Obama’s uncle did what?
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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Gaffe machine, indeed.
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.
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.
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*
WOW, now thats a good catch. Uncle under the bus in 3…2…1…
This guy is a human oxymoron.
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.
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.
Fixed that for you buddy …
It all depends on what your definition of “Uncle” is
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.
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
My great-grandmother is actually the Queen of England! I just can’t prove it…
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.
(yawn)…old news…this man CANNOT keep his foot out of his mouth…
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.
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.
White House Press Release
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.
Good lord!
If this dolt wasn’t so dangerous he’d be leg slapping funny.
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?
“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?
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
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.
It looks like it could have been Buchenwald and service records could easily verify it.
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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.
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
Another lie his evil white grandma told him.
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.
Even if his uncle was white he still may have just gotten the camp wrong.
Go back to the service records.
Dude, his grandfather was white. Let it go.
Not typing in all CAPS is a good thing.
poor guy, seems BDS is widening out into generalized derangement syndromes.
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…
My bet, based on obummers ideology, is that his uncle served in the Red Army, giving credence to this story.
Liberal is as liberal does.
When failure and low achievement are the most common liberal goals, compensatory lies are just stock & trade.
It’s a pretty serious statement to get wrong.
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.
I think it was his typical WHITE uncle……
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.
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?
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”?
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.
which uncle?
Except for his father, none of BHO’s paternal grandfather’s six sons (Obama’s uncles) are identified in this article. hmmm
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.
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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.
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.
I think he was speaking of his paternal uncle that is trying to liberate Kenya from democracy to live under Allahs law.
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.
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].
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.
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.
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.
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.
I think he is just an inept liar.
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.
Oh!!! It wasn’t his Uncle it was his Grandfather and it wasn’t Auchwitz, it was Sunshine Florida.
That explains things.
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.
Oy. Stick to the script, Barry.
#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.
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.
You are correct, 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!!
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…
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.
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?
I’m still laughing about him claiming to actually have a crazy uncle in the attic.
He seems to be associated with a Hell of a lot of “crazy uncles” doesn’t he ?
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.
extended ululating Dean Scream,,,,
I would love to hear that!!!
oooooollllllaaaaallllllaaaaaaallllaaaaaa yyyyaaaaahhhhh
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
Das Rodonia comrade
Right – Hussein had a relative that lived in an attic – right next to Ann Frank!
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.
They’re now saying it was a Great Uncle and it was Buchenwald.
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.