following children:
    i. Ralph Emerson DUNHAM, Jr., born 29 August 1916 (spouse Elizabeth Smith)
    6. ii. Stanley Armour DUNHAM
    The family is found living with Ruth’s parents in the 1920 federal census of Sedgwick County, Kansas. In 1930, Ralph Jr. and Stanley are with their maternal grandparents in Butler County, Kansas, while their father, Ralph Sr. was enumerated with his parents in Sedgwick County, Kansas.

  43. #43
    On May 27th, 2008 at 11:04 am, cicerokid said:

    Family legend? Golly, how many generations have passed since WWII? Is not obummer old enough to have met the uncle? This story reeks of arugala and another display of detachment from people. I for one care enough about my anscestors to actually know where they are from and where in history they have been. obummer is an arogant fool to spill a spiel like that and have us think it’s true.

  44. #44
    On May 27th, 2008 at 11:05 am, fourstringfuror said:

    37 -

    You seem like a decent person, which makes your willingness to excuse Obama’s perpetual truth-stretching confusing. Even if he had given the correct date and location, why tell the story at all? How is mandatory screening for returning soldiers today going to help his psycho grandfather? If I told you I was going to mandate the use of seat belts on tractors, because my grandfather didn’t have one and almost died when he fell off his Farmall as a child, what good would that story do for my cause? It’s all past tense.

  45. #45
    On May 27th, 2008 at 11:11 am, RogersUmp said:

    Someone needs to put a story like this out with a republican’s or McCain’s name attached to it and then after the public massacre say, Oops it was really Obama that said that.

  46. #46
    On May 27th, 2008 at 11:13 am, sambo said:

    I think he was speaking of his paternal uncle that is trying to liberate Kenya from democracy to live under Allahs law.

  47. #47
    On May 27th, 2008 at 11:14 am, Texas Tiger said:

    Obama also spoke about his uncle, who was part of the American brigade that helped to liberate Auschwitz.

    Did his uncle come under sniper fire while liberating Auschwitz?

    More likely that his uncle liberated flashlights from the PX. Good grief, what a maroon.

  48. #48
    On May 27th, 2008 at 11:18 am, tedZilla99 said:

    fourstringfuror said:
    Even if he had given the correct date and location, why tell the story at all? … It’s all past tense.

    Every liberal big govt. idea has to have some sort of heart-wrenching victim story to sell it to the mind-numbed robots in the electorate. It’s the good intentions that matter, not the actual results [or lack thereof].

  49. #49
    On May 27th, 2008 at 11:22 am, henryinga said:

    My liberal friends call me paranoid, but Barack Hussein Obama scares the bejeesus out of me when I think of him as the POTUS. He reminds me of my sister-in-law who has a degree in math, but is total lacking in common sense. How in the world can people trust him to be the leader of the free world? When he gets out of office, whether it’s in four or eight years, the free world will no longer be our friends.
    He is contantly putting his foot in his mouth by continuing to talk about HIM, it’s all about HIM, and he can’t even tell a straight story about his own family. May the Good Lord take a liking to us poor common folk and see to it that he doesn’t win the whitehouse.

  50. #50
    On May 27th, 2008 at 11:25 am, spo-con said:

    It might be a good idea for Barry to sit down and watch True Colors starring John Travolta. He could see some of himself in it. Its time for Billery to go on the attack now ! This should be fun.

  51. #51
    On May 27th, 2008 at 11:26 am, rambler said:

    Either BO thinks we’re all stupid/gullible or he is. He seems to have a faulty memory or he doesn’t think he needs to check his facts before opening his mouth. When does he run out of feet to put in that mouth? By now it should be so stuffed that he wouldn’t be able to speak.

  52. #52
    On May 27th, 2008 at 11:28 am, libocrat said:

    A what point will the general populace realize that Obama is a nobody with a teleprompter?
    Liberals and elitist educrats will never get it. They still think prejucice and racism SOLVES prejudice and racism.

  53. #53
    On May 27th, 2008 at 11:30 am, katieanne said:

    The man is…nefarious

    I think he is just an inept liar.

  54. #54
    On May 27th, 2008 at 11:36 am, Just A Grunt said:

    CBS has now changed the story on their website to reflect grandfather instead of uncle and there is no editorial note of the change.
    I swear it said uncle earlier today but I do not have a screen shot of it. I hope somebody else got one.

  55. #55
    On May 27th, 2008 at 11:42 am, libocrat said:

    Oh!!! It wasn’t his Uncle it was his Grandfather and it wasn’t Auchwitz, it was Sunshine Florida.

    That explains things.

  56. #56
    On May 27th, 2008 at 11:43 am, hrobusto said:

    Obama is becoming the NeverReady Bunny. Not only is he showing his current inexperience, but he is creating a trail of ineptitude that will follow him into all of his future attempts at a run for the White House.

  57. #57
    On May 27th, 2008 at 11:45 am, tuffy said:

    Oy. Stick to the script, Barry.

  58. #58
    On May 27th, 2008 at 11:45 am, Lan Astaslem said:

    #54 — Still says “uncle” — unless they changed it back again? It references his grandfather at the beginning, but the “uncle” reference is at the bottom of the story.

  59. #59
    On May 27th, 2008 at 11:52 am, libocrat said:

    Billy Mays, maybe you should stick to growing beards and selling CRAP on T.V..

    If you were Columbia and Harvard educated, and you actually thought that your “GRANDFATHER, UNCLE, FRIEND, SPRITUAL ADVISOR, or other significant other helped liberate Auchwitz, and you were running for President, and you said something so patently stupid, you ought to be called on it.
    It kind of reminds me of Tom Harkin and his SUPER SECRET PICTURE TAKING FLIGHTS OF FANCE OVER N.VIETNAM AND CUBA.
    Total horse shyte, that you are supposed to believe and not question.

  60. #60
    On May 27th, 2008 at 11:58 am, Just A Grunt said:

    On May 27th, 2008 at 11:45 am, Lan Astaslem said:
    #54 — Still says “uncle” — unless they changed it back again? It references his grandfather at the beginning, but the “uncle” reference is at the bottom of the story.

    You are correct, I guess I jumped too quick when I saw the grandfather marched across Europe with Patton line.

  61. #61
    On May 27th, 2008 at 12:03 pm, Lan Astaslem said:

    I guess I jumped too quick when I saw the grandfather marched across Europe with Patton line.

    heh! I’d love to know whether that one is true too!!

  62. #62
    On May 27th, 2008 at 12:10 pm, Billy Mays said:

    I jsut want to know if his Grandfather’s Uncle liberated anything.

    Just A Grunt in post 39 probably got it right when he wrote…

    this was an attempt for him to try and settle down the grumblings among his Jewish supporters while at the same time pushing some sort of line of reasoning that he could correctly identify an American soldier in 3 out of the 4 movies he has seen.

  63. #63
    On May 27th, 2008 at 12:12 pm, RedRepub said:

    BO doesn’t think it matters now that he has the nomination.

    The question is: Are there enough stupid people to vote for him ? They may be choosing alleviation of their own liberal guilt over strong defense of the country.

    P.S. My grandfather helped build the bomb they dropped on Hiroshima. That means I am strong on national defense, according to BO’s logic.

  64. #64
    On May 27th, 2008 at 12:16 pm, et said:

    Lets just take him at his word. His family has a history of mental illness in it. I believe that fact would disqualify him from handling, or having command and control over nuclear weapons by DOD and DOE regulation. Now does it disqualify him for Commander In Chief?

  65. #65
    On May 27th, 2008 at 12:38 pm, txvet2 said:

    I’m still laughing about him claiming to actually have a crazy uncle in the attic.

  66. #66
    On May 27th, 2008 at 12:52 pm, spo-con said:

    He seems to be associated with a Hell of a lot of “crazy uncles” doesn’t he ?

  67. #67
    On May 27th, 2008 at 1:10 pm, nyc123me said:

    Obama could hold a mass rally and yell out that he hates America and wants to turn the US into a blood-soaked pit of depravity for his personal amusement, and follow that announcement up with an extended ululating Dean Scream, and his brain-dead masses of minions would still applaud him. It doesn’t seem to matter what he says or does, and I’m sure he must be laughing his head off at how stupid the general American public appears to be, largely thanks to the MSM.

  68. #68
    On May 27th, 2008 at 1:14 pm, sonofdy said:

    extended ululating Dean Scream,,,,

    I would love to hear that!!!

    oooooollllllaaaaallllllaaaaaaallllaaaaaa yyyyaaaaahhhhh

  69. #69
    On May 27th, 2008 at 1:18 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    see-dubya, it’s the people without “stories” who make them up. Bill, draft dodger. Hillary, draft dodger wanna-be. Obama, clueless Ivy…yet they all want to impress us with how brave and wonderful they are, so they make things up to fit their five-year plan.

    Whatever we think of McCain he’s “been and done that” in a way none of us would really want to, and doesn’t have to make up anything…

  70. #70
    On May 27th, 2008 at 1:28 pm, nbarry said:

    Doesn’t Obama have handlers on his campaign staff to screen his speeches and keep him from making a fool of himself? I mean, the MSM can overlook these blunders or spin them only for so long before somebody starts rubbing their faces in it.

  71. #71
    On May 27th, 2008 at 1:44 pm, docflash said:

    He has to have some ignorant advisers,every Soldier has a mental health screening at the Demob station on their return from a deployment.During my own screening last year they were very thorough and concerned.They have done two follow ups at six month intervals.Issues like PTSD may not show up for years.His camp should do a little research before they let him spout drivel.I would bet not many of his team ever came close to the military.I leave on another tour this week,excuse me while I head for the attic.

  72. #72
    On May 27th, 2008 at 2:14 pm, brooklyn red said:

    Wait… I had uncles at Auschwitz too. But they didn’t liberate it… they just died there.

    see-dubya: We have never met, but if I might ask a favor, please wrap this one up real pretty like & send it to Rush. This one is sooo wrong in sooo many ways.

  73. #73
    On May 27th, 2008 at 2:48 pm, tropicalwave12 said:

    On May 27th, 2008 at 1:28 pm, nbarry said:
    Doesn’t Obama have handlers on his campaign staff to screen his speeches and keep him from making a fool of himself? I mean, the MSM can overlook these blunders or spin them only for so long before somebody starts rubbing their faces in it.

    Even if so… they are all liberals and rewriting history to create credibility comes natural and really is no big deal… And I seriously doubt there are many if any, history professors on his staff.

  74. #74
    On May 27th, 2008 at 4:07 pm, libocrat said:

    Tropicalwave. Ayers is an English professor and Dohrn is a Law professor.
    You are correct. No HISTORY profs, but he does have a couple of VIOLENT DOMESTIC TERRORISTS that he calls friends.

  75. #75
    On May 27th, 2008 at 4:25 pm, wayiwalk said:

    Sorry - I think we’re missing the story here. When I listen to Obama saying these things, I wonder, who’s writing his material - this stuff is GREAT!….fallen heroes standing before me…har.

    I guess the Hollywood screenwriters strike gave a few sitcom writers a chance to get into politics and do some speechwriting - maybe nobody told them that they’re supposed to get their facts straight.

  76. #76
    On May 27th, 2008 at 5:00 pm, floridaobserver said:

    Whyzzit all the crazies are his white relatives????? A little racism there, don’t you think?
    It would have REALLY been funny if he claimed to be a relative of Shaka Zulu (which was a great movie/miniseries, by the way).

  77. #77
    On May 27th, 2008 at 5:32 pm, abc123 said:

    I think everyone here is missing an important point. If Barack can be conceived in 1965 and travel back in time to 1961 for his birth, then a mere uncle to the messiah can certainly teleport to Auschwitz and back. ;)

  78. #78
    On May 27th, 2008 at 5:36 pm, GJCorby said:

    Das Rodonia comrade

  79. #79
    On May 27th, 2008 at 5:42 pm, Misscheryl said:

    Billy Mays said:
    There were so many camps and sub-camps that getting a name wrong would be easy, especially as the stories were passed on from family member to family member.

    If you change Auschwitz to Dacchau, Buuchenwald, or Belsen the story works.

    That makes me more interested if he ever had an uncle that lived in an attic because of it.

    Right - Hussein had a relative that lived in an attic - right next to Ann Frank!

  80. #80
    On May 27th, 2008 at 5:45 pm, graysonret said:

    Good grief! The next thing we’ll hear from this fool is that he was firing at the snipers while Clinton was getting off the plane! These 2 losers are almost making the campaign laughable; a delight for SNL. This guy is so screwed up he doesn’t know anything. He just speaks, driving his spin doctors and speech writers absolutely crazy. The convention should be quite a show.

  81. #81
    On May 27th, 2008 at 5:48 pm, jungatheart said:

    They’re now saying it was a Great Uncle and it was Buchenwald.

  82. #82
    On May 27th, 2008 at 5:55 pm, cicerokid said:

    Buchenwald was liberated by the 4th Armoured Division. Ohrdruf was the subcamp where Ike, Patton, and Bradley toured the carnage on April 12, 1945. As tough as Patton was, he wrote in his diary that he had never witnessed anything like it.

  83. #83
    On May 27th, 2008 at 6:00 pm, jungatheart said:

    On May 27th, 2008 at 5:55 pm, cicerokid said:
    Buchenwald was liberated by the 4th Armoured Division. Ohrdruf was the subcamp where Ike, Patton, and Bradley toured the carnage on April 12, 1945. As tough as Patton was, he wrote in his diary that he had never witnessed anything like it.

    I’ve seen the pictures and if I had been among those that liberated one of these camps, I too would probably have spent some time in the attic. Humanity run amok.

  84. #84
    On May 27th, 2008 at 6:07 pm, libocrat said:

    jungatheart…..
    To every thing
    Spin spin spin,
    There is a season
    Spin spin spin,

  85. #85
    On May 27th, 2008 at 6:13 pm, RetFireman said:

    Well, it seems there was a Black group that took part in the Liberation of a camp. The 761st Tank Battalion, an all-African American tank unit, participated in the liberation of Gunskirchen, a subcamp of the Mauthausen concentration camp, in May 1945.

    However, the Liberation of camps by different units and such are all very sketchy at best, as the period of time during that war were very chaotic, and many unit histories are missing or distorted. As for movements of various AA units, those are also hard to find due to said chaos going on…especially the two AA units…the 761st Tank Battalion and the 183rd Engineer Combat Battalion.

    Those are the two Battalions featured in a PBS “documentary” from the early 90’s that came under harsh criticism at the time for “fudging” a great many facts in order to make the two units out to have done far more during the war than they actually did, rewriting history in order to boost AA involvement in WWII.

    It seems that B. Hussein “Empty Suited Messiah” Obama’s speech writers and handlers need to do a beter job of homework when attempting to make him relevant than they are doing, and not just following e-mail forwards that tout things that are questionable at best in order to make him appear relevant and strong when it comes to our Military and It’s Veterans.

  86. #86
    On May 27th, 2008 at 6:24 pm, FruNobulux said:

    Come on, get with the program. Most of us remember things that actually happened. BarryO’s so amazing, he doesn’t have to limit himself to that, he can remember things that didn’t happen!

    And see dead people.

    What a twit.

  87. #87
    On May 27th, 2008 at 6:25 pm, RetFireman said:

    His camp should do a little research before they let him spout drivel.

    They don’t need to. The damage is done, and that is all that matters.

    Your basic, run of the mill Lib and Dem has no clue as to what happens to our Military either before, during or after they enter The Service, and for the most part, could care less. As long as it puts Bush and the Republicans in a bad light, they will believe ANYTHING that is stated, and will do no homework what-so-ever to validate said statement as it does not fit in to their beliefs concerning the Warriors that protect us on a daily basis.

    Since the Left already believes that the only thing the Military does to our men and women that serve is turn them into baby-killers and father rapers, stating that we basically have every one of our men and women coming home potential ticking time bombs without the Government doing anything about it fits their ideals perfectly. Having a made-up story about some mythical relative hiding out in an attic somewhere because of what they allegedly saw during WWII only serves to give them a picture of what could be going on now…regardless of the fact that it was the Dems in charge back then and liberating Death Camps is a far cry from what is going on now.

    As long as the Status Quo of portraying the Military and the brave men and women who serve as brainless robots trained only to kill is met, it makes no difference how said theory is told.

  88. #88
    On May 27th, 2008 at 7:01 pm, drfredc said:

    Wright on oBORGama boy! Keep sayin it lyk it is, the Wright way!

    Who said oBORGama didn’t learn anything from pastor Wright — seems he’s learned how to stretch the truth with the best of them — he probably did his wife proud in the process.

    oBORGama in 08,
    kiss freedom bye bye,
    time to assimilate.

  89. #89
    On May 27th, 2008 at 7:09 pm, RetFireman said:

    Well, I say…produce the records. Produce the proof that said Uncle was in the military and what unit and when and where he served.

    If it is good enough for them to say about Bush, it is good enough for us to say about said Uncle.

    If the Empty Suit wants to clear this up, then present the facts and proof. Otherwise, come out and come forward with an apology and an admission of guilt.

  90. #90
    On May 27th, 2008 at 7:59 pm, Billy Mays said:

    I don’t know what the big deal is anyway because The Holocaust never even happened and I’m sure that’s what he wants to talk to Ahmadinejad about.

  91. #91
    On May 27th, 2008 at 8:06 pm, starlightwoman said:

    It’s amazing that anyone can defend him with a straight face much less vote for him

  92. #92
    On May 27th, 2008 at 9:14 pm, beenthere said:

    I think we may be overlooking some things with this latest, most monstrous gaffe. If this incident with his great-uncle was so important to him . . .

    * Why did he never mention it before, in either of his books?
    * Why did he not bother to get the basic facts regarding it correct?
    * And why did he, as far as we know, never discuss it with Reverend Wright after the latter’s rants against Jews, white people, and the American Military?

    I think these questions answer themselves. Obama, as Thomas Sowell stated some weeks ago, is not so much a liar as a lie. Obama is obsessed with race and the leftist view of the world. He can provide no historical context, justification, or understanding to anything he says. This has gone way beyond being funny. People need to focus on what is going on in this man’s mind. Not so much what he is saying, which is confusing enough, but why he is saying it. I’m not the only one who is beginning to wonder if he is either on drugs, or has a drug-damaged brain.

  93. #93
    On May 27th, 2008 at 9:42 pm, rightisright said:

    You libs that post here lgm and others, you can’t really believe this crap can you? This guy is your leader? Forget the party’s, forget all the political bs, is he what you think is really intelligent and can lead this country? Lead it where? Then again you are a product of government schools.

  94. #94
    On May 27th, 2008 at 10:00 pm, rightwingrocker said:

    Just like Clinton’s “Black Churches burning in Arkansas” and Mitt Romney’s “Father Marching with Dr. King”.

    More stupid stuff coming from the mouths of politicians.

    RWR
    http://www.rightwingrocker.com

  95. #95
    On May 28th, 2008 at 2:02 am, Tuesday said:

    On May 27th, 2008 at 12:16 pm, et said:
    Lets just take him at his word. His family has a history of mental illness in it. I believe that fact would disqualify him from handling, or having command and control over nuclear weapons by DOD and DOE regulation. Now does it disqualify him for Commander In Chief?

    Yeah, let’s do. :) Mental illness would explain a lot of things.

    He sees dead people in his audience.
    The change he proposes is all hot air.

    His uncle* was part of the brigade that helped to liberate Auschwitz. That means his uncle was in the Red Army… No wonder the guy’s a Marxist.

    *(His mother was an only child.)

  96. #96
    On May 29th, 2008 at 5:18 am, Straight_Talk_Luigi said:

    STOP BEING SO HARD ON OBAMA!!!

    Come on!!

    Hilary had Bosnia, not it’s his turn!

    sheesh!!!

    He’s just trying to be a democrat (liar) you know!

  97. #97
    On May 29th, 2008 at 6:02 pm, Jason L. said:

    What just stuns the pickles out of me is the idea that Obama went to and graduated from HARVARD UNIVERSITY!?!?! This guy talks about 57 States in the USA, talks about his uncle liberating Auschwitz, talks about 10,000 people being wiped out by tornadoes in Kansas, and he’s a HARVARD GRAD.?!? Makesm e wonder wehat kind of an education students get at Harvard. If I was HU’s president, I’d disassociate my school from ever having known Obama….

  98. #98
    On May 30th, 2008 at 10:59 am, martin.musculus said:

    #84
    On May 27th, 2008 at 6:07 pm, libocrat said:

    jungatheart…..
    To every thing
    Spin spin spin,
    There is a season reason
    Spin spin spin,

    Better, no?

    - martin.musculus

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