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As an intelligent man, Barry should investigate the veracity such “family stories” before he spouts them to the public. If he wants to share these tales at a family gathering, so be it. At family reunions, I - and I guess most people - have repeated family lore that could not be verified by any reputable historical methods, but I would not dream of passing these stories on to the public.

What makes Barry's actions more reprehensible, is that he used these tales as a method to assure Jewish voters that he shares their concerns. He may have lied about something as deadly serious as mass murder, as if his grandfather's (alleged) experience gave the Illinois senator any license to pander to an ethnic group who suffered one of the most horrific crimes in history.

Why does this sort of action seem so common among Democrats? Lyndon Johnson was notorious for claiming that he won his Silver Star for being under fire in WWII. John Kerry's war record was proven to be a tissue of lies. and we all remember Hillary's war story. Yet as bad as was Hillary offering the story that her airplane landed under fire in Bosnia, Obama’s actions are far worse and are a little more proof that the Democratic Party has lost the connection between truth and falsehood, between reality and imagination.

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As an intelligent man, Barry should investigate the veracity such “family stories” before he spouts them to the public. If he wants to share these tales at a family gathering, so be it. At family reunions, I - and I guess most people - have repeated family lore that could not be verified by any reputable historical methods, but I would not dream of passing these stories on to the public.

The downside to that argument is that, given the strong belief within the Black Community(tm) of the complete accuracy of oral histories, pointing out what you do above will be decried as racist and dismissed out of hand.

Recall the unpleasantness between the known descendents of Thomas Jefferson and the "known" descendents of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings. IIRC DNA evidence has shown conclusively that one of Hemmings children was fathered by either Thomas Jefferson ... or one of two nephews that were living with them at the time. Yet the Hemmings family oral history says that the patriarch of their entire clan WAS Thomas Jefferson ... and based on those oral histories they've claimed direct descent from the man.