In the speech reveals his priorities: not he worldwide battle against Islamofascism. A battle that is not contained in a single man, Osama, but is contained in a creed that is poisoning a billion people. Instead he claims to believe that the Bush adminsitration is willing to see thousands of servicemen die to distract attention from (in his words)
"What I am opposed to is the attempt by political hacks like Karl Rove to distract us from a rise in the uninsured, a rise in the poverty rate, a drop in the median income – to distract us from corporate scandals and a stock market that has just gone through the worst month since the Great Depression."
If this is cynical manipulation of a gullible crowd, it is simply evil. If he honestly believes this he is mentally unbalanced.
The camp his uncle went into was Dachau. I can see where Obama and his generation may be a little confused as Auschwitz and Treblinka get the majority of the press coverage over the years. I’m sure the kids of today and the young voters have no knowledge of Babi Yar, Bergen Belsen Mauthausen et.al. or the massacre at Katyn.
This is Obama's maternal grandfather's service information. Stanley Armour Dunham enlisted in the Army on June 18th, 1942 not December 8, 1941. The two entries are explained by his enlisting at a recruiting station in his home town of Augusta (about 15 miles east of Wichita), and then being examined and departing from an AFEES station in Wichita for active duty.